Cavani Speculation/News (page 301 onwards)

[not my fault!]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

Wasn't it reported, said, tweeted or however you wanna take the info, that City have agreed wages etc with Cavani & it's only the price with Napoli that needs sorting? Well surely that shows he's happy to come & Napoli must of given us permission to speak to the player so they're open for the move!
Chelsea may of offered 'X' amount more but have not spoken to the player yet as far as we know! Also I find it hard to believe the day they rang Napoli that they had made an offer too.

-- Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:38 am --

If we don't get Cavani, would I be right in saying that our strikers will be Aguero, Dzeko and Guidetti as Tevez might be on the way out. If this is the case and one gets injured, competing in all competitions we may need another striker?

Tevez won't go anywhere... Who's gonna pay him £250k pw? I wouldn't be suprised to see him sign another 1 or 2 year extention with the agreement he an leave for free at the end.

If he's still here next week it will be because he's demanding £1m pw

Fancy a bet? I'll take Tevez as a City player still at the end of the transfer window yeh.

 

[MSP]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

I like how people are using Fernandinho and his lack of Brazil games as some argument while forgetting that Cavani scored 2 goals in 900 World Cup qualifying minutes playing for Uruguay.

I predict some to be very surprised about Cavani's productivity in his new club unless he moves to Madrid or Rags.

Never a 60 millions player.

 

[pudge]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

I like how people are using Fernandinho and his lack of Brazil games as some argument while forgetting that Cavani scored 2 goals in 900 World Cup qualifying minutes playing for Uruguay.

I predict some to be very surprised about Cavani's productivity in his new club unless he moves to Madrid or Rags.

While I don't agree with the whole "he only has 5 caps for Brazil" thing, comparing that form of ignorance and stupidity to a lean spell for a striker is even more stupid.

 

[Ray78]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

This is just a hunch but I still think he will stay at Napoli. Activating his release clause is one thing, persuading the player to join is another. Unlike RvP, Cavani is more settled at Napoli.

 

[MSP]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

I like how people are using Fernandinho and his lack of Brazil games as some argument while forgetting that Cavani scored 2 goals in 900 World Cup qualifying minutes playing for Uruguay.

I predict some to be very surprised about Cavani's productivity in his new club unless he moves to Madrid or Rags.

While I don't agree with the whole "he only has 5 caps for Brazil" thing, comparing that form of ignorance and stupidity to a lean spell for a striker is even more stupid.

I would be worried if you'd agree with me in football stuff..

How about 12 career goals in 3300 minutes for Uruguay from 60 millions rated ultra-mega striker, that's about full league season playing time, are we going to call that lean spell too?

It's an absurd amount of money for player who produced only in Serie A club built around his strength.

I've posted analysis of his goals at Napoli in 12/13 season on some of earlier parts of this thread. Huge majority of his goals came in braces and hat-tricks and when Napoli were in front so opposition had to open leaving the space for them where they are best as the club and where Cavani is best. He barely ever scored one goal per game, the winner one, 80% of them were in games where Napoli demolished opposition.

He can get that in Madrid and at Rags, I'm fairly sure he'd do well at those two. But Chelsea or City? I'm not sure at all.

 

[pudge]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

I like how people are using Fernandinho and his lack of Brazil games as some argument while forgetting that Cavani scored 2 goals in 900 World Cup qualifying minutes playing for Uruguay.

I predict some to be very surprised about Cavani's productivity in his new club unless he moves to Madrid or Rags.

While I don't agree with the whole "he only has 5 caps for Brazil" thing, comparing that form of ignorance and stupidity to a lean spell for a striker is even more stupid.

I would be worried if you'd agree with me in football stuff..

How about 12 career goals in 3300 minutes for Uruguay from 60 millions rated ultra-mega striker, that's about full league season playing time, are we going to call that lean spell too?

It's an absurd amount of money for player who produced only in Serie A club built around his strength.

He has 13 in 49, excluding the Olympics. Not spectacular but he's sharing the load with the likes of Suarez and, to a lesser extent nowadays, Forlan. Many players don't produce at international level so I don't think it's a great leveler.

€60m is too much for him imo, but if a club wants him that's what they'll have to pay so long as ADL is calling the shots at Napoli. Or the equivalent of, if swap deals are to be believed but that's a long shot imo

 

[MSP]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

On the end of the day I couldn't give less damn if City or someone else will pay 100 millions for him, I'm just saying it's an absurd amount of money for player who is yet to prove to be world class outside of one, very familiar environment.

He's very good player, no doubt about that but in same time pretty overrated until he proves different.

He won't be the beginning and the end of everything at Chelsea with Mata, Hazard, Oscar... or at City with Silva, Nasri, Yaya, Aguero... like he was at Napoli. Just like he isn't at Uruguay and it shows on his numbers.

 

[tonycunninghamsbonce]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

Good fcuking posts MSP.

 

[Ray78]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

MSP and Pudge do talk a lot of sense.

 

[LoveCity]

Re: Cavani Speculation/News (page 151 onwards)

Cavani has often been played as a winger for Uruguay and not been in the best position to score.

An article about the Cavani international enigma: <a class="postlink" href="http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/tacticsandanalysis/id/287?cc=5739" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://espnfc.com/blog/_/name/tacticsan ... 87?cc=5739</a>

It isn't exclusive to him. Messi doesn't even have a 1-in-2 goal scoring ratio for Argentina. Ronaldo has scored 38 goals in 102 games for Portugal... he averages more than 1 goal per game for Real Madrid. Huntelaar has been better than Van Persie for Holland but we all know who is the better club striker. Aguero - 17 goals in 43 caps, another big name who can't even manage 1 goal every 2 games for his country.