Serie A schedule release: kick off against Napoli at the Franchi
By: slakas | July 28th, 2010
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Mike R:
So we’re starting off with a bang against Quags, Cavani, and co. We were pretty unlucky last year with Frey parrying off a penalty only to suffer a Maggio chip in the 89th minute. Otherwise Napoli can be questionable on the road. We’ve twice beat them at the Franchi, in 07 with a smooth Bobo (yeah that guy, remember him?) and then in 08 with Ricky Monty and Carlos Santana. My real worry comes in Week 13, and 14, although Milan does look shaky in the offseason, and the club in chaos, they are still tough to beat at San Siro and the boys have to travel to Turin the week right after. I like facing Parma and Palermo at home two weeks in a row, heres to hoping we stay solid, but it might be a tricky two weeks come the return trips. Fiorentina Brescia looks like a nice ending and we might be able to play that to our advantage in the event we’re left playing for 4th place on the last day with another team.
In other news, Miha’s tactics are finally starting to make themselves known. From what we know Miha is all about running and more running, his philosophy is “don’t stop running until the ball has touched the net even if you’ve beaten the keeper. He wants 4 attackers at all times who are ready to both attack and then defend should the ball be lost. He plans to play with a defense placed higher than Prandelli’s style and wants all men to be involved in moving forward. His focus however is on free kicks and he and Marcolin (asst. coach) have continued to impress with their deadly accurate kicks. He seems to prefer Ljalic as an all around freekick taker who along with JoJo and Frey seem to be the three most in form players at the moment. Miha has also been impressed by Cool Papa Waigo and has has report ably asked Corvino to hold off on selling him for now.
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i’m starting to think it’s a corvino plot.
watse the entire transfer period on this one ass clown, knowing full well he’d nevefr sign for what we pay. that way when the deal falls thru, corvino can pound his chest and say he tried everything, then he can go off and get a couple of serie b goats as filler, which is probably what he wanted to do all along
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Without Insua its doubtful he’ll let anyone leave now
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Corvino wants to hang on to Gulan and send Bolatti to River Plate on loan
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gulan is listed as a defensive midfielder
not really what we have in mindso let’s play the “if we started today”, game
on the left would be pasqual backed up by felipe?
in the middle would be kroldrup and gamberini, backed up by natali?
and on the right LDS, backed up by comotto?yikes
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I thought Felipe was a CB…anyway I started writing a season review today, should be up soon
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yeah, he’s a central defender, but we’ve put him on the edges before.
there’s no one else really, natali isn’t fast enough
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How about Gobbi, he’s still without a club no? Maybe he wants back now.
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I’d take back Gobbi right away if I could…I really like the guy
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I love Boruc’s rage page. JoJo’s hair needs a page.
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Why are we giving up on Bolatti? It’s like the club is intentionally doing whatever is possible to make our defense be awful.
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i dont think it’s us shopping bolatti as much as it’s river platte trying to get us to give him up
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I would kill to get Gobbi back. The dude puts in a shift every game, he’s tough, he shuts down prancing assclowns like Robben until they have to start swan diving, and his goal celebrations, while not frequent, are always good. At this point, I’m wondering if Corvino isn’t going to sit back, watch and see if we’ve got a chance of qualifying for Europe, and spend accordingly during the Christmas break. He may be as concerned as we are about this squad right now. Also, check Gamberini, Marchionni, Montolivo, and Gilardino getting callups for the national team friendly. Can’t say Prandelli isn’t taking care of his boys.
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the press is talking about this insua thing like it’s a soap opera now.
“we don’t like his entourage” “no one’s talking to each other” “the parties don’t want to have another meeting”
it’s SO un-corvino like. he’s the stealth bomber, you don’t hear about his deals until they’re done. just smells off to me
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ok, so i guess for the second part of training, the Primavera players are off to their own camp in Borgo San Lorenzo. have not yet found a list of which players that would be…
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E ‘come now, at the sports center of S. Piero a Sieve , the bus carrying the players and technical staff of Fiorentina. The team arrived from Florence directly without going through the ‘hotel, So’ is that most athletes are in civilian clothes.
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in other news:
just rumorsavramov still on cesena’s radar.
seculin to trieste is likely, although he is with the primavera team at this moment.
insua, no change. one report says the difference is 100k euros. which would be kind’ve silly, so i take that report lightly
mutu, a ruling from fifa could come this week
juve still wants monto. they still won’t get him.
They are also, reportedly, interested in Gila or pazinni if amauri goes to real madrid. both doubtfulthe agent for Marco Biagianti has come out and said fiorentina have different needs and are not interested in him
another rumor has vargas’ agent in florence tomorrow.
donadel to milan is still a rumor, but reportedly marco doesn’t want to leave. can’t blame him really
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randomly generated slak thought:
Getting called up to the National Team and working with San Cesare might be just the thing Balotelli needs to get the eff over himself
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Well, Bolatti seems a tough defensive midfielder, I’d be glad if he stays, Zanetti and Donadel always have issues, the first is great, but old and extremely injury-prone, the latter is very inconstant. Gobbi is a good and versatile player, also mature at 29, plus we don’t have adequate cover for LB, I’d like to see Felipe play as CB, no offence to Natali, but he’s Serie B material, shouldn’t even be in the squad. Not much point in talking about transfers right now, there is still a long way to go ’till the end of the month, I for one just sit back and wait for some good news (that damn CB…).
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Felipe was the disappointment of the season last year but if he’s still on the team we might as well give him another chance at CB. Our only reliable CB right now is injury prone, and as much as I love the Krolmonster, if he’s our best defender again it means we are not qualifying for Europe again.
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di carmine sold to frosinone
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Everyone’s posting from the Netherlands…I’m actually in said lands…I wonder if that’s jacking stuff up?
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We’re actually all converging on you right now, Tomas.
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i guess this is in case insua falls thru
sounds like a corvino special thoCould take shape in the short future of Andrea Mantovani. The defender, owned by Chievo, has long been courted by several clubs, but now seems ready to step Fiorentina. In this regard, the microphones Tuttomercatoweb reached Graziano Battistini, player agent, who revealed: “At this time Chievo and Fiorentina are talking about the boy. Fiorentina has made a wild sort of provision and is analyzing the Chievo. I, currently, I find myself in Sevilla, but as we all know football is not that strange things are done in a long time can then be done in a moment.
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in other news:
santana is on pace and is recovering nicely. should resume training, end of august
padua asked for babacar and corvino declined.
ADV has so far not shown up at the training camp, although mecucci has said over and over he’ll be there.
take that for what you will.vargas’ agent has a meeting with corvino in florence today, reportedly
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Ljacic has been the star this offseason. He likes playing wide on the left. That’s Vargas’ spot. While Ljacic may get some time on the right and in the hole as well, he seems more comfortable on the left. Mihajlovic really likes Ljacic. Once Mutu comes back, that attacking band will be even more crowded. Seems like Vargas or Marchionni has to be on the out to make room for Ljacic; given his higher price and his agent always being around, I think Vargas is gone by winter at the latest.
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