Summer mercato 2012

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Its good news in that we lose another deadweight. But guess what. Galliani explicitly stated that we are NOT going to replace him with ANYONE. We are NOT going to bring in ANYONE for his spot.

Still feel good? We lose a body and management refuses to replace him. We're going to use Nini as the starter and Bone(head)ra as the sub.

We still have Didac and Antonini, never mind Di Sciglio who might get quite a lot of games this season if preseason is anything to go by. Getting rid of Mesbah is something we needed to do this summer, irregardless of whether he's replaced.

I read an Amelia leaving rumour, what is going on this summer? Doesn't matter if you rate him or not, we can't change the whole team...

I read that Spurs are interested as they aren't likely to get Julio Cesar who has high salary demands. Personally I just think it's a rumour and nothing more.

Can someone recall Flamini's last season with Arsenal?
I remember he was a monster that year playing alongside Cesc but I'm trying to remember if he was played a CDM or they had someone else for that role. I'd appreciate If anyone can confirm if that was the case and if so then he should be the player we try there.

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In that side Flamini was acting as the destroyer in midfield, often being compared to Gattuso.

I really am not surprised by Cassano. He's always been a dirtbag everywhere he's been. I was expecting this sooner or later. I've never been a big fan of his anyway. I admire his talent....but I can't stand his lazyness and attitude. The guy could have been a great, but he only cares about himself. Never does any defensive work on the field and is only interested in the game when he can be in the center of it. He hasn't been fit enough to last a full game (effectively) in years now. And although many may not agree with me and I may get attacked for my statements, I just don't really care about him to be honest.

My only problem with this whole situation is that we are giving away one of the few creative tools we have in the team. Pazzini is the type of striker that we actually can use in our team.....however he is useless without the proper creativity behind him. So even if I'm ok with Pazzini, we need creativity in the midfield. I've been saying that the whole summer and I can't believe that we may not even address that problem.

I'm very interested to see what happens next.

I agree with you about Cassano. To me he was nothing more than a joker to bring off the bench. He's an impact player and coming off the bench can make a huge difference, but he's not a player to build the side around, he's not a team player and he's not a player that can last 90 minutes. Personally, I have no qualms over losing him, I don't see it as a huge loss.

About the Pazzini deal, I'm with Xudong, in that the deal is fine, with us getting Pazzini which is the kind of player we need (if the Berlusconi cup showed anything outside of our defence sucks, it's that we need a prima punta). However, Cassano plus 7m is a pretty steep deal.

Of the names we've been linked to, such as Matri, Pazzini, Borriello and Bendtner, then Pazzini is only second to Matri for me.

Just read an article on my favorite BPL club.

Interesting read, honestly, talking about youth and all that:
Thought I'd share it here

Maybe if our youth setup actually followed a similar template, we wouldn't have so much problems.


To think that their kids actually drew 1-1 with the ones from La Masa.

Thanks for the read, it is an interesting article. I think we're following a similar template already if I'm honest. I think since Allegri took over we've seen much more attention given to our youth sector, with them often training with the seniors. Also, a year ago when Stroppa was unexpectedly replaced by Dolcetti, I think this was with a view to developing youth players who can make the transition to the senior set up, as there's no other explanation as to why we would replace Stroppa who had done really good things.

I think we need to have patience, as this work will take a few years to really come to fruition.