Not going to lie, part of me is a little dubious of the double Juve signing, essentially enabling them lot to buy Vlahovic + Zakaria whilst we pick up the slack on creative accounting loan to permanent transfers (this part maybe due to GLC looking relatively good up until we finalised it). It’s perhaps unreasonable envy as we were never going to be the one for Vlahovic with Kane still being here and Zakaria tbh I’m going on how highly rated he is rather than first hand experience watching him play.
Signings hitting the ground running aren’t really our forte, so for all the talk of the new arrivals working in a Conte system they will still have to adapt to a new league + lifestyle. The “I hope I’m proved wrong” is perhaps overused despite being true, so whilst hopeful both will have a good impact I’m not going to be ranting and raving at them if we fall short of CL due to a lack of usable options to mix it up. It’s not a case of slagging off either player, haven’t watched any serie a in a while but one is only a year older than Gil, a kid supposedly so class we let him leave on loan back to sunny Spain, more tempering of expectations rather than throwing toys out of the pram.
It’s a move in a right direction getting GLC and Tanguy off the books but only a temporary one, come the summer if neither prosper it’s going to be something everyone can be surprised about when it affects our summer dealings but fingers crossed that won’t be the case.
*Awaits helpful “wait and see how things turn out!” / “Stop moaning you moany prick” replies
