Summer mercato 2015 (32 Viewers)
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So why sell him if you don't have a proper replacement lined up. I don't believe this, i think we intended to sell Vidal long before, Bayern presented the offer, Vidal accepted their offer and we sold him just like that. No effort to keep, we didn't drag the negociations, we sold him right away. That's not what you do when you are not expecting a sale.
Now we are in a situation where we are much weaker than last year. Tevez loss only makes us weaker now you add Vidal and wether you like Pirlo or not his presence made a diffence several games.
The way i see it we either break the bank for an established player or we will find ourselve taking two, tree step backs and us reaching the final will be just a fluke.
Dyabla, Rugani are nice player but not ready for the big stage, Mandzu and Zaza are bench players.....
I tought we had a great Mercato because we will be keeping both Tevez and Vidal but right now it's very underwhelming.
Now we are in a situation where we are much weaker than last year. Tevez loss only makes us weaker now you add Vidal and wether you like Pirlo or not his presence made a diffence several games.
The way i see it we either break the bank for an established player or we will find ourselve taking two, tree step backs and us reaching the final will be just a fluke.
Dyabla, Rugani are nice player but not ready for the big stage, Mandzu and Zaza are bench players.....
I tought we had a great Mercato because we will be keeping both Tevez and Vidal but right now it's very underwhelming.
We knew Tevez was leaving so first priority was getting a Tevez replacement-Dybala.
I do agree with the Mandzukic signing as well.That where majority of the money was spent on.
Our strategy to get a treq was looking at 'market opportunities' again perhaps but not many opportunities were available at the time before the Vidal sale.
The Zaza purchase was bit of a mystery though.We should've prioritized differently here I suppose.In this case, I stick with Sergio's theory which he has repeated many times.
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I do agree with the Mandzukic signing as well.That where majority of the money was spent on.
Our strategy to get a treq was looking at 'market opportunities' again perhaps but not many opportunities were available at the time before the Vidal sale.
The Zaza purchase was bit of a mystery though.We should've prioritized differently here I suppose.In this case, I stick with Sergio's theory which he has repeated many times.
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then we dont get mandzukic and rely on zaza, and if we dont believe in zaza we dont buy him, you still didnt answer my question btw 
I don't know.I assumed we'd play a Morata-Mandzukic-Dybala strident before the Vidal sale.
Plans obviously have been changed.I think we still were looking at a treq even before Vidal sale but it probably depended on a combination of player sales/opportunities available.
This is just my theory.Atleast I'm not presently as a fact like Zach
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Who would you start, Morata or Mandzu ??
I have no problem with Morata playing both on the wing and in the centre. He's shown he's capable and skilled enough for both. He can easily play a Ronaldo style role.
I'm no fan of the Zaza purchase. I'm not entirely sure what the point of it was. I like his fire and drive and toughness, but we got something similar in Mandzukic. I wanted Berardi brought back, regardless of what his agent or he wanted. At the very least we should have bought him out and loaned him to Sassuolo so as to avoid paying even more money in our buyback clause. Strange bit of business. Zaza is a rather esoteric purchase in my books. Perhaps his drive and determination will lead him to succeed, but it seems unlikely he will be anything but a sub here.
I'm no fan of the Zaza purchase. I'm not entirely sure what the point of it was. I like his fire and drive and toughness, but we got something similar in Mandzukic. I wanted Berardi brought back, regardless of what his agent or he wanted. At the very least we should have bought him out and loaned him to Sassuolo so as to avoid paying even more money in our buyback clause. Strange bit of business. Zaza is a rather esoteric purchase in my books. Perhaps his drive and determination will lead him to succeed, but it seems unlikely he will be anything but a sub here.
He was always drifting out left. Watch many of the top teams play with these modern winger/ss/forward combo type players. Ronaldo-Benzema-Bale at Madrid, Bale and Ronaldo are constantly drifting into the centre, cutting in... Same thing with Barca and Messi-Suarez-Neymar... And even unstoppable Bayern was much the same with Ribery and Robben playing more free roles, than strictly as wide attacking wingers.
The best wide forwards in modern football are not the traditional sort of winger that Morata and Dybala could never be, but exactly what Morata and Dybala easily have the talent to do, and that is play quite a free role in attack with a starting point out wide.
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