Personally, I don't believe in the news surrounding Pjaca. If Juventus are suddenly in pole position, they should've signed him by now. We have the excuse of waiting for the take-over, but they don't and if we're offering 25m+bonus and they say that their offer rests at 18m, it remains quite odd that Zagreb would be okay with that, remember it's not only the player that decides where he goes.
However, if he does go to Juventus I'll be disappointed but my opinion wont change - the kid plays for fun in Croatia and he made a mockery of Portugals defence who are now European champions, not to mention other good performances on similarly larger stages. Bottom line, he's still a great player and lucky Juventus if they sign him. On the flip side, if the Chinese take-over I think he'll live to regret it. I see Inter and Milan overtaking Juventus by large margins in the future unless they see a take over aswell. The Asian market is simply too powerful and wealthy, not only will they out-invest the likes of Juventus every single year, but if we start taking the titles from them they'll have very little to invest with the prices of players in todays market. Moreover, apart from the Asian wealth we also have a much larger worldwide brand than Juventus who are more popular in Italy, and I expect the Chinese take-over owners to exploit this to their advantage to show for massive future gains. Galliani & Berlusconi are in the stone-age, they are completely blind to the power of social media and proper world-wide branding operations. On the contrary, the Chinese are masters of the art - and if the owners are who I've heard, then they are also much younger.
Overall, if the Chinese takeover goes through succesfully, I think Pjaca would have made a poor decision looking back a couple of years down the road.
What do you all think of Zeilinski ? Apparently our deal for him with Udinese is 18mln euros. He's an exciting player but he'll need some time imo.
However, if he does go to Juventus I'll be disappointed but my opinion wont change - the kid plays for fun in Croatia and he made a mockery of Portugals defence who are now European champions, not to mention other good performances on similarly larger stages. Bottom line, he's still a great player and lucky Juventus if they sign him. On the flip side, if the Chinese take-over I think he'll live to regret it. I see Inter and Milan overtaking Juventus by large margins in the future unless they see a take over aswell. The Asian market is simply too powerful and wealthy, not only will they out-invest the likes of Juventus every single year, but if we start taking the titles from them they'll have very little to invest with the prices of players in todays market. Moreover, apart from the Asian wealth we also have a much larger worldwide brand than Juventus who are more popular in Italy, and I expect the Chinese take-over owners to exploit this to their advantage to show for massive future gains. Galliani & Berlusconi are in the stone-age, they are completely blind to the power of social media and proper world-wide branding operations. On the contrary, the Chinese are masters of the art - and if the owners are who I've heard, then they are also much younger.
Overall, if the Chinese takeover goes through succesfully, I think Pjaca would have made a poor decision looking back a couple of years down the road.
What do you all think of Zeilinski ? Apparently our deal for him with Udinese is 18mln euros. He's an exciting player but he'll need some time imo.