we needed a top marchisio who could take on the barca midfielders. prime marchisio was a pretty relentless tackler, good in duels, with great anticipation, and also way better with the ball than any of our current squad players. too bad that currently he's out of form, so allegri turned to rincon.
i get max's choice, it's clear that physically claudio is not (yet) the player he used to be.