Summer mercato 2012

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galliani has said they may be able to seal bojan deal today. negotiations are going on


Also, diakite from lazio i dont really follow the guy but he said he wants a move to a big club like milan

I just read about Bojan too. For me much better to get him than Kaka. A young player (22) with big potential, even if until now he's yet to reach it. Should be much cheaper than getting Kaka again and he's less likely to have injury problems. It'll be interesting to see how he gets on with Abbiati though

another defensive midfielder? my god, we've already got Ambrosini, Flamini, Traore and more unskilled mids like Nocerino and Constant. We need creativity in midfield, and a goalscorer as we cant count on Pato, so we've only got 1 real striker left, Pazzini.

I dont ever want so see a 3 man midfield with 3 weak offensive players again, Allegri style.

We only have one defensive/holding midfielder and that's Ambro, who isn't a capable starter anymore. The rest like Flamini, Traore, Constant, Nocerino and even Montolivo are shuttlers.

Part of this is backed up by our stats against Sampdoria. Nocerino and Flamini both started alongside Montolivo. Nocerino managed 1 interception all match and no tackles. Flamini managed 1 interception and no tackles. Montolivo had 4 tackles and 3 interceptions. If you look at the attack, of the front 3 Boateng was the only one to succeed in making any tackles or interceptions (1 of each). I'm only judging those who started, not subs here.

Point is, we're only getting the ball back once the opponents are reaching our defence. Montolivo is kind of like the first line of defence, because those in front of him are inept when it comes to winning the ball back early. On top of this, Montolivo's not even a natural DM, he's a shuttler or regista or a creative outlet. This is why we need a holding midfielder, as we need to push Montolivo higher. This would be so that he can also be allowed to play closer to the attack rather than having the disconnect we had vs Samp (just need to see the number of long passes he made to prove this). Defensively, it means we have someone who works hard to press high, in addition to someone who offers security in front of the defence.

It's all well and good having creative players, but they aren't going to do anything if we don't disrupt an opponents game. We saw this against Samp, who as I said were reaching Montolivo in front of the defence before we really did anything to stop them. By the time we won the ball back and made any transition into attack, their side would fall back into their box and simply pack us out and it was much more difficult for us as we're then having to pull all our players all the way back into defence and start again going forward, meaning we'd attack in waves rather than with great consistency and pressure.

Edit: I just thought I'd compare these stats to Juve vs Parma. Vidal had 4 tackles, no interceptions. Asamoah 6 tackles, 2 interceptions. Marchisio 3 tackles 3 interceptions and Pirlo, who is often the deepest midfielder 2 tackles, no interceptions. Even Giovinco (2 tackles no interceptions) and Vucinic (1 of each) are more impressive than us. This indicates how Juve are much better pressing opponents than us.