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God forbid JZ ever becomes a sporting director. I love him but he's just incompetent when it comes to talent. IIRC he had some pretty outrageous evaluation of players we bought and failed, someone like Alvarez; or he was praising Zarate?!I think that if JZ is our new Sport Director, Sneijder transfer will be easier
God forbid JZ ever becomes a sporting director. I love him but he's just incompetent when it comes to talent. IIRC he had some pretty outrageous evaluation of players we bought and failed, someone like Alvarez; or he was praising Zarate?!
Nah, I have the memory that he tried to advertise some pretty mediocre guys to our management back in the day. Maybe I'm wrong, if anyone else can't recall such occasion; those were rumours of course.There's a difference between being asked to comment on a fellow Argentine joining your club when you are a player/not part of the transfer team. It's obviously going to be positive. I don't think the only players Zanetti rated enough to speak out about were Alvarez and Zarate.
Do we actually know that he went to the management and told them they should sign these people or is it just that someone asked him if X Argentinan player is good and he obviously wouldn't say 'No he sucks'.
biglia, tevez, aimar, pastore, lavezzi were all personal recommendations. milito also said in an interview i have to thank zanetti for bringing me to inter. and with alvarez, he said he watched a few games of him in argentina and recommended him to branca.
thatdude, i was just giving evidence for what wobblz was saying that he has recommended many mediocre players. to me he recommended all those players aside from tevez because they're argentine so that isnt evidence of anything other than bias. and being a sporting director is also a lot more than "scouting".
i disagree, alvarez's problem was not poor devlopment. would he have showed more if he was given more faith earlier on and arrived in a more stable environment? yes. would he be starting material for inter? i'm not so sure. his problem is that he is mentally and physically too slow to settle into a position and become a top player. hes also ridiculously one footed. ive read dude wasnt even a starter for his team in argentina where he was a utility player). he only showed some vision very inconsistently and it usually very narrow off the last defender.
Why would Medel, a DM, play as RCM and put Brozovic in the bench? That makes no sense.
Why would two DMCs play on the right side while the more offensive player play on the left side? That doesn't sound balanced. The offensive player would need two pillars on each side, not both of them on the right side. That just invites midfield exploitation.Medel and L. Diarra are DMC's, Kondogbia - CM aka Yaya Toure at City!!!