This d-line can do great things in the CL this year...
And I'm not arguing about this year. As I had stated, as a stop gap solution this is fine.
I'm worried about next year, and the year after that, when Barzagli falls over the proverbial cliff, and Chiellini starts to decline, and Buffon is most likely gone. A defense like this can hold the line for next season in CL and Serie A combined, and probably another year in Serie A after that. Once you get past that though, it looks bleak.
Serie A, although doing this a decade too late, are going towards younger, more athletic, if relatively unknown prospects on each squad, mainly out of financial necessity. What do most, if not all of these types of players have in common? Athleticism. De3fenses will need to be able to keep up.
I guess one of my obsessions is prospects, and how they can develop and grow as players. I spend way too much time looking at prospects, not only in football, but fuck me sideways, my obsession carries over into hockey and especially baseball
@Mark can at least attest to the hockey portion of my statement. And don't even get me started about the NFL draft @Salvo