QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Jul 25 2013, 11:07 PM)

I find it hilarious how you consider players like Maggio, Inler and Armero "shitty" and think De Jong and Boateng are great. Makes no sense.
1 player in an entire unit does not make the unit great, not unless you're talking Thiago Silva level of good defender or Iniesta level of good midfielder.
Attack aside the only other top player is Hamsik
Inler, Maggio, etc are just good players, same as Boateng, Zapata, Pazzini, etc are for us.
I never said Boateng was great, last season looking at the entire squads we were on par with Napoli, now they're better than us thanks to the ridiculous spending spree. But this is only on paper, but imo, their squad is seriously unbalanced, they have a terrible defence and an average midfield. The sums they spent and according to more sources are about to be spending could have been used wisely to build a squad to be even better than Juve's
And if Rafa chooses to go back to a 4-man back line, how do you think someone like Maggio or Zuniga (if he stays) will fair?
And Armero? Really? (IMG:
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