Well, I define Ballack as a true middie, tackles well, shoots well from distance, great in the air, good work effort.
He played behind the strikers, but he came deep to get the ball and worked out of the left flank a lot of the time.
Magath has watched some players in preseason, and has decided that Santa Cruz will fill the attacking gap behind the strikers that Ballack left, he played there at the end of the season a couple times when Ballack was left out of the squad injured. The big problem will be having Demichelis step up his destroyer role and actually pushing into the midfield rather than just sitting back and chilling and filling Lucio's position when he runs up.
But i think we need to grap someone like a Pirlo, a deep lying Ballack.
We did aquire Julio Dos Santos last january, and he did really well for the reserves, and plays like Ballack, a true center mid.
That is who we will have to watch. Big D-Santa.