Adrien Rabiot | signs 1 year deal at Juventus. See you all next year

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croadyman

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I think rotating
Casemiro Eriksen Bruno
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new dm Rabiot new am

would be enough. We should have two quality options for each position.
Sorry to burst your bubble but there is no chance we are signing DM,Rabiot and AM
 

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You'll probably right in a different situation but right now we have a budget of 100m that's going to be spent solely on a striker.

We can't risk our whole summer and buy a player with the only available money we have especially when our owners aren't clear yet.
He’s free and available to speak to teams now because of it.
 

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Isn't this Rabiot lad on silly wages and an ego too much for every club he has been to?. No problem child please, don't care how good he is.
This is a narrative that was pushed by the French Media because of all the drama with PSG and France before the 2014 worldcup. There have been no mention of having a huge ego throughout his time at Juventus.
 

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Bargain bin option. Decent on a free, but I will be very underwhelmed if he is to be our new number 8.
 

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This is a narrative that was pushed by the French Media because of all the drama with PSG and France before the 2014 worldcup. There have been no mention of having a huge ego throughout his time at Juventus.
It's not really true. Rabiot had a huge ego as a teenager, it wasn't a narrative it was reality but it was also not a big deal because it was in the context of "'I'm good and I want to play often". After that the image stuck alongside the omnipresence of his mother but the press and everyone around PSG made it pretty clear that he wasn't a problem and had never been.

Also Rabiot wasn't a thing for France in 2014 and there was no negative narrative around him before the 2018 WC, he created that himself with his open letter but also apologized quickly.
 

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He's not as creative as Eriksen with his passing but Rabiot is good player and his ability to carry the ball progressively in midfield would've given us a different element. That ability is still equivalent to progressing the ball from midfield or from the back to forwards. I haven't watch a lot of Gravenberch's games but based on what I watched up to now, Gravenberch doesn't strike me to be Eriksen kind of midfielder or FDJ kind of midfielder, but instead he has something similar to Rabiot in term of their passing level and ability to carry the ball progressively. This shows Rabiot can fit into ETH's profile.

We can't settle for Rabiot and Eriksen for long term. But for one season, I can live with it. In contrast, we ain't survive with DDG and Martial next season. And we need a progressive and proactive right back that can support Antony and Amad because our right back is nowhere near to what Shaw offers on the left. To do these, I believe we have to stick with Rabiot and Eriksen. Put it this way, signing Rabiot is also already considered as upgrading our midfield because he's far better than McFred in experienced, defensively and progressive play.
I guess my point is, him alone doesn't improve us enough to make us good enough in midfield for an inevitable injury or suspension. So we need far better depth in midfield. An upgrade to martial and de gea won't mean much if any sort of rotation leads to our midfield play falling to pieces.
 

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Rabiot is a top midfielder. Him next to Casemiro would be one of, if not the best, midfield pairing in the PL.
 

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Bargain bin option. Decent on a free, but I will be very underwhelmed if he is to be our new number 8.
Yes. If our budget is 100m and we can sell for 70m then we should be able to afford MacAllister and a proper striker.
 

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Ideally yes, but I don't know of one outside of FDJ that is the total package and available this summer. But at least this guy covers our biggest current weakness in midfield and brings great energy/defensive contribution as well.
Why haven't we been linked to that Le Fee
 

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Bargain bin option. Decent on a free, but I will be very underwhelmed if he is to be our new number 8.
Yeah I agree we still need a playmaker 8 too and feel signing a free agent like him keeps that door open but I will probably be wrong
 

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Better than City?
They are losing Gundogan next year, aren’t they? Potentially yes. Depends who they replace him with.

The problem is City is such a well coached team who perform consistently at high level and their individual deficiencies are negated. I don’t doubt that if you have Pep a Case-Rabiot midfield he would win the league with it.
 

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Better than City?
City's midfield has a ridiculously high technical floor. Rodri vs Casemiro for example. Both world class, rodri though is far better in possession and on the ball and more press resistant, which means he enables them to play their system in a way Casemiro wouldn't. Doesn't make him a better player, and there are ways Casemiro is better.

But also, whether it's Gundogan or Bernardo Silva next to de Bruyne, that's still a higher level than what we could do. Rabiot is good but he'd sit on the bench over there. Still a smart signing for us.
 

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i would very much be happy to add rabiot, but am extremely amused by people thinking that magically gives us a top midfield. Our midfield needs multiple signings, not just this one guy
 

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i would very much be happy to add rabiot, but am extremely amused by people thinking that magically gives us a top midfield. Our midfield needs multiple signings, not just this one guy
Oh it definitely needs a couple more too,ideally a DM to cover Casa and someone who can provide that quality on the ball and the guile to unlock packed defences
 

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i would very much be happy to add rabiot, but am extremely amused by people thinking that magically gives us a top midfield. Our midfield needs multiple signings, not just this one guy
100% agree. If we shift McT and VDB (which we really need to do) and bring in Rabiot, a young DM (maybe Lavia) and a top playmaker we'd be much improved.
 

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I guess my point is, him alone doesn't improve us enough to make us good enough in midfield for an inevitable injury or suspension. So we need far better depth in midfield. An upgrade to martial and de gea won't mean much if any sort of rotation leads to our midfield play falling to pieces.
Eriksen is a progressive passer. Rabiot is a progressive carrier. Both can play the rotation role as the progressive ball. What we don’t have is ball playing keeper and striker to score goals. Upgrading Eriksen to have far better depth in midfield will be an ideal scenario but not the minimum requirement. We should get ball playing keeper and striker first.
 

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Eriksen is a progressive passer. Rabiot is a progressive carrier. Both can play the rotation role as the progressive ball. What we don’t have is ball playing keeper and striker to score goals. Upgrading Eriksen to have far better depth in midfield will be an ideal scenario but not the minimum requirement. We should get ball playing keeper and striker first.
So one progressive passer in our squad? Everyone is of the opinion Fred, Scott and DVB are not good enough and should go. We can't go into the season with 3 CM options. Rabiot would just be replacing the hole we have, we still have to invest to improve.
 

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So one progressive passer in our squad? Everyone is of the opinion Fred, Scott and DVB are not good enough and should go. We can't go into the season with 3 CM options. Rabiot would just be replacing the hole we have, we still have to invest to improve.
Eriksen isn’t the only progressive passer in our squad. To me is about quality over quantity. City only have 4 midfielders to cover 6 spots plus Phillips as a passenger.

Bruno is a progressive passer, Eriksen is a progressive passer, Rabiot is a progressive carrier, while Casemiro is the DM. If we sell McTominay, VDB or Fred will be the passenger, sell both Fred and VDB first then we can start talking about signing new midfielder. What’s the point if we can’t sell both but using the budget to add more midfielder and have keeper that can’t retain possession?

Without ball playing keeper, we can‘t retain possession means we are just hoofing the ball. We can have prime Xavi but if DDG hoof the ball then prime Xavi will be useless to ask him to win the header. Hence why spending on keeper and striker should be priority first before spending it on midfielder, while we can improve our midfield by signing rabiot on free.
 
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