05-14-2012, 01:26 AM
(05-13-2012, 08:33 PM)arcticengineer Wrote:(05-13-2012, 05:55 PM)tom-tom Wrote: What a finish indeed for Manchester City, that was better than Hollywood. New Champions in Italy, Spain and England, Borussia Dortmund are the only team that held on to their crown for a second consecutive year.
Galliani is still trying to convince some of the old guards to stay. This is an attitude I dont agree with, if a veteran such as Nesta can still perform then by all means, let's try and keep that player. But don't try to convince people to stay when they are way over the hill, way past their primes just to keep the past alive. Zambro, Gattuso, Seedorf, Pippo are done, they had their time, it was great, won plenty of trophies but time has caught up with them. Time to move on Galliani, face the present. How is it logical to try and keep Gattuso, Zambrota, Pippo while at the same time you sell players like Kaka and almost pato?
I'll tell you why. Because you can't lose one third(?) of the 1st team players in one go without it having some (negative) impact on the club/team. Who says Seedorf's gonna play more than...what, 5-10 games perhaps? Seedorf and Ambrosini can act as role models for younger players and so on.
1st team players? except for Nesta and MvB, NONE of those guys are first team players. They WERE, once upon a time, first team players. If Seedorf remains I really hope Galliani won't say something like "we don't need another attacking midfielder cause we have Seedorf, a great champion". Seedorf a role model? Maldini was a role model, Baresi was a role model, Ambro is a role model, not Seedorf.