06-12-2012, 12:27 PM
(06-12-2012, 09:07 AM)Kastriot Wrote:(06-12-2012, 08:50 AM)Revolver Wrote: We will never buy unless we sell, as simple as that. Unfortunately, we have became the club that must sell their best players.
If we are going to follow the good examples, like when Juve sold Zidane to buy Nedved, Thuram and Buffon, than I'm for it - sell T. Silva for 50M.
And please don't give that crap about captain and a leader. T. Silva is NOT a leader and never will be. He's a great defender, and a great player, indeed, but ne's not a leader. Baresi was a leader, Maldini was a leader, Gattuso was a leader, sincerly how many of you see any of those in T. Silva? I really don't see it. The leader should fire his team up when things are not right, and honestly I'm not even sure T. Silva can fire himself up in those situations let alone the whole team.
He is the leader to be. Just to be considered leader by the fans among this group of players in a team like Milan after only 2.5 years of playing is a proof enough.
If you need more practical proof. Just rewind the tape this season the day before we Tiago Silva was injured,and what positions were we? and what happened after that.
Revolver,dont underestimate a player just because of the lack of success of the entire team. Baresi was a leader with the best players in the world at the time. Malidni was a leader with you know what players. Tiagos time should come now, if the mgm properly invests.
One more thing. Ibra and we know what character he is ( the most egocentric player around), says if Thiago goes I will go too. That paints the picture of how important he is to the team.
Ok, I was a little harsh perhaps, but I don't underestimating him. Let me explain...
When T. Silva was bought, in his first year in Milan, many people here were saying like "he's new Maldini", while I was saying "wait, no he's not new Maldini, hell this guy has a perspective to be even better than Maldini, he will be new Baresi". And really, while Maldini was a brilliant defender, he was never that good to be able to win almost 90% of the balls without even sliding; Baresi was able to do that, and Silva is able to do that.
While he's the top defender in the game by a mile now, Silva still has to travel a long road to be as good as Maldini in his prime, let alone Baresi.
But one thing I'm sure of is that he'll never be a leader like those two. He simply isn't that. I've been watching some Milan matches from late 80's and early 90's lately, and how determined and how influental Maldini was even when he was in early 20's... Silva will not be even close to that, ever.
That doesn't mean I'm underestimating him; for example, Nesta was the best defender I've ever seen, technically even better than Baresi imo, but he was never a leader.