deisel : Almost completely agree with you.
Butt is a great keeper but he is far too inconsistent to be named worldclass. Van Buyten is a great defender if we are ahead as he is great at heading and using his physical body to take the ball away from opponents. However, he is very slow and he has been exposed many times by Fiorentina's speedy winger/striker such as Jovetic and Vargas. Demichelis is far off this season from consistency, but he is probably still the most talented central defender in our team. On the left side, just relying on Contento or Alaba just doesnt cut it yet. Van Bommel might be well for another year or so but from looking at his age, he needs a replacement probably by the end of the season. Gomez or Klose or even Toni doesnt cut it as worldclass striker for now. They are too slow and doesnt break through defenders thats why they are unable to score many goals this season if they dont have the cover of Ribery or Robben.
Personally, I think Torres is worldclass but he could be a bit too expensive for us, but in my mind, Bayern can definitely sign players in the 25-35mil Euros range, so i think players like Mata or even Jovetic can add value up front for us. I think either player will not cost more than 30mil Euros if not only 25mil Euros at max. By selling both Toni and Klose, we should be able to generate about 10mil Euros back. So that could help us to finance the buy of Jovetic
In goal, I think Buffon is a worldclass keeper but there are fans that believes that he wont sell out Juventus. If that is the case, I suggest we could try Neuer or Alder. Both of them are talented local keeper and can improve throughout practice and time here. Beside, both value will dramatically decrease as Neuer's contract is running out by the end of 2011 and could join here for free as well as Alder.
For defenders, unforunately, Breno is out for 5 months, so I guess we might have to give him more time to prove himself at Nurnberg before thinking of starting here. Unless we are selling Demichelis, I dont see us buying more than 1 central defender as Van Buyten and Badstuber will be up in the line. I think we should spend 15-20mil Euros on a central defender but a worldclass one. I was thinking of Chillieni or Kjaer etc. And Badstuber can play on the left side where I still believe he pass much better and safer there as well as his crossing and speed can help out offensively.
For midfielders, I think the only position that we could add here is Van Bommel's departure if he does join other clubs after his season here. Otherwise, we should have enough creative players there such as Ribery, Robben, Kroos, Sosa and Mueller and then in defensive side, we have Schweinstger, Pranjic, Tymoshchuk and even Ottl. So I guess we could wait until the season ends to see if Van Bommel will renew. If yes, then we dont need to add much here.
