Seeing news that Davide Zappacosta might be heading to Genoa (on loan, obviously) made me think about Antonio Conte's insane obsession with full-backs.

Zappacosta wasn't even a regular at Torino & he cost Chelsea €28m plus bonuses!

Last season, Conte's Inter brought in;

Valentino Lazaro €22m
Ashley Young €1.5m
Cristiano Biraghi (loan)
Victor Moses (loan)
(& don't underestimate the wage costs either)

But discovered that Danilo D'Ambrosio (who was already there) was their best full-back by some distance

Now they've added Aleksandar Kolarov €1.5m &
Achraf Hakimi €40m while seeing Dalbert (who cost €20m in 2017) return from his loan at Fiorentina.

Soon there'll be an episode of "Hoarding: Buried Alive" & they'll show Antonio Conte's attic overflowing with average full-backs.

And let's not forget his time at Juve. The summer he arrived they'd already agreed a deal for Reto Zeigler but he didn't like him so he never played a minute for the Bianconeri.

During Conte's three-year Juve tenure he oversaw the arrivals of;

Stephen Lichtsteiner €10m
Marcelo Estigarribia €0.5m
Martin Caceres €8m
Mauricio Isla €18.8m
Federico Peluso €6m
Kwadwo Asamoah €18m