Regarding this, I think you're right in some ways because Amauri can take the ball down, and we don't have particularly good ball players out there. I'd like to see Trez play with the starting players as well though, and allow Krasic, Diego, Aquilani, Marchisio, Motta etc send in some balls for him.
But the same happens every pre season with all the posts complaining that he hasn't touched the ball etc, and it's really boring because they never complain when he scores important goals in competitive matches.