He's right though, I don't think Ganso is capable of playing as trequartista. He should cover Seedorf's role instead.

Agreed about the mid and forward line, but two changes: Okay lineup of keepers. And definitely the strongest defense in club football at the time of this writing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Yeah, does not look good at all. There is little/no linkup between the attacking third, though I think our DMs are quite okay.

If nothing changes between now and the end of the summer window, we could be looking at trouble.


Yeah, agreed. Ganso is no Kaka', he's the very definition of a "lazy artist". (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Meaning he can succeed in a slower-paced league like Italian Seria A. Seedorf role I see him in, not Pirlo's - that would be too far back. So that's a #10, after all.

I've never seen Seedorf as a true 10 IMO either. And I am also inclined to believe Dunga on his assessment. From what I've seen - a few Santos games and the Copa America tournament, he's talented but there's much to work on that guy. Montolivo? He's just average, nothing more.

I'm gonna risk it and repeat myself once more - it depends on what we want/set as goals. If we wanna be a Serie A contender while at the same time getting kicked out by average teams in the CL last 16 round - then Ganso and Montolivo are the solution we can all welcome. If not - if we want to make an assault on the CL semis or final - we only stand a chance with a player of Cesc's caliber.

Very much agreed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Maybe the clubs is planning to manage their expectations this year. And go for CL next season.

Cesc is more of a finished product, but I still don't believe that just Cesc will elevate us into CL contenders, we'd still need another midfielder imo.

Ganso and Montolivo might not mean instant success, but I believe that in the long run they will be the better options for us. And anyways, it's not like Cesc has ever done anything of note in the big games....

Aren't we a little out of our depth with the Cesc talk, of course he'd be a big name signing but I really, really can't see it happening. If he goes, he goes to Barca, I wouldn't be surprised if he stayed with Arsenal as opposed to come here in all honesty. Everyone knows of his desire to go back to Barca it's been like that for years so why would he not just play on at The Emirates for another year? I'm not sure it's more of a case that he's massively unhappy there, more so that he just really specifically wants to go to back to Barca, in my opinion.

Agreed, this is all hypothetical imo, I always said that I can't see him coming here

- Zamparini: I will sell Pastore this week.

- Hamsik: No to Milan, I will stay in Napoli.

- Massimiliamo Allegri: Fabregas? You have to ask to Wenger and Guardiola, however, I have a good squad.

- Heynckes: Schweinsteiger is ours and will stay in Bayern at least until 2015.

source: milannews and rossoneriblog

Ibrahimovic, Pato, Robinho, Cassano, Inzaghi, El Shaarawy, Paloschi

= this is an issue that needs to be adressed, Cassano should be sold preferably in a swap deal with montolivo and paloschi sent out on loan again. It hurts to look at 7 forwards at the very least(if ive missed anyone)

The bolded two are injury-prone and cannot even hold out half a season without a injury. That would leave us with 4 strikers, of which only 2 are typical strikers. If we follow then your advice and get rid of Cassano and Paloschi, what would be left?

Always thinking of the last case scenario, eh? If it was up to me, I'd get rid of Cassano and Inzaghi immediately. But considering we renewed Pippo's contract for another season, then I'd loan Paloschi. Five forwards are more than enough, injury-prone or not.

Last case scenario? So you think Inzaghi and Pato not getting injured is a real option? That never happened.

And in the chronic lack of creativity Cassano actually could have some use. So no, I completely disagree this time.

Sorry, I meant worst case scenario. Even if one of them gets injured, we'd still have four other choices to count on. Not enough?

Well, I'm counting on two of them going down, while in the mean time I separate the SS strikers from the typical finishers.

But, honestly, Albertino has been loaned off for quite some time. And he actually hasn't made a real progress in footballing terms. So I'd try him out here, with us. El Shaarawy still is a question mark as well. So we have two players that will be tested, two standard strikers and two SS and one Superpippo bonus. All in all, it's a mischmasch, but I'd stick with all 7 of them.

We really need a creative midfielder badly don't we? Not only we need someone who can hold possession, but someone who can deliver defence-splitting passes. For now, I can only think of Fabregas. Ganso may be good at keeping possession but he's way too slow to be an attacking midfielder.