Guys, please. Pirlo staying means we will START games with him.
Yeah, let a 37 year old play 90 mins at the heart of our team and be the focal point to start our plays . Great idea
Of course we will start SOME games with him. Especially league games. I doubt he'll play 90 minutes of too many of them, not with the options we already have, and have brought in. Also, he's 36 y/o until May 2016.
Khedira will get a lot of minutes. Sturaro will get more minutes. How much will Pereyra play? What will the new formation be if Tevez stays, and we've already added Dybala? None of us can say right now, because Allegri probably has a relatively vague idea of how things will look himself. He needs to get all of the pieces together in camp, and find out for himself what he thinks will work best.
Over the course of the season, I think Max will do the right thing with Andrea. Sure he's played Andrea 90 minutes in a CL Final when he shouldn't have. He's also been the guy who benched Andrea on occasion, and fielded him out of position at Milan. Let's just wait and see.
I do believe that Andrea still has a lot to offer the group, even if he's not playing very often. Like Morata said, from a guy like Pirlo one can even learn things like how to correctly put on their boots
