Summer mercato 2012

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http://www.goal.com/en/news/596/exclusiv...o-ac-milan

What do you guys think about this? If possible, it'd be amazing, imho. Sneijder is a PERFECT fit for trequartista role in Milan: he has movement, he's not lazy to come back, brilliant vision... Imagine, Montolivo regista, Boateng and Nocerino/Strootman on the sides and Sneijder trequartista. Wow.

That would solve multiple problems: Montolivo could play regista without problems because he'd have two runners on his sides, and Sneijder's vision would mean that we could play a REAL striker beside Ibrahimovic, say Pato, or even consider playing another 'static' striker like Dzeko.

I was a big fan of Sneijder at Ajax (always rated him higher than Van Der Vaart), though stopped following him at Real. At Inter he became the player I had hoped he would be and in that regard, if he does sign it would have massive benefits for us (I can see us using him slightly deeper like Holland, with the shuttlers overlapping).

I'm not a huge fan of his attitude though and I really don't think this transfer will happen anyway, unless Inter go nuts.

Man, do you really and honestly think that Mascherano is a better defender than Mexes?

I myself don't think Mexes is great, his big mistake was a start of our CL exit this year, and if it wasn't for his mistake Barca would hardly scored, as in first game (when Mexes was GREAT imo), but tell me the name of a player we can get for 10-15 M that's better than him?

Mexes is not great defender, but his very good imo, except that big mistake against Barca, he's been very good. I didn't forget his mistake against Fiorentina but it could happen to anyone, T. Silva made more awful mistake against Arsenal.

Not to say Mascherano is a better defender overall than Mexes, but he has some qualities which are certainly more beneficial. His reading of the game is better and especially his passing is excellent. In a similar way that we rely on Thiago Silva to pass the ball and start attacking moves in our system, Barca often go to Mascherano who can really pick some great passes from deep (Pique's not half bad in this regard either).