My biggest concern is that one or two our core mids get long injury and we don’t have players to cover them. Can Matic still play 70-90 minutes twice a week if needed? We have been lucky with injuries at midfield and all our core mids have iron lungs! So atleast 5 good mids is essential and maybe Matic would be that 6th? But what salary he wants?
If we can get Matic with same wage as Sensi and he is our 6th mid, I’m ok with that, anything more and I would hesitate!
But there are some positives of player like Matic if he comes with reasonsble salary.
Speed is not what Matic is known, but positioning and passing is his bread and butter. Matic is not Pirlo but he was master at positioning and passing, but lacked speed. Pirlo was awsome in Serie A, but I think would have strugled in PL? Serie A tempo is somewhat slower than in PL and in limited role he would be fine. He would also bring us that needed height.
Also Vidal and Vecino are leaving and we need some experience and Matic surely has that. 70% of the work is done during the week and 30% is shown at games. Thats why its so important to have these veterans with players like Barella, Bastoni, Lautaro, Agoume.
So this transfer depends on money and how important role he has? Of course I would want to see someone like Kamara, but there is lot of competition for him and we are on limited budget. I can’t see us purchase two new mids, so something has to give?
I think people many times react to whole teams performance and can’t see past that and think all players suck in those teams who are under performing? Lukaku, Sanchez, Darmian was mocked, before they came to Inter…
Bench like Frattesi, Sensi, Matic, Gags/Agoume… yeah it’s not the best but it’s slightly better than Vidal, Vecino, Gags we currently have.