The new Inter.
As someone said the other week, the wins against City and Genoa are like a sick person taking pain killers to feel better a bit but the actual sickness still there. Marotta is our cancer.
Yeah completely mishandled the "phasing out" of players process. Last season we did not depend much on Pirlo and Marchisio stepped in when Pirlo was out or fatigued. He let Pirlo go and didnt replace him. All we needed to do was to push marchisio permanently in Pirlo's position and buy a player to do what Marchisio did last term which is stepping in when the main distributor is out/fatigued without decreasing the quality of the team and when the main regista is playing he either waits on the bench or plays next to him as box to box. This didn't happen ofcourse we replaced Pirlo by marchisio and didnt get anyone to play marchisio's previous role. The distributor role is the heart beat of the entire midfield/team. We screwed up there and unsurprisingly the whole team lacks cohesion. If marotta didnt find any good distributors on the market then he should have told Pirlo that he would stay at his same role from last season which is in the first 11.
We also were not very dependent on Vidal last season. We replaced him with Khedira and maybe Lemina and staruro which is okay. Its downgrade but any player would be a downgrade on Vidal and as I said he almost didnt feature last season.
We had a big hole in the AM position, this was not filled.
We were extremely dependent on Tevez's work last season. Spending all the cash on a 20 year old that will need five years to ever come close to Tevez's level is retarded. We should have definitely went for someone who is the finished product. If any player that we could have gotten is less than Tevez, then at least we should balance that loss upfront by adding a great AM. We did neither. We went for a kid that suddenly has insane pressure on him to perform at levels he never came close to before and without a midfield supporting him.
Mandzukic is an improvement on Morata and Llorente but again without a midfield he is useless.
Now its upto Pogba, and Dybala to do all the creative work (kids really), without a midfield that can string three passes together. We need another big buying mercato soon where a WC distributor is the highest priority, followed by a WC AM. This is the least we need to get back to last season's quality. Add a WC SS and you get an improvement on last season