05-12-2011, 03:56 PM
I think a turning point for Pato's career, injuries aside, was Leonardo. As much as I love Leo as a person, though I have questioned the Inter move, and his talent scouting I must say he hasn't impressed me much as a coach. Tactically speaking he didn't develop Pato, who we saw growing stronger and stronger with Ancelotti. We also have to consider that he was played completely out of position under Leo (I'm not really blaming Leo for this since we really didn't have much of a choice then). With Allegri we have seen him grow, but nonetheless he was stopped by injury throughout the season and supposedly there was some locker room disharmonies with Ibra. Things will get brighter for him with time.
Think how much better his game would be with a two creative players in the midfield, one of which a proper trequartista, and dynamic box-to-box midfielders? It would improve immensely. Any player can do well with that kind of midfield, but a player of Pato's potential would completely destroy our adversaries.
Enough about Pato; let's discuss some mercato… A problem I see it is that we will probably only get 2 "starters" this mercato, while we would probably need 3 to fully rejuvenate and immortalize our midfield. This might be a good thing though, since replacing ¾ of a midfield is a recipe for disaster no matter how great the players are (just look at Real).
So we get a proper trequartista, that should be a priority. The options there are Ganso, Lamela, Pastore, Hernanes maybe Honda. Then a creative midfielder, who however has some defensive ability. In the future I could see Merkel play that role. Right now we have Seedorf/Pirlo, but one or both might leave. I'm not sure who we could place there.
We need two mediani for our game to work. As things stand right now we have Bommel/Ambro and Flamini/Gattuso. These guys are great when they have an on game, but we cannot really rely on them for the future (except the frenchman). Some of them will probably leave this summer. An interesting replacement would
So as you can see the only player I would leave in our "ideal" midfield is Boateng. I'd probably place him in one of the midfield trio of course (if we get a proper CAM). Other than that our vacancies are:
-------------------- Trequartista
BOATENG ------- Mediano------Creative player
Think how much better his game would be with a two creative players in the midfield, one of which a proper trequartista, and dynamic box-to-box midfielders? It would improve immensely. Any player can do well with that kind of midfield, but a player of Pato's potential would completely destroy our adversaries.
Enough about Pato; let's discuss some mercato… A problem I see it is that we will probably only get 2 "starters" this mercato, while we would probably need 3 to fully rejuvenate and immortalize our midfield. This might be a good thing though, since replacing ¾ of a midfield is a recipe for disaster no matter how great the players are (just look at Real).
So we get a proper trequartista, that should be a priority. The options there are Ganso, Lamela, Pastore, Hernanes maybe Honda. Then a creative midfielder, who however has some defensive ability. In the future I could see Merkel play that role. Right now we have Seedorf/Pirlo, but one or both might leave. I'm not sure who we could place there.
We need two mediani for our game to work. As things stand right now we have Bommel/Ambro and Flamini/Gattuso. These guys are great when they have an on game, but we cannot really rely on them for the future (except the frenchman). Some of them will probably leave this summer. An interesting replacement would
So as you can see the only player I would leave in our "ideal" midfield is Boateng. I'd probably place him in one of the midfield trio of course (if we get a proper CAM). Other than that our vacancies are:
-------------------- Trequartista
BOATENG ------- Mediano------Creative player
