[Fillipo Simone]

So, not a bad match allover, but for me there are two clear groups of players who played well and those who haven't.

Our fullbacks were top on today. Especially De Sciglio made a few very good passes and runs. Abate - needless to say - was good as well but had minor defensive problems. Alex and Bonaventura did also very well, Menez was okay. It's a bit hard to tell who's MoM because IMO no one was that outstanding. So my vote goes to MDS.

The bad group - starts with Muntari, who would be flop if he hadn't score that great goal that saved him. But my pick will be Rami; too many individual mistakes - unbelievable errors in passing and positioning.

Torres could have done also much more. Honda was okay, but his finishing leaves much to be desired. Nevermind the good free-kick, but he wasted 2 good chances with a bad miss. Nevertheless, a good game.

[han2503]

And I think Filippo's point is that that issue is not one anymore. The Zaccardo types have been moved out on loans and sales and such.

Zaccardo himself was just one person who we couldn't ship out in the oddest of circumstances. Now barring a brilliant Favalli-esque resurgence in games from him, I expect him to ship out too - either in January or next summer.

His total wages off our bill mean nothing. 1.6 million will pay for no one, perhaps it will help to deal with giving Abate and De Jong new contracts with pay hikes.

The fact that we only got rid of them on year long loans does not remove the problem, it's just postponing it to a later date

And as I said, 1.6m alone means nothing, but add up all the rubbish players we've been maintaining over the years and it's not such a meagre amount then

Indeed, Jack is right. As I said earlier on, we made a error-proof transfer summer market. So why do we dwell on past mistakes?

And yes, I know the answer. You two pessimists are not convinced we turned the page for real. Agreed, we used to shift or go up and down one too many times in the past years, which makes you very inclined to be pessimistic at times.

We're still paying for a few of those past mistakes as some of them are on loan and we're still paying parts of their wages.

I think we can only say that the "Zaccardo syndrome" is gone for good if we actually see Galliani making a decent effort at not going after free agents and then giving them undeserved wages. We got Agazzi this summer and then tried to get rid of him a month into pre-season but he refused to move. That to me does not look like Galliani has learned anything from his own past mistakes