Heh..I want Ballack as remuneration for over a year spent in milanfan.com discussing tactics and standing up for Carlo and Gila and whoever is the next lost cause cropping up in the team. What??!! a wierd bald headed kid from Oz says he'll strip and run down Sydney, and Galliani's happy to buy him Ronaldo...why can't I get what I want!!! (IMG:
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But well, I just thought that the 4-3-2-1 would work much better if Ballack were put in place of either Rino or Ambro. We could technically play a sort of holdive (holding+ creative) double pivot. Ballack is physically strong and I rate his defensive skills rather high. He is also a very good attacking player and a great passer. An excellent box to box player.
The opposition's tactic of man marking Pirlo would no longer work, because Ballack would completely negate whatever advantage they would gain, since he can offer much more than Ambro in terms of creativity, while at the same time being a much better defender than our only other central midfield creative option-->Yoann.
Also takes some stress of Rino. Right now Rino goes into a tackle wins the ball, and when finding someone creative to pass to , (usually it's always Pirlo), sees that Pirlo is being suffocated. He has to give it over to Ambro. His only options are otherwise to lay it off to an overlapping Oddo, who's too dog tired to be there for Rino. So Rino either ends up passing to Ambro, who's too far away, resulting in a bad pass (Rino is not the best passer), or has to play it back to our defence in a bid to keep hold of possession. Hence we get stuck in our half, and Kaka-Seedorf has to drop deep leaving Gila isolated
If Ballack were there, he'd be one more option for Rino, and one more headache for man marking opposition teams.
So our line-up would be
<Usual Defence>
-------------Rino----------
-----Ballack-------Andy-------
---------Kaka---Seedorf--
--------------Gila--------
I say Ballack, coz he's the first proven holding+creative MF I can think of. There's Xabi Alonso, but he's Spanish, he's Scouse and he's too young. (IMG:
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Of course, LaPalma would have added reason to cheer for Ballack.
Me I just like uber cool Germans, who look like Matt Damon. (IMG:
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Thinking about it, with Ambro playing so well last season, and consistently fit, there was not much reason to chase Emerson, esp if we intended to keep Brocchi. I've missed something with this transfer.