If I had to choose three players to take over Pirlo's spot:
1) Sahin
2) De Rossi
3) Marrone
Sahin and De Rossi for obvious reasons. But I'm really excited to see Marrone grow as a player, he wouldn't be a Pirlo clone, I would say he's more of a De Rossi type, but he definitely has a career ahead of him. Conte says he doesn't want to get rid of him which makes me even more excited.
Buffon
Lichtsteiner Barzagli Chiellini Caceres
Vidal Sahin Marchisio
Ramirez Jovetic Vucinic
Subs: Storari, Bonucci, De Ceglie, Marrone, Nainggolan, Pepe, Matri/Quag
Cost: Caceres (8M), Sahin (20M), Ramirez (10M), Nainggolan (10M), Jovetic (25M)
Total: 73M
Out: Del Piero (0), Motta (2M), Grosso (0M), Krasic (12M), Melo (13M), Iaquinta (3M) , Martinez (2M), Elia (6M), Giaccherini (6M), Esti (4M), Pazienza (0), Boriello (0), Matri/Quag (15M)
Total: 63M
Maybe those values are generous, but even if you lessen the values we can make some money off those sales and help fund for a big mercato in the summer. Also, if we get into CL, new stadium revenues, etc.
But who am I kidding - that's way too optimistic.