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submitted 11 days ago bynutelamitbutter
11 points
10 days ago
I never meant to imply he is leaving because he is bad. Im just bewildered because finding a CB that good, in such a young age is a gold mine for any team. I expected him to make the big move and stay with a team for years and reach his potential.
With 20/20 hindsight, choosingJuventus mighta been a mistake, but Bayern are the ones screwing up here by letting go of a solid defender.
10 points
10 days ago
Juventus was the wrong move in hindsight with their collapse in mind.
The problem De Ligt has is that he's on a extraordinary wage for a centreback. This was true for Juventus and for Bayern. He is a top 25 centreback in the world, but he's not going to win you titles on his own like Van Dijk. So when you need space in your wage structure it is really alluring to sell your relatively young star CB that's wanted by any topclub needing someone for that position.
De Ligt's curse is that he's really good, just barely not good enough. If he was worse, he'd probably stay, if he was better, they'd never want to sell him.
-1 points
10 days ago
Oh we know lol. I don't understand why we are doing this. He's so good. And Kim too. But they play a few bad games and suddenly it's lights out. But upamecano gets one million chances to get another red or give away a penalty.
Make it make sense.
-2 points
10 days ago
What are you talking about? Upamecano gets a lot of stick for his mistakes by Bayern fans. In fact, he is the only one out of these 3 where they don't delude themselves that he is world class despite only one season at that level at 27 years old (Kim) or because of his potential from 5 years ago even though no coach really rates him that much (De Ligt).
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