So you consider them prolific finishers?
These two players, can, at least on theory create chances on their own, Iaq has a good header and can be played as a target man and can be considered a striker, but def not a top class finisher. Amauri scores once/season, he is strong and can dribble, but scoring was never his best attribute.
Toni is the only real finisher we have and only Matri has the characteristics that could be considered as a possible finisher as well.
I would prefer clear roles for our forwards, most of our forwards have dribbling abilities, but fail at finishing.
I believe we need a goal poacher the most, someone who can score more than 20 goals/season, not yet another fancy dribbler.
Therefore i believe that the signings of Iaq, Amauri, Quaq and Vucinic are a mistake.
I m still undecided on Matri, because he is still young and hopefully he will focus on scoring, as long as we have so many dribblers around him...
So how much did we paid in your opinion?
the reported fee is 15.5mil and a price cuts to some of our players.
Again and again you are missing the point, i said that considering the transfers made so far, this mercato sucks.
If things change, i will also change my opinion, i those 2 players come, then i can agree with you, but what if they dont, are you pleased with what we have done, considering those two players were sacrificed to buy the 2-4 uneeded ones?
You claim it is not horrible atm, because you are convinced that we are going to buy 2 more players, you are the one who is basing his judgement on an assumptions, i judge it, as i see it!
I also have the courage to state my opinion, before it actual happens.
For ex, on giacherini, i ve stated that it would be a mistake of epic proportion to priorise a mediocre forward, as a 8th option, over a decent RW starter or a decent CB.
Failing to sign a decent LW, just because we have wasted resources and time at buying a 8th forward, is IMO the worst possible option we have atm.
Thats my opinion before it happens, as it is just a possibility, if this happens in the end, i wont change mind, you cannot call it a negative thought at everything we do, when i say, that imo the worst course of action atm is the transfer of a forward and then it happens exactly like that.
When the transfer window started, i wrote on the wishlist thread, that i hope that this year the extremely stacked up and stable SS and CM positions will not absorve more part of our resources and time and hopefully we will focus our max attention this time on the defense and the LW.
If Marotta was spending the majority of our resources and efforts at signing quality starter defenders and a quality starter defender, i would be pleased.
But what he have done, quite the only thing that i would consider the worse possible course of action, again focused the majority of budget on yet another CM and SS and again have signed a free LB, no CB and no LW (at least so far)
How can you accuse me of being a negativist, when i ve been screaming for 5 consecutive years, that we must for once stop spending on our cash on new CMs and SS each every year and buy a quality starter LW, LB and CB?
Of course i praised Marotta for the acquisition of Lilcht, i really rate him and i believe that his was a step on a right direction.
Finally a quality starter RB, i ve been asking for one, since Thuram moved in the center of our defense.
That was by far the best transfer of the season IMO!!!
Indeed Vidal and maybe Vucinic may be better players than Licht, but we could do without them and i do not consider them a massive upgrade to Melo and Quaq.
Whilst a quality starter RB was a must have, finally a permanent solution to a cronic issue.
I was dissappointed on Ziegler, i do not rate him, and i believe that we should invest more on that position, although Ziehl;ie may be better than Grosso, DC and Traore, we should rather opt for a permanent solution to yet another cronic and critical issue, that has been haunting us since Molinaro.
We have been avoiding to invest into permanent solution over there, for the past 6 years and i do not understand the reason we are keep wasting time and risc with cheap/free/loaned quick fixes.
I would rather prefer to add a Ziegler like forward as depth (giacherini) instead of Vucinic and invest the money we gave for him to a real upgrade on the defense, players like Zapata could come as low as 8mil, so we could buy a starter CB and a starter LB, way much better than Ziegler, for the ammount we gave on Vucinic, or at least one of them instead of Quaq.
I ve been asking for this for 6years, it is not my fault that we have been overlooking it all this time and we keep wasting our budget only on those 2 positions (CM and SS)
I may sound negative because i repeat my self, but it is not because i want to, it is because we are keep repeating the same mistake each and every year.
If this change, of course my stance will change too.
It is unfair to accuse me now, when i ve stated right from 1june, that i would consider the worst possible course of action the lack of investment on the defense and the waste of resources on CMs and SSs again.
I also said that the previous seasons and i also will say that for the next season, will you accuse me again next season, if we again sign a free LB, no LW (or Martinez, Perotti like), gibe another chance to Bonucci/Barzagli instead of at least try a cheap non Italian Lugano/Alex and again invest most of our transfer budget on a new CM and a new SS, while we offload for or almost free Vidal and Vucinic?
Because that exactly what happened this year...
