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Ye Gods! OK an asteroid is heading this way, volcanoes and earthquakes are doing their gelogic dance, the political/ economic climate is out of whack, then yesterday sell Barella and now cash in on Lautaro? Man, the Cagliari match can't get here soon enough!
 
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I prefer similar profile to Lautaro, like Kane and Seba Esposito who drops deeper and defend to help the team. I'm not saying we have to replace him with Kane but someone similar.
 

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True, his slump period is longer than others, this season he was disappear for 6 months since he signed the contract? God knows how long he will disappear next season.

I think that's generous. For me his slump began at the end of January last year when the Super Cup was won. The title came soon after and there was a collective slump which no-one cared about for obvious reasons, but Lautaro was off the pace from roughly then until right at the end of the year - so almost an entire calendar year.
 

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I think that's generous. For me his slump began at the end of January last year when the Super Cup was won. The title came soon after and there was a collective slump which no-one cared about for obvious reasons, but Lautaro was off the pace from roughly then until right at the end of the year - so almost an entire calendar year.
The thing that annoyed me is how he handled the new contract situation only to disappear for months in every season. He asked for 10m according to reports and rejected our offer 7.5m, 8m, 8.5m and 9m respectively, he knows that we had financial difficulties and we kept making loses. Yet people called him the next Zanetti. Meanwhile Barella didn't even negotiate and Bastoni only negotiate one time if i remember correctly.
 

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Like clockwork.

People have been moaning non-stop about his goalscoring all year and he’s still about on pace for what he normally does numbers wise. Not that he’s perfect, just consistent in terms of what you can expect from him.
The thing is his league goals have fucking evaporated, and for like only the second season in his career, he's performing in the CL. It'd be nice to have both at some point.
 

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Unfortunately this time it’s not like we have Crespo for the CL goals and Vieri for the league
 

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The thing is his league goals have fucking evaporated, and for like only the second season in his career, he's performing in the CL. It'd be nice to have both at some point.
He s ost likely gonna end the season with well over 20 goals scored across competitions i dont see what the big deal is...
 

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He s ost likely gonna end the season with well over 20 goals scored across competitions i dont see what the big deal is...
I guess some expect that if you pay a player more money, that they will for sure score more, which obviously isn't reality. Everybody would like to see Lautaro score in most games, but I don't think he'll ever be that player.
 

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I guess some expect that if you pay a player more money, that they will for sure score more, which obviously isn't reality. Everybody would like to see Lautaro score in most games, but I don't think he'll ever be that player.
Who exactly is that player? Did they see what kane missed against us? Dude is on a higher salary than lauti and in most of the football world is held in higher regards....
Not a striker that does not miss siters or go through a ruff patch during a season...

My point was that if your main striker scores 20+ goals even when it s across competition your striker aint the problem....

If we move on in both CL and CI he might fuck around and get very close to 30..... Yet people out here bitching he aint scoring enough..
 

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I agree with what you are saying, except Lautaro's dip in form was quite bad this season, I'd rather see us avoid that in next seasons. I can understand that intensity that Lautaro displays can be a gift and a curse.

A really good third option off the bench could help, so that the minutes are more evenly distributed while the quality up top stays on a high enough level.
 

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There are more games with the new UCL format though... 🤓 is what I would say if I was a pedantic dork.
no, in fairness, thats not the case. Crespo was in the days where there were 2 group stages, and Inter did qualifying that year too. 2 quals, 12 group stage games, 2 in the quarters, 2 in the SF, inter played 16(+2 quals), of 17 matches that could have been available

This year, its 8 group stage, 2 R16, 2 QF, 2 SF, 1 F, so that's only 15 games (ignoring the knock out before R16 which we passed automatically)
 

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no, in fairness, thats not the case. Crespo was in the days where there were 2 group stages, and Inter did qualifying that year too. 2 quals, 12 group stage games, 2 in the quarters, 2 in the SF, inter played 16(+2 quals), of 17 matches that could have been available

This year, its 8 group stage, 2 R16, 2 QF, 2 SF, 1 F, so that's only 15 games (ignoring the knock out before R16 which we passed automatically)
I thought Ibra would break his record easily but ..
 

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I agree with what you are saying, except Lautaro's dip in form was quite bad this season, I'd rather see us avoid that in next seasons.
until we hire a talent coach who works with him independently, to improve his accuracy.
next season will be the same if not identical. he needs to work more into improving his sensitivity in terms of finishing and penalties too.
 
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