Looks like he may be on the move!!

Cribari and Rozehnal rely on being physical, they are very similar and I think that could be why Delio likes Siviglia in there.

On a seperate note is there do you know anything about matuzalem. I thought i read somewhere back a few weeks ago he almost ready to come back. Whats happened? whats he suffering with do you know??? thanks for the help, love reading your blog its quality

Rossi himself has fixed ideas regarding Stefan. He tends to rotate Kolarov and Radu depending on the gameplan. Kolarov is naturally more attack minded, so home games against weaker opposition is when he plays most. Radu is naturally defensive so he tends to play the away games or the big matches against the Inter’s, Milan’s and Juve’s of this world.

Neither Kolarov or Radu have been having a great season, both men have looked defensively susceptible at times. The fact that Rossi choose to keep Radu at left back through the worst of defensive injury crises would suggest to me that he sees Radu as a left-back and solely a left-back. He is an option for centre, but Rossi shows no signs of moving him there.

As for the Rozehnal-Cribari pairing, Rossi sees them both as left centre-backs and that’s why they don’t play much together. Siviglia and Diakite are considered right centre-backs. Rossi seems to believe that you need one of each in the backline but in my opinion, that hasn’t worked well for us this season. If Rozehnal and Cribari were our regular centre-backs, Diakite would still get his chance when injured. Think about it, if Rossi thinks both Rozehnal and Cribari are left centre-backs then Diakite, as a right centre-back would have no problem stepping in should one of the two get injured.

I would, however, almost guarantee that Rossi will revert to a Rozehnal-Siviglia pairing when Sebastiano is fit again.

TU NON SARAI MAI SOLA!

For me, Rozehnal and Cribari need to play regularly. Delio dismissed this combination before giving it a chance and at present, he prefers the mistake-ridden Diakite and Siviglia over Emilson. Goodness knows why.

Rozehnal and Cribari are both 28 or so and could have 4 years of a good partnership. By that stage, Diakite will be more tham ready and Tuia should have made his breakthrough. Perhaps we could get in one world class centreback and let Siviglia go but Rossi will never do that.

I think every position can do with strengthening, we can always improve the squad but I don’t think there’s any position in dire need of reinforcement. Rossi simply has to strike the balance. The reason I say that is I don’t believe even he knows who his best eleven are.