Wouldn’t surprise me if Chelsea pre-bought zaha for next summer if the price got low enough. We need a left-footed winger and I’m sure palace would love to keep him for an extra year.
They need to balance the books. They just covered the De Ligt transfer He's also in his final year of his deal and wants playing time.
That's a cheap take. I hate Juventus and Italy can be a racist pile of trash but this move was based on him wanting a starting role and Juve needing to balance the books
I’m always skeptical on swap deals but if this dybala/lukaku deal somehow happens, what happens to icardi?
I wouldn’t call England good when it comes to racism but it’s nothing like Italy. Italian crowds make monkey noises at a player and there is no punishment. Chelsea just banned a guy for life for allegedly calling sterling a black cunt. Sterling said he never even heard it. There is work to be done in England for sure but if I was an agent for a black player, I would tell him to only play in Italy as a last resort.
You will have shit heads everywhere. The point you make about the team and league not allowing such incidents to reoccur without punishment is valid. It's beyond embarrassing how some Italian teams and the league itself won't come down hard on this awful shit.
It’s easy to ban some no name fan for saying something racist but what about when your team captain says the exact same slur to Anton Ferdinand?
Leo is a fucking idiot. It's why he was never getting the captain band at Juve and why Milan shipped his ass off after a season. Juve handled that awful and a big reason behind it is because the club bends to the ultras. Plenty of clubs in Italy wont stand for that shit. Milan is one. So less paint brushing of everyone please.
You say its easy to ban a no name fan but they dont do that in italy. The same player we are discussing had an entire stand of fans making monkey noises at him and the italian football authorities did nothing. Absolutely nothing. Didnt even attempt some bullshit fake gesture to make it seem like they are doing something. His own teammate blamed him for the racial abuse he received. Terry meanwhile served a 4 match ban, was stripped of the england captaincy and ushered into international retirement. I would also say that english football has evolved since then and i'd expect a punishment to be more severe today than it was 8 years ago when that happened.
I’ll be honest, I was eagerly anticipating who would respond first to that and who would be the most offended
While I agree Italy has major racism problems, I doubt it’s the driving factor behind Kean leaving the only country he’s ever known, for Liverpool.
I don't really disagree with Raven or Illini. Unfortunately the league forcing me to have to defend the few who aren't racist fucks is just a sad state.
we still have enough money to not need to sell, but yeah, it hurts the finances for sure. Still think at least 1 of lozano and bergwijn go, hope they give zoet to someone
Apparently the football gods are hellbent on making sure that Antonio conte never gets to coach romelu lukaku.
I don't understand what Juventus is doing in this deal. I prefer Dybala under Sarri over Lukaku. Maybe they are making a profit in this exchange...
Also what is lukaku doing? He wants to leave because he’s 2nd choice. Sarri will never switch formations. Is he going to juve to play as a RW? Ronaldo is the striker and he will have much less chance of usurping Ronaldo than he does rashford.
This isn't true... They brought in: Salcedo for 9m Lazaro for 25m Politano for 23m Godin Sensi Barella So if they are going to bring anyone else in at this point people like Icardi, Nainggolan and possibly Perisic will need to be sold first. And nobody really wants the headache that is attached to Icardi or the broken down body of Nainggolan.
They may play Ronaldo out wide... idk it seems like a odd fit. I think Sarri mention possibly playing a 4-3-1-2 but neither Ronalo or Lukaku seem to really be primed for that 2nd striker role.
Now an Inter-Roma swap of Icardi and Dzeko? Yes I realize Roma's current wage structure doesn't come close to allowing it but something's gotta give here.
I would imagine given how they need position the books if they just went down a separate transfers. Juve pay 30m for Lukau and Man U pay 45m for Dybala