Summer Mercato 2011

[Ca Rossonero]

I still can't understand why people want Bale as left CM. Anyone can give an example (if possible some) a winger plays well regularly in the left/right CM and used as the play-maker of the team? Bale is expensive and he is not the type of player we really need.

I think you are overthinking the formation. Allegri's midfield is about fluidity and movement of personnel. Look at main midfields we used this year? It's not about defined positions aside from Anchor, it's about intelligently moving. When Left side pushes central, AM goes left/right, the RCM drops back. It's why this 4-3-1-2 was a lot better than last few we used.

Besides allegri realizes if we r giving a proper #10, players like cesc or ganso who aren't very quick, he knows pace and movement are needed in the midfield so they aren't marked out. Do you remember jube's rigid 4-3-1-2 last year? Diego is a good player but f, if unless you have spectacular movement, it's easy to mark out the CAM in the modern game if your cm's don't push up and your forwards cannot drop back (and that was case w/ iaquinta/amauri and marcisio, melo, sissoko).

Allegri wants 4 midfields who push up and attack together and drop back together. This is why he loves Hamsik, Schweinstagger etc. Bale would qualify as well even if he's more of a winger. Don't focus on that. Focus on fact Bale is hard working, technically skilled, good in posession, etc. All that said, I'd clearly prioritize a player like Cesc/Ganso over Bale. If we can get Bale as well, woo hoo!

To me:

------Cesc----------
Bale--MVB--FlamBoa

Good midfield. In many ways it'd take 4-2-2-2 or 4-4-2 or 4-1-3-2 looks in attack depending. And considering our forwards go wide a lot, even more. You'd see Cesc dropping to pure CM w/ Boateng and Bale pushing a lot

I'm just gonna be honest, I love Allegri's tactics. I liked them in 2008-9 at Cagliari. It was the natural progression of 4-3-1-2. It's just a fluid 4-4-2 w/o defined midfield positioning as much as a core team concept of roles and understanding where your teammates are and where you move.

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we still should go after bastian as a huge buy , i cant believe we're not interested in andreas beck shame , witsel wouldnt be bad another young player , what about montolivo ? , marchisio ? , nothing super shame , let inter get fabregas , you'll see the system leonardo is a no go for him , fabregas is at his maxx in a 442 , or 451 , 433 , he's not david silva or andres iniesta , he cant' play as a center attacking mid , trust me .....

I agree, but that's why Allegri wants hard working side CM's who attack and defend. The 4-3-1-2 is a dying formation. The classic 4-3-1-2 Trequartista is a dead position. That's why you need movement around him.

Let me say this... if we ONLY sign Cesc, and go w/ midfield of flamini, mvb, van bommel... with robinho/pato is it bad? No. Think about it...

Robinho naturally floats left, Boateng pushes up right our team would look like this in attack:

----------Pato
Robinho--Cesc--Boateng
--------MVB-Flams


This is a big reason i love Robinho, he provides incredibly intelligent movement and workrate, and is hard to mark out of a game. He takes up many different positions dragging defenders everywhere and he's amazing in posession. For a forward to complete 86% of his passes and he has no strength on ball? It's amazing. you could make case he holds it up better than Zlatan, even though they do it in COMPLETELY different ways.

Otherwise if we didn't have this ability you'd have to use Cesc in pure CM and have forwards ahead of him. You know like a 4-3-3 (we could sign another winger for ex.)

But yes, if it was up to me, I think I might prefer David Silva to Cesc. Silva is just sooo silky smooth with an amazing touch. Or maybe I'm still quivering after he tore the USA apart. It was like watching a professional play in park with amateurs.

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Only 2 players are the ones i want for the LCM position: Fabregas and Bale. One ofthem, hopefully, will end up in Milan. Different caracteristics, yes, but both bring extra instant quality.

Ganso will arrive and that is a BIG +, as he is not considered as the big new player etc., etc. But, in my oppinion, he'll add much more impact then people expect him to do.

And as Thiago said: yes, MExes and Taiwo are good, but the best signing in NESTA.

For PERFECT mercato I'd sign Cesc and Ganso, creatin a perfect mix in our team, which will add Milan's famous class and technique into tactical discipline.

see I just don't know how ganso and cesc will fit. They could, but both wanna be central brain of a team. Neither of them have the iniesta/seedorf quality to compliment the xavi/pirlo type player (if you follow). For this reason I think Hamsik + 1 of the Cesc/Ganso would make us infinitely better while providing us with world class technical midfield.


Than again, Cesc and Ganso are both brilliant players and intelligent players, so who am I to say they can't inevitably adapt.


I love this, love midfield., by far my favorite node of the team. I miss having a young pirlo, seedorf, savicevic, boban, albertini etc. I'm excited to see us pursuing next gen