It feels as if we're rewarding everyone for a great season. Which is fine, if we gave them all a small financial bonus. I get extending the contract of someone like Bonucci who is young and we can secure until he's well into his prime. Marchisio I get. Chiellini I get. Vidal I get. All players moving into the best part of their careers. I also get players like Buffon who are old but have high salaries. Don't want to get into negotiation and be forced to increase their salary to keep them happy (Buffon isn't a great example of this, but somebody like Quagliarella or Matri might). But I just don't get extending Pepe's contract.
I think 2.5m or abouts is fair for Estigarribia. He's decent, but he's really rough around the edges.
That's lovely. I did really like the solid red down the centre, though.
One of my fav Juventinis on twitter is continuing to call for Vucinic to be dealt in order to help fund our transfer campaign. I tend to agree but I think this is a sale for next year. Vucinic, as wasteful as he was, was magical at times and I don't think we can replace him so readily. I'd rather just keep him until we know we can manage without him. It's not as if he's in his 30s, anyways. Although I'm increasing to think we're going to need two new strikers: one to give Matri a proper, and something of a more traditional trequartista to feed them balls (Giovinco? Probably).
