How is Agnelli trying to charge premium prices when we play so shit? Lol Our games are such a drag, we have no pace or ideas in attack. Our corners might as well be a goal kick from our own box, we never even get close to scoring. That stupid 2 men on the corner has done nothing for us and its not tricking any team. At least we finally scored a free kick and Chiellini is back
Sometimes I wonder if people actually watch the match or just regurgitate the same old moans and groans. Was this the best game ever? No, not at all. We moved the ball much faster and created a few good opportunities against a side defending with 9/10 men inside their final 1/3. If it wasn't for a wonderful save from their third string goalkeeper, from a corner.
I agree with part of that regarding the criticisms, but they left me unconvinced for large stretches. We created a lot more today and I believe the play was a lot more fluid without Ronaldo in the mix. That said, a really good side playing at their top level would have put at least four goals past this Brescia side.
Back on top of the table. Lazio beat Inter 2-1 The Lazio team is really a good team, they got some decent midfielders.
Lazio played with a real desire and treated their fans to a great game. Very entertaining match. I'm enjoying this season immensely
This team needs to dump injury prone guys. Costa, so much talent but always hampered by injuries. Pjaca, pretty much the next Costa, skills but always injured. Khedira he has not been healthy in years, while he is an improvement...he can rarely stay healthy.
You know things are bad when we are praying for Khedira to come back. Frankly we have a Pjanic who is a decent player but has been overrated for some time. Bentacur could be a player. The rest of the guys aren't good enough for a side of this caliber. Rabiot and Ramsey are plain average. Matuidi is past his best and not good on the ball. Khedira has never been good on the ball and is always hurt. Where people want to see Bernardeschi as a mezzala you know there is an issue. We aren't going to be able to do much until the summer. There's been some smoke to the Pogba return rumors. I would also add that with City's issues De Bruyne may become available. I don't think we have the wherewithal to pull that off but it may lessen the competition for Pogba. The absolute perfect scenario would be to bring back Pogba and sign Tonali in the summer.
Raiola keeps talking Pogba every day ManUtd are idiots for not cashing in on him sooner. He is getting cheaper by the day
What do you consider realistic exactly? Its about how we rearrange our funds. Same way CR and de ligt were fantasy but they happened Tonali, Veratti, Jorgino, Barella, Sensi, Zaniolo (pre injury) are all better than any of our current mids
If not more. Hence realistic. Tonali is realistic and would be a great addition. Zaniolo is not realistic any time soon. Roma won't sell him to us now, or in the near future most likely. Barella and Sensi, not any time soon, or at least not for cheap. Jorginho, meh.
Not to mention PSG and how they avoid working with us after the Coman fiasco (not to mention that you can't count on Veratti), and Barella stating that he wanted Inter over us. Sensi would have been a good back-up to Pjanic. Orsolini may end up being just as good as Zaniolo and Chiesa even though he has less hype. Hoping we get Tonali as well, he would be a fantastic addition.
Really? That wasnt the question though was it? He asked for names of Italians that can start for us and i named them. Didnt say we can sign them all at once. LOL!
I believe what was asked was... So, not a wishlist, but realistic. For now the only names on that list are Jorginho (meh) and Tonali (yes, please). The other names are not realistic at this point, and some are not better than some of what we currently have.
I think it's fair criticism to say that the club ought to have pursued Barella and Sensi this past summer. However, they had a logical reason for not doing so. They thought that in Rabiot and Ramsey they had strengthened the midfield with quality players (more established than Sensi and Barella, respectively) that they got on a free. You can understand why they didn't go after the two players that Inter got for those reasons. In retrospect those are turning out to be not so great signings by Paratici. However, there is no concerted effort not to sign Italians; nor any evidence that we would be significantly better if we had seven Italians starting.
Our midfield needs to improve, you will not win anything with this mid, we are unable to control the ball, it’s always lob it and hope the attackers get clear to make something happen. It’s lob city up in here.
In all fairness to R&R, Sarri took forever to ingrain them into the side. I am not sure if Sensi, Barella or Tonali would have fared better. Look what he did when Chiellini went down. He went straight to de Ligt and pretty much stuck with him. Demiral showed to be a good replacement & the few times Rugani has been used, he has done well. Sarri does not know how to manage a big squad.
Hearing that Chiello might even start against SPAL. I hope Sarri isn't rushing him back just because Juventus has been shit this year and he thinks Chiello could alleviate some of that with his presence.