Ever Banega is what Inter has needed for quite some time. Yes, we’ve needed an attacking midfielder, but what I find most important about signing Banega is that he is a winner. He didn’t have a good season at some mid table team like Schelotto, he came from back to back Europa League Champions, Sevilla. Not to mention he has also won: a gold medal with Argentina in the 2008 Summer Olympics, Copa Del Rey with Valencia, and Copa Libertadores with Boca Juniors. Inter has had a habit of signing mediocre players to fill high expectations. As we have seen the past five seasons or so, it has not worked well. Blame the money, the management, the coach… in the end, it didn’t work out for us.
As I said earlier, Banega primarily plays attacking midfield. This complicates things because in almost every Inter squad under Mancini, the attacking mid isn’t present as he prefers defensive mids. Banega can also play as a deep lying midfielder if that’s the route Mancini wants to go.
Banega will finally add a new dimension to our midfield with the traits he possesses. Rather than the defensive minded, square or backwards pass approach from from players like Medel and Melo; or the overly inconsistent Brozovic, Banega has a great amount of experience to bring to our midfield. He has the attacking mindset which is what the midfield has been in need of. He has the vision to play key through balls, change the point of attack with purpose, beat defenders 1v1 and can score goals (see 2013 ICC tournament). The last player who had traits like these was Wesley Sneijder.
This signing is a step in the right direction. We know Mancini loves three things now:left backs, defensive midfielders and Argentinians. Luckily enough, Banega fits one of the categories.
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In my humble opinion Banega is offensive minded midfielder, but he’s not typical number 10. Why? Because to be good number 10, except that you have to reading the game, know how to move without the ball and give the last pass, you have to score more goals! I don’t think that Banega is player that can score a lot, but he can be great deep lying playmaker or to play one of two inside midfielders and will be very helpful, because he have decent defensive skills. Everything depends of what kind of scheme Mancini will use, but i have a feeling that he doesn’t like very much typical number 10 players!
i could also see banega a center midfielder (how he plays in the NT) a line up of
perisic-icardi-berardi
banega-new player-brozovic can be really deadly.
i think K-Dog or Medel will fit on those “new player” spot..
i think they’ll be star in those position, as long as defence is their only concern, they’ll absolutely be star in those position.
“as long as defence is their only concern” its not gonna be that way. they need to perform both defensively and at passing. we both know they’re god awful at passing.
they can do that as long as they have a creative and visionary partner (ex: Banega)
i personally dont want medel in our midfield.
don’t you ever underestimate ever !
Nice article, keep it up !
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Very true on that comparison to Sneijder
Spot on, but I’m worried what role would mancini put him in. Several players have already struggled playing out of their position. I just hope this won’t be the case with Banega
banega can play anywhere in the midfield really, so as long as hes central, he can play anywhere- forgot to mention that in the article