Well, I saw Montero quite a bit but I do admit that my memory is not serving me the way it should. Still, I remember that Montero lost his calm many times. I am sure you also remember some useless fouls from him which did not help us back then to say the least. Being shown a red card always gets a team in serious trouble and he had the privilege to be shown the most in the history of Serie A (again I may be wrong but this is how I recall). Of course, he was a great player nonetheless and we won a lot with him. I, for one loved his game and what he brought to our team.
What about Camo with the fouls and cards he's been making and getting for the last couple of years? In fact, Camo has been just as a headcase as Melo imho and made some really disgusting fouls. Yes, he has been a fantastic player and we won a lot with him, too. Indeed, I love Camo, he is one of my all time favorite footballers.
Just to clarify, I'm not defending Melo's behaviour, it is childish and certainly hurts the team. I actually agree with your point that Melo tends to commit these brainless fouls when it matters loads. He def needs to get his sht together. The points that I'm trying to make: 1. I'm willing to bet that no one would complain this much about Melo's red cards if we won scudettos one after another like we did with Montero. 2. Once again, I may be wrong but I see great potential in Melo if we use him correctly. I'd like him to stay for another year. If he does not improve, I'll just eat my words and be the first to say to sell him. But if he does and helps the team to get better and win in the long run, I won't care a second if he's shown the way to the locker room once or twice a season. I may be alone but I see the latter happening if all goes well.
I never saw Montero show petulance, which Melo does often. The uruguayans vicious streak showed itself in a more manly way. He could make opponents melt purely with a glare...playing against Melo, an opponent could employ the tactic of winding him up, knowing sooner or later he will do something stupid. Winding Montero up, could lead not just to serious injury, but also death. As someone else mentioned above, bearing in mind that montero's main job was to tackle, if he was consistently exploding, he would not have been such a mainstay of the most successful and entertaining Juve teams I have ever seen. I always saw montero as STEEL. Whereas Melo lacks steel in the head. He uses his physical bulk and childishness more than a true Killer Instinct, which Montero had in spades.
Facing the two, indeed, it would be Montero who struck fear into opponents, whereas Melo offers an opportunity to get himself sent off easily.
After seeing him in the world cup, and also reading more of his comments, I would be happy to see Melo leave now, especially if we grab Clichy and some $. The only thing which makes me think twice on that matter is that Prandelli had Melo playing very well, week in week out. And last season we had awful man management. Del Neri and marotta had another player to deal with at Samp, who suffered from extreme petulance and egotism, and they curbed that side of him, allowing his footballing talents to take centre stage...the difference is, to me, even with his stupidity, Cassano was a troubled genius. is Melo the same???? is he truly a diamond in the rough??? Can we, and do we need to risk him staying, when we have marchisio, momo, poulsen to play in the middle????
Buy on AliExpress.com
