As the new season gets underway in Serie A, Nezzazurri fans could not be faulted for having a feeling of optimism. The demise of ‘champions’ Juventus to Serie B, the docking of 8 championship points of housemates, AC Milan & the awarding of the 2005/06 league title (their first in… well let’s just say eons).

You noticed, I haven’t even begun to drop names and speak about Inter’s summer imitation of Chelsea (2004 onwards) & Real Madrid (throughout Fiorentino Perez’s presidential reign). So now I am…

* Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Juve)
* Patrick Vieira (Juve)
* Fabio Grosso (Palermo)
* Hernan Crespo (Chelsea)
* Olivier Dacourt (Roma)

All world class names who would slot into any good first eleven in the world (well? maybe apart from Dacourt of course).
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