I think our problem is that we keep making mistakes. Bacca is a good player, but there should've been a reason he came to us, and didn't have offers from every other big club in Europe. Plus, if we were successful getting Jackson Martinez we wouldn't have got Bacca anyways.
I'm not saying he was a complete mistake, he's a good striker but terribly one footed. I don't doubt that he could still score goals now and in the future, but what I do think is that he has a very low ceiling given his one-footedness. I'm no advocate for Balotelli's move, but if we can get him on form and hopefully have Menez and Balotelli work well up front together, that's our best bet. Adriano is an off the bench player who reminds me of the Boriellos and Destros of the world, and Cerci/Honda are not Milan players. Bonaventura has been outstanding, and is proving to be our only consistently good player with Romagnoli.
I would definitely try to buy Benatia Jay, that's a great idea and he doesn't player much you're right. He'd be the perfect partner with Romagnoli, and I still have regrets that we didn't buy him back at Udinese where he always impressed me. Bayern has Badstuber, Benatia, Boateng and Martinez as CBS though so I don't think they'd let Benatia go without a reasonable replacement.
In midfield, I'm not optimistic that Witsel will solve all our problems. He's definitely an upgrade to what we have, and he's been great for Zenit this season but Zenit topped their group and are still in CL. I don't think he'll want to leave in January.
For the RW, Iturbe is an interesting option for sure. Roma has never been the type of club to sell cheap though, they always try to get their money back and when they sell their players they really know how to do business. Apparently they ask 60mln for Pjanic, sad that we let Ibra and Silva go combined for a fee around there lol. We paid for Romagnoli and Bertolacci just 15-20m shy of what we let those two go for. This is poor business, we don't capitalize when the time is right. If we were smart we'd sell our players for higher prices when its time and we'd reinvest properly. For example, look at clubs in difficulty like Chelsea or whatnot and try to steal someone off them IDK. It's not my job, but Galliani certainly isnt doing it well enough.
My dream would be to see Lucas at RW for us.
I'm not saying he was a complete mistake, he's a good striker but terribly one footed. I don't doubt that he could still score goals now and in the future, but what I do think is that he has a very low ceiling given his one-footedness. I'm no advocate for Balotelli's move, but if we can get him on form and hopefully have Menez and Balotelli work well up front together, that's our best bet. Adriano is an off the bench player who reminds me of the Boriellos and Destros of the world, and Cerci/Honda are not Milan players. Bonaventura has been outstanding, and is proving to be our only consistently good player with Romagnoli.
I would definitely try to buy Benatia Jay, that's a great idea and he doesn't player much you're right. He'd be the perfect partner with Romagnoli, and I still have regrets that we didn't buy him back at Udinese where he always impressed me. Bayern has Badstuber, Benatia, Boateng and Martinez as CBS though so I don't think they'd let Benatia go without a reasonable replacement.
In midfield, I'm not optimistic that Witsel will solve all our problems. He's definitely an upgrade to what we have, and he's been great for Zenit this season but Zenit topped their group and are still in CL. I don't think he'll want to leave in January.
For the RW, Iturbe is an interesting option for sure. Roma has never been the type of club to sell cheap though, they always try to get their money back and when they sell their players they really know how to do business. Apparently they ask 60mln for Pjanic, sad that we let Ibra and Silva go combined for a fee around there lol. We paid for Romagnoli and Bertolacci just 15-20m shy of what we let those two go for. This is poor business, we don't capitalize when the time is right. If we were smart we'd sell our players for higher prices when its time and we'd reinvest properly. For example, look at clubs in difficulty like Chelsea or whatnot and try to steal someone off them IDK. It's not my job, but Galliani certainly isnt doing it well enough.
My dream would be to see Lucas at RW for us.