Summer Mercato 2011

[GeoTav]

Coentrão just scored 3 goals last season and 10 assists. (in 45 games just 3 goals, he scores one goals each 15 games) His scoring rate is low. this is why if we sign him, we had better to use him at FB not at midfield.

if we lose Coentrão, What about Evra? he can leave United next season. maybe another name? Cissokho?

We've talked too much about Coentrão so I just tried to "play down" this player a bit. Good LBs are rare nowadays, that means the value becomes too high and not every team possesses or does all things to possess one.

The kind of player I want at LB is someone like Chiellini, athletic, good at defense and tough enough to take any challenge, own field or advance. Because our LCMs are technical & tactical players like Pirlo, Urby or Merkel, they need protection. So I prefer Criscito to Coentrão or Bale.

IMO, the utmost priority is a super ACM, we'll watch the progress of Vila until the end of this season to see how much we need a new & expensive LB.

No French LB please !!
Evra and Cissokho should be forgotten !!

Let's take a look in Italy and Portugal/South America (how do the Uruguayan LB perform ? In Porto I think ?) ... No other country is known to have good fullbacks, except Ramos in Spain but he is maybe a bit too dirty to play in our club for moment. Just imagine Sergio Ramos in our last game against Tottenham, we could have had a direct red card to Ramos who would have been added to the mad guy (Gattuso) and the crazy tackler (Flamini) !!

Actually, having Criscito could allow Abate to improve a lot on his right side ... Why ? What is the link ? Antonini is the weak part of our defence, by replacing him by Criscito, our left side would be very solid, and as he would tend to stay behind, in some moments, it could allow Abate to forget the defensive work as it would be like if we had 3 CB behind !! Abate would improve by pushing forward, and our team would be better overall as there would be one extra player moving.