Quaq last year proved that he can be that player as well and further more be more prolific for the same playing time, Giovinco could too, if you are only interested at creating and would rather left side Pepe, than a second possible forward. (not like the midget scored any less this year)
We had options, esp for a non CL year, quaqs was enough IMO and some cheaper depth would do.Vidic for the defense would seal the wholes from this year and the next ones and with the CL appeal yet again, we would only have to buy a serious forward.
Now we just have many subs and more needs for starters, if we want to build a competitive team.
Quag keeps proving that he's a CF. It's perfectly obvious that in this Juve he's fighting with Matri for a starting spot, not with Vucinic. Having both Quag and Matri at the same time will result with more matches like the one in Udinese, when we begged for pure talent and a bit of brains.
So, even if we started Quag this season, which he indeed deserved last year, it should have been at the expense of Matri. We were gonna be a good number of points behind Milan if we had a Quag-Matri-Pepe trio up front and Marchisio would have had some 1-2 goals instead of 6. Yeah, we were gonna concede some 2-3 goals less. Or 2-3 more if Chiellini partnered Vidic and kept playing the way he did as a CB at the start of the year.
Like it or not, Vucinic was needed to this team and will be needed even more if we make CL next year. He, Pirlo and Del Piero are the only ones who proved to have the required quality to outperform Europe's best teams and players. All the Quags, Matris and Borriellos that we have will never come close to that, even if they keep scoring more in serie A than Mirko, Pirlo and Del Piero.