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Milinkovic Savic

Is he not similar to Jorginho in terms of style of play? I'm honestly not sure but if that's the case then it wouldn't make sense going for him.

 
Is intelligent.

Makes good decisions.

Has a good head!

 
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https://m.calciomercato.com/en/news/exclusive-milinkovic-savic-delayed-lazio-return-to-facilitate-ch-48784

Claims we bid €115m plus musonda! 

Can't believe that for a second. 

I think he would complete our midfield, and we would have a world class midfield for the next 5 years.

I don't believe we would spend over £100m on any player. We have had net spend of £120m over the last 3 seasons, so roughly £40m a year. 

Having already bought jorginho I think we would have to make some significant sales to spend big again this summer. 

 
big blue said:
https://m.calciomercato.com/en/news/exclusive-milinkovic-savic-delayed-lazio-return-to-facilitate-ch-48784

Claims we bid €115m plus musonda! 

Can't believe that for a second. 

I think he would complete our midfield, and we would have a world class midfield for the next 5 years.

I don't believe we would spend over £100m on any player. We have had net spend of £120m over the last 3 seasons, so roughly £40m a year. 

Having already bought jorginho I think we would have to make some significant sales to spend big again this summer. 
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Doubt it as well, but well. But he would complete the - possibly - best three-man midfield in the world if he was to come. I think we'll end up with Vecino. Bakayoko will go on loan and Drinkwater will be sold. 

I've also seen somewhere that he is a fan of Real Madrid - and I would really like not to be going through another Courtois-Hazard thing wih them... 

 
No thanks, massively overrated for the price hes being touted at

 
enigma said:
He is 23 and his stats are: 

17/18 season - 35 matches, 12 goals, 3 assists. 

16/17 season - 34 matches, 4 goals, 7 assists. 

15/16 season - 25 matches, 1 goal, 0 assists.

Now, excuse me if those stats don't blow my socks off. He has improved sure, but again, it's taken 3 seasons. Why are we so impatient not to give Mount or RLC that time? 

Compare to Ross Barkley: 

16/17 season - 36 matches, 5 goals, 8 assists

15/16 season - 38 matches, 8 goals, 8 assists

14/15 season - 29 matches, 2 goals, 2 assists

There's not much in it, and also considering Ross was injured for large parts too. 
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I think that stats alone are not a good way to assess a player and his potential. First of all scoring 12 goals in serie A for a midfielder does not happen often,but most importantly Savic has skills that very few players combine since he is extremely talented technically and a beast phisically. He is very young but he has plenty of room for improvement and while certainly not cheap and not yet tested enough at international level he would be a risk worth taking IMO. If I had to choose to invest 100 milion on him or 80 on a good keeper I would have few doubts on whom to take the risk, but then again I am not paid million to make these decisions  :biggrin:

 
Okay, as its been said; it would be nice but the chances of this happening are so slim. His price tag is, what, £120M? I think that's what I saw or maybe I read that Lazio were offering a new contract and implementing a buy-out of £120. I can't remember exactly.

 
Apparently our scouts were watching him in Glasgow, Lazio lost the game though.

But I mean, if RLC gets his health back...we shouldn't be needing to sign Sergej, specially not for the price tag he has.

 
RIP Mourinho said:
Big rumours going around he's our main target when we can sign again. Really not sure why.
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Not sure either tbh, we're already stacked in midfield. CF and a left sided centre half are the positions we should be looking to strengthen imho.

 
Would be such a pointless signing. We are so stacked in midfield already. Jorginho, Kante, Kovacic, RLC, Mount, Barkley.. Let alone the players we have out on loan like Bakayoko and Drinkwater. Van Ginkel as well..

The only case I see where we end up signing Savic is we were to offload a bunch of these players. There are always rumours of Kante leaving as well, either to Madrid or Juventus atm and if he goes then id be okay with us signing Savic.

Leaves us with: Jorginho, Kovacic, Savic, RLC, Mount and offload/sell Barkley, Baka, Stan, Van Ginkel, Kante

 
RIP Mourinho said:
Big rumours going around he's our main target when we can sign again. Really not sure why.
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That’s interesting - who is reporting it?

Prior to this season, even as early as this past summer, I was a big advocate that we should sign him.  However, that was before we knew what Mount was, before knew how much Kovacic would transform, before we knew how well Jorginho would play.

I’d still take him over Barkley, and perhaps that’s the idea (but for the price Sergej would cost, you’d assume he would have a bigger role than Barkley), however, if RLC stays healthy, then we are pretty well sorted in midfield for quite a while between Mount, Kovacic, Jorginho, Kante, RLC, and potentially Gilmour & Anjorin coming through.

 
mwblue10 said:
That’s interesting - who is reporting it?

Prior to this season, even as early as this past summer, I was a big advocate that we should sign him.  However, that was before we knew what Mount was, before knew how much Kovacic would transform, before we knew how well Jorginho would play.

I’d still take him over Barkley, and perhaps that’s the idea (but for the price Sergej would cost, you’d assume he would have a bigger role than Barkley), however, if RLC stays healthy, then we are pretty well sorted in midfield for quite a while between Mount, Kovacic, Jorginho, Kante, RLC, and potentially Gilmour & Anjorin coming through.
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Think The Mirror are the main ones reporting it, so massive pinch of salt. 

 
Not really sure why but Marina's been steadily hitting them out of the park for us. Pulisic, Kova, Emerson have been real gems for us.

 
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