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Adrien Rabiot | signs 1 year deal at Juventus. See you all next year
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And Garner wasn't match fit either. Rashford and Bruno have played up top more than Eriksen has
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He was the ballon d'Or when they signed him. And the €54 M was only half what Messi was making at Barcelona.
Is this the guy whose mother is his agent?
The main problem with a lot of current (and recent, former) Juve players is them being passengers, not Allegri. Rabiot is just another one: gifted, hard working and eager to contribute, yet ineffective. There is no hidden secret behind our current sh*t predicament, such to imply that Allegri is killing any player he works with. When a club asks you to win every fecking game, pressure is high… you just run with it or crumble. Would Rabiot fare better at United, where pressure nowadays is even bigger than at Juventus?
wheres that stat for how far the ball balloons away after the first touch, ahem Fred, or how many times you hide behind the opposition midfielder so your not an option to receive the ball (mcT)...
Mommy? sorry.
Good post, thanks for this.
The optimism for this season has drained away quicker than it did last season. These lengthy transfer sagas are sapping away any optimism I had for the first month of the season. We shouldn't be in this position at this stage of the season, it's beyond a joke.
He earned 7 M after taxes, but that was because most players joining Italy since 2019 had some tax cuts that made it possible. See for exemple De Ligt making higher net wage than Dybala from a lower gross wage.
That 400k was never true. Just a myth invented by some random London-centered propaganda to explain how a player could leave the mighty Arsenal for a lesser club in a lesser league.
That’s it, but this forum is way too big and emotional to have something like facts stick… it just takes two hours, another wave of posters from wherever they are, and the meme-mentality myths submerge facts again.
Have a look in the SMS thread. Sounds like Utd have sounded out his agents to discover the lay of the land and will wait to see if frenkie is completely off the table.
Probably the miscontrols and being dispossessed!
The way allegri played and used rabiot will be very different to the way ETH would play and use him.
So if reports are to be believed, Rabiot wants more money than Juve are paying Pogba, who they signed on a free. I’m not an expert but surely at the absolute max he should be paid is circa £80k/week. We need to stop this overpaying wages which essentially then deems the payer (asset) worthless.
Family rarely works well at all, agreed.
As for mums, it's not a gender issue, it's an involved/invested mum issue. I've never ever heard of a player's mum except in the context of creating trouble. Never, agent or not.
Dads can be just as bad, but it's 50-50. They can be a lot more emotionally detached in a way mums aren't.
do you think his mum being his agent makes it weird between them when they’re making love?
This is a myth… if one, Allegri as a men manager knows his sh*t and characters waaaay more than a nerd like ETH.
Which has nothing to do with how a manager will use a player tactically or set his team.
The new Pogba. Mercenary French midfielder, from Juventus no less, that's clearly talented but definitely has attitude and consistency issues, on an insane salary, with a devil agent. I don't understand, is it written in stone somewhere that we must have this kind of player in the squad lest misfortune befall the club?
Allegri doesnt play a high pressing possession based football like ETH does. Different philosophy and coaching with same player can yield different results and performances.
Yeah. If that.
Yah cause Allegri clearly used Kulusevski or Bentancur to the best of their abilities...
I suppose it depends if they were discussing business or not while having champagne in the hot tub prior to the boning.
I was very against this at first but the more I looked into him properly and read about opinions worth reading about... I think he'd be a very smart signing. Would be a massive improvement on our midfield.
We need more, we still need a deep playmaker of course, but who knows, maybe Eriksen can be that and we use Rabiot and Fred as a defensive and attacking box to box. Would be a midfield where we finally have a good defensive work rate and can win the ball back, Fred is good at link up play in the final 3rd (just not good at getting the ball from the defensive third up to the final third, that's what Eriksen would be for). Would give a stronger base for the front 3 to do their thing and less responsibility defensively as obviously that's a weakness for all of them.
So hopefully it happens. No idea what else will happen this window, but if we got Rabiot and Morata even, I'd be relatively happy as I feel like Ten Hag would be able to implement his system more normally then. We can't shop in a top market anymore, but these could help us stabilize.
We need more, we still need a deep playmaker of course, but who knows, maybe Eriksen can be that and we use Rabiot and Fred as a defensive and attacking box to box. Would be a midfield where we finally have a good defensive work rate and can win the ball back, Fred is good at link up play in the final 3rd (just not good at getting the ball from the defensive third up to the final third, that's what Eriksen would be for). Would give a stronger base for the front 3 to do their thing and less responsibility defensively as obviously that's a weakness for all of them.
So hopefully it happens. No idea what else will happen this window, but if we got Rabiot and Morata even, I'd be relatively happy as I feel like Ten Hag would be able to implement his system more normally then. We can't shop in a top market anymore, but these could help us stabilize.
I like these descriptions, mercenary french midfielder. Both of them have played for two clubs in their careers.
They do not have to win anything at Tottenham to be considered successful… you can see the difference in terms of pressure.
Parent as an agent just screams of "this will get complicated/expensive.
This Juventus side won’t be winning anything for a while either, to be fair.
Can't speak for anyone else (including Rabbit or whatshisface), but in my experience, it would make it less weird.
I used to make love to my mum all the time - and, to be honest, it was weird.
But when she hired me - formally - as a "combat advisor" (she was trying to take over a small Asian country at the time), things improved between us: something about keeping matters professional (or business like, if you will) just...works.
(After that - well, the story is a hackneyed one, I guess: but, yes, I did kill her and tried to impersonate her, but it didn't work.)
You understand that more passes is a weird stat as well
Mctom gets it off one defender and passes it to the next, he could pass it 10 times and it probably wouldn’t get past the half way line
Rabiot may be moving it forward in less passes
If he’s a DM he is less likely to be creating chances
All bollocks really
It’s ifs and buts, just trying to show how these stats mean little unless you have a full scout report and have watched hours of game footage
Sounds good,we could do with 3 more incomings.
Mainly because for some strange reason, clubs and journalists are more willing to share how much these parents asked than how much they are forced to pay to the likes of Mendes, Raiola or Barnett with which deals aren't exactly easy, straightforward or inexpensive.
It’s because by screwing the agent who’s a parent, you’re usually only risking a relationship with 1 player.
Contrast that with someone like Mendes who probably has over a 100 players signed to his agency.
I know she can be a handful, but I also feel like Rabiot's mother gets the ire of some deep, repressed mother issues from people.
Step-Rabiot what are you doing?
Which implies that the issue is with a potential lack of integrity from clubs. They only act properly if they have something to lose.
Do we need another overpaid prima donna whose marginally better than what we have and who we'll be looking to ship in a season or two? This signing doesn't excite me. For god's sakes, we have McFred in midfield, surely there are dozens of players who can do a far better job than them at a fraction of the price and no outside hassle...
1. No. 2. oK.3. Who? 4. What is this hassle you refer to - busted myths or something you know for real?
Undoubtedly.
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