Well, That’s Over
By: Ted | August 4th, 2008
Coming back from a long weekend often means I find myself at my desk, staring at the pile of work that has built up while I was gone. Today, however, I came back to a bit of good news, that Adrian Mutu has apparently signed an extension that will keep him in Florence until 2012. Now all this silly Roma nonsense can come to an end.
There are still conflicting reports coming out of Florence regarding the contract; some reports say it will be signed as late as Thursday, while other suggest it has already in fact been signed, and the club and Mutu are waiting for an official announcement.
This is undoubtedly good news for Fiorentina. Mutu continues, for now, to be the Viola’s best big-game outfield player, at least until Gila finds his old form or one of the kids unseats him. This puts us in a much better position with the Champions League coming up, and puts rest to the notion that Fiorentina are a small team that must always sell their best players.
This should also FINALLY put all the Roma stuff to bed. This report claims Mutu has been joining the crowd in anti-Roma chants lately (trying to win back the fans) so it looks like a safe bet he’s not going to capitol. It’s good for us, and good for Italian football as a whole.
Now that I’m back I’ll be posting more frequently as we move towards the qualifying round of the CL. Hope everyone is well.
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You bought up Almiron too.
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Let’s hope the return to Tuscany brings back his Empoli form.
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For his and Fiorentina’s benefit I hope so. I don’t know why Juve insisted on loaning him out and not selling him. Raise his mercato value so we can break even?
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It isn’t really a traditional loan though, is it?
From the Gazzetta story, it sounds like a “buy now, pay later” deal, with the fee fixed (at 3.5 million) if the Viola decide to keep him next year. If they decide not to keep him, it seems like they don’t owe anything, though they seem to have some option over a comproprieta interest.
It will be interesting to see if there is an “understanding” that he won’t play against Juve.
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3.5million euros for full? I hope that’s for half of his card. From what I read Fiorentina have paid a small amount upfront for the year-loan, with an option to sign him on co-ownership at the end.
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uefa.com says it’s a loan with an option for co ownership
ACF Fiorentina have signed Juventus midfielder Sergio Bernardo Almirón on a one-year loan with an option to turn the transfer into a co-ownership deal at the end of the season.
Serie A career
The 27-year-old Argentinian, under contract at Juventus until summer 2012, has moved for a fee of €400,000. Almirón arrived in Turin during the last close season from Empoli FC for €9m but never managed to become a regular in Claudio Ranieri’s side, playing only nine league games before being loaned to AS Monaco FC in January. During his Serie A career the versatile midfielder has also represented Hellas-Verona FC and Udinese Calcio, whom he joined from CA Newell’s Old Boys in 2001. Fiorentina meet SK Slavia Praha in the UEFA Champions League third qualifying round, where Juve take on Tampere United or FC Artmedia Petržalka.Posted from
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haha rangers knocked out of the champs league. probably just sour grapes, but I still don’t like them for that uefa cup tie. two of the most frustrating matches i’ve seen
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Does anyone else worry about what all these transfers do to team chemistry or am I being old fashioned in that concern. Lots of quality at midfield: Montolivo, Kuzma, Semioli, Santana, Melo, Jovetic, Donadel, Jorgnesenvand now Almiron. Up front we have Mutu, Gilardino, Pazzini, Osvlado and Papa Waigo (who i guess plays centrocampista, too). Is there enough playing time to go around and if not, won’t this affect morale? Seems like someone’s got to get transferred.
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Well, if Fiorentina are going to make a go of it the Champions League, they will need a deeeeep bench. There can be no “B” teams, especially if they also want to challenge for the Scudetto this season.
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The uefa.com story makes much more sense than the first reports yesterday and seems to be right.
And I’m with Johonna on the depth question; the club needs to have more quality outside the starting XI than it ever has before. A number of the guys you mention are not expecting to start every match in both Serie A and the CL (actually, no one except Frey and Gamberini should expect to start every single one). And to the extent that some egos may be bruised, I can’t think of anyone I’d rather have dealing with that situation than Prandelli.
I’ve been Viola for more than 30 years, and this is probably the best squad I’ve ever seen. It is certainly the deepest.
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Ursus
That is good to know. I am pretty new to my love for the Viola and to paying attention to Serie A. To use a perhaps not-so-apt Americna baseball analogy, the Viola remind me of the Baltimore Orioles of the 1970s and 1980s. They were a small market team — compared to the free spending damn NY Yankees — that relied on developing kids through their farm clubs. They went on to largely dominate and contend in their division for many years, while the Yankees bought their way into contention but a lot of strife. I grew to like the Viola even more because of this mental association with the baseball team of my youth, and I hope they don’t lose the intangible characteristics that make them special.
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Ursus: Interesting comparison, esp. since I too grew up loving those old Orioles–though I’d move your timeframe back to the ’60s, when they were developing Palmer, Powell, Johnson, Belanger, Blair, Rettenmund, et al. The Viola do have a bit of that underdog thing going for them, I think, but I also remember that those terrific Orioles teams of the late ’60s/early ’70s always had TERRIBLE trouble attracting much of a following at home. Let’s hope that’s never the case with Fiorentina!
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is the mutu contract finally signed? can we make him sign in blood, just in case
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After watching the Mutu drama occur, I’m actually glad that he didn’t make the switch to Roma. He would’ve helped the Giallorossi immensely, but it would’ve been one of the messiest breaks I’ve seen. Anyway, I am interested to see what he can do with GilaMonster, so no hard feelings. I’m glad you’re keeping your MooTwo.
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ciao ragazzi guardate i romanisti come stanno messi http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IGLSkL1tj80, altro che Mutu!
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