How many pacey and agile players did Inter and Milan have when they won the CL?
Those Milan fuckers won a CL with a backline full of geriatrics.
The onus on pace and athleticism is obviously huge today but not so much in the 90s or 2000s.
At the moment, without a doubt this club has a scarcity of agile and athletic beasts.
If we continue to recruit one dimensional players like Fagjinho and Penardi, there's going to be more Villareal style thumpings in the future.
Milan had Kaka, merda had etoo and the likes... Capello Juve didn't have such players, Nedved was on decline at his helm. 2015 Juve had Tevez and Morata, no coincidence that both were the architects of the only goal we scored.
However, Barca had more players like them... Just like Real had more players like them in 2017.
And the English in 2005 and 2006 also had more players like that than we ever had, and they also played the stereotypical English game that this team almost always struggled against, I mean just last year we had 30% ball possession at home against Chelsea? If any other big European teams plays like that we would laugh at them right? Playing like that is only excuseable against prime tiki taka Guardiola teams...
In those matches, we were eventually overrun in similar manners. And this extends to all our European failures post Lippi era too... It doesn't matter whether it was on a final or a group stage last game, it doesn't matter whether it was against Galatasaray or Bayern... Our losses more or less occurred in similar manners, unable to break down lesser teams or overrun by better teams.
Crashing out against Benfica in EL or against Villareal in CL occurred similarly in the process... Whether it was Capello, or Conte, or Allegri at the helm... Is it a coincidence that our European failures were more or less similar?
The philosophy of this team needs to change, and it applies to the whole Italian football as well.