Androutsos
Senior Member
He wasn't even that good here in the first place. A goal or two in the youth CL is what got him snapped up.
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Jair Ventura
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Your logic would make sense if Barca weren't spending much of their budget in France or on Brasilians these days. Can't build your own footballers so you bring in players from countries that can.
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Alik
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Your logic would make sense if Barca weren't spending much of their budget in France or on Brasilians these days. Can't build your own footballers so you bring in players from countries that can.
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So far most of the budget spent in France and Brazil has failed to impress.
El Trencaxarxes
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It's not too unreasonable to be sceptic about Brazil after the catastrophic Traffic-related transfers - Keirrison, Henrique and Douglas - but how on earth are you going to deny that we've had so much success buying from France?
Yeah, alright. Malcom hasn't been great so far, but let's not pretend that he's already a failure. He's 21 years old and we're not even half a year into his stint at the club. No need to get irrational about it.
But let's have a look at the players we've bought in France before that:
- Samuel Umtiti from Lyon for € 25.000.000. So far he's played 90 matches and won five titles with us.
- Lucas Digne from PSG for € 16.500.000. Played 46 games, won four titles, was an extremely solid backup and sold with a profit.
- Éric Abidal from Lyon for € 15.000.000. Played 193 matches, won 15 titles. Hardly needs any further introduction. A great.
- Yaya Touré from Monaco for € 9.000.000. Played 188 matches, scored six and won seven titles. Was a shining light in the catastrophic 07-08 season. Sold for a then record fee.
- Ludovic Giuly from Monaco for € 8.500.000. Played 124 matches, scored 26 and won five titles. Key man in our return to the status as a European powerhouse.
- Edmílson from Lyon for € 8.000.000. Played 96 matches and won four titles. Had a bad injury in his first season, but was an important player in winning the Double 2006.
- Ronaldinho from PSG for € 30.000.000. Played 207 matches, scored 94 and won five titles. I don't think I need to add anything here. Legend of the club and of the game.
- Rafael Márquez from Monaco for € 6.350.000. Played 240 matches, scored 12 and won 12 titles. His partnership with Puyi took us from being nearly great to the best team.
If anything we should be looking a lot more to France for our transfers. We have a stellar record recruiting players there - especially with Lyon - and the pool of talent in France is nearly inexhaustible.
Your logic would make sense if Barca weren't spending much of their budget in France or on Brasilians these days. Can't build your own footballers so you bring in players from countries that can.
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Well yeah, like fruits, when they outgrow the farm, they move the big leagues.
Jair Ventura
New member
Lol the brightest French talent plays in Paris. Some of you clowns hate to the point of delusion. Get yourselves together!
Kingkongkong
New member
Also the only player from France XI playing in france
Jair Ventura
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Kylian, Kimpembe, Areola, Mandanda, Fekir, Ndombele, Payet, Thauvin-- All part of the national team rotation. And then there's Umtiti, Lacazette, Dembélé, Lemar, Kanté, Mendy and a few others who were developed in Ligue 1.
Do people receive rewards for being ignorant haters that I'm unaware of? Otherwise I don't understand the point in investing so much time in sharing with people all of the things you don't know.
Rabiot? Isn't he set to sign a new contract with PSG after his mum told him he wasn't good enough for EPL or LaLiga.
Alik
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I was referring to recent history - the period of time where we can't build our own footballers.
Kingkongkong
New member
“Part of the rotation” not the XI
They were developers there so? The point was them moving towards bigger Leagues
El Trencaxarxes
New member
And when exactly is that? Are you only looking to include Malcom then? If that's the case, then you also have to only look at Arthur, which makes your point about Brazilians completely ridiculous. If you want to include the Traffic-transfers, then you have to include Digne and Umtiti as well, and in that case you can hardly say that we have more bad than good experiences buying from France. Regardless of whenever this very specific time period of yours applies, I think it's utter nonsense to try and downplay the pool of talent in Ligue 1. We need to look to Ligue 1 right now, because that's where you'll get the most value for your money in terms of not just talent but also ability.
xXKonan
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Was loaned out to Cercle Brugge. He left us for Monaco in hopes of First team action off the bat, only for Jardim to not rate him as soon as he came. Then he suffered some injuries, Monaco went through a crisis and pretty back to square one again.
Was loaned out to Cercle Brugge. He left us for Monaco in hopes of First team action off the bat, only for Jardim to not rate him as soon as he came. Then he suffered some injuries, Monaco went through a crisis and pretty back to square one again.
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