QUOTE (X-Offender @ Jul 2 2021, 10:48 AM)
Milan and Atalanta are in advanced talks for Pobega for 12M.
Another one people are very pissed for at the moment. It's like we're trying to sell all these youngsters so we can only make a profit. Pobega would be a net gain of 12M, Huage if sold for 15M would be a net gain of 11M. That's 23M of profit on the income statement.
Now, Pobega had a decent season with Spezia. He only played 20 games / 1238 minutes in total, but he also scored 6 goals and made 3 assists. People are pissed that we're selling him for just 12M when guys like Scamacca and Damsgaard are being valued at 30-40M. And I get it. But at the same time I think those price tags are a bluff, cos no one would pay that much in reality.
I'm just irked that we're giving away Pobega so easily. The kid is just 22, he has talent. Yet all we care about is making money, so Elliott can have a healthy investment he can then sell to the highest bidder. (IMG:
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This is similar to the situation with Locatelli though. Even worse actually. Pobega as he is today will never play for us. I personally think we should loan him out again. If nothing else, if he has another good season his value will go up a bit more by next summer.
If we're going to sell him, we should put in a buyback clause that covers us at least until 2023. That's the biggest mistake we made on the Locatelli deal. Not inserting that clause.
But if they do need the cash injection to make moves this summer, then they will have to be sacrificed imo. We need an AM, a RW a backup midfielder and another FB, preferably someone comfortable on either side. Not to mention a striker. Some sacrifices will have to be made to improve this team. Unfortunately they will have to be the players who have some value but are not integral to the team as of this moment
QUOTE (Rossoneri7 @ Jul 3 2021, 09:30 AM)
Jeremy Doku of Belgium was really good last night! Wouldn't mind him as a forward in Milan
I think I heard the commentators say he's going to Leicester during the game. Not 100% sure I heard right though. EPL clubs will price anyone else out of that right quick anyway for these types of players