(04-07-2011, 01:37 PM)abbeyleemania Wrote: Lets remember from our games with Marseille last year, how he stopped Pato with his pace...i have never been a fan of him in the past, as he was not the typee of fullback i like...But Taiwo is fast, strong and use the ball well... He never gives up, good arial ability, atletic...His crossings, long balls and shoots(his powerful shoots are good) are good...Above all there are questions over his defending though its much better than Antonini's...
i'd rather to get Cissokho but Taiwo as free is a good option. Probably we will put Antoninin on sale, cuz he wants to play. We can get some euros from Juventus for him...5-10 m euros would be enough...
Nesta stayed... Mexes is about to come... Gattuso on Russian Radar, Ambro is wanted by Chealse and Tottenham...
Seedorf is wanted by Corinthiras and Tottenham...Pirlo is wanted by both inter and juve...Van Bommel might stay...
Gattuso got a great offer from Russian club, 20 m euros for 3 years is amazing amount...Milan anymore cant offer that amounts and long term contracts to +30 Players...
Honestly, i'd rather to get Taiwo on free instead of spending 18 m euros on Criscito...Criscito is defensively good but offensively he doesnt add much except his dynamism...
Strongly disagree ...
Defensively, Antonini is better than Taiwo. Antonini isn't a defensive monster, he sometimes makes mistakes, but look at Taiwo when he faces a correct opposition on his side, he makes many mistakes, especially positionning mistakes, and while some people will say he can improve that, I'll reply them to take a look at the names of his last coaches: Deschamps who is a good tactician (he even gave the left side to Heinze at some stage of the season), and Gerets who liked to have a strong defence ... If he hasn't improved with these two coaches, why would he improve once in Milan ? I'm maybe wrong, but there are a lot of better options for our left side. Actually, while I think we could get better players than Cissokho, I think Cissokho is better than Taiwo.
About his games against us last year, don't forget he played against a young boy who was learning how to play on the right side almost as a winger, and he actually stopped him just once (but he did it in a way that all of us still remember because it was impressive lol) ... What I mean is that last year, when Marseille played against us, we were in a bad situation (start of the season), and yet, Taiwo wasn't outstanding against out of form players in front of him !!
And I edit my post to add that: he's not that good with the ball, he's not a technically skilled player, he just runs fast, but when the game is slow, he's unable to take the ball and dribble one player, he's only an interesting player going forward when his team counters, which isn't the way Milan plays. Also, he's known to shoot very strongly in the ball, but it's often at the expense of the quality of his shoots and crosses ...
One should not speak ill of the dead.
So stop laughing at Juventus !
So stop laughing at Juventus !
