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Both are doing well and have become regulars in the Italy squad (albeit not first 11). Romagnoli is a starter with Milan and one of the bright spots of their season, whereas Rugani has less playing time, but does brilliantly whenever he is called upon. I think it's fair to say that Rugani would...

Juve have also signed Mattia Caldara (currently at Atalanta), who is one of the best young Italian defenders. and will be joining them in 2018. The only defensive position where Juve don't have a young, potentially top class replacement coming through is left-back. And even there, Juve have...

For opposition and neutral fans perhaps, but not if you're the one playing and winning! Obviously different players have different motivations and career goals, so maybe you're right and he would be seeking a new challenge (particularly if Juve finally go on to win the CL), but logically...

As a Juve fan, I'm not sure why Juve would even consider selling Alex Sandro. Top class left-backs are hard to come by (Juve hadn't had one since Zambrotta), he's one of the first names on the teamsheet and he's at a good age, playing well and only getting better. I'm also not sure why Alex...

Even if Pogba leaves, that's still an extraordinary team (with Khedira in Pogba's place, and Chiellini instead of Benatia). Juve will pay 45m this summer and 45m next, they confirmed this through an official announcement on their website.

I don't know where you're getting your stats from, but according to Transfermarkt he has missed 20 matches since February 2016. In either case, it's irrelevant. I'm not sure who you're trying to fool by claiming that Gundogan hasn't been susceptible to injury throughout his career, but I'm glad...

So if you ignore his injuries, he hasn't been injured. Ok.

38 in 8 seasons, almost two of which he missed through the back injury. So it's really 38 in 6 seasons, which is a significant amount if you ask me. Surely the greatest indicator of whether someone will struggle with injuries in the future is whether they have struggled with injuries in the...

You say that as though 38 games is very few. 38 games is the length of a league campaign. And you're selectively ignoring the terrible back inury that kept him out for almost two seasons. And you're also ignoring the fact that if his latest injury would have happened in, say, November rather...

Having bad luck is picking up a one-off freak injury (Canizares dropping a bottle of aftershave on his foot that meant he missed the Euros or World Cup, for instance) Suffering the same injury over and over again means you have a chronic injury. Suffering various different injuries to...

That's not quite true, is it? A cursory glance at his injury record shows that he suffered an injury a month since December 2015 and a number of other injuries before that. Thankfully most were minor, but there's no denying that he has suffered a high number of injuries for a 25 year old player.

I'm not sure the "playing at a lower level" argument applies - many players have said that Serie A is the most difficult league for a striker to score in, given that teams are more defensive and tactically sound. So quality doesn't really come into it, it's more difficult to score against...

Gundogan's. He's a fine player, but has undoubtedly struggled pretty heavily with injuries so far in his career.

Personally I feel that Whoscored ratings, and stats in general, are nonsense given that football is a game that depends so heavily on intangibles. So I don't really give any credence to which player had a huge Whoscored rating when comparing players. As for Alves, he's obviously not peak Alves...

Oh come on, there's club bias and then there's arguing that Sagna, a perfectly respectable right back, is in any way comparable to Dani Alves, the standout right back of his generation and arguably one of the greatest right backs in the history of the game.

Except City's centre backs are Otamendi and Mangala, and Benatia is possibly better than both, regardless of whether he was poor at Bayern or not (not to mention the fact that Juve bought him as a backup in the first place). Pjanic is a superb player, similar to Gundogan without the...

The Higuain vs Aguero argument is completely pointless. Both are fantastic strikers and while Aguero might have a slight edge in terms of ability, he also is unfortunately extremely injury prone, so there's not much to separate the two. In either case, both are absolutely top class strikers...

Stats like that are nonsense, but anyone who watches Serie A regularly would tell you that Pogba is the best. I don't know who you would classify as a £50m midfielder, but I can almost guarantee that they would also tell you that Pogba is better than whoever that would be.

Why are people pitting this as Juve choosing between Pogba and Bonucci? I don't think the two cases are really related in any way, to be honest. I think Pogba might leave (although that's not a given), whilst Bonucci is definitely staying and will be one of Juve's main leaders/captains after...

Germany barely had a shot until they went 2-0 down and threw everybody forward in desperation. Then they had a few headers and goal mouth scrambles (and Kimmich's great shot). They never really threatened at all until then.