Not a bad shout honestly. As far as strikers go I don't think that we can find much better that is available.
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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread
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Isnt Paratici linked to taking over at Juve
I think youre right - blind leading the blind...
Dont forget the plan was for a Lange Paratici dream team
Just goes to show the absolute clusterfuck running us
And that there are no quick fixes to this shit
Best case scenario, we get in a "world class operator" as desired in this window (wouldnt trust them to find their asses with both hands in their back pockets, but anyway....)
The window IS GOING TO HAPPEN WITHOUT THEM
So, lets hope the window is "good enough" and doesnt lumber us with more problems to be sorted
Then, new dof gets the next few months to start to unpick the mess the club is in, and be ready to get some moves in for Jan....
Senesi plays LCB. Hes going to be rotating with VDV
Also could go 3 at the back as well (I hope not)
We need two quality players in each position:
LB: Udogie/Robertson
LCB: VDV/Senesi
RCB: Van Hecke/Danso (assuming Vuskovic is loaned out)
RB: Porro/Spence
Our defence is starting to look strong IMO.
Isnt Paratici linked to taking over at Juve
I think youre right - blind leading the blind...
I used to have fun with it when I was younger. Friends who knew nothing about cars but would parrot stuff like Jay Cartwright, so I'd make stuff up that I knew they'd confidently blurt out like making up some silly but totally incorrect version of what "GTI" stands for.
In work, we'd get consultants in and you could see they were blaggers so I'd also feed them made up stuff just to see them repeat it in big meetings. When the attendants swallowed it up instead of calling it out, I realised how work is based more on blagging than it is skill. (Similar to that IT Crowd episode with "The Internet")
In a footballing sense, I have no confidence that Lange or Vinai are competent as they are confident and I think that has been seen as gaps which have been left open by Levy/Paratici/Cullen having left.
Senesi can also play RCB
I know he plays LCB, but rotating CBs never happens playing once a week. You have a starter and a back up. If VDV is first choice and stays fit, Senesi could easily spend the season on the bench apart from a few league cup games depending how far we go. IMO Senesi will be a starter, so where does that leave VDV?
Which is why I am curious how this all works.
After Kinsky's strong finishing of the season I think he deserve to be a starter next season (well, if de Zerbi think so)...
Considering our injury record over the past 2 years, I really don't think we should be worrying about having too many players
It does on paper yeah, but I'm not convinced VDV will be a starter / doesn't get sold. I guess we will see.
Roberto will prefer ball playing CBs and that gives the advantage to Senesi over VDV.
Very few people will have genuinely watched enough of him to know that to be unoquivacably true.
The hype around this kid is insane; but (on paper) another year on loan at the right club at his age would do him the world of good in the long run.
.....and contractually time is on our side.
He's even younger than Gvardiol was and his transition to a far better, more stable, functioning MC squad wasn't without bumps; yet Vusko is being expected to be a starter for a wobbly club from day one by reems of people that have likely never watch a full 90mins on the kid.
You can only register so many players into a squad. Wasting squad spots is always a concern.
I agree. However he’s another ball carrier not a ball player. We’d just be bringing another one to run about rather than play the passes. If we get him it has to be in addition to somebody to break the lines from deep. None of our current midfielders do that and it’s what we massively need.
Men with ven
I have to honest, the striker market is rubbish.
A lot of the names I’m seeing aren’t particularly great individually and are very team dependent.
We should focus on good intelligent players first and raising the overall technical level of the team.
A lot of the names I’m seeing aren’t particularly great individually and are very team dependent.
We should focus on good intelligent players first and raising the overall technical level of the team.
I have none either.
Lange can spot a player, good youth scout - but he is an analyst - not a big picture person
Vinai is just a corporate avatar - the sort who would be parachuted into any business/industry as ceo and do a couple of years before moving on (and inexplicably up) somewhere else
Vinai can be servicable if he has proper "heads of..." below him who he just supports and leaves to get on with it
Quite obviously there is a huge fucking vacuum there
if, IF, they can actually get in a good dof this time, things can genuinely be positive
Although it feels like that would be a fluke, doesnt it?
I think, sadly, theres a greater chance of them just fucking it up some more...