Antonio Cassano

Originally Posted by Siregar

The bold part is the real problem. Similar with Ronaldinho (lazy and unmotivated) and Adriano. There are tons of skillful players in Brasil but only few of them brought to Europe and made success due to their character unrelated to football.

Like Milan director said, this is his only chance and he better uses his head properly. Otherwise he will be another Ronaldinho or even much worst.

I am not optimistic about Cassano's transfer. He would only add option to Milan but not improve the quality of the team. Hope he proves me wrong but I doubt it. I doubted so much Ronaldinho before he came and he could only show 1 good year performance which was so overrated by many fans.

As he directly replaces Ronaldinho and adds more depth to the team, he will definitely add some quality to our team ...

If you look at it more properly: we know have Ibra/Pato and Robinho/Cassano, we have two attacking lines of international level and can rotate them without decreasing the level of the team on the pitch. Ibra, Robinho and Cassano are all hard workers (Ibra since this season, Robinho and Cassano move a lot on and off the ball), which should force Pato to make some efforts too if he wants to keep a starting spot. In 6 months, our management also deleted the weight of pressure that Pato had on his shoulders, last year, he had to be our main striker, as well as two years ago, and suddenly, he has 3 international, "young" and experienced players with him. I think Pato will learn a lot more now and will play a bit less often, which should also help him not to be injured all the time.

So with Cassano, I see the end of a kind of trilogy helping the club as a whole as it looks like there has been a project (by looking at our attacking line like I did in the previous paragraph: Ibra/Pato and Robinho/Cassano) and helping Pato to grow.