Porto quietly assembling another great team

by TalkingReckless Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:34 am

This is their team

Danilo - Bruno Martins Indi - Casemiro (from real madrid) - Quaresma - Yacine Brahimi - Jackson Martínez - Quintero - Cristian Tello (From barcelona) - Diego Reyes - Héctor Herrera - Adrián López - Alex Sandro - Óliver Torres (from Atletico Madrid) -

and Vincent Aboubakar ?

IN
Adrián - 11M (60%)
Martins Indi - 7,7M
Aboubakar - 3M (30%)
Brahimi - 1.5M (20%)
Tello - 2M (two year loan fee)
A. Fernandez - 1,6M
Casemiro - 1,5M (one year loan fee)
Evandro - 35% of our player Tozé's rights and a two year loan contract to Estoril
Marcano - Undisclosed fee

Total = 28,3M

OUT
Mangala - 30,5M
Iturbe - 7,5M (50% of 15M)
Fernando - 7,5M (50% of 15M. Allegedly only received half of the total transfer fee because that was the deal we struck when Fernando renewed his contract instead of leaving on a free transfer)
Defour - 3M (50% of 6M)
Castro - 3,5M
James Rodriguez - 1,2M (1,5% of 80M)

Total: 53,2M

53,2M - 28,3M = (+) 24,9M

They are gonna have a deep impressive run in CL this time

by Onyx Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:02 am

Yeh they've signed some good replacements. All of them will end up going for €20m+ in a few years time imo.

by The Franchise Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:28 am

They had the players for an impressive run last year, but the coaching was bad and the players didnt perform.

I am not sure this squad is better. I dont know if BMI will perform like Mangala and I have even less belief that Casemiro will replace Fernando as well.

But there are defiantly more attacking options with Torres, Adrian and Tello. Think the likes of Eduardo, Quintero, Reyes and Herrera will be more important than last season. Herrera perhaps being the under the radar best player in the team.

Coach looks 100% better already than last year so thats good.

by Footyfan Mon Aug 25, 2014 12:09 pm

They have bid for Clasie as well.

by iftikhar Mon Aug 25, 2014 1:29 pm

1.5% of James Rodriguez Shocked

!!!!!!!

by Vibe Mon Aug 25, 2014 2:13 pm

Fabiano
Danilo - Maicon - Martins - Sandro
Herrera - Casemiro - Quintero
Adrian - Martinez - Brahimi

Also Castilla legend Daniel Opare.

by The Franchise Mon Aug 25, 2014 3:45 pm

Tello started first league game. Quintero was also on the bench.

Away to Lille it was;

Fabiano
Danilo - Maicon - Martins - Sandro
Herrera - Casemiro - Rúben Neves
Oliver Torres - Martinez - Brahimi

Weekend vs Pacos

Ricardo in for Danilo (might of been suspended, not sure)
Evandro in for Herrera (rested)
Adrian in for Oliver.
Tello in for Brahimi

Quintero isnt a starter just yet, might not be for a while.

by Vibe Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:00 pm

How did it come to 17 year old Neves taking place before him...He recovered a while ago and was good when on.

by TalkingReckless Mon Aug 25, 2014 8:12 pm

iftikhar wrote:1.5% of James Rodriguez !!!!!!!

thats 1.5 from the Monaco to RM deal not Porto to Monaco, still pretty poor

and isn't Quaresma a starter?

by The Franchise Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:36 am

Vibe wrote:How did it come to 17 year old Neves taking place before him...He recovered a while ago and was good when on.

Quintero seems to attack minded for the CM position of a 433. I think he should be converted to a forward really.

If you want him in your midfield, it should probably be as a 10 with two players behind him at all times.

Coach is from Spanish u19 side, so I am sure he has alot of belief in young players. Which explains starting Torres and Neves so early in the season.

by The Franchise Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:38 am

TalkingReckless wrote:
and isn't Quaresma a starter?

End of last season, yes. But to start this one, not yet.

Still early though, gotta see how Tello, Oliver and Brahimi settle.

by Mr Nick09 Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:45 am

u guys selling danilo? looks like we have someone packing his bags

by The Franchise Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:48 am

Hope not, otherwise they stuck with Opare lol

Varela looks like he is off, after half a decade of service.

by Mr Nick09 Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:49 am

Oh by the way, what do you think of Casemiro now that he is not in madrid?

i revoked my benfica membership card the moment Aboubakar signed at Porto Proud

by The Franchise Tue Aug 26, 2014 12:56 am

Only been 2 games, I only watched 1 (vs Paco) so I withhold judgement. I didnt really see him all that much for Madrid either, less than 5 games for sure.

Ill reserve judgement for now. I do worry about replacing Fernando though, minus the cards he was reliable as it gets as a holding mid or even b2b when he moved up.

I also know very little about this Aboubakar. But I have alot of belief in Porto strikers going back from Jackson, Falcao, Li-Lo, Derlei, McCarthy...hell even Postiga was relatively good for Porto Laughing

by MaestroFavre Wed Aug 27, 2014 3:29 am

Not very surprised that Porto have assembled such a good team. Over the years, they have always seem to complete a number of coups . I have always regarded them as one of the few football teams that are actually managed coherently and effectively in terms of transfers .

As premature as this is, I am already impressed by their early performances and expect great things from them this season domestically and on an intercontinental basis. Smile

I can't wait to see more of this team and especially the fledgling Ruben Neves.

by teamanarchy Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:00 am

Casemiro can become really good. Hopefully he gets there with this team and then he can take over Khedira's spot when he leaves...

by iftikhar Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:12 am

I wonder why don't/haven't they diversify their sources. Their main source is South America, but they can source lots of players from Eastern Europe and Africa too.

by farfan Wed Aug 27, 2014 8:35 am

iftikhar wrote:I wonder why don't/haven't they diversify their sources. Their main source is South America, but they can source lots of players from Eastern Europe and Africa too.

in case you didn't notice , they already signed brahimi and aboubakar .

by The Franchise Wed Aug 27, 2014 2:21 pm

They have better knowledge of the players would be my guess. Plus they have built relationships with various clubs out there, probably various agents and seem fine with 3rd party ownership also.

by farfan Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:56 pm

boom .

by breva Sat Apr 18, 2015 12:04 am

The way they work, the player has to integrate quickly as he might easily be gone in a year, so language is important as it speeds up integration. Spanish speakers can quickly understand Portuguese with little difficulty so it is easy to instruct them and the Brazilians speak Portuguese, at least close enough. Very Happy