mark77;2370051 said:
In Inter's case, wouldn't you have kept Grosso?
hmm....than to have had Chiellini? I'd take the latter a hundred times out of a hundred. I'm sorry, man, but I'm just not down on this kid as you guys in Juveland are. I feel that with some support in the confidence department and consistent playing time, he can easily recover his 04/05 form and go onto fulfill his tremendous potential.
Grosso? Don't get me wrong, I think that he's a serviceable player still and I've considered 'em as a quality player as far back as his Perugia days, but I feel that his best days are behind em. People still hold em in this lofty esteem because he's still sparkling from his WC heroics, but truthfully, at Inter, he was average. Now expecting him to retain his brilliance from the cup would be too demanding, but he just couldn't recapture even half of that, man.
He is a worldclass deadball specialist....I'll miss that, but in the same breath, he is a very attackminded fullback who doesn't have the athletic ability to compensate for his venturous runs up the flanks.....that's like the worst deficiency and imbalance a player of his position can have, man. Atleast with Chiellini, if he happens to ****up on a tear up the flanks and has the ball taken away from em or he makes an errant pass, he's got the physical gifts to make good on his ****ups.....grosso doesn't.
I truly feel that he could've been a worldclass midfielder or even a striker if his parents had dealt 'em better cards in the genetics department. Because he's got the creative mind and awareness of a worldclass midfielder and the deftly technique of a clinical finisher........anyway, good luck to em. He seemed like a really good human, a good character guy for the locker-room......solving our LB woes is a never ending battle....we're used to it and sort of accept it, man.
EDIT:.....a quick counter question for you, brah.....would you have traded a 2004 Chiellini for a 2004 Grosso? Way before his legendary WC performance?
Chiellini in doubt, little "injury").