urban.spaceman Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 From the Telegraph, but not Percy, so pinch of salt time: Brendan Rodgers ponders move for Juventus centre-back Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is weighing up a move for Juventus centre-back Daniele Rugani as he looks for competition at the heart of his defence. The Foxes have asked about Rugani and team-mate Merih Demiral as neither are figuring in Maurizio Sarri’s plans for the Italian champions. They are considering a move for one of Sarri’s centre-backs when the January transfer window opens, with Rodgers looking to bolster a defence that has relied on Jonny Evans and Caglar Soyuncu this season. Premier League clubs are expected to rival them for either players, however, when they become available. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2019/12/22/mike-mcgraths-transfer-notebook-manchester-united-eye-birmingham/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 Not rated by Juventus fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TJB-fox Posted 22 December 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 22 December 2019 8 minutes ago, Gerard said: Not rated by Juventus fans. If Diabloo53953159 says he’s not good enough then he’s not good enough! 4 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnegan Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 tbf, given they're used to the likes of Chiellini, Bonucci and Barzagli, it's probably fair to say that Juve fans have slightly different standards for a centre half. I doubt we should be too upset being linked to a fully capped Italian international with seventy odd games for Juve under his belt. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUltimateWinner Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 Was a gem on football manager for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City1884 Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 This really should be taken with the absolute biggest punch of salt. If Rugani truly is “on the market”: 1. much bigger teams than us, from right across Europe, will be in for him. 2. There would be very little chance of him wanting to come to “little Leicester” 3. He would absolutely expect to be a guaranteed starter in our team, so would fans be happy with one of Cags or Evans being permanently dropped? Not getting regular starts for Juventus, who regularly win Serie A, and get to the latter stages of the Champions League is one thing, not being 1st choice at Leicester is totally another. This one will not happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StriderHiryu Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 Either Rugani or Demiral would be very good signings. I expect there will interest from around Europe for both of them though so not confident either player will end up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 1 minute ago, City1884 said: This really should be taken with the absolute biggest punch of salt. If Rugani truly is “on the market”: 1. much bigger teams than us, from right across Europe, will be in for him. 2. There would be very little chance of him wanting to come to “little Leicester” 3. He would absolutely expect to be a guaranteed starter in our team, so would fans be happy with one of Cags or Evans being permanently dropped? Not getting regular starts for Juventus, who regularly win Serie A, and get to the latter stages of the Champions League is one thing, not being 1st choice at Leicester is totally another. This one will not happen. He was once highly rated but now considered a flop for Juventus's standard. https://www.thesportsman.com/articles/the-stalled-progress-of-juventus-defender-daniele-rugani Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City1884 Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 3 minutes ago, Gerard said: He was once highly rated but now considered a flop for Juventus's standard. https://www.thesportsman.com/articles/the-stalled-progress-of-juventus-defender-daniele-rugani He was once one of the most highly rated young defenders in world football, but yes, his progress stalled, and he became more of a back up option for Juventus. Doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be a whole host of top clubs that wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign him. Just in England, I could imagine the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd, & Spurs considering bids at the right sort of price. His agent will have no trouble finding bigger clubs than us willing to take him, if he indeed does leave Juve. We would be a long way down the pecking order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerard Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 3 minutes ago, City1884 said: He was once one of the most highly rated young defenders in world football, but yes, his progress stalled, and he became more of a back up option for Juventus. Doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be a whole host of top clubs that wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign him. Just in England, I could imagine the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd, & Spurs considering bids at the right sort of price. His agent will have no trouble finding bigger clubs than us willing to take him, if he indeed does leave Juve. We would be a long way down the pecking order. You'll find a lot of Juventus fans who don't rate him at all. Now obviously their standards are very high but Rugani might be one of these players who were highly rated as youngsters and never make the grade and his standard may end up being mid table but other clubs will buy him because of his history. I don't know but I always look on these players moving downwards at the age of 25 with a certain amount of skepticism. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st albans fox Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 The problem we have buying a decent CH is that they won’t want to sit on the bench for the vast majority of games we either have to pay a v big wage (we won’t for a CH) or we need to buy a younger player .......like benkovic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Leeds Fox Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 (edited) Would much prefer demiral but either would improve our options Edited 22 December 2019 by North Leeds Fox Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gerard Posted 22 December 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 22 December 2019 20 minutes ago, North Leeds Fox said: Would much prefer demiral but either would improve our options Demiral is the man, Turks on twitter rate him higher than Soyuncu. He's also only 21 and would be a player who would probably be happy to be a squad player for half a season and back himself to force his way in. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Leeds Fox Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 34 minutes ago, Gerard said: Demiral is the man, Turks on twitter rate him higher than Soyuncu. He's also only 21 and would be a player who would probably be happy to be a squad player for half a season and back himself to force his way in. I'm with you. Think he would also give us an option to change to a back 3 as he is quick like cags and good with the ball at his feet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 Either would be good. Perhaps we're anticipating defensive changes in the next 12-18 months - Evans' age getting the better of him, Soyuncu being picked off by a bigger club. Or just perhaps more depth. Morgan will retire soon or just not be up to scratch in this league any more. Not seen much of Benkovic so going in to next season if we lose Soyunco or Evans, through a sale or just injury, we're left quite short in that department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolo Barella Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 No thanks, BTEC Maguire 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolo Barella Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 This article smells like bullshit particularly because of this bit "Brendan Rodgers ponders move for Juventus centre-back" No chance he's the one making the decisions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trav Le Bleu Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 8 hours ago, City1884 said: He was once one of the most highly rated young defenders in world football, but yes, his progress stalled, and he became more of a back up option for Juventus. Doesn’t mean that there wouldn’t be a whole host of top clubs that wouldn’t jump at the chance to sign him. Just in England, I could imagine the likes of Arsenal, Man Utd, & Spurs considering bids at the right sort of price. His agent will have no trouble finding bigger clubs than us willing to take him, if he indeed does leave Juve. We would be a long way down the pecking order. Wow! I hope Rudkin doesn't have that attitude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raw Dykes Posted 22 December 2019 Share Posted 22 December 2019 4 hours ago, StanSP said: Either would be good. Perhaps we're anticipating defensive changes in the next 12-18 months - Evans' age getting the better of him, Soyuncu being picked off by a bigger club. Or just perhaps more depth. Morgan will retire soon or just not be up to scratch in this league any more. Not seen much of Benkovic so going in to next season if we lose Soyunco or Evans, through a sale or just injury, we're left quite short in that department. I think it's the latter. I think Evans' and Soyuncu's places are safe - we just need more cover. It's probably Wes's last season at this level, and Benko's not been involved at all for whatever reason. We'll be very thin on the ground with just one injury or suspension at CB. Plus, Rodgers likes to go 3 at the back sometimes, so I think having at least 5x CBs in the squad is wise, especially if we're planning for a European campaign. I think we'll be after someone to be 3rd choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toddybad Posted 23 December 2019 Share Posted 23 December 2019 Rather have Demiral 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The whole world smiles Posted 23 December 2019 Share Posted 23 December 2019 1 hour ago, Toddybad said: Rather have Demiral Out of curiosity and not trying to mug you off but have you seen either of them play 90 minutes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toddybad Posted 23 December 2019 Share Posted 23 December 2019 43 minutes ago, The whole world smiles said: Out of curiosity and not trying to mug you off but have you seen either of them play 90 minutes? It's a fair question and one which I often ask others. I've seen more of Rugani than Demiral. Rugani has become infamous for making mistakes. He's like an Italian John Stones (without Stones' poise) but hasn't been able to con his way into regular football with the country's best team. Juve fans want rid which is usually a pretty good barometer. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gerard Posted 23 December 2019 Popular Post Share Posted 23 December 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Toddybad said: It's a fair question and one which I often ask others. I've seen more of Rugani than Demiral. Rugani has become infamous for making mistakes. He's like an Italian John Stones (without Stones' poise) but hasn't been able to con his way into regular football with the country's best team. Juve fans want rid which is usually a pretty good barometer. Fans opinion is not the be all and end all but as you say it's usually a good barometer. When the fans of a club are quite happy to see a player go it's a massive red flag for me. When we bought Benalouane, Musa and Ghezzal we seen the fans of those clubs quite happy to get the price they got and they have ultimately been proved correct. When we signed the likes of Kante, Ndidi and Maddison then the fans of those clubs had nothing but praise for those players. When we were linked with Grealish a year a go many on here didn't want him because of their perception of him and his weak PL displays as a teenager but if you looked at the Villa forums they were saying they shouldn't accept anything less than £60m and a buy back clause and the usual nonsense but they rated him to a man. Grealish is now near that sort of level. Many on here including myself liked Harry Maguire as a player but for £85m he was a sell all day long. He's very good in the and breaking lines with his passing and dribbles but he wasn't an intelligent or particularly good defender. He doesn't sniff danger out like Evans for example. Now I read a lot of Man Utd fans saying they were ripped off and his price should have been about £35m tops which is probably correct. Like your experience from what I've seen as well the Juventus fans want rid almost to a man. Whilst it's not everything only a fool completely dismisses the majority of fans opinion who have seen these players play thousands of minutes. Edited 23 December 2019 by Gerard 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgfualol Posted 23 December 2019 Share Posted 23 December 2019 I've only ever heard terrible things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langston Posted 23 December 2019 Share Posted 23 December 2019 I haven't watched him or Demiral but the latter looks more of a character and knows Shags, only one winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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