Official Juventus FC Thread

[and1GS]

Clichy wasn't performing too well to close out the season with Arsenal so I'd assume it would be very possible to acquire him.

[magik9113]

Juve won the first leg vs Shamrock Rovers 2-0 in Ireland.

Amauri scored both goals off of assists from Diego and Motta. He already is having a better year than last year.

[Batu7]

I'm shocked.

[magik9113]

Giovinco is 98% at Parma but it is yet to be known whether its a loan or co-ownership deal..(or neither which would be terrible.)

We are once again trying to get Krasic. Del Neri wants 4 good wingers badly (Lanzafame, Pepe, Martinez, hopefully Krasic)

Also we need a left back desperately and it's being reported that Marotta will meet with Hamburg for Aogo. He is worth around 9 million euro but we will try to lower that by giving them some garbage in the form of Poulsen and/or Salihamidzic.

[call.me.dude]

Also we need a left back desperately and it's being reported that Marotta will meet with Hamburg for Aogo. He is worth around 9 million euro but we will try to lower that by giving them some garbage in the form of Poulsen and/or Salihamidzic.

What makes you think so? He sure has some talent and some already refined skills (free kicks, corner kicks), it's just that those aren't necessarily the skills you primarily look for in a wing back. He's just not really a good defender (good tackles but looks lost very often), isn't the best at crossing the ball and completely sucked for the bigger part of last season. Not saying there aren't any teams that stupid, but any team that pays more than 5M for Aogo makes a stupid move overpaying for a guy that right now probably isn't even a Top 10 wing back in Bundesliga.

In no order and just by their play last season...
better than Aogo: Lahm, Castro, Riether, Molinaro, Contento, Boateng, Badstuber, Schmelzer, Rafinha, Franz, Jansen, Ochs (12 guys)
debatable: Eichner, M. Schäfer, Fritz, Beck or even Fathi and Diekmeier (6 guys)


Not only going by last season:
Lahm (LB/RB), Castro (RB), Boateng (RB/LB, but mainly CB), Badstuber (LB, but mainly CB), Molinaro (LB), Riether (RB), Rafinha (RB), Franz (RB), M. Schäfer (LB), Beck (RB/LB), Jansen (LB, but mainly LW), Ochs (RB, but played some RW last season) and Kadlec (LB) are easily better than him and look like they will be for the next couple of years. That's 13 guys.

[magik9113]

Also we need a left back desperately and it's being reported that Marotta will meet with Hamburg for Aogo. He is worth around 9 million euro but we will try to lower that by giving them some garbage in the form of Poulsen and/or Salihamidzic.

What makes you think so? He sure has some talent and some already refined skills (free kicks, corner kicks), it's just that those aren't necessarily the skills you primarily look for in a wing back. He's just not really a good defender (good tackles but looks lost very often), isn't the best at crossing the ball and completely sucked for the bigger part of last season. Not saying there aren't any teams that stupid, but any team that pays more than 5M for Aogo makes a stupid move overpaying for a guy that right now probably isn't even a Top 10 wing back in Bundesliga.

In no order and just by their play last season...
better than Aogo: Lahm, Castro, Riether, Molinaro, Contento, Boateng, Badstuber, Schmelzer, Rafinha, Franz, Jansen, Ochs (12 guys)
debatable: Eichner, M. Schäfer, Fritz, Beck or even Fathi and Diekmeier (6 guys)


Not only going by last season:
Lahm (LB/RB), Castro (RB), Boateng (RB/LB, but mainly CB), Badstuber (LB, but mainly CB), Molinaro (LB), Riether (RB), Rafinha (RB), Franz (RB), M. Schäfer (LB), Beck (RB/LB), Jansen (LB, but mainly LW), Ochs (RB, but played some RW last season) and Kadlec (LB) are easily better than him and look like they will be for the next couple of years. That's 13 guys.

Molinaro was on Juve a year ago and they tried desperately to get rid of him... anyway, I didn't just make up that number I was saying it because that is what was reported in newspapers. I remembered wrong because looking back the article actually said 8mill...
http://www.football-italia.net/aug01j.html that is the English translation of a Corriere Dello Sport article

[call.me.dude]

Molinaro was on Juve a year ago and they tried desperately to get rid of him... anyway, I didn't just make up that number I was saying it because that is what was reported in newspapers. I remembered wrong because looking back the article actually said 8mill...
http://www.football-italia.net/aug01j.html that is the English translation of a Corriere Dello Sport article

Could be that they will offer 8M, but that's still way too much.

"The newspaper lists a series of potential reinforcements in defence, which include Serdar Tasci (Stuttgart), Cristian Zapata (Udinese), Pedro Geromel (Cologne), Neven Subotic (Borussia Dortmund), Luisao (Benfica) and Douglas (Twente)."

Tasci, Geromel, Subotic, Luisao (not sure about Douglas and Zapata, haven't seen them play that much) are on another level compared to Aogo. I would understand if Juve wanted to sign one of those guys. They're all centre backs though.

[magik9113]

Zapata is pretty good and actually plays left back(can play on the right too)...I have never been wowed or anything by Aogo but I didn't see him enough to make a good enough judgement. All I know is that he is better than De Ceglie who is Juve's current starter...so they need a left back much more than a center back, i'm not sure why all those guys are listed lol

[Batu7]

A Turkish source says Giovinco is loaned out to Parma, and Parma has an option to co-own him.

[magik9113]

yeah Giovinco is offially on Parma. I read its going to be co-ownership.

Juve finished off Shamrock 1-0. Del Piero scored a free kick...they dominated despite only one goal. Obviously the competition sucks but its good to see them showing signs of life and they just look a lot more positive than in the past.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaanxOG1Lt8[/youtube]

[magik9113]

great news:
Camoranesi to Birmingham, Poulsen to Liverpool

[BlackMamba]

Well, I was hoping for Giovinco to have a more important season, I hope Juve has enough offensive talent for next season.

[and1GS]

Nice topspin by Del Piero.

[magik9113]

Juve beat Sturm Graz 2-1 in europa league. Amauri and Bonucci both scored headers.
After going up 1-0 we played like **** and Amauri's header bailed us out in the 90th minute

next match is in one week at home

[magik9113]

finally some great transfer news...
We got Krasic for €15m and also Aquilani on loan for this year, with option to buy for €15-17m


we now seem to be deep at every position but left back.

Strikers...Amauri, Trez, Iaquinta, Del Piero, Diego
CM.........Sissoko, Aquilani, Marchisio, Melo
Wingers...Krasic, Pepe, Lanzafame, Martinez
LB..........De Ceglie, (Grosso)
CB..........Chiellini, Bonucci, Legrottaglie
RB..........Motta, Grygera

Out: Poulsen, Cannavaro, Giovinco, Zebina, Tiago
Probably out soon: Grosso, Camoranesi, Salihamidzic

[Batu7]

A Turkish channel said that Liverpool was considering to send out Aquilani on loan, I thought we'd be a great fit. I'm happy if we got him.

Krasic is a great talent. I'm really happy we finally signed him officially, but Giovinco still could have stayed.

Also, Diego isn't a striker and I don't have any hope for Trezeguet. It should be the end for him, he should go to the Turkish League or a similar league where he can cash in his final contract.

Finally: Magik, when you listed the rotation, you put Melo as a minus in the CM position, right? Just checking.

[magik9113]

In all the games so far that Diego has started they have played a 4-4-1-1 with him behind the striker so I just stuck him there

Melo isn't going anywhere as far as i know, but i would not mind getting rid of him.
I read that if the right offer comes it will be considered, but he is not for sale.

[magik9113]

more transfer news: We are about to get Di Natale for 6.5 million euro. He was leading goal scorer of Serie A last year...if he can play anything like he did at Udinese for us it'll be a great buy (or he could flop like he always has with the national team)

Trezeguet and Diego are rumored to be out again....Wolfsburg upped their bid for Diego.

We're also still shopping for a left/center back

EDIT: Di Natale turns down Juve
hopefully diego will stay.

[magik9113]

Instead of Di Natale we got Quagliarella.

Beat sturm graz again 1-0 thanks to Del Piero:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTtfRoSPdW0&feature=related[/youtube]

[5DOM]

what a goal