and surely Jones now as well !
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and surely Jones now as well !
Do you know anything about the circumstances in which we first signed him? Seriously.
You think the two situations are directly comparable?
It's deja vu all the time. It's like a broken record. Since the end of the EUROs it's been "next couple of days", "next week", "edging closer", "personal terms agreed with Pogba", "close to a deal with Juve", "no contact between Juve and United" with a single report of "Deal is done with United" and "Real Madrid hijacking Pogba" once in a while.
i love how some on /r/soccer are acting like this has little impact on pogba.
JUVE JUST TIED RONALDO's TRANSFER FEE!! Higuain is now going to be tied 2nd for largest transfer in world football.
OF COURSE this is pogba related
I've seen a lot of "Juve are only paying 47m this year and 47m next for him, so it has nothing to do with Pogba". Right, of course not
Higuan
28.
i love how some on /r/soccer are acting like this has little impact on pogba.
JUVE JUST TIED RONALDO's TRANSFER FEE!! Higuain is now going to be tied 2nd for largest transfer in world football.
OF COURSE this is pogba related
I hadn't thought of it like that. Wow just fecking wow.
I've seen a lot of "Juve are only paying 47m this year and 47m next for him, so it has nothing to do with Pogba". Right, of course not
Higuain now costs
1. 8m more than Neymar
2. 13m than suarez
Juve's largest signing EVER was buffon for 53m euros. Juve is splashing cash down like they never have. Pogba is leaving.
What Rooney did wasn't ok. Where did I say what Rooney did was ok? You asked me why the club caved on Rooney's demands and I've given you the reason. At the time it was for the good of the club. This mercenary twat Pogba left Le Harve for a bag full of cash in Manchester aged 15 and then aged 19 followed the money trail to Turin. Now he's angling for another windfall aged 23. Don't kid yourself. This guy is an out and out mercenary. And he has crap hair.
Nah, Fergie just didn't trust academy lads in his last years. He'd rather play and experienced player in a new position, than try a young player.
No academy player established himslef as a first team player in Fergie's last years without going on loan at least 1 year.
He was a wonderkid. We clearly wanted him badly. I don't see it as being moneyminded. We must be doing this for most transfers of such kids. This came to the fore because his club made an issue.
He was on the same wage at juve that he was on at United. He had little to no financial gain. If anything he would have signed a new contract here if he wanted more money.
Just been for a swim and we still haven't signed him.
I am feeling calm about it again now though.
Juve signing Higuain means one of two things:
1. They are building a monster of a team to win the CL next season, Pogba being part of that.
2. Money from the sale of Pogba means they are getting in all of their targets quickly before it's made official that Juventus are all of a sudden €120m cash rich.
I am feeling calm about it again now though.
Juve signing Higuain means one of two things:
1. They are building a monster of a team to win the CL next season, Pogba being part of that.
2. Money from the sale of Pogba means they are getting in all of their targets quickly before it's made official that Juventus are all of a sudden €120m cash rich.
I think this went under the radar with the excitement. 94 fecking million94mil for Higuan
If it is the first one we genuinely could have a new team in the stratosphere of Bayern, very slightly behind barca real.
The people at Le Harve wouldn't agree with that. He very much left under a cloud and they accused us of tapping him up for 'a very large sum of money'.
Are you referring to 2010? That was after Ronaldo's departure. Rooney was our only remaining star man who scored 30+ league goals in the previous season, and was still the Rooney we loved.
They haven't got the money to splurge £80m on players, and turn down £100m bids.
Higuan
Juve wanted the best/highest goal scorer of the Italian League.
That was Higuain.
In case people are unaware,
top score Hig (36)
2nd highest scorer (19)
So statistically, Higuain is by some margin, the best striker in the Italian League.
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Insane Serie A record.Higuan
How many posts left till we break the record?
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Specially when the man can admit he was wrong too.
Without selling any players, how have Juventus got €100m to spend on players? Is there a chance their finances are that good they have that amount of cash?
I think the Higuain transfer has pretty much confirmed Pogba is leaving anyway.
Higuan
29 in December and He is very good, maybe not great.
How many players have you ever heard of scoring 36 goals in Serie A?
Of course they would. But they paid his parents not him and he quite clearly moved to a better club for his development
He did the same 3 years later for the same wage. Mercenary? Not really.
In fairness, most were surprised how little LFC sold Suarez for. LFC must've had a brain-fart.
They have the money but more t the point, Juve have been notoriously greedy with money. So for them to sanction a huge transfer like this, they probably know its coming back.
This is based on nothing other than Juve meeting the buyout clause for Higuain, but I think the Pogba deal is pretty much done (as in, they're resigned to selling him this summer).
Reporting that after the alleged Higauin deal a sale of Pogba is now "mandatory".
Given the lots at Juventuz keep talking about Pogba ambition about the ballon d'or and seeing how he is a bot of a show off and show boat, he'd be smart to make this move to us in order to gain much more exposure and the prestige of being seen as the world most expensive player.
He gets to lose CL football for a year(he is still very young) but gain much more in return, the likes he'd never dream of accomplishing at Juventus, starting with far more global exposure + hype(British media can almost on their own manage to get a player winning individual awards due to the fact they can feed the mass with over exaggerated hype if they like a narrative).
I don't even need to talk about money and such, he'll practically double his wages.
He gets to lose CL football for a year(he is still very young) but gain much more in return, the likes he'd never dream of accomplishing at Juventus, starting with far more global exposure + hype(British media can almost on their own manage to get a player winning individual awards due to the fact they can feed the mass with over exaggerated hype if they like a narrative).
I don't even need to talk about money and such, he'll practically double his wages.
I'd say Juve fans agree with me. Anyway as I said earlier if we sign him I hope I'm proved wrong. And I also hope he gets a better haircut!
I think Higuain's transfer only occurred because it's about to be finalised.
I think that's being harsh on Juve as a club. They are massive.
So, when is the big announcement?
When he finally signs for us, shall we do an invasion of a certain salty forum we all know about?
I'm addicted to this thread, God help me.
With these astronomical fees being bandied around (the Higuain deal even more so than the Pogba one) have we now gone way beyond the point of a financially unsustainable, and more crucially irreversible, footballing world? I'm not so sure myself as my grandad, who was disgusted about how money orientated football had become, used to constantly tell me even back in the early nineties that one day the 'bubble will burst'. Accept here were are in 2016 with the transfer record yet again set to be shattered while the 'business' itself just seems to plough on without any kind of decline or even crash seemingly on the horizon.