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zizinho

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Apr 14, 2013
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Yeah he's a big loss when it comes to that department. None of Pjanic, Khedira or Marchisio have that ability to get away from markers. Khedira is probably the closest that we have when it comes to being able to break lines by just running with the ball.
yeah Sami does that sometimes but he does it when we switch play to his side or there is a break so the team doesent set up defensively. he does some great runs without the ball too. Pogba is just impossible to stop when he takes the ball and starts going forward, would have really made a difference yesterday for us
 

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Hydde

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Mar 6, 2003
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1. Figure out how you'll play as a formation. Can't splash $$$ on wingers and change to a 4312. Figure out Dybala's position, I don't like him as an AMC as he loses much of his potential there, but playing him as a striker means a 2 man attack...again, formation??
2. Stop using a 3 man defence in big CL games and stop using Barzagli as a RB, tho I understand why he played yesterday there.
3. Improve overall quality of team, meaning some starters will start rotating and hit the bench, avoiding #2.
4. Sell players that aren't reliable even coming from the bench. I don't care they're good for rotation, depth but only against Crotone, Pescara, bla bla bla. Sell Sturaro, Lemina, Asa, Licht, Neto.
5. Khedira / Rincon situation...Rincos seems like the type of player we are missing but seen far too little of him to have an opinion on his game but I saw him more aggressive and more dynamic than Khedira. We need a warrior with grinta, a Vidal type and Khedira isn't that guy amd RIncon may have some technical limits..maybe Khedira will be beter in a 3 man midfield, again formation??
6. PLEASE please PLEASE no more Mandzu as a winger and the same goes for Alves. I get it, Mandzu sacrifices himself for the team, tracks back, warrior spirit...but by playing them as wingers you're inviting opposition's fullbacks to play in your half and you can't go on a break because we miss speed, dribbling in those areas. With proper WC wingers we might concede more goals as they don't help defensively that much, but we'll score much more because of a much better end product and Higgy will benefit from this too, Dybala might work better in AMC too and the opposition's fullbacks will be aware of the damage our wingers will do on a break.

This is a make or break mercato for Beppe; we can fall apart from this loss or we'll show the world we mean business.
Woah boey, you came out of nowhere.

Epic post. Agree on everything, specially the formation comments and the last paragraph
 

donpiero

Stella D'Argento
Jul 3, 2009
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What really amazes me is that, how come we're not even linked with Milinkovic-Savic?!!
I mean, you take a look at one of our games and you see how handicapped we look at midfield, and then you watch one game from Lazio, well at least that's what happened to me, I mean, it was near the end of this season, I knew we're gonna face Lazio in coppa final and I casually checked one of their games to see how they fare, and then I see this big guy who's just dominating the pitch. I mean fvck, F. Anderson, Keita, whoever, he is the one who stands out in that team. So, our needs and his abilities perfectly match, there also seems to be a consensus here about him, and yet somehow our board isn't interested at all!!!
 

SrdanPopovic

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Jul 14, 2016
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Do you think if we had Matuidi we would have a better chance yesterday?
Maybe,who knows,anyway that ship sailed,the guy is 30 years old,we don't need that anymore,plus Matuidi is just runner,no creativity,he can't pass,and think he is dumb to understand Italian game

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What really amazes me is that, how come we're not even linked with Milinkovic-Savic?!!
I mean, you take a look at one of our games and you see how handicapped we look at midfield, and then you watch one game from Lazio, well at least that's what happened to me, I mean, it was near the end of this season, I knew we're gonna face Lazio in coppa final and I casually checked one of their games to see how they fare, and then I see this big guy who's just dominating the pitch. I mean fvck, F. Anderson, Keita, whoever, he is the one who stands out in that team. So, our needs and his abilities perfectly match, there also seems to be a consensus here about him, and yet somehow our board isn't interested at all!!!
Thats strange to me too,guy is pure class,super quality :agree:
 

PhRoZeN

Livin with Mediocre
Mar 29, 2006
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What really amazes me is that, how come we're not even linked with Milinkovic-Savic?!!
... So, our needs and his abilities perfectly match, there also seems to be a consensus here about him, and yet somehow our board isn't interested at all!!!
It's more like the newspapers are not interested in him. I'm sure he's on our radar.



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zizinho

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Apr 14, 2013
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Do you think if we had Matuidi we would have a better chance yesterday?
we would have better chances for sure when looking at that game alone. however, would we have even come to the final and would we have switched to 4231 if we managed to sign him before the season, i dont know
 

tassard

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Jul 30, 2004
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Fabinho
Lemar
Berna
Schick

Keep all our key players and that's it.I somehow doubt we are going for any Lazio players, and of course reallisticaly speaking, we can not go for the sanches' and verrati's of this world
 

Liviu

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Jan 10, 2015
992
Is the James train 100% gone? He'll leave Real this summer and we should be all over him, no need to point out his strengths. Doubt he'd cost more than Sanchez.
 
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