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Player Paulo Dybala

Ronwol196061

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Dele is one of our most exciting players. He is capable of winning games from nothing and has ability beyond anyone else in our sqaud. On top of that he is young, homegrown and seems to like it here.

We would be crazy to even try and "upgrade" him. Poch and the team should be working to try and find a way to get the best out of him. I think the issue is he was best in the advanced 10 role but Kane has taken that by coming deeper meaning Dele has also moved deeper. It doesn't work well for him being in a disciplined midfield position.

I don't disagree,and I would say he did ok blocking the lanes and marking out some players defensively and attacking he is amazing when he is amazing,but he definitely needs to get focused.He has tremendous talent and played it at times but we haven't seen the dynamic Dele Alli for some time.Still he could be coached back. I mean how would it feel if he became a top player with someone else and he could.
 

hughy

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What I meant was, it’s a big risk having no competition for his place in the side.

Last season he played week in week out when fit, and even when it was clear he was playing terribly, he was hardly ever dropped or rested.

I don’t want to see that happening again. What’s your problem with me wanting to upgrade in that position or at the very least offer some competition? Do you think Alli is not upgradable? He’s the best player in that position in the world? ?
I'm all for competition in the squad, I'm a massive advocate of having more than one top quality player in each position at the risk of some of them being unhappy with lack of game time.

However, I still don't understand how you can see Dele as so easily upgradeable. I'd love for us to sign Dybala, but I wouldn't necessarily consider him an upgrade on Dele. I still think you're seriously underestimating what Dele is capable of, which is disappointing because he did it for 3 straight seasons.
 

BENNO

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What I meant was, it’s a big risk having no competition for his place in the side.

Last season he played week in week out when fit, and even when it was clear he was playing terribly, he was hardly ever dropped or rested.

I don’t want to see that happening again. What’s your problem with me wanting to upgrade in that position or at the very least offer some competition? Do you think Alli is not upgradable? He’s the best player in that position in the world? ?

I'm fairly confident he wasn't dropped or rested because everyone else was either injured or playing even worse. Absolutely certain he'll regain his form soon imo.
 

nicdic

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Fed up with people posting stupid comments about Dele. The guy is a diamond. He had no pre-season last year, picked up a lot of injuries, and played out of position. The whole squad struggled last year because of the injuries, pre-season, lack of rotation. What is wrong with some of you?
 

Led's Zeppelin

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@dsmoove, and @Theoderic , why the spam, when it's directly relevant to the question as to why Juve may be approaching us about the possible fund-raising sale of Paulo Dybala, the exact subject of this thread?
 
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absolute bobbins

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Lol. They can use one of their many arms to pump money into the club via advertising or partnerships if needs be. Exor the Agnelli family investment company can utilise FCA, Partner Re, CNH and many others to this end.

For example Jeep’s deal is due to expire in 2021 so with their 42% voting rights in FCA and an Agnelli as chairman they could easily push through an early renewal deal in line with Barcelona’s, Real’s or Man United’s shirt deals and it would not set off FFP alarm bells.
 

wrd

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Fed up with people posting stupid comments about Dele. The guy is a diamond. He had no pre-season last year, picked up a lot of injuries, and played out of position. The whole squad struggled last year because of the injuries, pre-season, lack of rotation. What is wrong with some of you?

I feel like people don't rate him because his talents aren't in how technically astute he is at passing/dribbling, his sensibilities are so different to everybody else, I don't care who we sign this summer I'm adamant dele will keep himself within the 11.
 

OPModric

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Bayern have seven straight titles. One teams dominance doesn't equal to a whole league being weak.
 

SdB

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Fed up with people posting stupid comments about Dele. The guy is a diamond. He had no pre-season last year, picked up a lot of injuries, and played out of position. The whole squad struggled last year because of the injuries, pre-season, lack of rotation. What is wrong with some of you?

Plenty of excuses for his numerous poor displays last year but none of them explain why takes so long on the ball and become more ineffective because of that.

So no excuses this year - let's see how much he improves. He does need to improve right?
 

daryl hannah

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Agree with the poster who said they're not fond of this diamond formation. Really it requires dynamic wingbacks who can cross and I wonder whether we are waiting on Aarons and Lewis from Norwich next year. Don't think Sess can cross the ball in the air very well from what I've seen. On the deck, very good, but in the air, no better than Rose. Shame, but if we're patient then year after next we could have one hell of a team.
 

glacierSpurs

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Feels like the Goetze rumours we had last time. Craved for such marquee signings but were hurt before.

Not putting my hopes high. But really wish it can be real.
 

Ronwol196061

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Fed up with people posting stupid comments about Dele. The guy is a diamond. He had no pre-season last year, picked up a lot of injuries, and played out of position. The whole squad struggled last year because of the injuries, pre-season, lack of rotation. What is wrong with some of you?

He is still a rough diamond. Brilliant at times ,too casual at times. May have had injuries last year but needs to earn his place. Lamela is looking more serious,and we are buying a few players for his type of position it looks like
 
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