Is Roma's Lamela worth 20m euro?

i could've posted this in Roma section, but not many of us Roma fans know much about this guy. If reports are to be true, he will cost us around 20m euro. The price paid for him made me sceptic about this transfer. I don't know if a 20 year old youngster, unproven in Europe, is worth 20m euro. Seems like a lot of money to me, specially for a club like us who have been cash-strapped for the past 5-6 years.

perhaps the argentinian football followers on this site can inform me about him, and if the price paid for him is justifiable?

Simply put: No.

for that money he's too unproven, cannot carry a team on his own, not a marquee player.

he should've been worth half that

poor mans alvarez

No, river plate really just needed the money and somehow made roma pay up.

Well Roma are not cash stripped now.Their ownership changed and the new owners are willing to spend money.Also i read the deal is around 14-15 mil where did u get the 20mil figure from?

italian media says 20m

If it was performance related i would say yes but it's not. Roma will pay the money before august.

Gervinho was 12 so NO

no way lol

No

yes! yes! yes!yyyyyyyyyeeeeeessssssssssss!!!!!!!!oh my god!!!!

aarghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuh!!!!!!!!!!

yeah......

12 will be payed in cash, and 2 milion related to his aperrances.In the 20 sum it is considered his yearly pay which is 1.3 to 1.5 m, in a 5 year contract.

nah he's not... but I am looking forward to watching this Roma project evolve

12 million is the transfer fee. Then the rest is all bonuses depending on his performances.

Is he worth it? Difficult to tell. It's a lot to spend on a somewhat unproven player. But the boy is 19 years old and has a lot of potential, it could end up being a great deal. Only time will tell if Sabatini is out of his mind or a genius.

Sabatini did buy Abel hernandez, Cavani and Pastore right?

Hell no. What's with the extremely expensive youngsters nowadays? It's not like these guys are the next Messi or already playing at top level.

His team is RELEGATED That puts the price down a notch.

InterMalia wrote:Sabatini did buy Abel hernandez, Cavani and Pastore right?

And that's a pretty good reason to trust him, he knows talent when he sees it. He even discovered Gattuso and Illicic and you could also give him some credit for Nesta's development as he was the youth director when Nesta was around 16-17 years old.

Goal.com ex-forum member haihai, who follows the Argentine league and River much closer than me, put him as the biggest export since Aguero. We'll see.

Either way the transfer fee is just 12M, not 20. And he was followed closely by Inter, Napoli, Milan, Roma & Atletico. Someone followed by these people must be special.

Who?

the truth is the kid is talented and if he moves to a club like e.g. udinese and plays good he'll be sold for 30 +mil to a club like Madrid!cant blame Roma for taking risks and paying 20 for him!

You gotta take chances if you are aiming big, this is just saying things about the future of Roma.

BarrileteCosmico wrote:Goal.com ex-forum member haihai, who follows the Argentine league and River much closer than me, put him as the biggest export since Aguero. We'll see.

Either way the transfer fee is just 12M, not 20. And he was followed closely by Inter, Napoli, Milan, Roma & Atletico. Someone followed by these people must be special.

is lamela supposed to be better than iturbe?

lenear1030 wrote:



is lamela supposed to be better than iturbe?

its difficult to say whose better right now there young and play different positions Iturbe plays wide and cuts in... Lamela is an attacking mid "#10" / second striker

rip off