Melo is a fucking headcase,HE was one of our weakest links last year QUOTE]
Its strange when I read such completely opposing views to myself, when I assume we have been watching the same games and the same Melo.
Other than Storari last season, Melo was the ONLY player in the squad, who played consistently at a high level. He fucked up in one game. But his disciplinary record was likely not one of the worst in the league, and anyone playing the swashbuckling midfield role is bound to get cards...kicking someone in the face was too much, of course, but i recall zidane performing similarly nasty attacks in his time with us.
Last season, melo was our best player. If you think he was one of our weakest links, how the hell do you judge the rest of the squad????
to make my point clear let me explain,i actually really liked Melo the player but Melo the man...well,we simply could not trust him. Cronios seemed to be making the point that our midfield should be built around him,call em old-fashioned but there is absolutely no way we could have built anything around a man who regularly loses concentration,occasionally attempts to main opponents and often loses complete control of himself.
Melo made 2-3 mistakes in games in a row last season following on from his attempted decapitation of a rival player. he never really recovered and you could see the nervousness in his team-mates,not only because they were playing poorly,but they were not sure at which point this fucking lunatic would snap.......again
put it this way,we all agree that Marchisio is poor,imagine if he had these "brain farts" that Melo had over the last 2 years,do you thunk we would have seen him anywhere near a Juventus jersey ever again?