bold names look like a sideways step at best.
i'd be happy with fabinho, schick, conti, and a good winger.
1) DeS is NOT a sidestep, he's definitely a step (or five) down. Just another hyped up Milan/Inter kid. Meanwhile, Spinazzola is 10x the player he is, and is entirely ignored. Fuck this bullshit.
2) Bernardeschi isn't a sideways step. At worst he's a slight improvement for depth, at best he's one of the top transfers this summer. Will he get us CL? No. But we shouldn't really talk about CL until we get a different manager.
Also, anyone who wants fucking Keita over Bernardeschi is going to be methodically searching for their old posts in this thread after 6 months and deleting anything about Keita > Bernardeschi. Let that loser rot in Lazio or wherever else losers like that go.
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Our options look limited this summer... Are Bernadeschi and Costa the best we wingers can hope for? SAD!
Even if we could afford Sanchez, I don't think he'd come anywhere near an Allegri-led project. Renewing with him was essentially an admission that right now we're in "maintain status quo" mode. Our target this season is to ensure we still have domestic dominance over our improved domestic competition.
This is sad because the improvements in the league will not be happening from teams that actually matter (Napoli/Roma) they are happening far below in the table, and it's no where near being a threat to us this season. We're going to look back at this glorious period of dominance and have no European silverware to show for it. SAD!