(08-11-2011, 04:10 PM)millinarios Wrote: ................... Barbara Berlusconi (btw, that should "BaBe" in short ) quote .................

The best post in this thread in months. I never expected to such lively, deep, romantic , meaningful & priceless point in this thread. God bless you .....

(08-11-2011, 04:46 PM)mzk57 Wrote:

(08-11-2011, 04:10 PM)millinarios Wrote: ................... Barbara Berlusconi (btw, that should "BaBe" in short ) quote .................

The best post in this thread in months. I never expected to such lively, deep, romantic , meaningful & priceless point in this thread. God bless you .....

Can some one please give me one good reason to be happy for Italian football?????? I mean come on, I am feeling depressed now ..... seriously I have have been hearing all these utterly nonsense speeches on Italian football being in crises for God knows how long now. Italy won the World Cup, 3 UCL trophies (how many Spain have won? 4 & EPL 2?), 2 World Club championships, 4 Ballon Dor winners, which should have been 5 (Sniejder, 2010). Italy just missed out on penalties in 2008 Euro Championships & if it wasn't for that coward Luca Toni's multiple pathetic let downs, Italy would have beaten Spain in 90 minutes & who knows might have ended as Champs. As for the recent failure in UCL, well one can argue Italian teams bad approaches + tactics, but at the same time look at the unbelievably high number of bad luck incidents with the Italian teams:
- 2005 UCL final
- Ibrahimovic missing an open goal vs Liverpool (2005). 9/10, he scores those
- Unfair red cards in each leg for Inter against Liverpool
- Juve losing to Chelsea 3-2 agg despite playing fantastically well (Nedved injury)
- ACM missing key players vs Tottenham, ManU & Arsenal (Seedorf in UCL)
- Roma losing to Arsenal on penalties. How did Roma lose that tie???????????

My point is if this is called crises, then I am confused how do you define success. As for Italian clubs not playing like current Barcelona team, well wake up man ............... Messi, Villa, Xavi, Iniesta, Alvez, Puyol are players that come once in decades & they all are playing in one team at the same time. That won't happen again any time soon. Just remove Barcelona & then compare things, it won't feel that bad .....

(08-11-2011, 04:49 PM)Kastriot Wrote: Cmon Zeekay "BABE" is deep,romantic and meaningful???!!!!

Trust me, more meaningful than saying Mr.X is Fabregas or Hamsik

(08-11-2011, 05:16 PM)mzk57 Wrote: Trust me, more meaningful than saying Mr.X is Fabregas or Hamsik

(08-11-2011, 05:52 PM)Gabriel426 Wrote: Maybe when it comes to winning CL, Serie A teams are not too shabby compare to EPL and Liga teams, but look at the quality of players. Most of the best players in the world are found in EPL and Liga. It is only a matter of times before guys like Pato, Hamsik, Hernanes and others leave Serie A for EPL and Liga. Like I said earlier, if a club comes to Milan and say, 60mil for Silva, Milan will not say no.

Liga tams might be in debt, but since they all own their stadiums/land, it is easier for their govt to bail them out while teams in Serie A can't say the same. On top of that, Serie A probably got the worst World wide appeal out of the top four leagues.

Take my cable plan for example, EPL costs more than twice compare to Serie A while Liga is just about double e price of Serie A and Buda is abit more expensive. This is mainly due to their scheduling and appeal.