So I take it the idea that Sassuolo would rather sell to Juve for cheap than start a bidding war in order to not piss them off is dead.
Locatelli
Using us to get Juve to stomp up the cash. Nothing in this.
Quincy Abeyie wrote:So I take it the idea that Sassuolo would rather sell to Juve for cheap than start a bidding war in order to not piss them off is dead.
huh? where did this come from?
something to do with appeasing the juve cabal, as they do way more frequent business together. have to remember juve basically run Italian football. might be worth it to sassuolo take a bit of a financial L in the short term to preserve the relationship and also fulfil locatellis wishes. our bid to Sassuolo would have be worth them invoking juves ire, basically
Other than Vito Mannone, how many Italians actually played for us? I remember Lupoli who smashed it for the youths but never played for the first team and Niccolo Galli (RIP). We don’t do Italian. They also don’t travel well in the Premier League generally so that could be a concern when you splash big money on a Locatelli, as good as he is.
I think Lupoli played for the first team in the league cup a couple of times but I could be wrong.
I don’t think we should care about nationality for other purposes than AFCON.
And meeting the requirements of home grown quotas
Please Juve, fuck this up.
Arsenal are ready to make a new bid to Sassuolo of €40M for Manuel Locatelli. The English club are pushing for the player. Reports,
@skysportvia @juvefcdotcom.
Exclusive : Gazetta / Locatelli : Juventus have now raised their offer to 40m€ to sign Locatelli but the structure of the deal remains an issue. Arsenal have made a better formal offer with immediate payments within the season. but the player still favors a move to Juventus.
The press is all over the place on this one.
It's always like this when we are linked with Serie A transfers. Sounds so real but all bullshit. Like Dybala when he was at Palermo
On the other hand, I can't understand why we wouldn't be interested. It's rumoured that the price is €40m. We're spending almost €60m on White and the only way people can rationalize that transfer is by saying it must mean we have plenty of money for other signings.
The problem is no one good wants to come here at the moment. We have nothing to offer to a player like Locatelli unless we offer them stupid money.
Have read a report Juve have agreed to meet the transfer fee & Locatelli has no interest in talking to Arteta or Edu.
Arsenal have moved on from Locatelli and have turned their attention towards Aouar. [@tuttosport]
The Sassuolo CEO is trying hard to bait Juve
moved on from locatelli to target Aouar... cos those are both the same kind of midfielders