Big Phil Melo has been our most consistently half decent to decent player this season, much more like he was in florence, than in his first season with us...why the hell would we be trying to bring in mascherano??? who is a better player, calmer for a start, and also much tidier...but out of the two, i prefer Melo, partly because he can truly boss a midfield, partly because he is lively and strange. that suggested move makes no sense to me, unless we already have a manager lined up who has requested mascherano, and perhaps bastos and beck also...the other option is that del neri wants these players...but now we get back to this 'who picks our signings and sales?'. Ideally we need a manager like mourinho or capello, a manager who picks the players he wants for the club, and tells his sporting director to get them. del neri is clearly not that strong a character...shown with the buffon routine 'he must earn his place' then a complete u-turn, showing that his words were hollow...same shit with diego last summer 'he is part of our plans'...then he was sold a week later.
As for the main rumours...Beck seems to have alot of support on here. And a RB and LB and LW are the priorities, surely...i like the idea of menez, but i doubt that will happen.