Are you the village idiot or have the nurses let you out for the day ? Shitante has been a dead on cert for Mourinho, Ranieri and now Gasperini.
Interesting point that a succession of managers have valued Cristante. I can’t explain it. Maybe they know he not going to be off and on the injured list all season.
Maybe the ownership won't spend the money to bring in someone better so the managers are forced to cook with the ingredients that are bought for them.
Don't think so. We've spent 20m on NEA and Cristante still plays. Gasperini has praised him since he came and instead of getting a midfielder we splashed 25m on Robinio Vaz. Cristante runs a lot and given that he's probably the slowest ********ing player in the league he's not caught out of position that often. So I guess managers love him for how he's carrying out their tactical instructions because it definitely can't be for what he does with the ball.
Cristante was subbed off less than a week ago, if you actually watched the matches you'd have known that. It's easy to be a miserable critic, Cristante is an exhaustive list of things to criticism him and you still miss. Pellegrini and Cristante are emblematic of this era of Roma. Thankfully it looks like it's coming to an end soon, there's a hope still we might actually hit our objectives for the first time in nearly a decade.
Again, I assume two things. Either you do not understand the English language very well, at least in a more comprehensive sense or you just wanted to be a hero; to the Pro-American/ Pallotta- obsessed/ Zeman loving dimwits on this forum. Of course " Shitante " ( word shit and tante , shit replaces Cris, thus becoming Shitante, because he is shit ) does not literally play every minute, but he is pretty damn close. If there has been one player , who has constantly been in the starting line-up the last few years, then it is him. Even more then Mancini and Pelleshit. So, yes. Over the last few years, despite all the different managers. Shitante has pretty much played every single game and every single minute.
It has nothing to do with the ownership refusing to spend. Gasp made Cristante captain and starts him almost every game. If you have an issue with that, you have an issue with the manager not the Friedkins.
What other options is he going to put there? And yes, the Friedkins are to bare some blame. They are trying to pound square pegs through round holes for years now with the 2 losers. It's insanity. How many managers have those 2 burned through? So if we keep changing managers with the same mediocre results perhaps it's time to shop for some new groceries. It can't just be the chef getting it wrong every time. You want CL football? Then put a championship team on the field. Can't have steak when you're only working with hamburger.
I dont disagree we need better than Cristante obviously. We need a stronger CM than him. NEA might be....Gasp doesn't play him. Pisilli is possibly the future. Didn't play him until forced by Kone's injury. The point is....if Gasp turned round to Massara/Friedkins and said...."you know, that Cristante lad isn't good enough....I think we should look to offload and get someone else".....he would be obliged. But instead he made him captain and plays him all the time. That's the point. Dont mind Cristante sticking around....as long it's on suitable wages and he's not a starter. We need more depth in CM....but attackers were priority this time round.
The chemistry of NEA & Sir Bryan is off, ideally NEA would be replacing him in the starting line up, paired with Koné. However Gasp doesn't seem to trust him to do the job he unfortunately, overwhelmingly trusts in Cristante. I'd like to see Piso starting with NEA, the Cremonese game would be a good chance to rotate and experiment but I wouldn't get my hopes up...
Slightly misleading to say he made him captain when his policy made him captain by default, he didnt go and seek him out. Him being among the top caps sums up the majoirty of the last decade. Its obvious why managers play him as a coaches player but Gasperini is not daft. He notices everything and is very picky on details. That 2nd goal wont have went unnoitced. Roma have the ability to play well in these big games but miss the final step. You need a guy in that position like Kone who knows he is the man and he will lead the team through pressure moments. It always comes from cm/am that the rest of the team fall in line with especially in game situations like this that mostly psychologica. This was Romas moment to break a barrier, they had 10 mins left to step into it but they could not move to a new level. Its symbolic, Roma are moving to another level and certain players are not moving with them. Cristante is a player capable to a certain level but not a starter in a top side. Hard working solider but that has its limits and the Napoli game not that it needed proving has to be the final nail in his coffin as a key man moving ahead.
I dont disagree with any of that and nothing I said contradicts it. The captain bit....slightly misleading perhaps....but ultimatey the point still stands. Gasp is not daft obvously and I'm not having a pop at him. I think overall he has been making a damn good effort of it this season with the tools he has. This was merely a reply to "maybe the ownership wont spend that's why Cristante plays all the time".....which is simply false. The ownership have cleary demonstrated a willingness to spend despite the poor financial circumstances. Certain things were inherited and are not quick to fix. The whole squad cannot be fixed/strenghtened in a window. It takes time.
Yeah the captain bit was all I was referring to in your post...no the point cant stand on that when its his policy lol. The rest I was just expanding on my fustration seeing Cristante year after year plodding along messing up in key moments.
Well he would of known his 'policy' would make Cristante captain so.... Anyway at least he's a better option than Pellegrini. Cant help but wonder did Gasp come up with this most caps 'policy' to gently push Pellegrini out of the job.