Fiorentina: News and Notes
By: Ted | May 6th, 2008
It’s been a quiet week for the Viola, largely because the boys do not have a mid-week game for the first time in a long time. I feel like I should be prepping a match preview for tomorrow, but I accept the break just as the team must welcome it: with two incredibly important matches yet to play, they need the time to rest and refocus. With all this free time on my hands, however, I can pass along what little news is getting out about the club. Some of these are just rumors, and as we all know about football rumors on the internet, you can only trust em’ as much as you trust the source.
First, here is the Great Man talking about the toll the UEFA Cup run has taken on his club. He’s not making excuses, but just stating facts when he says the boys were emotionally and physically exhausted. I think we will see a fresher and crisper team this weekend.
Next, here is some transfer gossip suggesting Ujfalusi will probably go to Athletico, since he won’t play in Italy if not in purple and he apparently isn’t interested in England. Tomas had an up-and-down season, but in my mind there were more ups than downs, and I would prefer if he stayed. But it looks like he is not in Prandelli’s future plans.
Here’s some more scuttlebutt that Fiorentina are getting close to signing highly-rated Russian ‘keeper Igor Akinfeev. Obviously this is the back-up plan if Bassy leaves. Prandelli and company need to have a fall-back, of course, but it would be my STRONG preference that they keep THE WORLD’S BEST GOALKEEPER in Florence. Pretty please? If you sign him, you can consider it both my birthday and Christmas presents…
Finally, here is a bit of gossip from the ‘Violanews’ webpage, which tends to be slightly more reliable than some of the other sources out there, although it is still gossip. The site is reporting that Fiorentina will have a war-chest €40 million and are already close to working out an agreement to sign Alberto Gilardino. Interesting. These rumors, if true, would also probably have an effect on what happens to Frey and even (possibly) Pazzini, so keep your eyes open. We will see what actually occurs.
That’s all for now. Thanks everybody. I will be back later this week with more news before the previews of this weekend’s match.
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Mutu’s suspension is for 2 matches, so he’s done. Honestly, I don’t think that hurts us much as most would think. We won at Juve without him.
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Gilardino? Just what we need, a Milan cast-off.
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By the way, the team I think you were referring to with Ujfalusi is Atletico. You apparently put together Athletic Bilbao and Atletico Madrid to get the new conglomeration “Athletico”.
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I see both clubs (Bilbao and A Madrid) spelled Athletico pretty often.
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It’s a common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. The Spanish word for Athletic is Atletico, without an H, as in Atletico Madrid. The Basque club is Athletic Bilbao, which is in English as a homage to their origins, they were Atletico Bilbao under Franco due to language laws and calling them that today is considered an insult to their Basque identity.
Glad to see that even if Fiorentina don’t quality for the CL the club is willing to spend as necessary. Hopefully the core of the team remains intact.
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I think that we already have Melo and Jovetic. I am also about 90% sure that we have a deal already made to bring Barzagli home. I also think that there is a very good chance that we will be getting Rosina to play on our left wing next season, when we will be trying the 4-2-3-1 again. I don’t think that we need too many additions other than to provide depth. Consider that so many of our players have not yet reached their prime and are still getting better each year.
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