(02-22-2017, 12:18 AM)porcho Wrote: Forgive me for the essay but thought I'd try put it all together...

Say these guys go;
Bacca for 30(hopefully)
Niang 18(option)
Sosa 5?
Kucka 10?(Miha loves him so surely we could use him to get 10mill of bellotti's price)
Zapata and Lopez are as good as free if we want to get rid of them. There's just not that much interest in them and they're on decent wages.
Honda (out of contract)
Ocampos(end of loan)
Mati(end of loan)
Pasalic (end of loan)
Ely(probably 0 because he's crap)

Buy
Cesc 40 - Isco would cost more and Rakitic more again. Although I think Rakitic would be a better fit out of the two
Keita 30
De Vrij 30
Tielemans 20
Kessie/Badelj 15
Deulofeu 15

Leaves us with 33 mill(not including Kucka) to potentially get our hands on Bellotti. I believe, despite Torini's big talk, they would probably let him go for something like 45 and Kucka...

That leaves us with;
GK
Donna
Gabriel
(weak sub)
LB
Antonelli
Vangioni
RB
Calabria
DES
Abate
(still have the usual problem with wing backs)
CB
Roma
Gomez
Paletta
De Vrij
(significantly better)
CM
Cesc
Tielemans
Kessie/Badelj
Bona
Poli
Monto
Locatelli
Berto
Mauri
(Too many players)
Wing
Deulofeu
Suso
Keita
(still need one more winger)
St
Lapadulla
Belotti
Cutrone

Significantly better but we still have some real problems... granted Bonaventura can play LW as well as CM but would be better to get the extra winger. We could try sell off a few of the mids we have but the problem is finding interest in guys like Poli and Bertolacci. Do we give up on Mauri? and who's going to want Montolivo? And we're still stuck with injury prone wing backs with sub par substitutions for them.

Going back to Inter for a sec... They spent heaps the season before on average players before spending on game changers...

(02-22-2017, 04:01 PM)nefremo Wrote: 25mil for Kessie is a bit too much imo. There is a big risk there.

Bernardeschi is likely to stay in Fiorentina this summer I think. At this point of his career, he reminds me of Martial (obviously Bernardeschi is older than Martial was when he went to United). When I say reminds me of...I don't mean footballing attributes, or style, or anything like that. I just specifically am talking about the point of their career.
What I mean by that is, 70mil is a lot of money just like Martial's transfer was a lot of money. Clearly people see potential in the player otherwise the price would have never been that high. The problem is, they might be 70/80mil good in the future, but it's not now. It might be a year, 2, 3 from now. The question is, do we splash that much money and than just sit and wait for him to realize his potential? Is that the right thing to do? If we had cash just sitting around and an already fixed team, ok. But whatever we will have, we will need it to fix the squad NOW. We can't afford to wait years.
Alternatively, they might never become a 70/80mil player and than you've just screwed.

Bernardeschi for 30-40mil, yes. It's still high, but you have to pay for unrealized potential. It's just the way it works. But I wouldn't pay 70 for him and I don't think anyone else will too. For that much money you can buy an established player that offers far more guarantees. For example, for 70mil you can probably buy Alexis.....you can definitely buy Douglas Costa and maybe even Isco in that same price for example.