Just one question on why we wont go after Verratti who can be Pirlo heir?
And as of now with the current squad, I thinks we still lack one important on who gonna be our freekick taker?
As to why we didnt went for Verrati?, the main reason is money and the difficult of the deal. If there are 2 teams which we simply CANT negotiate, are Madrid and PSG. Both teams are drooling about Pogba and will not bend over unless we include him in a deal.
Verrati IMO was more than capable to filling Pirlo´s boots.... but IMO we had to decide what the coach wanted and where the money was going to be invested.
IMO, buying Verrati when we have someone like Marchisio is not using our funds to the max capabilities. At this point, it is clear that Allegri wants to shift our metagame away from a "regista dependent" team, to a all around unpredictable forward line. He wants to shift the core of our offense to our attackers and bet on their individual prowess to create, of course, supported by the backbone of our team.
This takes me to something Sergio said some pages ago and i want to comment. Allegri himself said he wants a wildcard player in the team..someone that can create things out of nowehere. I think he believes that we have too much grinta and not so much flair, and TBH, i think we all can agree on that.
Vidal IMO is an irreplaceable player, and yeah his deal has been not stellar.. but we have more than enought manpower who can defend and maybe balance our team better if our attack improves like Allegri hopes. Vidal was not one of the most brilliant minds in the game, and lets be honest, his passing was atrocious as of late.
If our DMs can do their job of defending and transitioning the game to our attackers like, for example, Marchisio does... i dont think that the loss of Vidal will be as devastating as we think it is.
Our defensive core is very good and above competitive levels. if we can complement that defense, with an unpredictable attack consisted of 2 or 3 players who can create out of nowhere and win 1vs1s... i think we can start to see some new success to our game with much less grindy-like wins.