Summer transfer window 2017

[Mystik]

hmm, I hope we're careful about giving youth players away. Felicioli looks to have a decent future ahead of him, I'm keen on us keeping him. Pessina I'm more hesitant on, but haven't seen as much of him. At the least, I hope we can include a buy-back clause or something like the Petagna deal get a percentage on resale.

We're also rumoured to be talking about Belotti today as our management meet Torino's sporting director. They're interested in Zapata, Lapadula and Niang I believe. I don't believe the Belotti deal is over by a long shot, although I can't say I totally know how he'd slot in alongside Andre Silva (not to say it's impossible).

Just a question, I know a lot of you consider Douglas Costa a dream signing, but can you explain why? Not to say I don't rate him or consider him a useful player if he were to come (he would improve us for sure), but he's not someone I particularly see as a dream signing if I'm honest.

Given that we already agree on his quality as a football player and his ability to improve our team with his direct play, I won't bother go into a long discussion about that. I think part of the reason why nefremo and I have been mentioning him so much is that while we are talking about him as a "dream" signing, it's a dream that is IMO within touching distance. He barely played last year under Carlo and is probably very willing to move away. Bayern seem to be willing to sell and the price appears to be reasonable (by today's standards). For me, when you combine the quality of player with his apparent availability and going price, that is why I consider him a realistic dream signing (paradox, I know ). I could talk about Verratti for example as a dream signing but that's more unrealistic than anything..