Have you thought maybe no one is available, cron?
You sure mean, the only available option, if you only consider those of the royal Italian blood, proven with a pedigree of NT caps.
Because its really really hard to believe that there is not an option around the globe...
For that money, for a team of our stature and the fact that rank second at the board atm, we ought to do better.
as i already said conte like lippi is not a fan of winter mercato so do not expect big signings in january unless a super deal comes by
there will probably be 3 singings one in attack one in midfield and one in defence and none of them will be starting 11 material
the names are borrielo in attack , caceres maybe even bochetti (althrough he'll have to lower his salary) in defence and montolivio or palombo for midfield
they will be of help in case of injuries and will be of more help next season with champions league so the starting 1 can rest
also in january we should expect that some dead weight like amauri iaquinta toni grosso leaves and with these gone and the signings i just said there will be a very good base to add those 1-2 players of great quality to finish the job
the big signings should be expected in summer
Yes but in this particular case, we must make up for the mess Marotta made in the last days of summer mercato, he gave to much attention the CM and SS (yet again) that he had no time left to get a proper LM and a defender (CB or LB)
He has also failed to sell the dead wood (Amauri)
Now its time to make up for those mistakes, the best he can.
As those mistakes affect our starters and our performances, they force to compromise.
They ought to be priority number one.
At any case, far ahead our 4-5 choice for the CM and SS positions.
We have sacrificed far too many millions to bring squad players, who were never good to begin with and were never really needed.
But we never saw any of the promised champions, yet more mediocre squad players...
Enough is enough,we should keep the cash and only use them to buy starters from now on.
Esp for the LB position, we only bought a sub, had a very unreliable player as our sole option and when he was inevitably out of order, we took our best CB out of his best position and suffer the liability called Bonucci.
We dont really have a sub there and also lost a CB sub as it is.
This issue should be dealt with a long time ago, but we are still compromising it (Caceres) so that we can afford yet more SSs and CMs
The absurdity of this situation is underlined by the fact that this is the 6th consecutive season we suffer from the very same issue and keep committing the very same mistake.
When will we learn from our mistakes?
Let's go after Douglas(Twente)-CB very young , he'll be free in Summer so we don't have to spend alot for him .
Full name Douglas Franco Teixeira
Date of birth 12 January 1988 (age 23)
Place of birth Florianópolis, Brazil
Height 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position Defender
but he is not Italian, neither has served in an Italian team, so i guess our transfer manager will never consider him...