Now with Zaza deal off and Cuadrado back, and considering the realistic exchange of Marchetti for Neto (hopefully Neto goes on loan, or we get some money out of this), our squad looks like:
GKs (3): Buffon, Marchetti, Audero;
RBs (2): Alves, Licht
LBs (2): Sandro, Evra
CBs (5): Bonucci, Barzagli, Chiellini, Benatia, Rugani
CMs (7): Marchisio, Pjanic, Khedira, Asamoah, Lemina, Sturaro, Hernanes
Forwards (6): Dybala, Higuain, Mandzukic, Pjaca, Cuadrado, Zaza
Transfer spending (detracting only Pogba comissions, which were abnormal): 161M [10M (Lemina) + 90M (Higuain) + 30M (Pjanic) + 23M (Pjaca) + 5M (Cuadrado loan) + 3M (Benatia loan)] - 134M [around 80M (Pogba) + 30M Morata + Pereyra (13M) + Isla (4M) + Magnusson (2.5M) + 1.5M (Buchel) + 1M (Gabriel) + 1M (Fiorillo) + 1M (Schiavone) = 27M net spending on fees.
Requirements to register for Serie A is 8 player grown in Italy + 4 homegrown in club or U21, of which one player could count for both, right? Like Marchisio for example.
This is a squad of 25 players;
10 grown in Italy (including Marchisio, Rugani and Audero)
2 homegrown in club (Marchisio + Audero who is also a U21)
2 U21 (Rugani + Pjaca), acheiveing the requirements to register all 25 in Serie A. In Europe one or two of these guys would be cut, I guess.
So as it is, we can register these 25 guys in Serie A, but we clearly have a need for a midfielder.
So it looks like it's either Zaza or Hernanes who will be forced to leave, so a CM is signed. Without selling anyone, and considering we normally spend 50/60M in fees in the market, we have right now around 20M for the new signing. If Zaza leaves, make it around 40M. Hernanes, if he is forced to go, will be for free.
But with the addition of Cuadrado, we are on CM from being good to go. A good CM it is, not a shit one like Matuidi. We need a true DM or a creative CM. I still think we need another creative player in the squad. In the midfield, only Pjanic is creative. If he's injured, we're fucked, we'll become too robotic.
So I'd like Dahoud or stg like that.