Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

Rumours on the peninsula (???) suggest that we might swap Pato for Inler of Udinese. Now obviously we need a midfielder with Pirlo out and Inler is a good choice and i must stress 2 things about this news:

1-It's very much just a loan deal, though we'd probably have the option to buy the Swiss player in the summer.

2-Udinese are the ones requesting Pato.

Now i don't think this will happen, Udinese wouldn't give up an integral member of their side and even if we entertained the idea of loaning out Pato, he'd still have a few players in front of him at Udinese. Shame because i was kind of hoping the rumour would say we were swapping Kaladze & Emerson for Zapata & Inler

That wont' happen. Inler is a good player, but we can't give up Pato. And plus... look at who plays in Udinese. Quagliarella and Di Natale would allow Pato very little playing time...

I wouldn't mind swapping Kaladze for Zapata... or something like that.