I completely agree with I4E and Ronaldo. Fucking Messi would have failed in this team with the coaches we've had and their collectively abominable approaches.
Right. The excuse "it's only his first year", is so bogus and over used. Good players find ways to make it work. Banega didn't. He might have who knows...but he's 29 yes old, and I'm not gonna sit around waiting for Banega to turn it up, while I'm in a pickle jar to find 30mil in a week, you know what I mean. We got him for free, didn't work out, so yeah...I'll take whatever I can from whoever I can to come out of this shitty stupid FFP.
As far as Borja Valero is concerned, he has a track record at Serie A we can judge him from. He's been pretty good. He's not as old as people here make him...I think Spalleti gonna use him same way as he used De Rossi at Roma. And De Rossi is older then Valero, and he still had good season at Roma this past year. Valero has at least two more good years left in him. He can also teach some of our young players how to be a smart player and a good professional. He can be a leader to our young midfielders and teach them the ropes.
Are you for real? I was actually going to say how I hate it when people use the "good players find a way" argument and there it is in your first statement.
You say good players find a way to make it work. But fucking tell me why the fuck should good players, or any other players, have to struggle and fight against all sorts of bullshit to make it work in the first place? Go on, tell me. Maybe instead of bringing player after player into the team, many of them very good players, and shipping them out for trash selling prices, we fix the environment rather than just keep going with this unsustainable method of churning out guys year after year.
Maybe if our club environment on and off the pitch wasn't a disgrace of mismanagement and trash-tier football, "good players" wouldn't have to fight tooth and nail against all these odds against their favour in order to "make it work". Maybe we could make things easier for good players by providing a positive football environment where the coach actually provides a semblance of tactical instruction to his players? An environment where the coach doesn't repeatedly gives minutes to trash players like Nagatomo, Medel and Palacio who are literally more of a hindrance? Or how about an environment where a coach doesn't repeatedly play players out of their positions, doesn't inexplicably change formations or suddenly bench players who are playing well?
As the others have said, the fucking environment is dogshit and you want to blame Banega? Banega has repeatedly proven himself to add fluidity and creativity (things we sorely lacked, in case you hadn't noticed), playing either as AM as he did at Sevilla or further back as he does for Argentina. Watch any non-Inter match of his and you'll see he's comfortable in possession and has a great eye for a forward pass. Or do you prefer we just pass it laterally and wait until Candreva tries to beat his man, switches onto his left and crosses from a stationary
position? As for Valero, I've already stated my position. I like him as a player, but I've seen enough of both he and Banega to form my opinion that Banega is a better player and that essentially swapping the two would be idiotic.
As for the rest of your points.. Valero isn't as old as people make him out to be?... People are making him out to be 32 years old - which is exactly as old as he is. Valero has 2 good years left? Valero can teach our young players? Valero can be a leader? Completely asinine assumptions.
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