Agree with Brandmon. I dont think it is entirely Ciro's fault. He is doing what he can with an already much depleted squad and tonight he really has no options from the bench. Seriously how many games were we able to play with our first team squad so far ? The injuries are just amazing (i blame the medical team and our fitness coach for that and demand that we change them)
About the board... I guess we're still paying for Calciopoli.. the club needed to balance the book after the calciopoli hence hire a more business minded management board rather than what we used to have which is understandable to a certain degree as we had far more serious problem at that time of losing the club. This decision obviously has its ups and downs. While we're able to avoid a financial lapse and stay as one of the healthier club, we are paying for their incompentencies and lack of football knowledge hence the hiring of Secco and the strange group of players that he managed to bring in (andrade, boumsong, tiago, almiron, amauri, grosso etc)
What we really need now is people in the management team who understands the type of football that we're playing and who can identify the players that can fit into our system. Hopefully Bettega can be our solution from now onwards but I think it would not hurt to have another person maybe to fill in our techinal director position (as we have none so far from my recollection).
Given hindsight and a better transfer strategist, we could have identified our problem much sooner.
1) Defense
At the moment, we dont have the defense that is worthy of a club like Juve. Just take a look at our current defense and compare them when we were at our prime. You will understand what I mean.
For goodness sake, when chiellini is out, we have a 35 years old and 33 years old guarding our defense. We starting to become like Milan when we trashed them 6-1 at San Siro with Vierchowod and Baresi at their defense.
Regarding our fullbacks, we need full backs worth filling in as our first team players. Grosso is at his best only good enough for our cover. He is 32 years old and we can not expect to run up and down the field all the time. And please someone, please get a right full back... not caceres (he is not a full back). I can not understand why we're not going for Motta as he is available for loan and can be a solution.
Defense had always been our greatest strength over the years and we simply need to invest more in our defense.
2) Midfield
I think Midfield is the least to our problem at the moment (when healthy). The acquisition of Candreva certainly going to be useful for us. Although, adding someone who can fill in Nedved's spot on the left would be even better if we're going with 442. Otherwise, we are okay, not great, at the moment.
3) Attack
Two words that we need at the moment : Pace and movement. At the moment, our attacks are just to predictable and have no varieties. Given hindsight, I would not buy Amauri given the type of striker we already have in our disposal at that time and used the money instead to focus on the likes of Rossi, Cassano, Pandev or Tevez who can offer us more pace, movement and better keeper of the ball. But again, we have Secco running our business.
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