Ciro Ferrara (19 Viewers)
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Agreed! You seems to have a lot of knowledge about football. However that type of fast football requires a high level of fitness level and a good understanding between the players, which are the two things that we seem not to have at this moment.
I think Diego was tried there when he was in Porto but he failed. Among the players we currently have, I think Giovinco is the most suitable for the AML. He was very effective when given open space (usually available in the flanks) and his crosses were very good. He was also better in occasionally drifting inside than staying in the middle due to his limited physical strength (can't hold up the ball, easily be bullied by strong DMs, etc). Admittedly even in the flanks he loses balls frequently due to his small size but I saw him traced back well in many occasions.
You got a point about the 4-4-2 though. Actually as i said before I believe that the 4-2-3-1 that you guys praised does work because it is a variation of the 4-4-2 where Diego plays in the hole behind the lone strikers and our two wingers (Gio and Camo) drift inside more often and have more creative roles. And of course the most important point is that it is not as flat as the traditional 4-4-2. That's why I prefered calling it the 4-4-1-1 instead of 4-2-3-1.
The reason for it to work is because we are used to play with the 4-4-2 and because we have the players (Camo, Gio, Momo and Melo) to do well in that formation. But now once we have Alex back, Ciro did not have any clue of how to fit Alex to that formation.
I think Diego was tried there when he was in Porto but he failed. Among the players we currently have, I think Giovinco is the most suitable for the AML. He was very effective when given open space (usually available in the flanks) and his crosses were very good. He was also better in occasionally drifting inside than staying in the middle due to his limited physical strength (can't hold up the ball, easily be bullied by strong DMs, etc). Admittedly even in the flanks he loses balls frequently due to his small size but I saw him traced back well in many occasions.
You got a point about the 4-4-2 though. Actually as i said before I believe that the 4-2-3-1 that you guys praised does work because it is a variation of the 4-4-2 where Diego plays in the hole behind the lone strikers and our two wingers (Gio and Camo) drift inside more often and have more creative roles. And of course the most important point is that it is not as flat as the traditional 4-4-2. That's why I prefered calling it the 4-4-1-1 instead of 4-2-3-1.
The reason for it to work is because we are used to play with the 4-4-2 and because we have the players (Camo, Gio, Momo and Melo) to do well in that formation. But now once we have Alex back, Ciro did not have any clue of how to fit Alex to that formation.
You know, you keep repeating this since the start of the season, to the point it became annoying.
But being annoying, doesn't make you wrong. On the contrary, you're spot on.
Apart from certain moments this season when Giovinco and Camo did fairly well on the wings, the lack of width and the lack of attacking option on the wing has been seriously hurting us.
From a great Nedved and Camo, to an old Nedved, weak Marchionni and regularly injured Camo, it ends with no wing play at all, and it's obviously hurting us, giving much less options to the strikers when we attack.
But being annoying, doesn't make you wrong. On the contrary, you're spot on.
Apart from certain moments this season when Giovinco and Camo did fairly well on the wings, the lack of width and the lack of attacking option on the wing has been seriously hurting us.
From a great Nedved and Camo, to an old Nedved, weak Marchionni and regularly injured Camo, it ends with no wing play at all, and it's obviously hurting us, giving much less options to the strikers when we attack.
Nani
If a Serbian wins over me, then he has to be special (like Dusan
). This guy is special.If he comes to Juve ALL OF YOU will love him. I'm betting on that right now.
He's 25. If some smart ass wants to say that he should have already made a name for himself earlier if he was that good, i'll give you two names: Vidic and Arshavin.
The Russians pay their players extremely well and since these players are out of the radar of the normal viewers and the big European clubs (unless it's some WC or EURO), it's hard to sell them for huge money and teams rarely offer them much higher wages than what the Russians already pay.
Krasic has always been top quality. When he was leading his u-21 team to medals in the last 2-3 u-21 euros, when he played for Serbia, when he played for CSKA (won UEFA Cup too, but was only 20 and still not a regular). Now that he finally got his chance at the top CL level, where everyone could watch him, teams and fans finally noticed him and what he can do.
We'll never buy him.
He made it clear that he wants something "new". The Russian league ends this weekend iirc and teams will try to get him in January, even though his contract expires in 2 years. EPL clubs are strong favs to get him though.
Edit: Off topic
I thought it's the Wish List thread.
