Aquilani passes his medical, signing imminent

why is not juve announcing aquilani?

There are a lot of rumours circulating regarding Juve today.

First, alledgedly Wolfsburg came back with a higher bid for Diego.

Second, alledgedly we are close to signing Di Natale.

Third, Trezeguet might be on his way out.

No to Diego's sale, again.

No to Di Natale's signing (sorry, but clubs of Juve's stature should not be signing 33 year-old strikers - defenders, maybe).

Maybe to Trezeguet's sale, but only if we get an adequate replacement in time.

I knooowww. UGH! Wake me up when it's over.

ik knew 100% the diego saga wasnt over yet the fact our board was willing to sell means that untill the very last second of the transfercompeign they will be temped if a good offer comes in, hope its not true, nor the di natale rumour.

but for sure tensfull days remains now

And now we're going to pay 7 million Euros for 33 years old striker. Good or bad, you decide.

http://www.footballpress.net/i...

DI NATALE VERSO LA JUVE - Il sostituto di Diego sarebbe Antonio Di Natale. L'accordo tra Udinese e Juve sarebbe vicino. Il giocatore è stato valutato 6-7 milioni di euro.

diego out...di natale in...

http://www.corrieredellosport....

Brilliant article over at the Swiss Ramble about how Inter's finances are in shambles. Thank you Jean-Claude Blanc!! Juventus are profitable, and with the stadium coming, will only be more profitable. No major cutbacks required for UEFA's Financial Fair play...Milan and Inter will both be hurting.
http://swissramble.blogspot.co...

that's some pretty intensive investigation:)

i read recently an amazing article about European football club finances. hence its in dutch a bit useless to post it here :)
but it was a great analyse which concluded that with upcoming changes at uefa level:

http://www.uefa.com/uefa/about...

English league will virtually be destroyed as almost any team can bring a healthy financial balance. also majority of the Spanish( but not as bad as England) will face severe problems.
In Italy many teams are doing surprisingly well, juventus is very healthy(lets keep it so)

but the new world order supremacy in football will be 90% sure Germany ( after uefa modification) they are already growing intensively on the sports level, but if it comes to present healthy financial figures, they outclass all other major leagues in Europe big time.

n credit to andrea and the board for being discerning enough to keep blanc despite the transfer-market shambles of the last 3/4 years ...
i said a couple of times before that though he might have gotten it all wrong on the sporting side, jean-claude has done a great job with our finances ...

Giovinco vs Malaga

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

why oh why i have this feeling i will cry myself a river in a few weeks we have spended 12m on martinez and trew away giovinco:(

People don't seem to be realising this but I am concerned at the 4-4-2 we are going to play next year. I know it is a very balanced and at times reliable system, but it seems many European teams are starting to play a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 formation, which for me is the way we should be going, it is modern football, playing between the lines, and it will suit all our players.

We will be totally overrun in midfield because we will not have an extra man, which a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 will have. A 4-4-2 will only work for us if our midfield is very solid and hard to breakdown, which is not the case right now. Imagine a forward line of Krasic, Diego and lanzafame all supporting iaquinta, possibly Dzeko next year. That would cause any defence problems.

We all saw how England were destroyed by Germany, not mainly because of poor performances of their star players, but because the Germans had an extra play-maker in ozil. Even last night, this could have been the reason why Liverpool were dismantled by Mancity.


Just a thought.

It's only a 4-4-2 on paper and in defence, which makes us even stronger there with 4 men defending in front of our back-4 instead of 2. But in attack Diego ussually drops deep and our wingers are allowed to go froward... That's a 4-2-3-1. YOu shouldn't look at it as if the one formation is better than the other. It is the way you fill in the roles and positions that make a team.

This article is long & its about inter, but still a good read. Reading this makes you feel better as a Juve fan as The Old Lady is supposedly in good health financially, making profit even during its worst periods on pitch, and with better plans for the future (new stadium etc.). I'd love to read a similar article on Juve's finances.

http://swissramble.blogspot.co...

if this transfer happens, I think it's reasonable we aim for scudetto:

http://www.goal.com/en/news/11...

Looks like Giovinco has already started to make his presence felt at Parma...In Parma's friendly against Malaga, Giovinco scored a beautiful goal from a right foot shot from the edge of the area that left the keeper totally stranded...

in an interview after the siging of krasic ...marotta was quoted as saying that juve were still on the look-out for a defender and a midfielder ...here's my bit on how it should pan out

1. midfield ... before aquaman we were strongly linked with ledesma and i was looking forward to him joining us. however with the imminent arrival of' il principe' that move looks less likely now. if u ask me they are different types of midfielders ... while alberto is more at-home in a slighly-advanced role (trequartista/no. 10) ledesma is more of the deep-lying midfield orchestrator we had in mind with our porsuits of xabi alonso and gaetnao d'agsostino n i think he'd be more comfortable in delneri's 4-4-2 alongside a destroyer like melo/momo
be that as it may, alberto should sign in a few hours ann therefore i don't think we'll be signing anyone else in midfield . i'm still not sure how/where he'll fit in delneri's 4-4-2, but fielding him alongisde marchisio does not appear on paper a viable formation bcuz IMO neither of them have the combative/destructive nous needed for a CM duo ... as it is, we look set to sail with melo,momo,marchisio & aquilani in central midfield ... fair enough

2. defence ... we need an extra centreback as much we need a deputy RB and a new LB (IMO deceglie is at best deputy material ...FOR NOW!) ... accordingly we should be looking at a defender who can play in 2/3 of those positions ... save for sevilla's adriano (who barcelona have already signed!) there r not too many players out there who fit this bill
off-the-top-of-my-head i'd say barzagli and caceres , but while both of them would do quite well as fullbacks, i'm not sure i'd be comfortable with either of them as a centreback
demichelis and burdisso on the other hand are better at CB, but rather dodgy in the fullback positions ...
in an ideal world, i'd say sign one each of burdisso/demichelis and caceres/barzagli and we'd be ready to roll... if however we had to sugn just one more player then i'd go with barzagli for reasons of his versatility like i said earlier

over to you beppe ....

and may the force be with us

Bocchetti can play as a CB as well as LB, I have a feeling that "experienced" CB will be Barzagli...

I'm not so sure we will get Barzagli. He started and played 90 for Wolfsburg in their opener against Bayern. Maybe they do things differently over there, but it seems unlikely that they'd be playing him in such a big match if he was unwanted or on the transfer block.

If i am not mistaken he was last minute inclusion becoz freidrich (or however its spelt) is injured. he is definately up for sale , they (wolfsburg) brought kjaer to replace barzagali

He only had a year left on his contract, and once that happens the players dictate things more than the clubs.

interesting ..i am old burdisso can play in all positions across the back four...i guess our options are not as limited as i imagined ....

p.s but what if we pushed chiellini back to LB and then signed a world-class CB?

Please no...we have one of the best CBs in the world, lets not push him to to flank. I think he is much more effective as a CB. His ball delivery is pretty poor IMO, he wont flourish that much as a LB.

I'd really prefer if we didn't get Demichelis. I don't rate him at all.

wtf?football italia says transfer delayed!what is going on?

So, yeah. That Krasic is pretty awesome. Explosive with and without the ball. Great ABBA look. Vision, takes responsibility for his passes (no passing and chilling), and a pretty crackin' shot from what looked like 30 out. Him, and a healthy Aquilani are gonna wreck havoc with our other fabulous mids. The thorough health check on Aquilani gives me confidence that we'll get a few good matches out of him.

God, I cannot wait to see what we're gonna look like once they start jelling!

me too! though sometimes i stil wonder how and if we are going to fit melo, momo, krasic, aquilani and marchisio into the first eleven ...

I know, I was working possible line ups in my head thinking, so many choices, and I want Momo and Marchi to always play, but that's the cool thing. Delneri can tailor make a lineup to fit the competition. Rotate the mids so that we won't have issues with injuries. We won't grumble too much when this player or that isn't on the field, you know? You think? Can I say that we won't have such a big reliability gap between our first and second string?

Well you could, but we have at least 3 players that are irreplaceable and make us drop a level or 2 when absent. Motta, Chiellini and Diego for instance. Add Buffon to that and since we don't have a back up for De Ceglie...

Oh, yes, definitely. Those guys probably won't get many breaks, so hopefully they'll have a good post game recovery program. I was referring to our new, beefed up midfield. I should have pointed that out, no? :)

Aah well sorry then. Yes in midfield we'll have much less problems this year I'm sure 'though I'm not too confident about our wingers. They all have to step up their game this weekend or Krasic may crumble under all this pressure...

footballitaliano.co.uk/article... Article about Aquilani, saying it will be very important for Delneri to choose a compatible partner. The author actually thinks that Marchisio - Aquilani may well work. But it also states that Aquilani is actually not the kind of player that we've been looking for since the Alonso and D'Agostino deals crashed... He's actually more of an advanced player, but seeing as we always play with two lines of 4 in defence, he'll need to adapt.

I do worry a bit about Pepe and Martinez. Pepe's kinda sloppy, and hot headed, and Martinez for some reason just looks incredibly slow and awkward, but maybe means nothing if he can get through defense. I'm hoping they'll both look better this Thursday. I think with Aquilani and Marchisio in the middle, we can have more posession, if we have wingers and backs that handle the ball well to relieve pressure on the two of them. We can move the ball around the field with fewer touches.

Ah, well. I guess we'll see when Delneri has up his sleeve, I guess, no?

Less than a week Juventini!!! Juve-Bari. Should be a cracker!!! And you guys wont have the excuse of a waterlogged pitch this time, ;)

The Old Lady is getting her ass in shape, you guys are adding some big time names. And if a few players have big years, you guys COULD make a run at Inter.

Has Moggi taken up a job in Lyon ? The Gourcuff transfer was al;most Moggi-esque :P

That transfer is not 'moggi-esque'. Bordeaux bought last season around 15mil. During mid-season when there were rumors that blanc will leave the club , Gourcuff stated he will leave the club if blanc does leave. So they sold n gained 7mil. That was pretty good deal for bordeaux. I wanted him at juve but since there is diego n i knew marrota wont pay this high price (he stopped chasing elia becoz he offered 15mil n hamburg said its too low)

Haha maybe.

Even though 22 million to a financially unstable Bordeaux makes a lot of sense. Aulas can definitely afford it.

GB look as if they are dismembering the great squad they had 2 years ago.

EDIT-LOL wtf, this is what happens when the main PC is broken and you let your dad handle his emails on your laptop.

It's Jorid.

It seemed to come out of nowhere. Unless Im blind, I missed it on all the "rumor" (see goal.com) sites. Are Bordeaux having financial issues?

I hope Aquilani works out for you guys. It sucks seeing him play for Juve but he was always a favorite player of mine ( I have his 07-08 jersey) and I really hope he shines... just not in the games against Roma

Believe me, he'll shine most in the games against Roma.

How dare you post two posts about Aquilani in two days? Will you please stop pandering to Roma and Juve? Please go and post an article or two about Santon and Thiago Motta.