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Lol! It can be effective, but you really need the right players to pull it off. Possibly more so than a number of other formations.

Exactly. The biggest weakness of the 4-4-2 (which is why it's outdated) is the counter attack. When the team presses up using the wingers and CMs as support, a quick break will catch the team with its pants down each and every time, ESPECIALLY when you have a defence like Juve's. Del Neri has to...

This touches on a point I've been wanting to bring up. I don't think Del Neri's 4-4-2 is going to work with this team given the players available. The central midfielders require different attributes, mainly consistency and tactical solidity (Sissoko?!), and the back line requires compactness...

This defence will be gang raped by any good team. I don't even want to think about what Tevez and company will do. What's worse is that after the game I saw the same hung heads and expressions as last season...

I think not spending adequate time or thought rebuilding the defence during the transfer window will be our major flaw this season. It shows quite clearly. Nothing to do with gelling, the talent and experience at the back simply just isn't there. Sampdoria have a talented attack, but I dread to...

Another good display from Seba. Hit the post with one freekick, scored with an even more difficult one. Well done, Marotta.

Haha that's true. I'm trying to inject a bit of optimism before agreeing with all the doomsday posters a few weeks down the road!

And so it begins. We shouldn't have spent money on a new stadium, but used it to build a giant hospital to house the team instead.

Whoooa, negative much? 3-0 to Juve and then we'll all come here and talk about how awesome Marotta and Del Neri are! :lol:

I think Marotta could have done a bit better, but given the situation and the fact that few of us know the real financial considerations, I'm willing to reserve judgement for a while. The Trezeguet issue doesn't surprise me. If it's true that his heart was set on moving to Alicante because of...

That's not as bad as I had previously thought. I think I'll wait for at least 5 more games to see how these players perform before I decide to throw this team under the proverbial bus.

I couldn't agree more. There has been a serious lack of patience in the rebuilding process, which has led to less than ideal acquisitions. Instead of starting from scratch and finding talent for acceptable prices and making them champions (Davids and Zidane, anyone?) we've spent an enormous...

Finally, found a place I can rant! I can't do anything but echo the sentiments of most users on this forum. I watched the Bari game. It was worrying. I thought we would use this year to start rebuilding the foundations in a clever way by trimming some players from the squad and adding a few...