Antonio Cassano

[brehme1989]

I can't see why people are dying to get Cassano. I'm pretty sure if he was as good a signing(or better yet, a good idea) that at least Milan, Bayern and some English teams would be after him.

People say we will miss Ibra's style and that Cassano is the closest thing to it. Fair enough, and agreed. How did Zlatan receive the ball last season and beforehand? Mostly long balls or ball played at feet. No through balls, he was expected to give them. Now we have Milito and Etoo who will play most of the season, won't defend and will expect low through balls to be more effective. So getting Cassano means sticking to a similar style, adding one player in attack, removing one player from the midfield and practically putting an inferior to Zlatan fill his job but with two main targets rather than one, which might not work well because of less midfielders pressing the opposition. So realistically, Cassano, even if one of the Italians out there, is a step back for this new era thingy...

Our problem over the last decade at least has been the dead link between midfield and attack. Get a midfielder that can cause HAVOC(the only player in recent football I've attached this word is Ronaldo9) and you have your golden team. There aren't many, so simply a FAST, with good DRIBBLING & TECHNIQUE and the ability to give THROUGH BALLS is what we need. If he can cover for the defensive duties, even better.

Otherwise get Cassano, who is as far as I've heard has no other teams interested in, and don't give room for your talents like Balotelli. I doubt it's gonna be the same way it happened with Martins/Ibra-Crespo 3 years ago...

I'm not someone who dislikes Cassano it's just that I don't see him fit in this new Inter. If it were last year, i'd welcome him with much more pleasure

 

[Il Muro]

Hah? Current squad is definitely worse than with Ibra. We need reinforcement(s) before we can say it's better.

I agree, the current squad has all the same problems as last season, plus we've lost our most creative player.

 

[J zanetti]

Hah? Current squad is definitely worse than with Ibra. We need reinforcement(s) before we can say it's better.

Exactly - Ibra's departure in the long run might be beneficial for us as we will not be much dependent on one single player. However as things currently stand we are certainly not in an ideal situation – far from it.
As repeatedly mentioned by myself and some other members the decisive factor as to whether we did the right deal here or not is how we spend the cash in hand. With our current squad we won’t see the best of Eto’o nor Milito!

 

[Il Muro]

I can't see why people are dying to get Cassano. I'm pretty sure if he was as good a signing(or better yet, a good idea) that at least Milan, Bayern and some English teams would be after him.

People say we will miss Ibra's style and that Cassano is the closest thing to it. Fair enough, and agreed. How did Zlatan receive the ball last season and beforehand? Mostly long balls or ball played at feet. No through balls, he was expected to give them. Now we have Milito and Etoo who will play most of the season, won't defend and will expect low through balls to be more effective. So getting Cassano means sticking to a similar style, adding one player in attack, removing one player from the midfield and practically putting an inferior to Zlatan fill his job but with two main targets rather than one, which might not work well because of less midfielders pressing the opposition. So realistically, Cassano, even if one of the Italians out there, is a step back for this new era thingy...

Our problem over the last decade at least has been the dead link between midfield and attack. Get a midfielder that can cause HAVOC(the only player in recent football I've attached this word is Ronaldo9) and you have your golden team. There aren't many, so simply a FAST, with good DRIBBLING & TECHNIQUE and the ability to give THROUGH BALLS is what we need. If he can cover for the defensive duties, even better.

Otherwise get Cassano, who is as far as I've heard has no other teams interested in, and don't give room for your talents like Balotelli. I doubt it's gonna be the same way it happened with Martins/Ibra-Crespo 3 years ago...

I'm not someone who dislikes Cassano it's just that I don't see him fit in this new Inter. If it were last year, i'd welcome him with much more pleasure

Milan? You must be joking. Look how tight they've been on Luis Fabiano. Milan would never be prepared to spend 20 million on a player, plus they already have Pato and (if need be) Ronaldinho for that position.

Bayern just bought Gomez, they are not going to buy another striker.

The EPL teams are already very strong.

But anyway, we could all see his quality in Serie A this season. We don't need to be convinced of his quality by interest from other clubs.

You seem to think Milito and Eto'o will play every match. They won't - injuries will happen and players will go in and out of form plus Eto'o will go away for ACN. The season is long and some element of rotation is required. We need more than 2 top strikers for this. What's more, adding Cassano gives us the ability to play different formations and different combinations which will make our lineup less predictable and can be tailored to our opposition where needed.

We won't play with 3 forwards all the time and i doubt we would do it against top opposition. Playing with 3 forwards is actually very useful against the smaller teams who will sit back and try and counter us. Against the bigger teams we can play with just 2 forwards since the midfield is more important in these games.

 

[brehme1989]

You seem to think Milito and Eto'o will play every match. They won't - injuries will happen and players will go in and out of form plus Eto'o will go away for ACN. The season is long and some element of rotation is required. We need more than 2 top strikers for this. What's more, adding Cassano gives us the ability to play different formations and different combinations which will make our lineup less predictable and can be tailored to our opposition where needed.

On the contrary, you seem to believe that Balotelli is no longer an Inter player and that we won't have Arnautovic.. More than enough for one month. And creativity must come for once from the midfield and not from the forwards, since traditionally(and common sense), the forward is the one expecting the pass in the first place. With our current midfield, Cassano can't be our saviour, and with our current attack, Cassano can't be even 2nd choice

 

[Il Muro]

On the contrary, you seem to believe that Balotelli is no longer an Inter player and that we won't have Arnautovic.. More than enough for one month. And creativity must come for once from the midfield and not from the forwards, since traditionally(and common sense), the forward is the one expecting the pass in the first place. With our current midfield, Cassano can't be our saviour, and with our current attack, Cassano can't be even 2nd choice

Both are still very raw, especially Balotelli. If we are playing with 3 forwards as i'm sure we will do in some matches, then there is still space for them.

I agree with what you're saying - we need creativity from midfield otherwise we will end up with the same problems as the last few seasons. Ideally we will have a creative source upfront (Cassano) and a creative source in midfield (Sneijder). We have enough money to buy both.

 

[Besnik]

Antonio Cassano finally sign for Inter !!!!!

what you think guys ?

 

[mournickio]

Fuck man, thats BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!

 

[Keveen]

we cant joke about it... hehe.. We need FantAntonio

 

[Jonnie_Venom89]

Jesus...cassano taller with long brunette hari?....OMG...I think I won't be able to sleep tonight..

 

[Rashid]

I don't think getting Cassano would solve our issues it will take much more, even if we do get Cassano its not like he'll drop back to pick up the ball from our half and carry it all the way to the box and put in through the final ball to one of our strikers.

IMO our biggest issue is the lack of midfielders that are comfortable with the ball at their feet, running at opposing teams and finally being able to distribute the final pass, we're not only lacking a "10" we're lacking build up, 1-2's, movement and finally tempo

Don't fool yourselves Cassano isn't the missing piece of the Jigsaw, far from it..

BTW i think Cassano is a huge talent and any team in the world would be lucky to have him, i watch Doria as much as i can to watch him its not a matter of how good is he its more of a round hole and a square peg and tbh no single player in the world will be able to push us up to CL level we need atleast 2 big upgrades in midfield to be competitive..

 

[rfU]

I can't see why people are dying to get Cassano. I'm pretty sure if he was as good a signing(or better yet, a good idea) that at least Milan, Bayern and some English teams would be after him.

People say we will miss Ibra's style and that Cassano is the closest thing to it. Fair enough, and agreed. How did Zlatan receive the ball last season and beforehand? Mostly long balls or ball played at feet. No through balls, he was expected to give them. Now we have Milito and Etoo who will play most of the season, won't defend and will expect low through balls to be more effective. So getting Cassano means sticking to a similar style, adding one player in attack, removing one player from the midfield and practically putting an inferior to Zlatan fill his job but with two main targets rather than one, which might not work well because of less midfielders pressing the opposition. So realistically, Cassano, even if one of the Italians out there, is a step back for this new era thingy...

Our problem over the last decade at least has been the dead link between midfield and attack. Get a midfielder that can cause HAVOC(the only player in recent football I've attached this word is Ronaldo9) and you have your golden team. There aren't many, so simply a FAST, with good DRIBBLING & TECHNIQUE and the ability to give THROUGH BALLS is what we need. If he can cover for the defensive duties, even better.

Otherwise get Cassano, who is as far as I've heard has no other teams interested in, and don't give room for your talents like Balotelli. I doubt it's gonna be the same way it happened with Martins/Ibra-Crespo 3 years ago...

I'm not someone who dislikes Cassano it's just that I don't see him fit in this new Inter. If it were last year, i'd welcome him with much more pleasure

Cassano is perhaps the most in form Italian player at the moment... the fact that Milan (broke), Bayern (stingy) and English teams haven't shown an interest doesn't mean anything... he had the 2nd most assists in serie A last season, this is what Inter need, badly, plus he's a trequartista capable of causing HAVOC, as you put it, with excellent technique and dribbling, through balls and flighted balls over the defence...He's definately not a step back

I don't think getting Cassano would solve our issues it will take much more, even if we do get Cassano its not like he'll drop back to pick up the ball from our half and carry it all the way to the box and put in through the final ball to one of our strikers.

IMO our biggest issue is the lack of midfielders that are comfortable with the ball at their feet, running at opposing teams and finally being able to distribute the final pass, we're not only lacking a "10" we're lacking build up, 1-2's, movement and finally tempo

excellent analysis, a player like Riquelme in his prime would be perfect for us... and its hard to understand why we let go of Pizarro who was bordering on world class... But unfortunately there's no one else out there and such players don't just grow on trees. Hleb would have been ideal but unfortunately he pussied out on us :thumbsdo: But I think signing Cassano will alleviate not all, but many of our problems going forward. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out a formation which we can play in, and although I hate it, I think a 4-3-3 formation with Cassano in a free role on the left side (his preferred position) with him cutting in and moving around the pk area... we stick Milito in the middle and Eto'o wide of him on the right... and we play Motta or Stankovic as the most advanced players in the midfield like Xavi plays for Barca, with Zanetti and Cambiasso directly behind. Of course that means the midfield will have to work twice as hard, covering every area of the pitch, because I'm sure only Eto'o and maybe Milito will track back and neither is good at distributing the ball. I've seen Motta do this with Juric at Genoa (3-4-3 formation), and with Cambiasso incredible positional sense, my only worry is Zanetti who maybe on his last legs this season. But all this is quite a risk... we could play it safe, return the 4-3-1-2 (my prefered formation) and invest in either Nasri or Inler (not a playmaker but has sound distribution and a fearsome shot) or better yet Fabregas (has played as a trequartista behind a lone striker with mixed results).

But I think the 4-3-3 is doable, Fiorentina did it, so did Lazio with Foggia playing a withdrawn role, Catania also with Mascara playing a withdrawn role... it all depends on the fitness/vitality of our midfield and their ability to distribute.

 

[lonewolf19]

Please everyone, let us not get over hyped on this Cassano thing. If he comes he will be playing in forward position not trequartista! It would not solve our direly MF lack of creativity problem.

Yes, he would add to our creativity and gives us some new dimension but he is not a must. It is much more important for us to get the likes of Sneijder/VDV/Hamsik than Cassano.

 

[minterke]

I agree, the current squad has all the same problems as last season, plus we've lost our most creative player.

Bro your joking right?

So Ibra is worth Milito, Motta, Lucio and Eto combined?

 

[rfU]

Please everyone, let us not get over hyped on this Cassano thing. If he comes he will be playing in forward position not trequartista! It would not solve our direly MF lack of creativity problem.

Yes, he would add to our creativity and gives us some new dimension but he is not a must. It is much more important for us to get the likes of Sneijder/VDV/Hamsik than Cassano.

VDV and Sneijder are crap... especially VDV. getting them won't solve anything.

 

[i_inter]

I'm pretty sure if he was as good a signing(or better yet, a good idea) that at least Milan, Bayern and some English teams would be after him.

Cassano, even if one of the Italians out there, is a step back for this new era thingy...

Yeah, people on this forum seem to forget quickly of his past after one slightly quiet year.

Please everyone, let us not get over hyped on this Cassano thing. If he comes he will be playing in forward position not trequartista! It would not solve our direly MF lack of creativity problem.

Yes, he would add to our creativity and gives us some new dimension but he is not a must. It is much more important for us to get the likes of Sneijder/VDV/Hamsik than Cassano.

Spot on, Cassano wont play as a trequartista. Image a 4-3-1-2 with Milito, Eto'o and Cassno, none of them would track back, factored in Maicon and Santon/ Javier constantly bombing forward, our mid will have to drop back and that would create a huge gap in midfield. We all know Jose would never have such a set-up.

But I disagree about VDV and Hamsik. The former is too fragile and the latter wont provide much creativity. Hamsik would be a great addition if we already have Sneijder.

Cassano is a nice idea but tactically we need 1 or even 2 mids first. Cassano is a bonus not a must, not to mention his rather odd characteristics. I hope Jose doesnt think like you guys.

 

[i_inter]

Bro your joking right?

So Ibra is worth Milito, Motta, Lucio and Eto combined?

We would have bought Motta, Lucio and Milito even if we hadnt sold Ibra anyway. Eto'o is a step back in our current set-up.

To answer ur question, No not in terms of values. But with our current set-up of multiple crappy passers, slow and uninspired midfielders, Milito, Motta and Eto'o do offer us a lot less than Ibra. That can change with 1-2 signings though.

So right now, it's a step back. For years, we had no creativity (possibly with the exception of Veron) and won nothing. Ibra came and changed all that. For that reason we became rather dependent on him (and Maicon too but not as much) when it comes to attacking. Selling Ibra might turn out to be a good thing and I think it a risk worth taking. But we are now left with almost zero creativity (Motta being the tiny coefficient).

For that reason, most people on this forum have jumped to the conclusion that Cassano is a must and is our one and only savior.

It's sad to think that we sold our most creative player to Barca and now relies on a DEFENSIVE mid Barca let go of 2 years ago. Motta is a good player but it does show that Barca are way ahead of us.

 

[1919]

Well we can also look to sign BOTH Hamsik and Sneijder right? Together they shud not cost more than 35m - right? Or we can say - De Rossi and D' Agostino. We need to show determination in offloading players so that we can sign on the ppl we require.

And if those monkeys are here for money - remove them from the 1st team squad, ask them to teain with primavera (wo might benefit by interacting with them) and pay them their fat paychecks - which we are going to pay anyway.

If it calls for harsh decisions, then so be it.

 

[Jimmy Page]

Signing both Hamsik would be a bad deal because they are both similar in the style and frankly not that creative.

 

[Il Muro]

Bro your joking right?

So Ibra is worth Milito, Motta, Lucio and Eto combined?

I never said this, or implied it.

I'm not joking. All those players are very good, but none of them, apart from maybe Eto'o, add anything new to our squad that we didn't have in the last few seasons.