I agree. Cerci's contract (loan) expires at the end of the season and unless we pay Atletico, he is going back there. I don't want to pay them for him. He hasn't shown enough and I just don't think he has the quality to be a winger on a team like Milan. I'm not convinced by 3-4 decent games. He's struggled throughout his career with the only exception being the second season at Torino. Regardless of any of that, I just don't see him being as good as Douglas Costa like you mentioned, and we really need someone that good. We should've bought him last year when Kia was offering him to us. It's too bad...
Another player playingr crazy good football for Shaktar right now is Teixeira. He's scored 22 goals this season for them. I've seen him many times before and I've watched them in the CL twice this season....he would be a great purchase. As a matter of fact I'd prefer him to Vazquez for the role you are talking about Dev. Teixeira is a lot more explosive and just more of a difficult player to deal with imo.
A midfielder is a MUST. Kucka and Poli should not be starters here. I know Poli is not this year and we've seen an improvement already. The same needs to be done with Kucka. We need to find a quality CM this winter if we want to compete for that 3rd spot. Not many quality ones will be available in January. Banega's contract expires in June so he might be an option and at a cut price at that too. Problem is I don't know if he has a EU passport.
To be honest, I'd even replace Montolivo next summer. Let his contract run out and buy a proper regista.
We splashed 90mil this past summer. If we do that again (January and summer 16 combined) we could definitely get a regista, a CM, a right winger and a CB. If possible, a fullback would be appreciated too. Than I think we can compete for the scudetto.
So 1 quality CM at least this winter. Than after these contracts run out, work on getting a regista, CB and LW in the summer.
Another player playingr crazy good football for Shaktar right now is Teixeira. He's scored 22 goals this season for them. I've seen him many times before and I've watched them in the CL twice this season....he would be a great purchase. As a matter of fact I'd prefer him to Vazquez for the role you are talking about Dev. Teixeira is a lot more explosive and just more of a difficult player to deal with imo.
A midfielder is a MUST. Kucka and Poli should not be starters here. I know Poli is not this year and we've seen an improvement already. The same needs to be done with Kucka. We need to find a quality CM this winter if we want to compete for that 3rd spot. Not many quality ones will be available in January. Banega's contract expires in June so he might be an option and at a cut price at that too. Problem is I don't know if he has a EU passport.
To be honest, I'd even replace Montolivo next summer. Let his contract run out and buy a proper regista.
We splashed 90mil this past summer. If we do that again (January and summer 16 combined) we could definitely get a regista, a CM, a right winger and a CB. If possible, a fullback would be appreciated too. Than I think we can compete for the scudetto.
So 1 quality CM at least this winter. Than after these contracts run out, work on getting a regista, CB and LW in the summer.