Summer Mercato 2011

[brasileiro]

I got to agree with Brasiliero's general sentiment. Proven, unproven is hard to gauge. This is where you need scouts who can watch a player and tell if they are big club players, or just mid table players taking advantage of weak leagues (ex. Thiago Silva, Hernanes, Kaka performed in libertadores v. top clubs with players capable of playing in serie a/la liga/epl etc., but just as easily you could see someone with same 'stats' as kaka but he scored all his goals v. teams with horrible players). That's why you can't just look at numbers persay and say 'oh he's scored 25 goals in brazil, he's a big prospect or dismiss him as being 'just in south america'.

It's just the same with smaller european leagues. I could tell you from ucl performances, krasic and suarez are VERY capable of big club play. But many dismissed them as not proven, not worth price.

Lamela for one was mediocre v. boca, but in fall, he was motm v. boca. He's had many other motm performances v. other big clubs like indepnmdiente, racing etc. The thing with him is, when you see him, the talent is clear but he's nowhere near Pastore (who led hurcan 2 points from title and scored big goals v. every one). Then again Pastore was a full year older.... So the gamble on his price is hard to say. I like Lamela could be world class, but it's a lot to gamble just yet.

For me, I was SOLD on Ganso after his performance v. Sao Paolo last spring. When they had 9 men, it was truly impressive. Leadership + his play. But at same time, knee surgery + another injury, that's a HUGE risk. Certainly not worth 20+ mil to me anymore.

Fair post, Ca...

Just want to say that this actual Ganso injure is no reason for worries. It´s a simple injure of someone that didn´t have a proper preseason and was playing two times per week. No player can sustain that level of effort without a muscle injure...

Btw, since he became a pro, the knee injure was the first big one. He played for 2 years without any and there´s no way Ganso can be label injure prone right now.

Imo it´s up to Milan doctors to give the green or red light...