QUOTE (Danny @ Sep 15 2014, 03:39 PM)
I would reluctantly settle on De Jong if I had a gun to my head. But I feel like he thrives as part of the team and not as the leader of it. He's respected by all, but I'm not sure he'd feel the burden of captaincy to be a good thing. Look how it absolutely wrecked Montolivo - he couldn't cope with being captain of Milan and he'd already had experience of the role at Viola. De Jong hasn't even had THAT experience.
Nah, I just feel like there's no one stand out, just some weak candidates each of whom has a major flaw or two regarding the idea of being captain.
I think Monto was just off form last season, nothing to do with the armband imo. At first I thought it effected him negatively as well. But now looking back I just think he wasn't in the kind of condition that he was in during his first season with us. Some might call it a classic second season dip.
We'll see how he does when he returns, although I can't really see him holding down a regular spot this season since it takes major time to completely recover from a break and we have a lot more options in midfield this season as well
I'd still give it to Abate at this point
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Sep 15 2014, 04:30 PM)
Yep. He cares if he knows how to sell it, a dive is a dive and the guy is a cheat. I wonder if we'll find no problems with it when it happens to us?
We'd whine and get over it. Simply because everyone is a bit of a cheat in football, everyone dives and play acts. If we can gain from it, who cares, if we get burned by it, we complain and move on. Not like the first time it would have happened