He is really a great signing. Can play LB and RB, is experienced in the CL and international level with 30 caps for Italy, only 24 years old, knows and is trusted by the manager, knows many of his defensive teammates from the national team and was signed at a discount rate. Of all the signings he is rather a surprising one for people to jump on the anger and outrage bandwagon.
I think it relates to Alves being a surprise for us in creativity and De Sciglio not being able to have that impact but De Sciglio is not really Alves replecement I feel. I posted this in the Cancelo thread so will post here too:
MDS is not a replacement for Alves. Alves and Cuadrado competed to be the creative right wing option. De Sciglio will come in to be the right sided defender and Bernardeschi comes in to compete with Cuadrado to be the right sided creative option. Alves was never really a fullback for us. He was deployed as a right wingerin the 4231 or RWB in the 352. Now that we are using the 4231 we got De Sciglio for right back. Essentially from out CL final line up De Sciglio is a replacement for Barzagli while Bernardeschi/Cudrado will take Alves role
If he comes as a starter, no he is not a great signing. He is cheap because nearly Boone want him and he is about to run out of contract. We were forced to pay more than we wanted to get him, because of a stupid arguments that a Chinese club that has no respect for money could offer more.
He is sub par, always have been and always will be. The only reason such a low quality player was called in the NT and made some caps is because that the NT had no options. In past years everyone tries to be a Messi and there is a huge shortage of defenders. The lesser you have to choose from, the more compromises you make.
Juevtnus normally shouldn't make the same compromises. Unfortunately we are forced to have a number of local player, we try to buy the best there and when there is only trash, we should pay trash money, however we were abused and robbed of millions. His nationality is the only reason we are considering him, not his quality. Its bad when we are forced to buy trash for any reason and it cannot be sugarcoated. Being a starter in the NT used to mean smth because of the high quality of the competition, now it does not, players like DS are the actual proof!
At any case what's worse is that hype may help him to be considered somewhat reliable and start the season with very very bad options. This is why buying an overrated I player is double harmful.
Licht brings quality at times, but not reliably, as it stands now De Sciglio will be the starter and he will be the weakest link of the lot.
We aspire to become better, but never had such a low quality starter in a while. We invest 45mil to get depth players elsewhere and if the best we can do for RB is DS then it is a disaster!