Agreed about the goal, seemed very soft to concede at the near post.

Still, doesn't take anything away from it, just brilliant. I don't think we've seen Messi perform at these levels since around 2010 maybe?

Arda Turan to Barça is official for €34 million + €7 million bonuses.

Pointless signing IMO, they don't need him.

Question is, who do they need? Maybe fullbacks and a defender, but..

They don't need anybody.

This is why I can't stand Barca, Bayern and Real. Their glutton knows no bounds

Mixing Bayern into the Spanish bunch is a grave mistake. Yes, especially with Guardiola Bayern also started buying disproportionally big, but there's still a difference.

I'm sorry but I can't agree. And this is not just something that's been happening since Guardiola has been there either

Bayern have been sucking their own league dry for years. That's why they're usually the only challengers for the title aside from a couple of odd seasons here and there. They simply buy all the talent out of their own league. And this is not something that's been happening for these past 2 years. It's always been their MO

I don't follow. Isn't this basically the modus operandi of every big team in the major league?

I think the 3 clubs that I mentioned take it to a whole other level

They literally drain the league so they're the only ones left standing.

Juve do it, but only to a certain extent, they don't go out and buy every big name prospect in Serie A just for sh!ts and giggles.

Man City were sort of making a bit of a trend of it a few years ago but not so much anymore.

And I don't think Chelsea and Man U do it a lot either.

Oh but they do, those drugged suckers. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) They do it less than Bayern, but more than Madrid and Barcelona. The two La Liga clubs at least bring in a lot of players from outside the league. Juventus, however, looks inside first, drain the league and then some.

Nah, you just like hating on Juve. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Aye, that too, but I was pretty okay with them winning the CL final. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) In fact, I wanted them to win it, was pretty annoyed with how Allegri (and the team overall) approached the game after 1-1. At all other times, yeah, these guys are public enemy number one, and as far as I am concerned, our biggest rival.

I never liked them since the day I started following the league, and then their doping scandal just made it clear.

Couldn't agree more.

All their significant signings from summer last year bar Evra & Moratta have been from Serie A clubs.

Only today we're learning about them nabbing Zaza. That's 7 of 10 players.

If that's not sucking the league dry, what is?

You don't see Juve buying out the best players from all of their direct competitors though, which Bayern do just for the sake of it. Like Lewandowski and Goetze, just for the latter to sit on the bench for half of the fixtures


Zaza was their player to begin with, just like Berardi is half theirs as well.

You can't fault them for making a smart investment and keeping their fingers dipped in various places, that's just smart.

Unlike us, who've had talented players like Darmian for example come out of our own system and we simply let him go for basically nothing. Now he's worth over 20m for sure in this market.

All this to keep on playing Favalli or Bonera or whoever else we had at that time that Darmian was making his way through

So? That has to be the flimsiest argument ever. You're praising them for letting a youth player go for free then buying him back for millions?

That's good business?!

Christ, I know you want to perpetuate your Juve being fair argument with Bayern, Real and Barca being the baddies, but this case is truly feeble!