Summer Mercato 2016

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I wonder if the Gazzetta article is based on fact (actual plan for the team next year) or just opinion (what the editor thinks should happen next year). If it is indeed the plan we are going with, then I would at least take solace in the fact that we are keeping our core of Donna, Roma, Bona and Bacca around. with the deficit the way it is, it wouldn't have been very surprising if those guys were being sold to raise cash.

It's interesting to see Niang and Berto on the uncertainty list. Niang, to me, is someone we have to keep around. Bacca needs a partner of his skillset, and he is too young and talented to sell right now. He is not the most consistent performer we have and he still has holes in his game to fill, but that will improve with age. As long as we can keep his head straight off the field (and get him a driver so he doesn't touch the wheels of a car again), he can blossom into a star. Berto, on the other hand, should be gone. He was a classic under achiever his entire career until last year at Genoa. We overpaid for him because the Genoa connection and his passport. There is, to me, no reason to drag on a proven failure longer than it has already lasted. The guy is not mentally strong enough or technically capable enough to be a difference maker on this team. And he will probably never be able to live with the pressure of a $20M man.