You can't name one. Plain and simple. And there are no players that can do as well or better than Eto'o that would cost us 21 to 25 mln euros. FACT. Like I said before, you couldn't even name a player that would be as good even if you added 30 mln euros to Eto'o's original price.. The closest we had come was an exiled Tevez this January but now that Carlos is back int he squad his price has once again gone up.
young kid, I didn't want to go on that discussion and that's why I didn't want to name it because you suck Eto'o dick too much and blinded by him and you are going to deny everything and make the discussion a pointless thing and first of all, i'm not a babysitter. Well, you mentioned one of the striker there: Tevez. There are still lots of strikers out there like Aguero and Higuain. Unfortunately, some other teams overpaid for players.
Inter have been around for 104 seasons, and only 1 striker has scored more goals in a single season than Eto'o..
So? It doesn't mean Eto'o will score 38 goals every single seasons.
A formation is the problem, if it puts a striker as a defender and vice versa and the player doesn't perform. Putting a world class AM and making him play as a free role player primarily on the left side of the field, but not as a winger, and the player fails to pass the ball properly, under hits set pieces, etc. etc.. is not the formation but the player.
What a stupid argument there tbh. I really don't think you know about football in details. Coach will tell players how he wants the player to play in THE TEAM. Yes, Sneijder has been poor but the whole team has been very poor. Even if you put Maradona at his prime in this Inter, he would be poor. Because the team has been poor in supporting each other due to its weird formation that forces everyone to accept their non-natural position. Sneijder can't make good passes if other players don't look for spaces. Sneijder can't make good passes if he delivers the ball and other players stay static. This Inter problem is not bcs of Sneijder. The fault weighs more to the previous coach for not getting full potentials of his players. If players can't pass, he should train the player to pass.
In seasons prior, Sneijder's set pieces were dependable, fact..
Wikipedia as a source.... Who cares what his statistics are.. Wesley has been called out by several different people for his poor play this season. Ignore his assists.. numbers, especially those from Wikipedia, don't tell the full story at all.
As I said, I didn't really want to discuss much because you don't look from other perspective. You think you are right and everybody else is wrong, no matter how wrong you are. That's why I just went for Wiki bcs I was lazy to search for the detail.
Let me ask you, what do u mean by set pieces were dependable? Sneijder scored like 5 free kick in the whole treble season. I'm sure he got at least 20 free kick that season.
You can't ignore the stats to talk about setpieces. set pieces mean nothing if it is not worth a goal. Give me the number of free kicks Sneijder has taken. Then give me the number that he scored directly from the kick. Then give me the number that someone scored from Sneijder's free kick. If they were above 50%, I'll admit I was wrong. If not, your fact about he's a dependable free kick taker is totally wrong.
Sneijder is never a great freekicker. He is a good passer esp a long or quick pass to the box but he needs players who constantly move and open up spaces for him. That's why he plays better when Eto'o was around him. Eto'o and Sneijder compliment each other. I didn't say he has a great season, he's been awful but most of it bcs of the tactic used. He is man-marked too much and he has no space to move and nowhere to pass the ball.
First off, why do people believe that in our Treble winning season the 4-2-3-1 was our primary formation?.. it wasn't. And this season really? Gasperini managed like 5 games and used the 3-4-3 for 4 of. How the fuck is 4 games the entire season? There were games believe it or not that a 4-3-1-2 (our primary formation in the treble winning season) was used with Wesley as the 1, and he failed to perform.
Why do people believe? LOL. It's not a belief. it's a fact that Eto'o and Pandev didn't play alongside Milito that season.
there was only 1 game with 4312 under Gasp but in the game he changed back to 343.
Wesley as the 1 in 4312 in Ranieri's games but he was isolated in the 1 bcs the 2 strikers in front of him are not mobile, don't create chances to get Sneijder to deliver. The 3 behind Sneijder never supported Sneijder by providing good cover and delivering balls for Sneijder to move around. Everytime we lose possession, we need to build our attack from the back again. Again, the fact is football is a team game. To perform you need at least 1 or 2 other players to perform as well. You can't play alone.
Wesley's job was never to win the ball on the field, and he doesn't even try to do so, this season.
You can try to find some old interviews by Gasperini. He mentioned it 2-3 times, he wanted Wes to play deeper bcs he didn't use playmaker.
No there are several reasons why I know that Eto'o would have been better. Tactically, we had a coach who wanted to use a system where Eto'o was perfectly suited to and had little to no place for Sneijder.. If our management had any sense they wouldn't have hired Gasp. knowing full well what his system and philosophy was. Eto'o has managed to perform at a decent at worst level even when placed in a position that is completely foreign to him. Eto'o is more adjustable than Sneijder, who seems completely unable to perform when he is asked to deviate from the attacking midfielder spot.
A coach comes to a club, he should adapt with the players he has. He can't just sack everyone and gets new players. The investment for that is too much. He has 2 world class players, Eto'o and Sneijder, why did he want to kick out one of them to make the team more suitable to his style rather than trying to get these 2 champions work together? That doesn't make sense and Gasp was stubborn.
Rare? Since when? We have like 4 of them in our squad right now - Bessa, Tassi, Coutinho, Alvarez - that people believe should get playing time.. We are rumored to a new attacking midfielder seemingly every week - Lucas, Gotze, Hazard, James Rodriguez, Ganso, Kaka - there are a hoist of AMs that we aren't linked to - van der Vaart, Christian Eriksen, Honda, Douglas Costa, David Silva.. not to mention those that we missed out on - Ozil, Lamela, Pastore, Nasri
LOL. How many times have you seen Bessa? He is nowhere near Sneijder seriously. Don't overhype Bessa too much. He has talents but he is not ready for first team. There must be a reason why Stram didn't call him among Primavera to join first team few days ago. Tassi? The 17 years old boy? You want a 17 years old boy to be our playmaker week in week out? Have you even ever watched him playing? How many matches have you seen him? I am being honest, I never see Tassi plays but I read somewhere he is a striker, not a playmaker. Coutinho? He definitely has talents but to replace Sneijder with him is a big gamble too. Alvarez? Aren't you one of those who hate Alvarez? Complaining he is too slow, limited left-footed player, etc Alvarez is not a playmaker.
I have never seen Lucas. He is damn good in FM but I don't know in reality. But, the fact Barcelona and Real Madrid haven't touched him, there must be something that he lacks of. Gotze is more a winger, not a true playmaker. Hazard, Silva, Honda, Pastore, Ozil, Nasri are not a true playmaker. I don't know Eriksen, Costa, Rodriguez. They might be AM but not necessarily playmaker.
Kaka is one true playmaker. I have ever said that if Sneijder was sold, Kaka would be a good replacement.
Lots of AM out there but very very few who can play the true #10 playmaker. I don't even remember who was the previous the true #10 before Wesley in Inter. Could possibly be Roberto Baggio.
Perhaps, my stance was lost in translation so I will elaborate it for you even further. I guarantee that had Eto'o been kept this season instead of Sneijder we would be better, why? It's simple, we had a coach that ran a system that would have have favored Eto'o and not Sneijder. We fired that coach and hired a new coach who again ran a system that would have favored Eto'o and not Sneijder. Eto'o would not have been disadvantaged by the 3-4-3 pr 4-4-2 the way it is claimed that Sneijder has. Eto'o's history has even shown that he is capable of performing even when played out of his natural position. Add all that plus the fact that Eto'o is world class and came off a season that he scored 37 goals and showed no signs of slowing down.
That's because those 2 coaches are stupid bcs they forced something they knew wouldn't work at all. You can say now that keeping Eto'o is a better decision bcs you have seen how Sneijder plays poorly and Eto'o left us after his best season with us. YOu know, the kind of Mourinho effect when someone left the club at his best. If we've gone back to few months ago, you can't say Eto'o can't slow down. Last season, despite his 37 goals, Eto'o has in fact showed some poor performances.
Last season, Pazzo was here. There was Kharja. Deki was still old. Lucio made blunders. Maicon was declared finished... Not much has changed.. except for the fact that we've scored a significant amount of goals less than we have this season. Keeping Eto'o would have changed that. Eto'o's goals would have won us more games, Eto'o being on the field doesn't just means more goals, it also means more space for the other strikers as defenders would automatically inclined to focus on him primarily. It's no surprise that even though Pazzini has the same personnel supporting him from last season, he's scoring much less.
I see this as completely on topic as we are discussing Moratti trying to blame this disastrous season on Gasperini, and you sorta agreeing with him by justifying Moratti's actions.
I can't buy Eto'o = goals argument. Eto'o is not Will Smith is not iRobot. Eto'o can get tired after 2 long seasons. The fact he has been glorious goals in Russia doesn't mean he would do the same in Italy in his 3rd season in a weaker team than he used to play with. But, if you kept believing that Eto'o = goals, you can keep your delusions but I don't buy it.
P.S: don't miss me if I don't reply anymore because I'm bored with the topic.
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