According to La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, the Slovakia international is absolutely not for sale.
Milan Skriniar
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According to La Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper, the Slovakia international is absolutely not for sale.
Give them more money.
Atleast we are targeting the right players. This guy will be ideal for the EPL.
If the report is reliable, and he's as good as people say he is, then I'd happily use Martial as part of the deal.
May make negotiations easier
May make negotiations easier
I really wonder what the feck does our scouting team do, this guy just moved to Inter last season for peanuts, why couldn't they have signed him sooner, it's not like his skills magically quadrupled in a year.
At some point he would be. Offer them €150m
For someone who is a legend at Inter, Jose has struggled to sign any top and 'current' player from there since he left. I don't want to count oldies like Zlatan and Etoo whom he signed long after he (and they) left the club. Maybe because ownership has also changed in the club. I'm sure things would have been different if Massimo Morrati was still there.
This post doesn't make sense...also Guarin
He's about 1.87 (his height has been incorrectly recoded in some outlets) and pretty poor in the air. Very good defender and great on the ball though. Would be a really good partner for Smalling.
Thought I was pretty clear. Jose is a legend at Inter and he left pretty well. One would think that could be an advantage in recruitment. Of course, not necessarily so but it's a scenario that occurred to me, hence the post.
Confused at people saying he'd be a terrific buy and vidic esque then a fair few saying he's not even that strong in the air!
Vidic was one of the best in the air ever
Vidic was one of the best in the air ever
He's aggressive, rugged and has a shaved head. Must be Vidic-esque.
People were comparing Lindelof to Vidic prior to us signing him. He had a shaved head, too. I think it's actually all about the haircut.
I've heard the same thing from people who watch him week in and week out. Despite being a big dude, he's meh in the air.
Alderweireld is the perfect CB we can buy IMO,he's a bit old yes but he's better in the air and better on the ball than any other CB available
People are so stereotype-based when judging players. Classic system 1-thinking, ref Kahneman (google it if unfamiliar, happens all the time in here).
Yes, and it makes little sense. Mourinho has good relations with Inter, but doesn't mean Inter will pull their pants down everytime he comes calling
He's like Vidic in the sense that he's very aggressive and loves to get stuck in. A proper, "pure" defender. Not as good as Vidic in the air of course, and far, far better on the ball. Like Vidic he's more of an enforcer rather than a leader/organiser
It may be a bit basic of me but i like a centre back to be excellent in the air as an absolute minimum requirement.
All of our best combos have been. Pallister Bruce, Stam Johnsen, Vidic Ferdinand.
All of our best combos have been. Pallister Bruce, Stam Johnsen, Vidic Ferdinand.
I would sign him because I like the name
Okay genius.
Inter didn't sign a Mourinho player since he left too. When it comes to negotiations there's no friendship in football.
Anyway if there's a player that will not leave Inter at least this summer is Skriniar, wasted time.
That's why I said, '...not necessarily so'. Good relatonships give you a foot in the door but it doesn't guarantee anything. But the 'good relationship' part is not as irrelevant as some insinuate.
Is this the next poor bloke that will make us great again?
Were you happy when we sold Skriniar
he upgraded out scouting system last year remember
yeah but we dont want to end up with too phew
Not sure what you mean here. Are you referring when United sold Stam to Lazio? Because that was a bonehead, ego move by SAF.
No he is not. Don't see Toby is better on the ball, at defending or in the air. Not dominant in the air as of Vidic doesn't mean one can go on the extremity and say meh. He can still improve every part of his game to higher level, and improving he has done since last few years. With Toby, you're getting what you see and while it's consistently among the best in PL, it's not something a beast mode Smalling, Bailly, even Rojo or Jones couldn't match or eclipse. While we don't expect our guys (younger ones) to suddenly deliver consistency over night, it's not the same at we would throw big money for slight improvement.
I disagree on the part of " rather than a leader/organizer". Vidic is the leader and organizer of the defense. He is one of the better captain for our team under SAF since Keane left for a reason. He left his post to follow his mark doesn't mean he acted without thinking and left the rest of the defenders without a clue. Can vary is as much an organizer as he is an enforcer. If not I am baffled to the idea of Materazzi was organizing the defense during WC06 after Nesta was out injured during the tournament and Cannaravo still had to carry with his previous job.
Being a good captain has nothing to do with being the brain of the defence. The bolded part, that's being a good defender. All good defenders aren't clueless morons who act without thinking of course. To be more specific, not saying Vidic couldn't be the brain of the defence, but he was better amd more effective when following Rio's lead. Skriniar is the same
It's the partnership with a superior organizer which elevate the performance of already high level individuals, sure. Your initial point I read as Vidic's organizing skill is meh, and he's better off doing his own job, hence my response. Vidic's organizing skill is underrated. While there are better organizers out there, he is himself at a high level organizer of a defense. It's not like Rio was always playing, and this club had a single season without injury plague in the defense. Vidic played with makeshift defenders too and not up to task GKs, yet the defense was organized and limited most of the damage had these guys played on their own (without him and Rio, it showed)
Milan?
My point was Vidic was better playing as the enforcer rather than the leader. Never said Vidic was a poor defensive brain. No great defender can be bad at it
Vidic was a great defensive leader, implying otherwise is false
Just because his value quadrupled doesnt mean his ability is also quadrupled. It's just that it's harder to sign from Inter.
Btw this is just silly post, you can ask the same question about any player, this isn't FM where you use game editors and sign all the best possible players for future.
While I agree with most of your point, I get his own too. We got Lindelof after a year of scouting through Europe, while Inter bought a better player for less money, there are other examples too.
Of course, Inter also signed Gabigol, Kondogbia and Jao Mario for more than 120 million too, so like always you sign some good players and you sign few flops.
That is right also, but we've had lots of flops on our own, and that's part of the point, we need to improve on that. Hopefully Ribalta's appointment will help.
When it comes to transfer in Italy it can be more complicated than it looks. I meant Inter was to balance their book and something happened behind the scene for them to be able to offload Gianluca Caprari for 15 euro, which was a catalyst for Skriniar deal. There were plenty of complicated deal between Italian clubs in the past. ITK with Italian job like Ribalta may help us in the future.
Yes, I remember there were some rumblings and generally Inter are badly run club if my memory serves me right, maybe now it's changed since they have a solid squad and got into top 4. In spite of that, my comment was more referring to our scouting and choice more than theirs, since they generally do some awful transfers.
It's the old "we need to cook the books, let's throw in a player swap at an overinflated price" trick. Used to happen all the time with in the early 00s. If you look it up, some of the players being moved i'm not even sure actually existed in the first place
Caprari is a good young player which sampdoria were interested in, and had a good season, at least
I meant the Italian clubs seem to have some secret between their dealings. Some good players move between Italian clubs for price that would never be possible for foreigner clubs. It may not just ice as I did remember rumor about us with Skriniar back before his move to Inter.
Inter financical situation is still not healthy. They still need to extend Icardi contract and they have to balance their book for this year to meet FFP requirement. They may work out a deal like last summer, but thing would only escalate for the future with this kind of planning. CL bring money for next financial year, but in term of team building, they're not all that now with one more competition to look at. Remember they scrap CL quality by beating Lazio in the last game while not playing in Europe this season.