Bump, how much greater are we now?
Haha, I did have a nice laugh at what I said
. Damn, could I have predicted our buys better
Seriously though, things were taken a bit out of context.
-a- at the time, Montolivo was coming from a solid year, and Flamini + Boateng was still here, so our midfield was pretty good and seemed covered.
-b- El Shaarawy, Balotelli and Pazzin were on a high note, we had three strikers that had scored more than 10 goals, and Niang also was showing a lot of promise.
-c- Our defense also seemed to click with Zapata-Mexes giving 12-13 goals since January in the Serie A games. Add to this that Constant + DeS were also rock solid that year.
-d- Honda was hyped quite a bit as a creative midfielder/winger.
So long story short, basically what I was saying was that we needed some more depth in midfield with a creative midfielder to replace Montolivo, a young B2B CM who would hopefully become better and a possible winger considering that we lacked depth there (afaik it was only Boateng + El Shaarawy + Niang that were used there).
Add to this the fact that I was still a rookie in this forum who believed more than a healthy share of the opinions that various "experts" say about our transfer targets, and you get the entire picture.