"Since suffering his first series of career–threatening injuries with Vicenza and Fiorentina in 1985 and 1986 respectively, he was prone to persistent knee problems in particular, which often limited his playing time, and which, as a result, led certain pundits, such as Benedetto Ferrara of "La Repubblica" in 2010, to label Baggio as a "superfine talent," but who was also "inconsistent," while the former's colleague – Maurizio Crosetti – had previously described Baggio as "fragile," in 1995.