BBZ8800
Senior Member
Well, you know that majority of you always look at things from the brighter point of you, like: what if makes it, what if he changes, what if he will play like in 2015?
Me, on the other hand, I am always starting with pessimistic and cautious views.
So, any guy from this forum can reply:
1. We sign an obligatory buy for a summer of 2020.
We pay 170m fee and sign him for 5 years with 40m net wages and 80m gross wages.
And in October, after another tackle, his metatarsal bone breaks again and let's say that he is off forever or let's say for 2 years.
When he returns, he will be the next Vermaelen, Gabriel Milito or Puyol from his last 3 years: injury after injury.
What will you do then?
We will sign him on a 5 years deal worth 170+400=570m Euros.
What if his 2 or 3 times injured foot is done and if we throw away 570 m Euros?
You can't fire him after 2 years.
You can't lower his wages.
No one will buy him.
He won't leave for free.
What will you do?
Some will reply: it can happen to any player.
Well, Suarez, Busi or Raki were never injured. It is unlikely that they will get a career ending injury in the next 2 Months.
On the other hand: Rafinha, Neymar, Vermaelen... would you bet on their health?
2. Question no2: During Neymar, and during coaches Tata and Lucho, we played football without too much similarities to Crujff's football.
Tata's football was a mess.
And Lucho's football was=skipping a midfield and pass the ball to MSN as fast as possible.
People used to said: we did that because our midfield was crap.
But what if=that is the only way to play when you have Neymar?
What if he will drop deep on the left flank to get the ball, as always?
Alba will be dead. He was always bad in attack when Ney was there.
Frenkie plays on the left. What if Neymar will kill him with his constant stupid soloactions and dribbling through 5 players all the time?
What if this means that our midfield will be dead and we will be skipping it again so that Neyclown could be a creative boss?
And please, DON'T reply: well, we can fix it etc.
It seems as if people here have a collective amnesia.
You forgot how shit Neymar was in the last 18 Months here.
Dropping deep to get the ball.
No passing to anyone.
Killing every attacking move by himself.
Ball hogging.
His famous dribbling backwards.
Horrible end product.
Our midfield didn't have any purpose when he was here.
Messi was less involved and weaker individual numbers when Neymar is ruining 20 actions per match.
Now, just imagine December of 2019 and we are realizing: fuuuck. Our midfield is shit again with Neymar. We are skipping the midfield. Nexmar is dropping deep. Griezmann is dropping deep. Messi is dropping deep. Our midfield are 3 babysitters are everything evolves around an individual magic of MNG.
You know that moment when you realize that something is not clicking well and it cannot be fixed?
Like Dembele and Barca in this moment?
Imagine if something like this happens in 3 Months with Neymar, and we are tied in a 5 years 570m deal with him?
And that scenario is far from being totally unlikely, if you remember how he played here in the last 18 months and how he plays as a CM-CAM-left midfielder playmaker with a free role at PSG and Brasil.
Now, what if he will play like this in every match:
Dropping deep?
Dribbling past 5 players in every single opportunity?
66% of his actions ending as a solo effort and lost ball?
What will you do with De Jong and midfield in that case?
He played EXACTLY like this after 2015 for us.
And please don't reply: he has to play this way because our midfield sucks.
What if he plays that way BECAUSE these are his natural instincts regardless of a midfield and a coach?
Now, are you looking forward to watch these solo actions through 5 defenders 20 times per match, being fouled in 15 out of those 20 cases and lying on the ground and arguing for 10 minutes per match.
Now, AHT IF this will happen and he is tied with us for the next 5 years on 80m gross wages?
How will you solve that problem?
With changing his patterns and habits in this age? Good luck with that.
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