United have a bunch of CBs and you still want a CB. No point having loads of them when they aren't good enough.
I knew you mentioned league tbh. Just thought I’d highlight it anyway
Yeh but Juve have signed two mids already this window. They are stacked with quality. We haven't signed a CB in over 2 seasons. They sign a midfielder every month
Difference being they’ve signed Rabiot & Ramsey this window....but no matter. I agree they’d be daft to lose dybala and even dafter to take Lukaku
It’s about quality not quantity. They have Pjanic, Rabiot, Ramsey, Matudi, Can, bentancur and Khedira. Only 2..or at a push 3 from that list (if you include the injury prone Ramsey) belong at the highest level - and even then it’s debatable. The rest are either average or on their last legs.
Harsh in the extreme, Pjanic + Rabiot + Bentancur is an excellent midfield and in Ramsey, Can and Matuidi they have excellent depth
Pjanic wasn’t that great last season. He’s the best of the bunch and a very good player but he needs to perform better and be more consistent if Juve dream of winning the CL. Rabiot is good but we don’t know how he’ll do yet. Bentancur is average as is Matuidi who is good at covering a lot of ground but is like the Lukaku of midfielders. Can is average (imo) and Ramsey is good but injury prone.
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Now they have enough quality, last season their midfield wasn't good enough. Players like Matuidi or Khedira were very good once but they're both nowhere near good enough to start for a team that wants to win the Champions League anymore. They'll sell a few of those midfielders before the summer ends.
Fair
It's probably the most blizzare transfer in a while, him trying to play Sarriball will be comedy gold.
Sarri will have to adapt though, Ronaldo would look out of sorts in that system too. Don't think Sarri as a manager is a good fit for the profile of player Juventus has at the moment. Will be interesting to see how it unfolds.
Oh, they'll feed him alright, but the one scoring the goals will be Ronaldo... at least until he leaves to make some other league his bitch.
You'll struggle to find many teams with better midfield options, be it starters or overall depth.
There's one thing adapting tactics for Ronaldo but another for someone who has no first touch or intensity to his game.
Feed him any more and he won’t fit in the fecking jersey
Too soon for another fat joke.
Kean is very overrated because he comes from their youth system. Everton is his ceiling.
If you feed him 3 times then he will score once.
Yeah I don't really get what their thinking is. Juve can win Serie A playing Rugani and Pjaca, it's no big deal. Surely the holy grail remains the CL, they haven't won it since 1996 after all which is a proper long drought for elite club.
Needless to say, Juventini are not happy
I've just had a look on worldfootball and it was only a brief look so I could well be wrong. But I think Lukaku might become the first Belgian ever to play for Juventus!
That's a bit of a generalisation. There are plenty of average teams in the league where the standard of defending is not very high and tactical awareness is the trait of teams coached by the best managers. I think he'll continue his trend of scoring plenty of goals against the weaker sides in the league. I think he'll bang in 20+ goals for Inter/Juve, whichever team he joins. But he'll carry the same limitation as he's got here.
IT's funny but's obviously wrong. Lukaku will bang plenty in for them, even though he's not as gifted as Dybala. But he'll score more goals for them than Dybala did in his last season.They've now added a poll as to how many goals they reckon Lukaku will score for them. Currently 36% reckon between 0-5.
Like 99% of good strikers
So yesterday and today?
All the balls will be going to Ronaldo to score. Lukaku will just be standing awkwardly with his hands on his hips with occasional hand throws.
All comps (G+A)
Interesting take:
