Winter Mercato 2011

Originally Posted by Siregar

So, Raiola is not the agent of Didac?

If Emmanuelson turns to be great, I will be of course happy. What I am seeing is his actual stage now. He can improve but IMO he is not what we should have for the backup for creative-offsensive CM. If he is set for backup for left fullback, it is still OK as long as we buy quality FB to be starter.

Until now I haven't seen real improvement in our midfield except we have more choice but still lack of quality (both Emmanuelson and Bommel capacity can be found in our backup midfielders).

I made that post you quoted after read that we paid for him for about 800k euro (which seems not true - news said we paid 3-4 mil euros). A players who is rated under 1 million euro price should be not a quality player (with very small size of exception from big possibilities). In addition, I am getting tired if we have to take players who has Raiola as their agent.

Firstly, let the guys play ?

Then, we knew we wouldn't improve everything in a single season, but until now, we've got: Amelia, Sokratis, Yepes, Didac (if it's official ?), Emmanuelson, Van Bommel, Boateng, Ibrahimovic, Cassano and Robinho. A mix between WC, experience and youth ...

In that list, the 3 players of Raiola aren't the worst to be honest ...

And to finish, this winter, the midfielders we got are emergency purchases I think with all our midfielders out for injury. Having a guy like Raiola on our side can only be a good thing in this case, look, we've got two of his players, but we got them very cheaply, so if he helps us this way, like I said, that's ok for me. Once they're here, we don't care if they are the players of Raiola or not.

And if tomorrow Ganso changes his agent and takes Raiola, or if tomorrow Raiola goes in Brazil for us and negotitates a 10M deal for Ganso, wouldn't you be happy ?