Summer mercato 2012

[ZvonimirBoban]

Xudong, normally I agree with your posts but another thing I have to critisize on your post, not just because I'm italian is that you said we're missing any "classy" striker.. Maybe, but Di Natale is a proven 20+ goal/season scorer, he's been unlucky not to score more in this euro, Balotelli once he matures and stops being a child and is more intelligent infront of net will be one of the biggest threats in the world to any defense, where we also have borini,giovinco who are unlimited potentials, giovinco is just a matter of having a break through season, i think he'll proove his value with juventus over the next couple of seasons. Borini will be great for us, where in the future we could also look forward to ELS upfront, not to mention cassano as well who i don't consider a striker but rather a play maker. So lacking a classy striker isn't a problem here, you should've rephrased that to lacking a little bit of luck with all our opportunities and experience upfront because if you speak of class, our attack is full of it.

Maybe what xudong means is when we compare Borini, Di Natale, Balotelli, Diamanti with Zola, Casiraghi, Baggio, Signori (mid 90s) or Inzaghi, Totti, Del Piero, Vieri (2000s)... yeah, I'm sure you get my point.

I think it's safe to say a midfield trio of de rossi pirlo marchisio is one of if not THE best in the world, if you compare to spain .. de rossi>busquets pirlo>xavi marchisio<iniesta.. they win one out of 3 if that were their midfield trio (just using there best players as an example) in defence we don't have the biggest names that we've had down the years such as zambrotta cannavaro or baresi maldini but as a unit they defend very well, ontop of this I'd like to say Buffon is definitely still one of if not the best GK in the world even at his old age.

I'd pick current Germany midfield over Italy at any day... Netherlands are also good, Brazil, Argentina comparable. Defense and 'keeper, I think it's safe to agree with you.