We are going to keep Poulsen, he is determined to stay and he will.
Our priorities are to offload the dead wood and get as better starters as we can.
Poulsen is an average sub, he had an average year, i dont think that there are any chances to sell him.
Remember how much we struggled to sell Tiago and he is still here, what makes you think, that we will offload Poulsen first, he is at least marginally useful and less harmful...
Unfortunately, Canna is here to stay for at least 2 seasons. Unfortunately, after the Andrade acquisition, our board has decided not to use nay kind of funds to improve our defense.
They are trying to evade that issue with cheap/free quick fixes.
If they were determined to invest on our defense, Canna wouldnt be here.
We are already crowded with similar solutions and the logical move would be to add someone like Felipe/Zapata now. We already have two aged/exp CBs for depth and we need a young prospect for becoming a future partner to Chiellini and also able to offer his services right away.
But not someone as young as Ariaudo or even Kjaer.
Considering our multiple starter issues, if we can spare more cash, we will invest it on starters, rather than sealing deals like the ones you suggested.
Smart suggestion, but our board barely sees right in front of their noses,
it is unrealistic to ask from them such an insight...
I think that the acquisition of a great "champion", like Canna, will be used as an excuse to skip any other investment in our CBs department for the next two years.
This respects our strategy, of spending all the available funds, for fancy SSs and above all keep a high/decent percentage of Italian blood and NT players... Our faith on Legro and Molinaro just shows that.
We are actively trying to help them reach NT status, like this is going to help us.
It is obviously an attempt to appease the fans, that we have a world class defense...
Our priority is too build an offensive team with fancy and expensive dribblers,
not a solid team, able to compete at the highest levels.
I m still waiting to see one action to this direction for the past 2-3 years.
The CM/DM we got actually meant to mask our defensive issues.
Our plan so far was to build a team of:
-A WC keeper able to repair our defense mistakes
-A cheap defense, build around the best asset of the previous board, Chiellini.
The rest of the slots should be filled with a large quantity of cheap players
and hopefully some of them will happen to do a decent job...
If they are Italian, like Molinaro, thats even better. The requirement is too have a low budget for both salaries and transfer fees. (Grygera, Mellberg, Canna, Moli)
-A defensive minded midfield, able to create first line of defense and cover up, for our weak defense.
Thats kind of contradictory. Gigli wants more spectacle, that would bring more ppl to our new tiny stadium and would bring more income. He wants an offensive minded midfield!! And let all the defensive duties to Sissoko.
Our previous coach wanted more DMs and defensive wingers, to cover up for our defensive lapses. Because he was afraid to win some and lose some.
He would prefer to draw them all...
Gigli would rather see us conceding 3 goals and score 4, its all or nothing for him.
And if CR was afraid to field an AMF and fancy Amauri and fancy Giovinco or even better Cassano at the same squad/time.
He would be replaced by another pawn who would obey without question (Conte)
-And fancy and expensive forwards, they better be Italians (Cassano/Quaq)or fancy Brazilians (who might actually become Italians too in the future)
no need to score every time (Finishers like Treze) if they cant dribble,
just a fancy goal every now and then and a lot of flicks/game would be suffice,
that would help us with the spectacle and raising more funds/tickets...
To keep the interest high, each year, we will be buying one new and expensive forward anyway.
The largest part of our budget should be spent on fancy forwards or at least fancy AMFs. They bring spectacle and income. Titles are not our concern, the promises of titles should be enough...
All for the spectacle!! Too bad we have to play with defenders too, Buffon should be enough. He ought to concede less that the opposition keeper, let alone when having help from NT Legro, the beast Sissoko and hard workers Grygera+Molinaro. Anyway just to be sure, we took Canna...
And our expensive/fancy attackers should score more goals than the cheap forwards of the opposition.
Hopefully our mentality will change, starting from this year.
We have invested enough to forwards and central midfielders. Its time to fix our defense and upkeep our broken wings, if we are about to use them again...