i don't think that the defence is our classic problem ... iirc juves defense was always one of the best 3 in italy
Used to be, not anymore, we never had such a bad defense,
thankfully this is not so obvious in Italy last year, because of the leagues lower and lower standards, but this year we are bound to suffer much much more...
that our defense is the weakest point is obvious but by stating it over and over again you do no good.
we all know that there was enough room for improvement, but we did not sign any more defenders and so be it. it makes no sense mentioning it in every thread. i don't see anyone here who says "we need no defenders, fuck zabaleta!", so there is no need to state the obvious. no one will argue with you on this topic.
Since this is our problem, i cant overlook it, there is nothing we can to do about it, but it will be an important factor on the coming season anyway.
Even if i try to ignore it, it wont ignore us...
No matter what we do, we have to face this weakness, every opponent we face,
top team or not, will try to use it to its advantage.
So whats the point ignoring/hiding it?
if we really need aquilani is on another page (and another thread) but it is also obviously that he is in no way a saviour judging from his latest displays (also with the national team). special performance from him are a while ago, so could he be of any good ? i would go with marchisio for a start ... he did very good ... and don't say it was only artmedia ... aquilani did nothing against austria, he did not even try ... right now he seems to have the tiago syndrome ... no nuts to try change the course of a game.
He maybe not be a savior for other team, who already have a similar, or a better player for this role, but he will be for us, not only because of his value, but also
because of the tactical importance this position has, for us. He is seriously over-rated if you ask me and can surely find someone as good and even better at this price, but he is as close as we got, to sign exactly what we need...
alonso did play good recently, but for the price we had to pay we would get him any time ... in fact a similar play would always be available for 20 m €, so it was no extraordinary occasion to get him ... i am not mad at the board to save the money for another possible signing (perhaps a defender now or in winter ... time will tell)
20 mil isnt that bad for him, he was always more impressive than Sissoko, he is more exp and if he is proved as good as Sissoko and multiply that with the needs we have for this certain type of players, then we have an overkill, i still expect him to come at x-mas if he goes cheaper and Aquilani signs a new contract...
every fan could see that we need a defender ... but pointing to a need and satisfying a need are two pair of shoes. i guess no one of us would do better negotiating with players than secco. he may be crap, but he still has the experience on his side (if anyone here said "i would sign bla bla bla). so if it is to difficult to sign a decent defender i'm ok with it ... it's not like udinese offered us zapata or something .. there is no need to overpay just because no players are available
It doesnt matter if any of us could any better than Secco, we dont want to take Secco;s place, we want our team to get rid of noobs like Secco and replace them with some real professional, almost any other pro in the league can do better than Secco, because there cant be any worse than that, Secco has no exp or the brains to learn from his mistakes. He was a quick fix in a crisis time, when he had no other options. Now we had plenty of time to rebuild our team form within.
Our top quality staff was one of the very reasons we were competitive with other world class team, despite we lacked their resources.
With Secco to ruin our chances, we will never come back at that level,
we are bleeding now, when we should be ultra efficient.
That was our only chance to come back as fast as possible, we had a long way to cover from our direct opponents and instead of catching up, they gap between us is growing.
The investments we made this year, give us no hope for a strong hope in the future, neither a realistic chance to challenge for a title in short term.
It is sad that the fans and players have more exp and vision then the noobs who form our BOD...
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