As explained by Il Corriere dello Sport, Roberto Mancini was already thinking of Adem Ljajic when he was at Manchester City. “Sunday night he reiterated the esteem for the Roma player and put him in second place on the list of his desired signings for the last day of the transfer market. When the deal closed, he spoke to the boy, explaining how he intends to use him and what his role will be. He will not be a starter (Perisic, Icardi and Jovetic will are ahead of him…), but with his qualities one on one and his play-effect he can carve out an important space, maybe in a game in progress. Especially if he shows continuity. He will be in Milan today and will undergo a medical, then begin training with his new teammates tomorrow or Thursday. The beloved number 22, which he wore in Florence and in Rome, belongs to Dodò at Inter. The Brazilian and the Serb used to be teammates in the Capital: could a request of the shirt be on the way?”
Source: fcinternews.it
http://www.inter.it/en/coversquadra
are we have enough midfilders this season?
Well it means only one thing – Mancini wants to play 4 3 3 with this team:
Handanovic
Santon Miranda Murillo A.Telles
Medel Melo Kondogbia
Perisic Icardi Jovetic
Is not going to be Medel-Melo-Kondo I assure you. If he plays with 3 mid expect Guaro or Brozovic to replace Medel or Melo.
Nah i think he’ll be a starter in a attack of 4-2-3-1
Telles(Juan)-Murrilo-Miranda-Santon
Kondogbia-Medel
Ljajic-Jovetic-Perisic
Icardi
No need for Guarin to be a starter since he makes WAY TOO many mistakes!Unless if Guaro llays as a more aggressive CDM as a sub for Medel Melo or Kondogbia!
Yea no need for guarin lol… he won the game for us against carpi single handeldy
He is incosistent!It’s a risk if he plays as a starter in my opinion!I prefer keeping him as sub/back up than having him in the XI!Plus i think there other players in our squad that deserve his place in the XI more than him and show us on the field that work more!Guaro since his tranfer here had 1 good season performing at top level and then he became incosistent 1 good game 1 bad game 1 good 2 bads etc etc!Ain’t asying he is bad but he is realy incosistent
we spent cash from shaq & kova to nothing….ok, we replace shaq with perisic and i am ok with that (- 3mil)….and after that, we get 3 players (ljajic, telles, melo), all mediocare and dont need anyone of it…and we lost hernanes…IMO bad last day of mercato….i am huge kova fun and was anggry when we sold kova, but if we get 30-35 then was a geat deal…but with this transfer i expect great replacment for kova (xhaka, lamela, quintero etc.)….after all, we have better defence then last year…fullback ar still mediocare…middfield are around last year, and better attack but only if jojo stay healty…so, i expect big fight for top 3 finnish
Last season we are lack of attitude and morale while we conceding or get pressed by a team like cagliari, udinese, parma, all bottom table. But this refresh on midfield and options should make this team have more determination, pressing, fast counter attack and avoid wrong simple pass. Only roma is the hardest competitor, we are much better than napoli, and milan.
i hoop you are right 🙂
but i still think that we spent around 20mil (11 ljajic, 10 telles, 3 melo) totally unnecessery….we dont need melo (guaro, broz, gnoukuri)…telles will be floop like montoya, trust me…and only ljajic ist ok, but for me he is just mediocare…i will much better if we spent those 20mil on one great player as lamela or xhaka,…or ricardo rodrigez….
I disagree. We got Kondo and Perisic from Kova and Shaq money. Also, Lamela has been a flop for 2 years and Quintero was just loaned out because he is not doing good while Ljajic was Romas highest scorer. Telles I keep reading good things about him. We also got Jojo.
It was an excellent mercato.
I think mancini will play 4-3-2-1 or 4-3-3
……………..handanovic…………………………
Santon…Miranda…..Murillo……JJ
…..Medel….Melo…..Kondogbia…..
……..Perisic………..Jojo…………………
………………..icardi………………………
The only missing is creative midfielder, missing kovacic already
……………..handanovic…………………………
Santon…Miranda…..Murillo……Telles
…..Medel………….Kondogbia…..
……Ljajic……Jojo…….Perisic…………..
………………..icardi………………………
Agree with that for 4-2-3-1 formation, but this thread said mancini will not use ljalic, at least for now
yeah but this formations is one of the good formations when ljajic ready,imo
True…
Melo and Kdog as CDM and CMF are suit for facing easy teams. But 4-3-3 is need to use for deals with big team or away match agains milan, roma,napoli, fiorentina.
3 strikers (or 2 wingers) are ofensive,so 3 CMF (or 1 DMF + 2 CMF) would balance the team. Last season we were lack of figher in midfield who constantly press the ball, win the midfield, and fast ball supply to forward.
4-3-3 is good for match against big team or away
and 4-2-3-1 with Ljajic,Jojo, Perisic behind Icardi will be a goals machine.
This season I am happy and optimistic for scudeto
Im optimistic too miss…:), but in 4-3-3 we are lack of creativity in midfield, medel and melo are fighter, kondogbia has not proved yet as a creative player in midfield. This might be can be used for locking the game, imo
People keep thinking Medel and Melo will play together in a midfield of 3. Won’t happen mark.my words.
it’s too hardcore
So you think brozovic will play? In few last game he havent show a good performance, well i hope medel can be box to box mid while melo as pivot, imo
So instead of him we will play Guarin or Melo.. So basically we will play with 3 defensive midfielders. That’s sad.
I always like him, he can score goals and he can dribble himself into a good position. What concerns me is that he’s not a team player and prefers finishing the attacks himself. If Mancio can make a team player out of him his skills will be greatly valued.
Thats will be always the syndrome of technically gifted player, either he’ll be remembered as great or greedy.
Maybe if ljajic could be converted into david silva or iniesta type, he will be very useful. For now, we only rely on Jojo..and so we also need to preserve his condition..thetas maybe ljajic will part will be significant.
This squad is perfect for 4-2-3-1 and all the main attackers could play with no problems. We even have Biabiany and Palacio as backups for them.
we have no good COM
Jovetic can play it. It doesn’t always have to be a playmaker in the hole. in fact, a second striker like Jovetic can exploit defenses on counter attack even better.
i agree but we are playing without regista atm so we need a playmaker in that pos i think, Draxler would be amazing.
Now we are more likley to see:
—-Medel – Melo – Kondogbia—-
—Perisic – jojo/Icardi – Palacio/jojo
i don’t believe news like this.. there is no way a coach will tell the press things like this..
Poor guy – at least he’s ahead of a palacio… I think…
A coach explaining how how he will use the player to said player!? ALERT THE PRESS!!!
Shame if he doesn’t get in the starting xi 🙁 an attacking midfield trio of Perisic – Jojo – Ljajic would have been nice to see
If he won’t be a starter he will barely get any minutes due to Mancini’s amazing use of subs.
Hahaha like he always did..
As i expected. 4231 is way too offensive for us at the moment. I think 433 or 4321 suit us better with perisic and jovetic (rotate with ljajic) behind icardi. 4231 s our all-attack formation when we aim to score in hurry..
Handa
Santon miranda murillo telles
Guarin medel kondo
Jojo perisic
Icardi
If Guarin will be a starter, thren the fifth place will be the highest we ll get…
And if gyarin didnt play lasr game we would have lost.would you like some more bitters in your hatorade madame?
He was good last game, but he is inconsistent.
He can be dangerous on the field.
Have you seen last years’ games?