It's times like this I wish we were owned by someone who would actually spend some money on our weakest link. A sheikh or oligarch would just go out and pay 60 million for a quality midfield acquisition, instead of a stop gap solution.
2 CL Finals in 3 years, the glaring weakness in our team is the CM position, and the best we can do is fucking Matuidi. Absolutely disgusting.
2 CL Finals in 3 years, the glaring weakness in our team is the CM position, and the best we can do is fucking Matuidi. Absolutely disgusting.
I don't think the club even sees it as a priority to get a world class CM. They tried for Matuidi last year and thought he complimented our team. We missed a physical player of considerable stature and experience, regardless of who it was. Sturaro and Rincon are lesser quality players in this kind of mould but they are players we signed.
What happened in the 2nd half of the CL final shouldn't be allowed to dictate transfer policy. It's like food shopping when you are hungry. This top starting DM wasn't a priority for 56/57 games we played, were we all here shouting for this player? It was preferable that we had a strong physical option who was also good. Stewing over the CL final has created a bigger issue. Someone like Matuidi would have been a lot better than what we had for the role, for all the dogshit parts of his game there is a reason we went for that kind of player to go with the type of players we already had, failed, and then tried to rectify it later with Rincon.
I think far more likely considering that right now we have 7 CMs on our books is that we sign either Matuidi for a fair sized fee, or we take a chance on someone less known in the hope they turn into another Vidal kind of signing. I don't watch enough European football to say who, but everyone slightly rated around 22-24 seems to be worth €35m as a starting point. I think we'll spend more of that money on a central defender and a right back.
