Summer Mercato 2016

[Best-Pundit]

   

   

[ACM2023]

Let's see what Brocchi can do with De Sciglio before totally giving up on him.

[nefremo]

If he does good, people will want to keep him based on 6 games. If he does bad, people will want to keep him because it'll be the coach's fault. So I'm not sure that these last 6 games will change anything. If De Sciglio wasn't from our academy (and wasn't Italian) the same people that want him to stay now, will have been calling for his head instead.

I too have a liking and a little bit of a biased view when it comes to our own. So I personally haven't given up on him completely. But I will acknowledge the situation...which is, he's been terrible for the past 2 and a half yrs. It's not like he was great before that either to be honest, but he had age on his side and showed promise. All I'm saying is he shouldn't be looked at as an indispensable player anymore. If his sale/swap will help us strengthen the team, I'm all for it.

[slifersd]

Slifersd, I understand what you are saying. But you can't look at Zaza as just Juve's bench player. There is a lot more there. Bacca would be great, with a midfield and creative team in place. We don't have that.....so there is times when he actually hurts us rather than help us...and it's not his fault.

Let's hope we an get some of that Chinese money this summer.

I must admit, I have not watched enough Juve games to make a fair determination on Zaza's talent level. Since many posters around here like him a lot, I am going to take you guys' word for it and think he is a talented striker who has a versatile skill set. 

But my argument isn't necessarily that Zaza is bad, rather it is how good Bacca truly is. Look, I know it is easy to look at the past few games and think Bacca is this one dimensional striker who can't dribble the ball or make a pass to save his own life. But in all honesty, let's all remember what Bacca was able to do when he had the right system around him, i.e before Niang went down. I think folks are overlooking just how effective our attack was when we had Niang, Bona and Bacca playing together. Our performance basically fell off a cliff once Niang had his accident. Bacca, to me, is hands down the second best striker in Serie A behind Higuain. And talent like that are cornerstones we need to build our team around, not shuffle to the side because he has some limitations. Would Golden State Warriors get rid of Steph Curry because he is not an explosive athlete? No, they get guys who can do the athletic work for him. 

For years now, we play this musical chairs with our team where we swap out players for new ones for seemingly no good reason and the end result is, we have a squad full of players but we have no real core to build a decent team around. Zaza may well be a well rounded striker, but to me, if he can't get game time over Mandzukic (average player at best) and Morata (not having a good season by any means), then we need to seriously rethink just how good Zaza actually is. Again, this is not to say that he is bad, just that he is not a cornerstone level talent for us. If we just want a striker who can hold onto the ball, might as well sign Balotelli for cheap. In the midst of this terrible season, I see a silver lining for us in that we found a few guys we can really build our team around , guys who are not just here because their agent is friend of Galliani. I would really hate if we swap out one of them for someone who is inferior talent again. Especially since we are also not making a profit on the swap and therefore cannot invest the extra cash in other talented players. Just my two cents though.

[Jay Crisp]

F ZAZA ...Chinese gunna spend huge , Keep Bacca sign Xhaka Witsel Kovacic Tonelli ( I love him...in a manly way) Mammana all out for UCL...Then we can get Reus Benatia Verratti to add that yes factor.... 

[Best-Pundit]

.............. Zaza may well be a well rounded striker, but to me, if he can't get game time over Mandzukic (average player at best) and Morata (not having a good season by any means), ........... 

You can't be serious. He is among top five or ten #9s in today's world.

[am I Milan enough?]

https://youtu.be/c3-WtFEv8n0 Hope Mr Brocchi can rediscover the form back.

[Jay Crisp]

Bacca Lacazette Higuain Suarez Aguero Griezman Lewandowski Cavani Costa Benzema Aubameyang Lukaku , theres plenty that are better than Mandzukic , he definitley is not a top 9 or 10 forward.

[PerSempre]

Bacca Lacazette Higuain Suarez Aguero Griezman Lewandowski Cavani Costa Benzema Aubameyang Lukaku , theres plenty that are better than Mandzukic , he definitley is not a top 9 or 10 forward.

Don't forget the one and only Zlatan

[ACM2023]

You can't be serious. He is among top five or ten #9s in today's world.