It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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WRicko said:
Could we be going for Dybala ? must be going cheap does he not play false 9 these days ? Where we not linked with him a few years ago ? How is he doing

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Juventus feel BETRAYED by Paulo Dybala and want rid of him

ALVISE CAGNAZZO IN ITALY: With the club having taken stern action against Dybala, it has now emerged they are keen to offload him in just a few months rather than allow him to slip away for free.
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Been quite poor and disruptive the last few seasons, doubt we're still interested.
 
Bert Trautmann's Parachute said:
Yes, a plan not to buy him.
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We'll see. I suspect the people saying we don't need a striker right now will be the same people blasting our decision not to replace Agüero come January.

Exactly like with Kompany. We said we didn't need to replace him but by Christmas it was abundantly clear that not replacing him was a huge mistake. In hindsight the decision not to replace him meant winning anything major that season was never going to happen. We can't make the same mistake again.
 
peace frog said:
"generational talent" a term used by fuckwits who want to sound like they know what they are talking about, what a load of twatter speak.
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Not at all. It doesn't take a genius to understand that it means 'a young player who is one of the best of his generation'. Unless it's the concept of using terms for things that you take issue with, which would be odd as that's how language has worked for millennia.
 
MarsLlama said:
We'll see. I suspect the people saying we don't need a striker right now will be the same people blasting our decision not to replace Agüero come January.

Exactly like with Kompany. We said we didn't need to replace him but by Christmas it was abundantly clear that not replacing him was a huge mistake. In hindsight the decision not to replace him meant winning anything major that season was never going to happen. We can't make the same mistake again.
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Other options are available, including something different to add to our midfield line-up.
 
Bert Trautmann's Parachute said:
Other options are available, including something different to add to our midfield line-up.
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I think this strikerless system we've been playing is a reactive solution, not a proactive one. We're somehow going to win the league without really playing a top striker for most of the season because we have the greatest tactician in the history of the sport at the helm. But ideally we'd have a top striker getting the goals- it's in Pep's nature to use one (Villa, Lewandowski, Agüero have all thrived under him).

To me, playing with no striker has worked out because of a mixture of Pep's ability and some great individual performances (mainly Gundogan. Fuck knows where we'd be if he hadn't stepped up). But I don't think it's going to be a long-term answer.
 
MarsLlama said:
I think this strikerless system we've been playing is a reactive solution, not a proactive one. We're somehow going to win the league without really playing a top striker for most of the season because we have the greatest tactician in the history of the sport at the helm. But ideally we'd have a top striker getting the goals- it's in Pep's nature to use one (Villa, Lewandowski, Agüero have all thrived under him).

To me, playing with no striker has worked out because of a mixture of Pep's ability and some great individual performances (mainly Gundogan. Fuck knows where we'd be if he hadn't stepped up). But I don't think it's going to be a long-term answer.
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Agreed. But if we can't afford the best I can't see us bringing in someone not in the top-ish bracket. Alternative 'solutions' may well be required.
 
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