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Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
You have a point about the age thing....I'd not considered that too deeply. All I would say is that there comes a point when a player is so good he negates his slightly advanced years. After all, none of us would turn our nose up at somebody as good as Suarez because he was 28.
The Italian league is a lot slower, the Spanish league is less physical and every other league is plainly not as good (though I know it's fashionable these days to do the Prem down) so there's always going to be a reason not to buy abroad....so I'm not sure how much actual weight him coming from the Italian league carries. I would agree that of course it factors in any appraisal though.
Monaco have shown that we aren't at Juventus' level never mind Barca/Real's so why would we steamroller the Italian league? I think we would probably finish a very comfortable second. Juventus seldom lose a game in any competition.
Juventus and Italian clubs in general are far from flush and have been modest on their spending for some time now. I think Juventus would only dismiss an offer of less than 20 million. That's not to say we'd get him for that figure but it would certainly bring us to the table. People are talking around the 25-30 million mark for Morgan at Southampton so I don't see that Vidal must be attained for an astronomical fee.
If you want to sign an established certified ready made world class player of experience, but yet not, over the hill age who has won titles then 20-30 million is certainly not unreasonable.
They would win the league without Vidal and it would help keep them ahead of the pack in Italy at least. I wasn't overly aware he had a poor injury record and I don't know what the numbers are so you may well be perfectly correct there?
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