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Renato's father Nelson Veiga [a few weeks ago]:

🗣️ "Renato is very ambitious. The idea has always been to join Basel, have a good season and help the club achieve its goals.

At the end of the season he wants to take the next step, if the conditions suit him and Basel. He is now capable of playing at a higher level."

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30 minutes ago, Strike said:

Arsenal are getting a serious upgrade. We are experimenting with another 20 year old. 

Missing an opportunity to put together a strong XI

It's really crazy times when people who simply ask for a couple of good players in the 25yo range are called "spoilt brats" or impatient.
It's as if signing young talent made signing established players an impossible task for some strange reason.

I'm convinced this is all a blind implementation of a system that did work in other circumstances, other sport, which completely disregards the peculiarities of the contact sport football is. Even American Football, which is evidently also a contact sport, isn't really that similar to football.

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At the same time people also call and rightly so to drop/sell every experienced player we have. Now Sterling and Chilwell being last ones. It was the same with Silva last season and Azpi, Jorginho and others before... Last couple of days I watched games where most experienced players are biggest problem. Valencia, Messi, Ronaldo, Pepe...

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20 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

At the same time people also call and rightly so to drop/sell every experienced player we have. Now Sterling and Chilwell being last ones. It was the same with Silva last season and Azpi, Jorginho and others before... Last couple of days I watched games where most experienced players are biggest problem. Valencia, Messi, Ronaldo, Pepe...

Except that the youngest player you listed above is 34yo (Valencia). The others are closer to 40 than 30; Pepe is 41.

I think Chilwell is a good player, but his constant injuries turned him into a lesser player IMO.
Sterling seems like a similar case, but perhaps for different reasons: burnout maybe?

Afaik the main reason to sell the players was to lower the wage bill -- not really about quality. Except Andreas, which is the one sale I don't understand at all.

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1 hour ago, mkh said:

Maresca will assess Veiga in pre-season and judge whether he is first-team ready or requires a loan spell to aid his development.

~ @liam_twomey

Why buy him when there's already Lesley, Santos, Casadei who are DMs waiting to be assessed?

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1 minute ago, mkh said:

The transfer came out of nowhere according to Basler fans Veiga stagnated this season!!!

I'm all for adding a few players in their prime to round out the squad we have. Can't afford another season where we stagnate, are inconsistent because we are playing young players all over the pitch. 

 

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1 hour ago, mkh said:

The transfer came out of nowhere according to Basler fans Veiga stagnated this season!!!

That’s also what I heard. He was pretty meh all season which is weird cos we tend to buy these youngsters on form usually. Real head scratcher this one. But I doubt he was bought as midfielder, rather as CB/LB cover 

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4 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

A market that has so much potential. Let's hope we take full advantage of that.

Afcon puts me off abit.more specifically the fact teams lose players for a month or more during the season.but should scout globally rather than just 3 south american countries.

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4 minutes ago, Duppy Conqueror said:

Afcon puts me off abit.more specifically the fact teams lose players for a month or more during the season.but should scout globally rather than just 3 south american countries.

They have had discussions to move it multiple times, but FIFA keep doing everything in their power to prevent that from happening - Afcon 2025: Finals set for December 2025 and January 2026 in Morocco - BBC Sport

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2 hours ago, Strike said:

Why buy him when there's already Lesley, Santos, Casadei who are DMs waiting to be assessed?

Could be that Maresca wants to assess him at the other positions he appears to be able to play.

Presumably after assessing if his birth certificate is legit.

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