2024/2025 Forwards Rumours Thread

[wera]

I'm not. But I already know we'll just have to power through this season and hopefully not crash out of CL too fast, because we reeeeeally need that money.

 

[vex]

we ain't getting anyone in attack, cause our management is too scared to tell Arnautovic to fuck off.

It seems this has to happen if we want to get rid of him. I honestly expected he would realize certain things on his own, mainly that he isn't good enough, just based on his evident frustration and even embarrassing moments from last season, so why put yourself under that type of pressure again, but I think i m wrong. Hopefully in august when push comes to shove we put some pressure...

 

[Gal]

It seems this has to happen if we want to get rid of him. I honestly expected he would realize certain things on his own, mainly that he isn't good enough, just based on his evident frustration and even embarrassing moments from last season, so why put yourself under that type of pressure again, but I think i m wrong. Hopefully in august when push comes to shove we put some pressure...

It’s called wage, he won’t get the same elsewhere

 

[vex]

I don't think it's necessarily about money. If he wanted to make himself available, some arabian team would probably pick him up for double the salary he has in inter.

I suspect it's the desire to prove himself on a higher level that really fuels him. He basically wasted his younger years being slightly above mediocre, and now he wants to prove he can operate on the highest level, but the problem is it's too late for that, his body ain't the same...

 

[PHM1605]

I don't think it's necessarily about money. If he wanted to make himself available, some arabian team would probably pick him up for double the salary he has in inter.

I suspect it's the desire to prove himself on a higher level that really fuels him. He basically wasted his younger years being slightly above mediocre, and now he wants to prove he can operate on the highest level, but the problem is it's too late for that, his body ain't the same...

Player must either has high profile or good enough to convince Saudis to pay double. Not a 35yo nobody whose peak is at Stock or Bologna.

 

[CafeCordoba]

I don't think it's necessarily about money. If he wanted to make himself available, some arabian team would probably pick him up for double the salary he has in inter.

I suspect it's the desire to prove himself on a higher level that really fuels him. He basically wasted his younger years being slightly above mediocre, and now he wants to prove he can operate on the highest level, but the problem is it's too late for that, his body ain't the same...

I agree with this and then when everything wasn't going great (injury and shit) he seemed to crumble a bit under the pressure.

 

[CraigM]

8mln loan + 15mln obligation is 23 in total. I recall that Genoa wanted 30-35 from Inter. Fucking twats

What sort of infantile reaction is this to a club wanting to try and get the most money they can for one of their key players?

 

[vex]

Player must either has high profile or good enough to convince Saudis to pay double. Not a 35yo nobody whose peak is at Stock or Bologna.

That's not true, you have a lot of washed up players playing in arabia right now, and the thing is they make a difference cos the league is still not good enough. And arna despite me being critical of him ain't nobody, he had a decent career so far both on club and international level. Players with much worse resumes ended up in arabian clubs and still playing there.

 

[CraigM]

We are still missing something in the attack. Right now we have 3 center forwards and one support striker. Then there is Carboni who I think could be developed into a second striker but it doesn’t seem like Inzaghi agrees.

So we really don’t have a Thuram replacement in our squad. That to me is a bit concerning because I feel like he is the type that could have a sophomore slump. Taremi and Arna aren’t inept at combination play by any means but I don’t really love the idea of either partnered with Lautaro for long stretches.

That would probably mean a return to the prior version of Lautaro that had to drop deeper and do the dirty work.

I do think signing someone in the mold of a Gudmunsson makes sense from that perspective.

I have grown increasingly concerned with Thuram too. His autumn last year was strong, but we were perhaps a little dazzled by his energy and pace and that goal against Milan. The longer the season went on the poorer he was, and I don't mean poorer like Lautaro who was evidently still a good player but one for whom nothing was working, but poorer as in he looked a very raw footballer with a mediocre touch and little game awareness. He was awful at the Euros too.

Perhaps it just took the rest of the League a few months to work out his game and that if you don't let him counter attack into space against you then he doesn't really hurt you. I hope I'm wrong and that perhaps he, like Lautaro, was overplayed because we had few other options available.

 

[CraigM]

The key to signing another striker appears to be offloading Correa and Arnautovic and while there has been some speculation concerning the former (Monza, Como, Greece), there appears to be not even the most tenuous of links for Arnautovic leaving.

 

[PHM1605]

That's not true, you have a lot of washed up players playing in arabia right now, and the thing is they make a difference cos the league is still not good enough. And arna despite me being critical of him ain't nobody, he had a decent career so far both on club and international level. Players with much worse resumes ended up in arabian clubs and still playing there.

Then why is there no offer on the table? Him rejecting or not is a different story.

 

[DARi0]

we ain't getting anyone in attack, cause our management is too scared to tell Arnautovic to fuck off.

Latest narrative is that Arnautovic will stay, just in case Gudmundsson is found guilty.

But Carboni needs to be sold first.

The one who needs to be told to fuck off is Correa.

 

[javier_zanetti <3]

We need 5 attackers for next season, I really dont think we want Arna to leave.

 

[IM21]

 

[Gal]

I don't think it's necessarily about money. If he wanted to make himself available, some arabian team would probably pick him up for double the salary he has in inter.

I suspect it's the desire to prove himself on a higher level that really fuels him. He basically wasted his younger years being slightly above mediocre, and now he wants to prove he can operate on the highest level, but the problem is it's too late for that, his body ain't the same...

Even Saudi clubs have some requirements before they pay such wages

 

[CafeCordoba]

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Chiesa link is about next summer and the free agency.

 

[YoramG]

Chiesa on a free after a career changing ACL injury is a certified Marotta move. I’d be for it if the plan is to have him as the 10 to Lauti’s 9.

 

[CafeCordoba]

He would be the new right wingback.

 

[IM21]

 

[crzdcolombian]

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rumor Atletico, Everton offering 30-35 million for Julian Alvarez

I mean if we stop trying to drop 7-10 million on 4-5 random players and get him that would be awesome.