Rumoured Mauro Icardi

[Unionjack 7,531]

On 2/15/2019 at 8:26 PM, Vesper said:

I actually think Jovic may turn out even better.

They both are ballers.

It really is down (IF Icardi goes to Juve)

to Dybala, Werner, or Jovic IMHO:

I dont like our odds on any of them

grrrrrrrrr, its doing my head in again, lolol

Id be happy with any of them

We gone off Haller??

[Superblue 6,372]

13 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Fear for Wanda Nara: stones thrown against her car

The car was hit while Icardi's wife was traveling with her children. Fortunately, there were no consequences

https://www.sportmediaset.mediaset.it/calcio/inter/paura-per-wanda-nara-sassata-contro-la-sua-auto_1261593-201902a.shtml

Whatever people think of Icardi and his wife, to put a woman and children in danger is quite frankly disgusting.

[Vesper 30,085]

14 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

Id be happy with any of them

We gone off Haller??

Haller would be in the next group down. Jovic is better.

[Unionjack 7,531]

16 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Whatever people think of Icardi and his wife, to put a woman and children in danger is quite frankly disgusting.

Wankers!

[Vesper 30,085]

So many of the giant teams are going after strikers this summer.

Barca, Real, Juve (especially if Dybala leaves), PSG, Liverpool, Bayern, us.

There are only 4 (counting Dybala) WC CF's under 30 who are remotely available. 

Three teams will miss out. I could see PSG maybe going for 31yo (end of August) Lewandowski. That would mean Bayern will do anything in their power to pull either Jovic or Werner.

Still leaves two teams out.

I really would put us as favourites to be one of the two. Especially if no CL.

Wish Real would go for Kane.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

So many of the giant teams are going after strikers this summer.

Barca, Real, Juve (especially if Dybala leaves), PSG, Liverpool, Bayern, us.

There are only 4 (counting Dybala) WC CF's under 30 who are remotely available. 

Three teams will miss out. I could see PSG maybe going for 31yo (end of August) Lewandowski. That would mean Bayern will do anything in their power to pull either Jovic or Werner.

Still leaves two teams out.

I really would put us as favourites to be one of the two. Especially if no CL.

Wish Real would go for Kane.

well strikers are all about confidence and form. Maybe until summer , someone new emerges. But most probably we will take someone from the second row ala Plea, gomez, silva, augustin or haller. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

1 hour ago, Magic Lamps said:

well strikers are all about confidence and form. Maybe until summer , someone new emerges. But most probably we will take someone from the second row ala Plea, gomez, silva, augustin or haller. 

I wouldn't mind us getting one of those from the 2nd tier just as long as we brought in a shit hot goal scoring, assist making ACM mate.

I think us having one of those is just as important to us and maybe even more so.

 

[Vesper 30,085]

7 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

well strikers are all about confidence and form. Maybe until summer , someone new emerges. But most probably we will take someone from the second row ala Plea, gomez, silva, augustin or haller. 

Hello Callum Wilson

[the wes 7,212]

Mauro Icardi's future at Inter Milan appears to be in doubt after he was stripped of the captaincy and then left out of the squad for two matches in a row. James Walker-Roberts explores what's happened with the forward and what the future holds...

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11860/11641937/mauro-icardi-why-has-he-lost-inter-milan-captaincy-and-whats-next

interesting reading 

[Arlen Correa 161]

Icardi is a great player. The russians can take care of his agent. 

 

Also, is this some kind of parallel universe where Werner is a "wc player"??

[Nicco 927]

I don't know how many agree but I'd take Werner or Jovic over him, not to say I wouldn't be happy if he came but those two are more complete.

[Nicco 927]

On 2/15/2019 at 9:26 PM, Vesper said:

So lets make a move for Dybala

IF Icardi goes to Juve

the list of acceptable and remotely available top level WC strikers is insanely small

Dybala

Werner

Jovic

 

wild card (and more of a winger or secondary striker) João Félix, BUT he will cost well over £100m and is utterly unproven in a big 5 (even if we think he has CR7-lite potential)

 

then the not doables

a 31yo (in August) Lewandowski (IF Werner goes to Bayern) who is too old to get a multiyear contract here

Antoine Griezmann turns 30 in the middle of the season after next so chop chop (pretty much impossible as well)

we blew a chance for Martial this last summer, now he renewed for Manure

 

we may be entering an age in a several years year of very few true young great, truly WC strikers in European football

just 3 years from now

the only under 30yo (and this so far, someone may shoot up out of the blue, like Pellegri at Monaco,Lautaro Martínez at Inter, or Felix, if he goes full number 9, etc) great strikers may be

Kane  29yo

Icardi 28yo

Gabriel Jesus  25yo

Luka Jovic  24yo

Timo Werner  26yo

Krzysztof Piatek   27yo

Marcus Rashford?????? 24yo

 

and some of them are not guaranteed

I refuse to put Lukaku in this list atm

If Madrid don't go for Dybala I really hope we can convince him to come, I read somewhere he would cost just above what Pogba did and if you ask me in this market it's a pretty fair price.

[Vesper 30,085]

18 minutes ago, Nicco said:

I don't know how many agree but I'd take Werner or Jovic over him, not to say I wouldn't be happy if he came but those two are more complete.

If we are going to make a huge money move for him, this summer is probably it in terms of being remotely worth it.

We would only get 3 full full seasons out of him before he hits 30yo. At most he has maybe 5 truly peak (and that last one, when he turns 31, is shaky) seasons left, especially in the meat grinder that is the EPL.

Icardi is almost guaranteed to not be a genetic freak like CR7 or Zlatan.

AND

Callum Wilson

is a YEAR (almost exactly) OLDER than Icardi

and has those BAD knees

I can see the board buying Wilson, ROFLMAOOOOOO

 

Only strikers I rate (who are remotely available)

Icardi

Dybala (not convinced he can be a straight nine)

Werner

Jovic

 

I would go, all in all (and especially because of events with that gold-digging baby-machine whore of a wifey of Mauro)

with who you said

Werner, then Jovic

 

IF he was 22 to 26, BY far the number one pure striker I would want would be Lewandowski

he is at this exact moment, the best striker on the planet

Shame he is already 30

[LAM09 7,043]

I don't know how many agree but I'd take Werner or Jovic over him, not to say I wouldn't be happy if he came but those two are more complete.

You can't be judging players that have shown glimpses at mid table sides to someone of Icardi's calibre.

As I've said previously, Icardi is the best CF within our reach. His agent is the only thing I don't like.

[Superblue 6,372]

50 minutes ago, Vesper said:

If we are going to make a huge money move for him, this summer is probably it in terms of being remotely worth it.

We would only get 3 full full seasons out of him before he hits 30yo. At most he has maybe 5 truly peak (and that last one, when he turns 31, is shaky) seasons left, especially in the meat grinder that is the EPL.

Icardi is almost guaranteed to not be a genetic freak like CR7 or Zlatan.

AND

Callum Wilson

is a YEAR (almost exactly) OLDER than Icardi

and has those BAD knees

I can see the board buying Wilson, ROFLMAOOOOOO

 

Only strikers I rate (who are remotely available)

Icardi

Dybala (not convinced he can be a straight nine)

Werner

Jovic

 

I would go, all in all (and especially because of events with that gold-digging baby-machine whore of a wifey of Mauro)

with who you said

Werner, then Jovic

 

IF he was 22 to 26, BY far the number one pure striker I would want would be Lewandowski

he is at this exact moment, the best striker on the planet

Shame he is already 30

I hate the idea of a player being written off once they hit 30. I understand the idea and logic behind it, getting their best years, potential resale value, etc I just don't agree with it myself.

Yes the Premier League is a different beast but there are plenty of examples of players still performing and scoring goals the other side of 30. In this day and age all the players look after themselves far better then they did even 20 years ago and can very easily prolong careers at the top level.

Aguero if anything seems to be getting better with age and I wouldn't back against him to continue scoring goals in the Premiership for the next 2-3 years comfortably. Drogba turned 32 in Ancelotti's first season which I think was his best overall season at the club. There's even recent unfashionable cases like Glenn Murray scoring at a very healthy rate at the age of 35.

In the same way with young players (if they're good enough, they're old enough), the logic applies to older players too (if they're good enough, they're not too old).

If Chelsea took the idea of players the wrong side of 30 being too old and need replacing then our main players in our Champions League run and victory wouldn't have been at the club and I remember the likes of Lampard and Drogba being written off as past it during AVB's time.

I think that if the team is set up to suit the strengths of a striker there's no reason that a goalscorer suddenly stops scoring goals once they pass 30. If anything with someone like Icardi who doesn't rely on pace, I'd say if he did come to the Premier League and adapted and fit into a system that complements him, he'd likely have a prolonged career at the top.