It's what I meant by the latter.

According to the article, his contract runs out this summer, so I would worry more about competition from other teams. FWIW, his agent is Kia Joorabchian, who has been working with Galliani on other deals, and the two have met recently.

We want Destro: €5 million for the loan now + €15 million for the purchase in the summer.

Source: Corriere dello Sport

Take it pronto.

13 goals in 20 appearances last season. 4 in 13 this. 6 in 21 in 2012.

23 years of age.

This is an excellent striker and absolutely would be a terrific signing.

So €20 million? That's too much for my part.

If we pay that, Roma would be getting away with daylight robbery

5M upfront for a 6 month loan.

Then compulsory signing at the end of the season at 15M 'spread' over X years.

Let's see, we sold Balotelli for £16M and you all screamed we'd been ripped off and sold our prize asset for way below his value, but here's Destro, same age and same level of goals, with absolutely NO baggage and in great form, yet for him the same amount is far too high?

Why was it too little for Balo but it's too much for Destro? Despite Destro being a better player.

Destro is simply not worth that, if we were talking Immobile here, I might begrudgingly think it was a good deal, but Destro is a simple poacher, sure his scoring form looks decent, but he's playing for a Roma side that create a very good amount of chances in each game, and he's a penalty area poacher.

Shove him into our team and you'd see a similar struggle to Pazzo, maybe not on the same level because Pazzo has not been able to recover fully after that injury, but a poacher thrives on those chances in the area and we just don't create them, look at the last few strikers we've had who are in that very same mould, they've all struggled.

Robbery? Nah. Yes, €20 million is a bit too much, but I value Destro around the €15 million figure, so it's not that far off.

According to Pippo Immobile is the curse of Satan and a total sham of a player.

Ok, slight exaggeration and paraphrase but he's not happy with him.

As for Destro, we WILL create more PB chances with two wingers like Cerci and Menez. But it's a little unfair to say he's little more than a PB striker.

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Top one is SES in 2012/2013, bottom is Destro last season. Wouldn't say we 'created lots of chances' during SES' good period either but he did well enough to score. In a PB manner similar to Destro.

Sky reports we've reached an agreement with Suso. He's set to sign in June, and is expected to perform a medical in the following days.

Suso is not a signing that fills me with much excitement I must say. Spent last season on loan in Spain, did ok, 33 appearances with 3 goals.

Probably call him one for the future.

I don't think he's worth anything more than 10, and personally I can't see us paying anything more than that at this point for any player


I think Fillipo has been fair in his assessment of Immobile, he's good, but not as good as you and x-off make him out to be. But as I said from the beginning, if it's a choice between him and Destro, I'd pick him without any hesitation. Destro is just not that good, if he was, Roma wouldn't be trying to offload him for the second season in a row.

As for the comparison, SES was playing as a winger and he was an unknown quantity in the league, once he was figured out he was nullified easily because we don't really generate all that many chances

As for Cerci, you have no guarantees that he will turn out well for us