inter have dross in their team?
sneijder, cambiasso, milito, pandev, maicon, lucio, zanetti, shall i keep going?
also i think rossi is coming in for more depth to squad and possibly to replace pedro. they have no real depth
Only dross, or dross? the later, they have some quality, and they have some poopy. Lucio out injured and Inter were pants in defence, their other starting CB missed most of the season, their 2nd string CB's are, honestly, completely pathetic.
Inter have a lot of quality, and a lot of not good enough players, a lot of their quality is basically on the edge of their retirement, Lucio this season vs 2 seasons ago is almost a different person(though still pretty damn good).
They aren't an attacking force, the Italian league isn't really setup to be one, what did Barca and real score, 95 and 102, Inter, 69. You'd simply expect the top scorer at Barca to get a LOT more than at Inter.
Only one of the players you mentioned got over 5 goals, Sneijder had a fairly poor year frankly, Pandev had a horrible season, Maicon offensively good, defensively he's very poor, Zanetti is on life support, Milito had a horrible season vs the year before, largely due to injury but also because the team was rather built for Milito the year before and really not at all this season.
So of your list I'd say, 2 had good seasons and the rest were significantly worse than the season before for various reasons. Other than the ones you mentioned a lot of the guys who stood in for injured players, were infact dross.
Also Barca have quite a lot of depth, people just don't see them play so assume they aren't any good, Barca have, well, Arsenal need to offer their medical/training team about a billion quid each to fix Arsenal. Maybe the least effected by injuries team, for a decade, of anyone, a guy got cancer this year and was back a few months later AND making Utd his "female dog", after a handful of appearances he was fantastic in that final. They don't need depth, we don't see their depth because of the lack of injuries and insane fitness, but they DO HAVE depth. They also have massive versatility, in both their system(throughout games their midfield moves all over the shop) and when people do get injured, Abidal is a great CB and left back, Mascherano can drop in as right back or CB and did so quite effectively, pretty much any of their attacking players can play any of the front 3 positions(and drift all over the place in every game).
So if Puyol gets injured they don't necessarily need a CB, they move Abidal across and put in their reserve left back, who did a fine job for the past 2 seasons whenever called on.
Rossi is a signing for the sake of, as before, making a show of being able to sign whoever they want, the whole president thing Real/Barca do, run campaigns and promise signings, running for election and promising stability, no signings and massive profits wouldn't go down well.
