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Aug 7 2014, 07:23 PM
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QUOTE (X-Offender @ Aug 7 2014, 05:01 PM) My worry is in midfield. Are we really gonna play Muntari as starter on the left? Obviously De Jong and Poli are more than fine, but we need someone who's good on the ball in that midfield trio, someone who can circulate possession and make that final pass happen. In other words, someone with quality. With Monto injured (not that Monto excels in any of those aspects anyway), we either play Honda or sign someone else instead. Playing with either Muntari or Essien, or even Cristante is out of the question. Hopefully Pippo understands this. My worries about our midfield have been on-going for ages now. Ever since we sold Kaka and Seedorf, Rino and Pirlo started to deteriorate (lose interest in Pirlo's case), I've been worried about our midfield. But the management seem to think that this is the least area of concern every summer, but insist on buying attackers
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Aug 7 2014, 09:29 PM
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QUOTE (X-Offender @ Aug 7 2014, 07:58 PM) Anyone seen this Rabiot guy play? We seem interested. I saw some youtube clips, wasn't that impressed and youtube makes anyone look good so...
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Aug 7 2014, 11:19 PM
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QUOTE (Danny @ Aug 7 2014, 06:47 PM) I personally think on his day Zapata is the best defender we have. He's the quickest and best at last-ditch tackles.
I think he should be partnered by a foil. agreed, people forget how good he is because of that last spurt during the end of Seedorf's time with Rami and Mexes. I don't think it's worrying at all that Pippo has been switching it up at CB. I mean, he's the coach and he gets to see them. surely his pairing agaisnt Lazio will be determined by how well each CB plays here. I read that Essein was playing at RB? personally, i think he did well there at Real too, not a bad idea. At this point, if he's to be the emergency RB, then we can finally get rid of Bonnera and pick up like 3M for him.
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Aug 7 2014, 11:22 PM
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QUOTE (X-Offender @ Aug 7 2014, 01:01 PM) My worry is in midfield. Are we really gonna play Muntari as starter on the left? Obviously De Jong and Poli are more than fine, but we need someone who's good on the ball in that midfield trio, someone who can circulate possession and make that final pass happen. In other words, someone with quality. With Monto injured (not that Monto excels in any of those aspects anyway), we either play Honda or sign someone else instead. Playing with either Muntari or Essien, or even Cristante is out of the question. Hopefully Pippo understands this. Pippo understands this better then we do, he's the coach for god's sake and can't be pleased with his options on the bench...i would think but he has yet to be given a left footed winger and it appears Cristante is the replacement to monto. So until then, I think it's a little base to accuse him of not playing players we don't have yet...
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Aug 8 2014, 12:00 AM
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QUOTE (il_diavolo_mtl @ Aug 7 2014, 11:19 PM) agreed, people forget how good he is because of that last spurt during the end of Seedorf's time with Rami and Mexes. I don't think it's worrying at all that Pippo has been switching it up at CB. I mean, he's the coach and he gets to see them. surely his pairing agaisnt Lazio will be determined by how well each CB plays here. I read that Essein was playing at RB? personally, i think he did well there at Real too, not a bad idea. At this point, if he's to be the emergency RB, then we can finally get rid of Bonnera and pick up like 3M for him. I doubt Bonera will ever leave, and I seriously doubt there's someone out there willing to pay €3 million for him. QUOTE (il_diavolo_mtl @ Aug 7 2014, 11:22 PM) Pippo understands this better then we do, he's the coach for god's sake and can't be pleased with his options on the bench...i would think but he has yet to be given a left footed winger and it appears Cristante is the replacement to monto. So until then, I think it's a little base to accuse him of not playing players we don't have yet... Honda. Like I said, if we don't sign a quality CM, then we'll have to make due with what we have, which is the Japanese. Cristante can't be considered Monto's replacement. Heck, he can't even be considered a starter for that matter.
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Aug 8 2014, 12:28 PM
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QUOTE (Danny @ Aug 7 2014, 10:47 PM) I personally think on his day Zapata is the best defender we have. He's the quickest and best at last-ditch tackles.
I think he should be partnered by a foil. He was terrible last season when Allegri was here. He's too error prone, especially when it comes to positioning and passing the ball out of defence
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Aug 8 2014, 12:33 PM
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QUOTE (Danny @ Aug 8 2014, 12:31 PM) Oh yeah and Mexes was great last season when Allegri was here (IMG: style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Certainly better than Zapata.
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