Well, I think we all get into the summer market stuff and forget that we have the first game of the season in 4 days.
Milan - Torino will be a good opener. I think we have a great opportunity to start the season with 3 points, but unfortunately, there will probably be 15-20,000 at the San Siro. It's a shame but maybe with some good performances and a signing or two things will get better.
A quick summary on Torino up to today:
Notable departures from Torino this summer : Glik, Immobile, Bruno Peres...and it looks like Maksimovic will not play either as he is trying to force a transfer away.
Notable arrivals : Iago Falque, Adem Ljajic, Panagiotis Tachtidis. I also think they did well to keep Belotti.
So even though we haven't improved as much as we all hoped that we would.....Torino's problems in the CB department will be one area we can exploit as they lost both starting CBs (Glik, and set to lose Maksimovic). However, I think they did great to sign Ljajic and Falque so we know they'll be dangerous on the wings. In any case, I think we should have enough to win this game.
Latest news are saying that Romagnoli, Niang, Suso, Lapadula and Vangioni all trained with the squad today so it looks like we will have everyone but Zapata available for this one. I am interested to see Sosa play, but I doubt we'll see him make an appearance on Sunday. I hope that we see Gomez paired up with Romagnoli, but the CB pairing always needs great chemistry so between Gomez only having trained for a few days and Romagnoli out with an injury in the last week...I doubt they've played at all together even during practice.....so I expect to see Romagnoli - Paletta for this first game.
About moving forward with the season......there are a lot of IFs and hopes at this point. Ideally, IF Niang keeps improving and finally takes an important role, Bonaventura finds his form from the first half of last season, Gomez turns out to be as great as sources in South America say he is, Suso carries his Genoa form, and Sosa carries his form from Turkey......we may just be a lot better than all of us think we are. But like I said, those are a lot of IFs and HOPES, so I guess we just have to wait and see.
Milan - Torino will be a good opener. I think we have a great opportunity to start the season with 3 points, but unfortunately, there will probably be 15-20,000 at the San Siro. It's a shame but maybe with some good performances and a signing or two things will get better.
A quick summary on Torino up to today:
Notable departures from Torino this summer : Glik, Immobile, Bruno Peres...and it looks like Maksimovic will not play either as he is trying to force a transfer away.
Notable arrivals : Iago Falque, Adem Ljajic, Panagiotis Tachtidis. I also think they did well to keep Belotti.
So even though we haven't improved as much as we all hoped that we would.....Torino's problems in the CB department will be one area we can exploit as they lost both starting CBs (Glik, and set to lose Maksimovic). However, I think they did great to sign Ljajic and Falque so we know they'll be dangerous on the wings. In any case, I think we should have enough to win this game.
Latest news are saying that Romagnoli, Niang, Suso, Lapadula and Vangioni all trained with the squad today so it looks like we will have everyone but Zapata available for this one. I am interested to see Sosa play, but I doubt we'll see him make an appearance on Sunday. I hope that we see Gomez paired up with Romagnoli, but the CB pairing always needs great chemistry so between Gomez only having trained for a few days and Romagnoli out with an injury in the last week...I doubt they've played at all together even during practice.....so I expect to see Romagnoli - Paletta for this first game.
About moving forward with the season......there are a lot of IFs and hopes at this point. Ideally, IF Niang keeps improving and finally takes an important role, Bonaventura finds his form from the first half of last season, Gomez turns out to be as great as sources in South America say he is, Suso carries his Genoa form, and Sosa carries his form from Turkey......we may just be a lot better than all of us think we are. But like I said, those are a lot of IFs and HOPES, so I guess we just have to wait and see.