Allegri's system

[Danny]

tbh I am glad the most controversial thing on our pitch is Kevin-Prince Boateng. You know things are actually ok overall if he is our biggest problem. I don't count Robinho because I doubt he will get a huge amount of playing time. He'll be on the bench a LOT.

Anyway, what I find curious about Xu's comment re: Prince is he says on one hand that he isn't that creative, but on the other hand he can pick out a delicious pass given space. Isn't that what creativity is? Using vision to open a hole in a defence to thread a ball through or to lob one in behind the defenders?

Re: Poli (apologies 'ACMILAN1983' I've no idea what your actual name is), I am looking so so forward to tomorrow. Not just to see how the team is progressing in HD, but Poli in particular. He's the most (only) high profile signing we've made and he looks to be a permanent starter. He's been excellent V Sass and Valencia and it'll be important to see how he does against City.

Re: Boateng; I have doubts too. Believe me, this isn't me haphazardly suggesting Boateng. But he has shown in the past how good he can be and while my hands are up first before anyone when he isn't doing it, when he is he's superb. But then Balo has had many shockers for us too - it's just he scores. A LOT. So gets away with it. It's when a creative player doesn't do HIS job he gets castrated more because his main job is assists. And off form those assists and cultured passes reduce while even if a top striker is not bang in form in terms of all-round play he can still score.