Adrien Rabiot | signs 1 year deal at Juventus. See you all next year

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antk said:
Rabiot is currently joint top scorer at Juve in Serie A this season. Only 8 goals though.
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I haven't watched him much this season to be fair. Goalscoring midfielder isn't the first thing i'd associate with him.
I think a lot of the games i've seen with him have been next to veratti or pogba and he deferred to them a bit for obvious reasons and kept his passing simple and safe. I dont know how that would translate to playing next to casemiro when progressing the ball is his main job. Moving the ball forward as well as Eriksen would be my concern more than goals or even assists in other words. He seems like a player who could play anywhere in midfield and probably a couple other positions and do a good job mind you. Against the likes of Arsenal where everyone is dreading how Eriksen will fare against them he'll probably be ideal.
I think he'd be a great option and great cover in other words. But the transfer muppet in me is looking for an upgrade on Eriksen which i dont think he is, more an alternative.
 
Suedesi said:
Stop with the silly comments. I know you're salty he's not signing a new contract, but you've got him on a free in the first place.

Starter for the best (second best) national team in the world, Juve's best midfielder (certainly better than Locatelli or Beans!), has scored as much as prolific Vlahovic who Juve want to flog for 60M+ and is on free.

If he'd like to play in the PL and he fancies United, it's a no brainer for me.
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I am salty because he did nothing, even less than Ramsey, for three years when we needed him the most… now that he is in his contract year, he is putting the kind of effort any coach wanted from him in first instance. Good for him. Juventus has a great tradition with French midfielders and him being the best in one of our low periods means what it means… almost zero.
 
lex talionis said:
Rabiot is a solid all-rounder, the kind of midfielder every top club needs. But unless there's no chance of signing Sabitzer, let's sign Sabitzer over Rabiot.
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Rabiot is way way better than Sabitzer.
 
Kostov said:
He is a good player, but I'd rather we bring someone like Caicedo, better fit, younger and hungrier with less drama.
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I'm inclined to agree but Caicedo probably costs £80m+, Rabiot is a free agent. I know, I know, ridiculous wages and sign-on-fee and what not, but still.
 
Rabiot is focused on money. I'm not surprised he is having his best year on the final year of his contract

Worst mistake would be giving him a fat 3 or 4 years contract.
On a 1 or 2 years contract, I'd take him for a lot of top club
 
ericPSG said:
Rabiot is focused on money. I'm not surprised he is having his best year on the final year of his contract

Worst mistake would be giving him a fat 3 or 4 years contract.
On a 1 or 2 years contract, I'd take him for a lot of top club
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He’s 28. What makes you think it’s possible to give him a 1 or 2 year contract. He won’t be signing for Ipswich Town :lol:

Hey Mr Rabiot we’ve noticed through social media you seem to have an attitude problem and we’ve noticed your best season has been when your contract was due.

So based on this we are going to offer you a 1 year rolling contract….:lol:.

You cannot make up the mad processing some of you posters come up with.
 
Stay clear - he had the chance to sign for us but clearly wanted silly wages. This is the type of thing we are trying to move away from.
He obviously can`t be that desperate to play for Utd.
 
Floyd said:
I'm inclined to agree but Caicedo probably costs £80m+, Rabiot is a free agent. I know, I know, ridiculous wages and sign-on-fee and what not, but still.
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People seem to forget that the mad wages and sign on fee still works out cheaper than a big money signing. I think you can spin it in the books better too, so still let's you spend hard cash on someone else.

Having said that, I'd rather we didn't sign Rabiot. Not sure he's good enough to be worth the hassle.
 
Floyd said:
I'm inclined to agree but Caicedo probably costs £80m+, Rabiot is a free agent. I know, I know, ridiculous wages and sign-on-fee and what not, but still.
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I understand the financial constrains and the money positives of Rabiot, but too much luggage comes with him, which seems worrying especially now that we got rid of Ronaldo and Pogba.
 
I don't think I can be less excited about a transfer than this one.
 
croadyman said:
Why when he's a free agent and yes I know what happened with him last year
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I would guess it could be because he is an egotistical tosser or it might be his nightmare of a mother but most probably it is due to the fact he was total garbage last season and is having a great year this year now his contract is expiring and he is chasing a new deal. Players who perform in a contract year are hard to trust.
 
ClassOf'99 said:
Because he's been a free agent twice! At 2 big clubs, that should say all we need to know about the behind the scenes of this player.
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What should that tell you? He was a free agent with PSG the same way several other PSG homegrown players were free agent because at the time PSG tried to lowball them while offering big contracts to transfer signings. And he is a free agent now because Juventus are in trouble financially and legally.
 
JPRouve said:
What should that tell you? He was a free agent with PSG the same way several other PSG homegrown players were free agent because at the time PSG tried to lowball them while offering big contracts to transfer signings. And he is a free agent now because Juventus are in trouble financially and legally.
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And he tried to highball us last summer? We just got the dressing room settled after Ronaldo's antics and the Pogba circus.

We don't need another Merc just playing for money, especially one that has his mum as his agent, that's a headache in and of itself.
 
ClassOf'99 said:
And he tried to highball us last summer? We just got the dressing room settled after Ronaldo's antics and the Pogba circus.

We don't need another Merc just playing for money, especially one that has his mum as his agent, that's a headache in and of itself.
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We are talking about professional footballers, they literally play for money. Also to suggest that a 28 years old footballer that has moved only once in his professional career is a mercenary is a special take. In that case what do we say about the vast majority of players, including current United players, that moved a handful of times and multiplied their wages in the process? Also Rabiot has never been a dressing room problem.

Having issue with the player for Football reason is fine but the rest is pure nonsense.
 
JPRouve said:
We are talking about professional footballers, they literally play for money. Also to suggest that a 28 years old footballer that has moved only once in his professional career is a mercenary is a special take. In that case what do we say about the vast majority of players, including current United players, that moved a handful of times and multiplied their wages in the process? Also Rabiot has never been a dressing room problem.

Having issue with the player for Football reason is fine but the rest is pure nonsense.
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And a majority stay within their lane/quality bracket with their demands but what he expected from United should be enough of a warning to stay away.

Well this would be his 2nd move, even with Juves financial concerns, he cost them nothing but wages and they can't afford him?

A lot of our players scaled with their ability, but Rabiot asking for northwards of 250k+ as his current deal with Juve is touted to be €500k which is most likely inflated but that's insane regardless of his ability. Hence why he is a mercenary in my eyes, signing a player to immediately come in on wages rivalling our best/long standing players is destined to cause disruption i.e. Sanchez reports.

The rest is pure nonsense? So Ronaldo & Pogba's off field antics or Sanchez being on high end wages and causing disruption were nonsense? Now that's a special take
 
ClassOf'99 said:
And a majority stay within their lane/quality bracket with their demands but what he expected from United should be enough of a warning to stay away.

Well this would be his 2nd move, even with Juves financial concerns, he cost them nothing but wages and they can't afford him?

A lot of our players scaled with their ability, but Rabiot asking for northwards of 250k+ as his current deal with Juve is touted to be €500k which is most likely inflated but that's insane regardless of his ability. Hence why he is a mercenary in my eyes, signing a player to immediately come in on wages rivalling our best/long standing players is destined to cause disruption i.e. Sanchez reports.

The rest is pure nonsense? So Ronaldo & Pogba's off field antics or Sanchez being on high end wages and causing disruption were nonsense? Now that's a special take
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What did he ask and what is the quality bracket that he was supposed to remain within?

Pogba and Ronaldo aren't Rabiot, it's completely nonsensical to put other people's actions on someone else's.

Also regarding last summer why would Rabiot agree to reduce his wage when he was perfectly happy to play for Juventus? It's completely irrational to expect someone to forfeit money when they don't have to and then be upset with them on top of that.
 
JPRouve said:
What did he ask and what is the quality bracket that he was supposed to remain within?

Pogba and Ronaldo aren't Rabiot, it's completely nonsensical to put other people's actions on someone else's.

Also regarding last summer why would Rabiot agree to reduce his wage when he was perfectly happy to play for Juventus? It's completely irrational to expect someone to forfeit money when they don't have to and then be upset with them on top of that.
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The touted reports were around €10m, I doubt even Case & Varane are on those wages.

I love how you've ignored the Sanchez case with wage demands. I'm all for quality but not at the cost of any kind of disruption/distractions.

He was so happy to play for them in fact that he's increased his wage demands to €10m :rolleyes:

I have no qualms with whatever a player that's not at United does but to expect us to forfeit our own wage structure or the structure we are trying to implement to facilitate one player, that is a lesson I hope we have learned from, especially after the Sanchez fiasco and all the crazy contracts that happened off the back of that.

Especially with the clubs takeover up in the air and FFP becoming increasingly more strict.
 
ClassOf'99 said:
The touted reports were around €10m, I doubt even Case & Varane are on those wages.

I love how you've ignored the Sanchez case with wage demands. I'm all for quality but not at the cost of any kind of disruption/distractions.

He was so happy to play for them in fact that he's increased his wage demands to €10m :rolleyes:

I have no qualms with whatever a player that's not at United does but to expect us to forfeit our own wage structure or the structure we are trying to implement to facilitate one player, that is a lesson I hope we have learned from, especially after the Sanchez fiasco and all the crazy contracts that happened off the back of that.

Especially with the clubs takeover up in the air and FFP becoming increasingly more strict.
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I don't care about Sanchez or any other player, it has no relevance to Rabiot and dressing room issues. And yes Rabiot was perfectly happy to play the 22/23 season with Juventus. And no one knows what he asked for, the same way no one knows what Varane or Casemiro asked for or how much they earn outside of United and the players themselves.
 
I think this sort of deal, along with Sabitzer and Weghorst on perm deals, might be kept warm in case the takeover can’t be agreed.
 
Seems more attractive as a freebie compared to last year and I wouldn’t be against it.

So he’ll obviously be signing for Chelsea.
 
Rabiot's slightly older than I'd ideally like our summer signings to be but as a free agent I think he'd probably be a really sensible signing.
 
Be a very good signing. He can play a few different roles in midfield far better than a number of players we already have. And he's a free transfer so minimum risk.

I'm all for this if it helps us put funds into the forward line.
 
He would be a decent addition but he won't improve our possession game at all.
 
Quality signing on a free. Should get him whether we get a takeover or not. We need real quality in the squad, not players making up the numbers.

If we can improve quality without a big transfer fee, we should.
 
Hated the idea when it was first mooted, a bit of an asshole coming into an undisciplined dressing room. It's a far more settled group now, I think he'd be a good addition.
 
The loans of Weghorst and Sabitzer along with previous and current links to Arnautovic and Rabiot, suggest that ETH has a thing for battlers and workhorses. I personally think we need to inject more quality and control into our games which I don’t think players like these provide (although Rabiot is better than the others mentioned) but ETH is obviously better equipped to identify what we need.
 
Let’s hope this is true. Sorts the midfield right out.

Maybe that’s who ETH was talking about when he said players that was skeptical are now onboard this summer.
 
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