16 hours ago, PedroMendez said:

I have it on good authority that the hold up has been caused as the board are waiting for @TomCFC85 to create a memorable song for the payer before they proceed with the purchase.

 

To the tune of Barney the Dinosaur

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Rugani is a defender 

In Sarri's new formation

Young and fast with lots of skill

An Italian Sensation 

43 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

 

To the tune of Barney the Dinosaur

Ah the classic tune that all football fans are familiar with.

There seems to be a real push for this transfer to happen, at the same time as some new reports say that we might sell Cahill together with Willian to Man Utd.

I would be impressed if we sign Rugani but selling Cahill to Man Utd, I have some mixed feelings about that one.

16 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

but selling Cahill to Man Utd, I have some mixed feelings about that one.

Mixed feeling? that's a bonafide sh*t.

2 minutes ago, Giordano_Bruno said:

Mixed feeling? that's a bonafide sh*t.

I choose to not believe the garbage daily star : https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/719538/Man-Utd-Chelsea-Willian-Gary-Cahill-Jose-Mourinho-transfer-news-Sarri-Mourinho-MUFC-CFC

https://www.thesportreview.com/2018/07/chelsea-fc-news-daniele-rugani-update-latest/

Im bored of this now.

There's talk we are not looking at a 100m for both Higuain and Rugani. 

I hope the club is not stupid enough to spend 100m on Higuain and Rugani, there are countless better options we can buy for 100m.

16 minutes ago, comtrend said:

I hope the club is not stupid enough to spend 100m on Higuain and Rugani, there are countless better options we can buy for 100m.

It does seem to be Martial for no.9, but another central defender wouldn't be a bad idea. I think LB we need to look at though, but there's not enough top quality Left backs who are available, at least not ones who will be a bench warmer for Emerson. 

Juventus only want to sell players they didn't want, so we better look else where. To be honest, they were not in financial trouble, aren't going to sell one of their better defender to cover the cost of a striker. I'm happy if we don't business with them at all.

I heard somewhere that Juventus recovered half of the money they spent on Ronaldo in just a week due to shirt sales...They are not going to let us have Rugani I feel.

For Higuain I don't care at all, but getting Rugani would have covered us for years to come...Doesn't matter if this transfer fails, similar to Golovin, but I really hope we get another attacking player that isn't Higuain. Nor Bernard.

1 minute ago, Gol15 said:

I heard somewhere that Juventus recovered half of the money they spent on Ronaldo in just a week due to shirt sales...They are not going to let us have Rugani I feel.

For Higuain I don't care at all, but getting Rugani would have covered us for years to come...Doesn't matter if this transfer fails, similar to Golovin, but I really hope we get another attacking player that isn't Higuain. Nor Bernard.

I'm afraid that's just nonsense 

2 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

I heard somewhere that Juventus recovered half of the money they spent on Ronaldo in just a week due to shirt sales...They are not going to let us have Rugani I feel

This isn't true, clubs never make that kind of money from shirt sales. 

Juve sold 520000 shirts on the first day. This is the max capacity Juventus and Adidas could provide the shirts. Average price for one shirt was 104€.

This is just like Sandro all over again. Move on Chelsea. 

1 minute ago, evissy said:

Juve sold 520000 shirts on the first day. This is the max capacity Juventus and Adidas could provide the shirts. Average price for one shirt was 104€.

And barely any of that went to juve. 

1 minute ago, dkw said:

And barely any of that went to juve. 

I have no idea how much went to Juve. Some of the odd 50 million euros. 

19 minutes ago, evissy said:

I have no idea how much went to Juve. Some of the odd 50 million euros. 

From the pogba transfer. 

First of all, it needs to be cleared up that United don’t get all of the revenue from shirt sales, far from it. Adidas don’t pay the club £75 million for nothing. In fact, the industry standard is for the kit provider to receive 85-90% of all revenue from shirt sales. However, as McKeegan rather confidently pointed out in subsequent tweets, the shirt itself is not the only way clubs earn money from shirt sales, there are also the printing and the badges. So let’s do the maths.

According to United’s online shop, the printing and badges cost an extra £13.61. If we’re being optimistic, and United earn all of that plus 15% of the shirt revenue, that amounts to £23.82 per shirt. Which means, to cover the full £89 million, United would need to sell 3.736.356 Pogba shirts

The people who buy the Robaldo shirts are also those who would have gotten one anyway, so its not «pure profit»

My point here is if you buy Ronaldo you buy something more than just one of the best players ever. Shirt sales is one aspect of it. In that way Ronaldo is unique admittedly but it is always good to keep that in mind when in awe of transfersums. Big teams are there for business, football is merely one part of the whole circus. 

Ronaldo's mere face and status create new Juve fans all over the world. 

8 hours ago, dkw said:

This isn't true, clubs never make that kind of money from shirt sales. 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/07/20/juventus-have-sold-60-million-of-ronaldo-jerseys-in-24-hours-infographic/#d1234fd392b3

It says in 24 hours they have sold shirts worthy of 60m Euroes, of that amount 6-9m Euroes went to Juventus, in just 24 hours. Still not bad.

On 29/07/2018 at 21:21, Gol15 said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/07/20/juventus-have-sold-60-million-of-ronaldo-jerseys-in-24-hours-infographic/#d1234fd392b3

It says in 24 hours they have sold shirts worthy of 60m Euroes, of that amount 6-9m Euroes went to Juventus, in just 24 hours. Still not bad.

Out of that 6-9m they still got to give Ronaldo a cut. And pay him 500k a week

16 minutes ago, Ashleyb66 said:

Out of that 6-9m they still got to give Ronaldo a cut. And pay him 500k a week

It doesn't say that they need to give Ronaldo a cut of that money, maybe his own sponsors if Adidas is his sponsor?

Good news about Bonucchi rejoining Juve, Just might free up Rugani for a move.