Juventus have decided to make a summer bid for Italy and Bologna’s Alessandro Diamanti, says La Gazzetta dello Sport.

The 30-year-old is understood to have been requested by boss Antonio Conte for the Old Lady of next season.

Juventus and Bologna do have good transfer links after doing deals in the recent past involving Manolo Gabbiadini, Saphir Taider and Frederik Sorensen.

Diamanti, an attacking midfielder, has scored seven goals in 33 League games for the Rossoblu this term.
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Striker problems solved. This is such a crazy move if it's true. We better start selling some of our other strikers soon because this is getting ridiculous.

if this is true, this means both quagli and matri are leaving...

our strikeforce will be something like llorente higuain vuci gio and diamanti. i could see this happening

Could Diamanti play the LWB role? I believe he did for Italy as the Euro but I'm not sure.

If we get Diamanti,Bonera and Lodi then Marotta must leave.Im not joking,we have been linked with all this +30yrs players lately (not sure how trusted the source is) and buying them instead the long awaited wc striker would be a big disappointment and failure...

if we fail to land a wc striker ( in b4 llorente) and end up with diamanti plus some other catania type player this is gonna be 1 hell of an embarrasing mercato

juventus101 wrote:Could Diamanti play the LWB role? I believe he did for Italy as the Euro but I'm not sure.

Diamanti as a LWB One of the slowest attacking players in Serie A, and is quite lazy. Think you mixed him up with Giaccherini

And he never played as a LWB before, whenever he came on for Italy he was substituted on for Cassano.

I for one look forward to this transfer, Diamanti is beast and great player to have esp for depth its quality not quantity, yes he is 30 but he is great player. Seems like Quagli,Gio, Matri 2 of them will go away and Diamanti is great also I've seen him as LWB, LWST, LW , ST , SS, CF I think we are switching to 4-3-3. Or is he the Vice Pirlo ?

Lodi as Vice Pirlo and Diamanti as LWST/RWST + Higgy and Llorente would be great for me oh damn I want Kolarov to or Lulic

If this is to replace one of our strikers, fine.



If this is Marrotta and Contes answer to our cries for a top attacker, *bleep* N.O


Why are we stuck in this illusion that you don't need to buy a single great striker to compete in Europe.

It's just *bleep* stupid, short sighted and destined to fail.

AbraKebabra Alacalamb wrote:If this is to replace one of our strikers, fine.



If this is Marrotta and Contes answer to our cries for a top attacker, *bleep* N.O


Why are we stuck in this illusion that you don't need to buy a single great striker to compete in Europe.

It's just *bleep* stupid, short sighted and destined to fail.

Because the people that run italian football these days are from another freaking planet, i swear they are all insane. fix stadiums, fix regulations, stop spending heaps of money on mediocore sh1t players. we can all see it yet NOTHING gets done about it. honestly... serie a fans are growing tired of it

I agree. Like I said a little while ago here somewhere, all these high up club owners are all complaining about the state of serie A, yet nobody is doing anything about it.

It's easy to complain, but it's up to them and the FIGC to sort it out, and quickly.

AbraKebabra Alacalamb wrote:I agree. Like I said a little while ago here somewhere, all these high up club owners are all complaining about the state of serie A, yet nobody is doing anything about it.

It's easy to complain, but it's up to them and the FIGC to sort it out, and quickly.

Their must be other underlying cultural things or stuff going on behind the scenes fans don't no about... It's pretty obvious what the problems and solutions are yet nobody wants to do anything about it. People love Italy as a country and for tourists the un-orginization of it all makes it kind of a cool aspect of the country but for football we want it to be modern, up to date and not declining it is so frustrating to watch!

Sorry, Devi, but this move doesn't excite me at all. Diamanti isn't that great of a player and he's 30. Somehow, we might end up with a player that's about as impressive as Quags and Matri, but he's older? Even if we sign him and sell Quags and Matri I don't want this transfer to happen.

look at his passing :

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1wJDcx9PyI[youtube]


I think he is Vice Pirlo if he comes or we are switching to 4-3-1-2 ?

I'm not denying that he has skills. He clearly doesn't suck if he is on the national team, but he's just not that great and he's 30.

I had a bad feeling that this transfer was going to happen when he said he wanted to leave Bologna a few months ago.

Juventude wrote:I'm not denying that he has skills. He clearly doesn't suck if he is on the national team, but he's just not that great and he's 30.

I had a bad feeling that this transfer was going to happen when he said he wanted to leave Bologna a few months ago.

well this doesn't tell anything about the rest of the campaign tbh we can start with the vice-pirlo and vice-Barzagli its all Ok I know that we are getting one of Higuain/Sanchez/Jovetic because Conte said it in public he will stay only if Juve has the same hunger and it grows if not he'll leave in summer and he requested one great player and few subs not much. I am really happy with this move, Diamanti is great player to have on the bench plus let's be realistic he is not even bench material he is better than that. Inter bought Milito when he was 30 let's wait and see if this is true than lets give the man a chance he is realyl good player.


EDIT :

Diamanti might play behind the ST's in 3-5-1-1 or on the LW/LWB he has been great in the Euros to ... he can be SS

Diamanti as a Pirlo would be very interesting. Diamanti as a sub would be very good too. Shouldn't be too expensive either, don't complain I doubt he'd be treated as Juve's attacking savior

zarola wrote:Diamanti as a Pirlo would be very interesting. Diamanti as a sub would be very good too. Shouldn't be too expensive either, don't complain I doubt he'd be treated as Juve's attacking savior

Tbh zarola bro after Rivaldo he is the only player that I've seen to have such excellent shot and technical one

Where did you guys get the crazy idea that Diamanti can play as a LWB

If you guys buy him he'll be used as a forward.

zarola wrote:Diamanti as a Pirlo would be very interesting. Diamanti as a sub would be very good too. Shouldn't be too expensive either, don't complain I doubt he'd be treated as Juve's attacking savior

We complain because this has been going on for too many summers now. Juve makes a signing like this and suddenly that's all we sign in attack for the summer after many failed attempts with big names. It's a very up and down process for Juve fans.

Casciavit wrote:Where did you guys get the crazy idea that Diamanti can play as a LWB

If you guys buy him he'll be used as a forward.

we all meant like LW like the side midfilder in the 'zona mista' variation

DeviAngel wrote:

zarola wrote:Diamanti as a Pirlo would be very interesting. Diamanti as a sub would be very good too. Shouldn't be too expensive either, don't complain I doubt he'd be treated as Juve's attacking savior

Tbh zarola bro after Rivaldo he is the only player that I've seen to have such excellent shot and technical one

yeah but he's not a youngster or an upcoming prodigy, his career is pretty much over. He doesn't score a lot of goals either, and Juve already have a lot of creativity they just need the goal scoring. Like I said, a good addition as a sub or rotational player, but nothing special.

This is a great transfer....The man is in the form of his life right now...
He can have an Bayern-Pizzarro type influence at Juve!

I would rather play storari at LWB tbh Cas, it was just a mistake by somebody, must have confused him for Giaccherini who plays in the same position but got used at LWB.

is Diamanti paying us to let him join us just to finally win Serie A? cos that is what this move is about, this guy cannot do sh*t to improve us and Marotta needs to stop wasting money on such sh*t purchases ffs.......

its becoming laughable to say the least when he will come tell us he tried for Higuain but "Italian teams cannot compete financially anymore with England, Spain and France"

u heard it first..... [Diamanti and Llorente are player X]


p.s: talking about Llorente, dude is finding his form now that he is getting some regular play, scored a bicycle kick over the weekend, anyone saw it?

elmystique wrote:

is Diamanti paying us to let him join us just to finally win Serie A? cos that is what this move is about, this guy cannot do sh*t to improve us and Marotta needs to stop wasting money on such sh*t purchases ffs.......

its becoming laughable to say the least when he will come tell us he tried for Higuain but "Italian teams cannot compete financially anymore with England, Spain and France"

u heard it first..... [Diamanti and Llorente are player X]


p.s: talking about Llorente, dude is finding his form now that he is getting some regular play, scored a bicycle kick over the weekend, anyone saw it?

Don't X off Diamanti yet....he is a very creative player