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Calcio Debate: Felipe Melo To Juventus – One Defender & The Bianconeri Are Scudetto Favourites

Felipe Melo has all but signed for Juventus, and Carlo Garganese believes that with a top class defender, the Old Lady will be Scudetto favourites and real challengers for the Champions League.

Alessio Secco and the Juventus board have been ridiculed over the past few years due to their apparent incompetency in the transfer market. The sales of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Patrick Vieria to direct rivals Inter, the attempted offloading of Giorgio Chiellini to a pre-Sheikh Manchester City, the signings of Jean-Alain Boumsong, Tiago Mendes, Sergio Almiron and Christian Poulsen – the list of failures goes on and on.

Juve fans did not believe they would see the day when the current management actually conducted an adequate transfer campaign. Well, with the imminent arrival of Fiorentina’s Felipe Melo for €20 million plus Marco Marchionni, in addition to the purchases of Fabio Cannavaro and Diego, Juventus’ work this summer has not just been adequate, it has been truly exceptional. As Goal.com Italia editor Fabrizio Ponciroli exclaimed last night, “La Vecchia Signora is the queen of the Calciomercato.”

Juventus’ team is really taking shape. The midfield and attack can now be considered the strongest and deepest in Serie A, and with one top-class defensive purchase, the Bianconeri will have to be recognised as not only Scudetto favourites but also real challengers for the Champions League. Lyon left back Fabio Grosso should be the next to arrive, and depending on whether the likes of Christian Poulsen and Zdenek Grygera can be sold, there may even be the possibility of a right/centre back in the mould of Fabiano Santacroce arriving too. The defence is the only department that still requires attention.

Whoever receives the credit, it is surely no coincidence that since taking over as coach, Ciro Ferrara has overseen three high-profile purchases. The Neapolitan clearly has a vision of what he wants from his Juventus team, he recognises the areas that need strengthening, and the players who need shifting. Would Cannavaro, Diego and Felipe Melo have arrived under a certain Claudio Ranieri? It is very questionable.

Football is sometimes over-complicated. In the modern game in particular, being able to buy well is probably the most important prerequisite of a successful team. Liverpool’s Rafa Benitez has demonstrated over the past five years, while throwing away 75 per cent of the €225m he has spent on utter mediocrity, that if you buy badly you are unlikely to win any major hours (we all know the 2005 Champions League was a one-in-a-million miracle). Regardless of Calciopoli, Juventus invested disastrously in the three summers between 2006 and 2008, and they gave themselves no chance of competing for the Scudetto or the Champions League.

Instead of spending €50m on eight average-to-good-players (the Benitez philosophy), this time Juventus have wisely splashed the cash on just three-or-four excellent players, who are certain to strengthen the first team and will take the club to the next level. This is how you run a top football team.

Inter will surely react now given Juventus’ movement, whereas Milan fans must be really worrying about the short-term future of their own club. On the day that Juve all but completed the signing of one of Europe’s most complete midfielders, Milan’s statement of intent was a 27-year-old United States centre-back who has played almost his entire career in the Belgian League. Whether or not Oguchi Onyewu, who had an impressive Confederations Cup and did arrive on a free transfer, proves to be a bargain buy remains to be seen. But, Milan certainly need to start making some major inroads if they are to turn the championship into a three-horse race next term.

The final word is reserved for Arsenal themselves. Gunners fans must be infuriated by their failure to snare Felipe Melo. While it is probable that the Brazilian never had any intention of joining the Londoners, once again Arsene Wenger’s transfer policy is called into question. The Professor was prepared to shell out €12m on Thomas Vermaelen, a player who according to my Belgian colleagues will never be anything special, nor even a first teamer to start with. Yet, he was unwilling to up the ante on a guaranteed top-class centre midfielder who would have been the perfect foil to Cesc Fabregas in the middle-of-the-park, a partnership that would have possibly been the best in Europe.

Arsenal’s loss is Juventus’ gain, and there is every chance now that the Bianconeri will win a major honour next season.

ako je 20 miliona + Marchioni onda je Melo bas skup igrac

bome je,zapelo je dosta klubova za njega u ovom roku,očito je jako dobar.

treba samo zakrpat poziciju lijevog bočnog (sve si mislim da će to biti grosso) i onda se ima tim za osvajanje scudetta. ne sumnjam da će juve to srediti...

treba se i riješiti nekih igrača,npr. poulsena,pošto je melo na istoj poziciji

za mela je inače mislim bio zapeo i arsenal,ali čini se da juve ima bolje pregovarače

da,mogao bi ga pokriti chiellini,tamo je i započeo karijeru,ali korisniji je na stoperu,tu je stvarno velika (moglo bi se reći svjetska klasa). ali ja vjerujem da će doći netko na to mjesto,a i može se pokušati sa de cegliem.

još ove sezone se čeka totalna eksplozija giovinca (nadam se da će ga ferrara forsirati) i marchisia,a i tu su iago (prošle godine došao iz barce) i ekdal (kažu da je i on veliki talent),a možda iskoči koji još mladi igrač

blistava je sezona pred starom damom