Game day is here and Italy know that a win or a draw would be enough to see them through to the final 16.
Following a lackluster display against Costa Rica that saw the South Americans snatch victory against a tired and beleaguered Azzurri, Cesare Prandelli looks set to shake up his lineup and formation in what looks to be a tricky final group game against Uruguay.
A Juventus style 3-5-2 is expected to be deployed with a revised lineup to accommodate.
(Thanks to Tarek Khatib)
Gianluigi Buffon will start in goal with Giorgio Chiellini, Leonardo Bonucci and Andrea Barzagli in the back 3. In midfield, Andrea Pirlo will retain his role as regista while Claudio Marchisio and Marco Verratti will start in place of Thigao Motta and the injured Danielle De Rossi. Matteo Darmian will return to the right where he impressed against England while the fit again Mattia De Sciglio will slot in on the left. Up front, Mario Balotelli is certain to start but may play off Ciro Immobile or have Antonio Candreva in support.
Uruguay are expected to line up as they did against England with Luis Suarez deemed to be fit enough to make the starting XI. Edinson Cavani will partner the Liverpool striker up front with Alvaro Gonzalez, Rios, Rodriguez and Lodeiro in midfield.
Probable line-ups
Italia (3-5-2): Buffon; Barzagli, Bonucci, Chiellini; Darmian, Marchisio, Pirlo, Verratti, De Sciglio; Immobile, Balotelli.
Uruguay (4-4-2): Muslera; Caceres, Godin, Gimenez, Pereira; Alvaro Gonzalez, Rios, Rodriguez, Lodeiro; Cavani, Suarez
Formations
Italy
[team1]
Uruguay
[team2]
First.
Stopped by to say that we are in pot 2 of the Champions League draw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_UEFA_Champions_League
i want to see us vs liverpool and monaco but it all depends on our transfer market. if we end up having a terrible market, then we’re screwed even against the likes of anderlecht and olympiakos
What makes you say that? We already have a good team. Many of those are having great experience at the world cup now. Us failing last year wasn’t because of the material we had, it was because of underrestimating Copenhagen, bad tactics by Conte and a shitty pitch. We can easily have Anderlecht and Olympiacos if we solve those problems.
tevez is incapable of playing in a 4-3-3. asamoah and lichtsteiner can’t deal with wingers and fullbacks all by themselves so 3-5-2 is out of the question. if we don’t sign good wingers this summer, we’ll flop again in europe. teams like anderlecht and olympiacos are supposed to be 6pts, not 4
I think youre incorrect. This year was another learning year. We will make a couple good signings. As we have every summer. And get a little better. And maybe get to CL semi’s.
without good wingers, there’s no way we can
3-5-2 is perfect for stronger opponents as seen vs Real Madrid and as seen with Holland right now. It fails against smaller opponents like Copenhagen and like Australia as seen with Holland.
I’m hoping Conte is watching Holland because we showed perfectly the positive and negative things about 3-5-2. We can keep playing this formation, but we will need a couple of backup formations at ANY time. And not just 1 backup but multiple so we can suprise opponents. We must play 4-3-3 in Serie A because we are the better team in any match there. In the CL we can use 3-5-2 in a couple of matches and he needs to keep it in the trainings.
So 3-5-2 is not out of the question, but we need a few different formations.
we played 4-3-3 in both games against real madrid and despite having 0 wingers, we put up a great performance. now replace tevez with sanchez and marchisio with another winger and we could have a great team. by 3-5-2 being out of the question, i was talking CL games.
Did we? My bad then. I can barely remember us playing 4-3-3. All the more reason to play 4-3-3 then, why didn’t Conte work with it later on while it worked so great against Madrid? And why doesn’t Tevez work in 4-3-3? About not playing 3-5-2 in Serie A i’m dead serious. Have you seen us play in Serie A? It was terrible this season. But i still don’t see why we need a great transfer window in order to play 4-3-3 while it worked so well against Madrid. Asamoah is imo fine on the wing and Lichtsteiner is obviously fine on the defence. Let Lichtsteiner focus solely on defence and he will be almost perfect. Attacking is his weakness especially crosses. We have seen that Isla can be effective in attack (and defence), so we can have Lichtsteiner and Isla on the right side, Asamoah on the left side, we’ll need a LB because Chiellini doesn’t play his best at LB. So don’t we need a LB more than a winger?
Because tevez goes missing in a 4-3-3 and machismo isn’t a natural winger. We need 2 good wingers. Isla’s finishing is too poor to be a rw. Asamoah can play lb but he doesn’t like it there.
I don’t wanna see Asamoah in LB either. He’s a decent attacking winger and he is active in that position. Marchisio should never be played at the wing. He’s too good in midfield. Isla can be pretty annoying to judge. His finishing is poor, but he can make great moves and provides threat. He also works really well with Vidal.
Where is everyone ?
i think with all the pages, some people didn’t know where to post
This. It gets really complicated. Saturday i was searching for a while on my phone before i found the active thread and that was only because tpick posted a link somewhere in a different thread.
To be honest, I don’t think people here want to read news since there’s other sites to do that, the reason people love this site is because everyone can share their opinions in such a nice environment, which is unique
Also, just because we don’t comment doesn’t mean we don’t read them!
I keep on reading, but commenting is hard – lot of different places to comment in
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Problem is folks, i need to add new stories every day that are relevant to whats happening – Obviously, I want you to post on the most relevant news of the day – having on thread means that all the other stories look irrelevant because no one is commenting on them.
If i dont add new stories, the site ranking will disappear !
Work with me – just try and comment on all the stories if you can – It makes the site look more active. – When the new season starts, there will only be one thread a week or so for the matches etc.
Will you remember us when your site gets big?
I am willing to do things to get the site on top of the ranking. But for the visitors it’s best to have something like a general discussion thread. Or a match thread for the previous/upcoming match. Switching to a new thread every half a day/every day aint gonna work because we will have discussions running on atleast 5 threads then. This is why a forum works better usually. I know we tried it before and it failed, but it’s perfect for posting multiple news threads. You could even have one thread for news and post everything in that thread. That too is impossible here.
Isn’t it possible to sticky the currently active thread so it stays on top?
It’s more because i’m trying to get the site onto Google news and we need the latest news to always be on top. I think it’s time to try the forum again. What i will need, is for people to still comment on some of the stories here when possible
I’ll do my best to comment on as many stories possible then.
Im so happy to see that italian gesture from caceras after he fell on his ass
mario getting a little rash out there
Verrraaaaatttti hes so fine
the goal aint at the sky immobile
Verratti is a beast
heartattacks everywhere
Mauro Camoranesi is my commentator right now 😀
I think mario should come off and play cerci
how is that a red?
it wasnt, and never has been before in the history of the sport.
i mean yea i get its a foul. even a yellow would have been harsh but still acceptable. how in hell is that a straight red though?
somebody clearly wants Uruguay to win this game, theres no other reason. and its funny how the English commentators are bashing Italy now.
Yellow would have been a good call. Red is ridiculous.
that was the worst call ive ever seen. red card? for what is barely ever a yellow?
The ref is a damn idiot. Marchisio was going for a 360 spin and missed the ball…
Worst nightmare is commin on
Suarez no red for a clear headbutt/bite? Wow. great game ref, its almost like you had money on Uruguay winning.
Now dey decide to attack
This is really fkd nothing has changed since 2010 its like deja vu
That’s not true man. Italy surely has a much better team now. They just failed horribly against Costa Rica and the tactic for this game was terrible.
Bro theres no heart in the team literally iys lyk dey dnt even want d ball
The only players who were really in it was marchisio who eventually got sent off for shit call
Veratti put alot
And buffon
The rest of the team played poorly
Buffon was once again amazing. The heart of this Italy seems to be lying with De Rossi, who wasn’t there yesterday.
Well hopefully this means Prandelli doesnt have a job in the morning…. worst game by a referee ive ever seen.
Suarez was the one who was supposed to be sent off
He didn’t send off Balotelli who kicked someone in the head. He sends off Marchisio instead who went into a challenge too hard, he doesn’t send off Suarez who bites. Seemed like for every call he flipped a coin and let that decide whether or not to give a red card…
I just dont understand why u would play defensive game who cares if we only needed a draw it was one of the most boring games ever
Question: What the fuck?
It is like 2002 world cup. Most matches are decided by stupid referee decisions and host nation supported by ref. Brazil vs Argentina will be in the final just saying.
seems like FIFA wants a South American team to win the WC, Ive never seen 2 easy calls blown this badly before.
Im tired of Balotelli. He never looks interested and Rossi wouldve done way more for Italy.
Wow, that game, littered with bad referee decisions…
And italy were so toothless, offered nothing in attack… Balotelli has been awful apart from the goal vs england and maybe now we know why Immobile was sold…? I believe a certain Italian/American who lives in Florence was required?
Thanks, Prandelli
Agreed about the Italian/American dude. Giuseppe Rossi is exactly what Italy needs. Balotelli was selected on the sole reason that he gets overrated by the media. I know i said different before the world cup, but he didn’t do ANYTHING this world cup. I really want to see Rossi replace him..
This World Cup really showed what I didn’t want to believe… That Italy have so many average and ‘almost’ players which are just strollers. The players looked lost at the end of the game, they had no clue what to do with the ball… But hey, that possession was great!
The only positive is the fact that Verratti was awesome!!
italy have a ton of potential in attack (balo, el shaarawy, berardi, immobile, gabbiadini, zaza, insigne) but none of them have become world class like the baggios, del pieros, tottis, inzaghis, tonis, etc
Well Immobile certainly didn’t show it, he’s 24 now… Hardly that young
Balotelli? Can we really keep excusing his bad performances and awful mentality?
I wouldn’t say Gabbiadini or Zaza are going to be world class
The only one of them you mentioned which I agree with is Berardi, but still quite young, I hope he returns to Juve but I doubt it
Ohh and El Shaarawy, hopefully he can stay un-injured and I hope he puts this season behind him
zaza has the ability to become a great target man, he’s incredibly athletic and a good finisher
Well I hope your right, but I’m not sure about him
Immobile has been inconsistent for a few years now. This season was his first real world class season. I think he’s gonna flop as Lewandowski’s successor. Maybe not in the bundesliga because everyone can score in the bundesliga, but in the CL i think he will. He showed this world cup that he is nothing more than average.
Yea im not too upset now. Good call Conte and Marotta!
It kinda showed me that Pirlo is done.even against England, it was Verratti who was the main influence in the middle. Yea Pirlo had more touches, but Verrattis movement, composure and positioning was everything.
And the 3-5-2 was pretty pointless with Italy, we don’t have wing backs like asamoah and lichtsteiner… and immobile and balotelli couldn’t combine
ancelotti should be made the coach of the nt
That would be an amazing choice
prandelli just resigned
Was to be expected.
This match was disgusting. Italy, Uruguay, Balotelli, Suarez. Didn’t seem like either one was trying to win. Italy was playing for 0-0, Uruguay was playing for 1-0. I’m sorry to say, but Italy deserves this elimination and hopefully they will learn from it. Prandelli certainly has apparently. Uruguay didn’t deserve the 2nd round either and i hope they’re gonna get humiliated by Colombia, who they will likely play. They might without Suarez.
At least we still have holland right 🙂
I’m happy we are still in and seem to be doing quite well for this teams standards, but i am sad for Italy.
Italy didnt deserve elimination, and it was hard fought. Neither team wanted to slip. The Marchisio red card ruined the game.
Based on first game, Italy deserved the next round. I thought they were gonna do pretty good as i liked the way they played in the first match. Second match they were crap and honestly, losing to Costa Rica like that, you have nothing to do on a world cup. 1 bad match is okay though, but this match against Uruguay was TERRIBLE. From both sides. Like i said, Italy played for 0-0, Uruguay for an ugly 1-0.
There is a difference between fighting hard and playing bad for a boring 0-0 draw. Had they fought hard for the next round, they wouldn’t have been eliminated, because Italy can create chances and can score.
But really go and count the bad passes from both teams and you will see how bad this match was. It wasn’t just because neither wanted to slip.
I do agree that the Marchisio red ruined the match for Italy, undeserved. Though for a little bit of time Italy seemed to be doing better with 10.
Haha yeah until Veratti left and Cassano came on.
I agree the team did play too complacent and let it come to them. Normally italy is a absorbing team. But that isn’t what prandelli created.
the entire italy team waited in the locker room for prandelli except for mario who left and went to the bus. what a loser
Im done with that sh*thead. I dont want him anymore. If he has close to zero interest in a huge stage like the world cup, then how will he ever give it his all. F*cking loser, i hope he enjoys his overrated reputation because thats all he ll ever have
balotelli is a first rate piece of shit….. fuck him. he’s a loser that will never be anything, just like cassano.
Cassano was something. He’s just too old now.
I do actually think Prandelli was the biggest problem, he never found the perfect formation so the team never looked completely right… And people were saying how flexibility was good… But not that much flexibility
3-5-2, 4-3-2-1, 4-3-1-2, 4-1-4-1 how many more did we see?
He has always been a problem. Hes a crap national coach. The reason why they did well in 2012 was because the foundation of the team was Juve players and our players were freshly motivated after an amazing season with Conte… Amd he still somehow finds a way to throw it all away in the final. The guy is an idiot and doesnt even have a game plan. We only beat those overrated english losers. We looked like crap vs costa rica and uruguay. Plus hes always tampering with formations and first 11 s in the middle of damn tourneys
Chiellini wasn’t there in the euro final. I still say that is one of the big reasons the defence collapsed in that game. Chiellini played in the group stage against Spain and they drew with only 1 goal against.
It wasnt Chiellini. In the group stages, we played a 3-5-2 which was very effective against spain, then in the final, we played 4-3-1-2 and got our asses handed to us
”we played a 3-5-2 which was very effective against spain”
Yes it is ;DDDD
There are multiple reasons for that defeat, but Chiellini missing is one of them. Around that time Juve got many goals against whenever Chiellini didn’t play. Same happened at Italy. Ofcourse there are more reasons than just Chiellini.
he played in the final, started … which game were you watching? he started and got burned right away the spanish winger and then balzaretti came in shortly after because he looked like shit…
chiellini was injured, prandelli put him in as a lb, and chiellini couldn’t continue like 10min in to the game. idiotic decision by prandelli
What Moho said. Chiellini didn’t play.
We only beat those overrated English losers, uh hmmmm no, no you didn’t.
I forgot im not Italian, but i was speaking as an Italian supporter
Your alive O.o
Alright so i really want Verratti now. Hes a damn genius and i would do a straight trade between him and Pogba. Verratti even defends well. He ll definitely take Juve to a different level.
I agree. If Pirlo is marked out of the game he can take the role of delivering passes. I really want him too.
Yea and it seems that Verratti could handle being man marked. He jogged passed players so many times today
Difference between him and Pirlo is that Verratti is still very young. He can make moves that Pirlo can’t make anymore.
Idk i think Pirlo is ready to retire, but his heart still wants to play. He doesnt look all that motivated anymore.
I don’t wanna believe that 🙁 It’s true what you’re saying, but we have seen brilliant things this season too.
I dont either, but he no longer looks sharp. Maybe a month or two on vacation could help him feel motivated again
Pogba is better than verratti. He attacks better, defends better, and doesn’t get booked as much as verratti does.
Pogba robably does defend better, but Verratti is definitely a better midfielder. Hes more mature, hes far more influential and i dont believe Pogba is the better attacker, not even close.
pogba is far more mature than verratti. verratti makes stupid tackles that earn him a ton of bookings. pogba is a better dribbler and is more direct. he had more goals, more assists, and far less bookings. the only thing verratti has over pogba is passing
Im sorry but i just dont agree. Pogba has become massively overrated and this whole last season he was just good at accumulating nice stats and pretty moments. Verratti is actually influential, far more than Pogba and you want your midfielders to be influential
honestly, John, how many Verrati games did you see before this world cup? It sounds like you watch him every weekend to have such an opinion. Saying that Pogba is massively overrated is like saying pizza isn’t that good.
Pogba had good season and ges being labelled as one of the best midfielders in the world by many, thats worthy of being called massively overrated. He in my eyes is still young talent, but has a very long to go be considered one of the best midfielders in the world.
And for Verratti, maybe i did jump on his back a bit too fast, but theres no denying how well he did. He was the best midfielder out there today and one of the best against England.
I think most people say ”one of the best future midfielders in the world”, and John remember when you wanted Paletta to join us?
You dirt bag :p
Ever heard of the term “hype-train”? Everyone hops on. People hop on that train with everyone else because it becomes status quo to think pogba is a top midfielder. Screw having your own thoughts, just follow hype and let other people tell you what is good.
/sheeple
if pogba isn’t influential, i don’t know what influential is. Pogba is so good that coaches have him man marked instead of pirlo.
Wut. When. Has not happened yet.
has been for the second half of the season
Im pretty sure youre wrong. On the off-chance, one did, that coach is a dumbass.
Being defended is different to getting man marked.
Hes not man marked… You dont expect players to just allow him to have all the space and time to pick flowers do you? He doesnt know how to open up and that makes it easier for him to be defended against. Saying hes been man marked is a poor excuse.
And yes hes not influential. Look what Verratti did for Italy, thats influential. Having moments of magic isnt being influential, thats why its called moments
Chiellini attacking the conspiracy:
And he should really get checked out for rabies
This is fucking ridiculous. I expected special things from Suarez but i wasn’t expecting this.
This is fucking photoshopped.
Well i didnt post that image and that post was right after it happened. It stays fucking ridiculous
Yeah haha. You can just see the colors of this photo have been altered. It looks like the color levels are adjusted and dark shading/blend tool was used to make the bite marks stick out.
Suarez shouldn’t be allowed to play any match in this world cup anymore even if they reach the final. How many matches ban did he get in England for biting? 7? Should be 7 to 10 international matches.
Actually, his fist ban for biting was in the Dutch league back in 2010. He got 7 matches for that, and 10 in England. I’m looking forward for FIFA’s opinion on this.
Yeah i read it too. 13 matches now? :p
My brother and mom were at the game of his first bite.
That first bite was insane, I even read in an article some kids got nightmares because of him.
Lmao he could have been used in a horror story here ;p
Well, he got suspended from 9 matches, and banned from “any football-related activity” for 4 months.
Good enough I suppose.
It’s a good punishment, but i would have liked to see him getting 4 months suspension when the season starts. Now’s its only this world cup and 2 months of club football. Liverpool is probably gonna sue and/ or sell him though, so that adds up.
“Liverpool is probably gonna sue and/ or sell him though, so that adds up”
What do you mean? Whom will Liverpool sue? And what adds up?
Great goal by Jackson Martinez against Japan just now. I wonder how far Colombia is gonna get.
Suarez said ‘this stuff happens’ when asked about the biting incident. No Luis it definitely does not fucking happen.
Players bite eachother every cornor… It’s a normal thing in football. Only when Suarez plays though.
Somewhere back in Italy Beppe Rossi is laughing his ass off.
Why the hell would he be laughing, Italy just got eliminated in the group stages in the world cup for the 2nd time in a row
To be fair this has to be the most controversial exit at a WC ever, Italy deserved the draw/point and to go through. What makes it worse is that Suarez has now guaranteed safe passage for his country in back to back WC’s due to some dishonest play. A handball to save them last WC and now this, despicable, if he isnt banned this entire season FIFA is surely corrupt.
We just sucked….. 1-0 to Costa Rica, c’mon bruh………. you have to just https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0MK7qz13bU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Confirmed: JuventusBuffon is 14.
No no hunny ima grwn arse min..
Barely figured that out? Fyi thats baheer
Haha I had no idea
Thats is true, but i still feel Italy shouldve done much better
Italy didn’t deserve a point in this match. Uruguay didn’t deserve anything either. Both teams were utter crap.
Cuz Prandelli somehow left him out. And as a result our strike force was dependent on some moody asshole and 2 inexperienced players.
i said the exact same thing …. except he’s probably in the US.
Guess we can call it an agreement
I just think it was the wrong approach to go with a 3-5-2 darmain and de ciglio arnt wing backs we hardly used also why the would you take mario off and put another midfielder was there enough already
Should have put another striker
It was overfielded in the mid
Also verattis injury made an impact to
De Rossi injured. Prandelli decided 3-5-2 was best. Darmian did fine.
Prandelli conceded to draw or loss at halftime. Like a pussy.
Marchisio is useless in an azzurri jersey and should never be called again … he’s awful…. there is alot better players than him that should start being given the nod… he’s a disappointment big time….
as for balotelli, he’s a piece of shit, i cant stand that fuckin prick… he should never be allowed to play for Italy again either, he’s a fuckin joke and a head case and he’ll never change. #fuckhim
he deserves all the criticism and venom and hatred he gets … he’s a cancer on any team and he should just fuck off. Permanently.
who else in midfield would you start? montolivo? motta? aquilani? parolo? marchisio is good and was playing well this world cup. without de rossi, he was asked to act as a destroyer and he struggled to do that. you can’t blame him since that’s not really what he does. he was unlucky and got a red card for something that is only a yellow. with pirlo now retired, the midfield 3 should be marchisio-verratti-de rossi
marchisio is meh. always has been ….he’s shown rare and sporadic flashes of brilliance in his career, but never on a consistent basis… one of the most overrated italians in the last 20 years.
it’s funny how people say he’s so good because you don’t notice him in a game …. #maplease
He played LW for two of the three matches, but this last match he was definitely sloppy, very sloppy, but he has had more than just moments of brilliance.
meh … a few moments. he’s even lost his starting position on the squad, which might be a more suitable roll for him moving forwards .. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be on the nazaionale, but him being a starter is debatable, and please don’t ask me who I’d rather start before him, because that’s always the response I hear. #maplease
I wasnt gonna go there, but he did have a top notch euro 2012 and that is more than just a moment.
i dont remember him being top notch …
Your posts make me cringe.
why? it’s an opinion and an observation …we can’t all always be biased when it comes to our own players .. for years I’ve maintained that Marchisio is not a top tier player, but he’s a fan favorite so people get upset when he gets criticized.
You either love him or you hate him i guess.
He’s showed that he can be world class when in top form, so you’ve been wrong atleast 1 whole year.
Strongly disagree about marchisio. He works very hard and makes many things happen for the team. People who dont understand soccer dont like marchisio. His redcard was unreal. If you blame marchisio you are a tardman.
Balotelli fucked up, and I think should just be put at the bottom of the barrel. Make him work twice as hard to earn any spots. He got his chance to show his maturity and he fucked it.
Parolo, and Cassano sub on was all shit decisions. At least Prandelli got to give his buddy Tony playing time at the end of the game. De sciglio sucked ass. He had 1 decent tackle. Innumerable fouls and lost balls.
At least he scored a goal, wish there were more players of whom we could say the same
F*ck you SUAREZ!! F*ck you!! I hope he will get at least 20 matches ban.
was de rossi suspended or injured?
Injured and needed 3-4 days recovery which made him out of the match.
thanks 🙂
Thoughts:
-Prandelli should have brought Rossi
-Cassano should have been left
-De sciglio is not a solid LB yet
-Darmian is class
-Balotelli needs to be taken out of the squad and learn what its like to earn his spot. Learn how to want to play for a team.
-Veratti is a skilled baller. Definitely has a hot head though.
-Uruguay played the chop then flop game (go in hard and fall down easy)
-Suarez is a cunt, as is tradition. But his bite really didnt have an affect on the game. He may have been redded and sent off, but these are all if and maybe. Cant make arguments around that.
-Caceras doesn’t love Juve and Italy as much as we’d like 🙁
-Referees have been pretty biased against all European teams, from what Ive seen.
-Fifa isn’t afraid to protect its money makers
You can´t expect Caceres to love Italy that much when playing them haha. I do agree with the rest of your thoughts tho, captain hindsight 🙂
About the selection, there was more than just one mistake there. What do we bring Paletta, Motta, Parolo and so on for? These guys don’t bring WC success. I would have preferred good old Luca Toni over that walking disaster called Cassano. Where was Diamanti, Criscito, Florenzi? Instead of them we had those mentioned earlier, who did jack shit.
Balotelli was so sluggish, lazy and generally uninterested, I wanted to go to Brazil to kick his backside personally.
I really liked Prandelli but he fucked up majorly for the World Cup. Tactics were wrong,formation was bad, subs didnt work out at all, it’s astonishing.
Suarez deserves a lengthy ban, that should be a clear thing for anyone. I hope Uruguay gets pounded soon. Sorry Caceres, but I really hated what Uruguay did.
Coming from a very disappointed fan, take this comment with a grain of salt, I’m still processing the second group stage exit at the WC in a row
Also, world stat of the day: world cup soccer players are 100x more likely to get bitten by a suarez than a shark.
Currently in Egypt with family, lots of Juve fans out here.
Like this gentlemen
I’d probably get my window smashed in by some butthurt Ajax fan who’s still mad about 1996 if i tried this. Nice stuff man!
combining CL and EL (not including ticket sales), we have made 50mil for the year putting us behind only RM and PSG
I really don’t understand how we make so much profit, last year we also earned really much compared to other big teams. And on a sidenote, I wonder where all this money is being invested in, it sure ain’t big money transfers so far 😛
italian teams earn more money from television companies than other countries’ teams do. that’s where majority of that money comes from. we did make a profit from transfers last year so here’s to hoping that money brings in a couple big players this season haha
We really need them to compete in the CL, I’m still hoping for Alexis, I’d be thrilled to have him at Juve
sanchez and shaqiri as our wingers with bonaventura as back up.
Shaqiri was on fire tonight 😛 Yeah I’d really love Alexis here, shaqiri too. Maybe Di Maria. And lets give Atalanta Padoin +cash or Pasquato or something for Bonaventura and that would be a great transfer market for me
shaqiri-llorente-sanchez would be the perfect attack for a 4-3-3
Or Griezmann, seems to be doing some good shit too
true but he’s gonna be really expensive
Lol Shaqiri wouldnt be? Hes at Bayern who love the kid. Theres a reason not many talk about Shaqiri… He’s not leaving Bayern.
Also if we buy anyone from Bayern, it is Muller. That kid is underrated by everyone outside germany. Hes an ideal CF. Notch him behind Llorente. GG
well shaqiri hasn’t been playing much. he’d move for first team football and rumors are bayern are willing to accept a bid around 20mil. there’s no way we’ll get muller. he’s a starter at bayern, a fan favorite, and loved by the board and coach.
I know we never get muller. He’ll play out at Bayern most likely. Doesn’t stop me from dreaming though 🙂
I forgot to say, why would shaqiri willingly leave learning from the two best wingers in the world, being on the best squad in the world, and getting good playing time?
Firstly this isn’t profit. It is revenue.
I assumed by “made” he meant profits
Use your own judgement. 50Million is an obvious number. Juve is not profiting over 50m/year, let alone solely from Serie A broadcasting.
Prandelli resigns and who do they look for to replace him? Mancini and Allegri. For fuck sake, neither is good enough. Guidolin? Perhaps, if he would be motivated to take the job I rather see him do it than Mancini and especially Allegri. Cannavaro says he’s ready for it, he can do it. Not sure how good of a coach he is (yet) but fuck he would demand respect for the shirt and make them sweat for a place in the team
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Nice! No comment section though, or at least not for me 😛 Did we give up 50% of Boniperti? I thought this guys was going to be huge, surprising to see 50% fly out for another guy I haven’t heard of yet
Haven’t heard of him in ages. I really still wish he will make it big though. Would be so awesome to have another Boniperti becoming a legend. How old is he now?
Are we expecting Morata since Berardi is not coming this season? 🙂
Seems like we do chase him, whether it will happen is something different 😛 I don’t want him to come with a buy-back clause actually, its a humiliating thing for a club like Juve
Agreed. It shocked me when i read about a buy back clause.. Like who the hell are we? Real Sociedad who are trying their best to get into the CL by buying a Madrid player like that?
The english are more upset about the bite than the Italians are. This is funny to watch in the media.
This is the best news about the WC disaster https://football-italia.net/51148/italy-turn-youngsters If this is true, I’malready ecited for the next big tournament
if only we could get ancelotti as the coach. he’d be perfect for developing these youngsters
MEhhh. He is about as good as Italy’s got for semi available coaches
ancelotti is one of the greatest coaches of all time in club football. he managed to develop pirlo and verratti too. i’m sure he can do it with all these other talents. there’s no one better for the job than him
Ancelotti is great. He could do very well with Italy. Im just not a fan of him. He coaches all the teams I dont like 🙁
He has had sick teams to coach too.
he had verratti for a year, he didn’t develop him.
I would love to see Ancelotti coaching the next Italy squad.
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John, i gotta get back at what you said 2 days ago or so. I was watching France play yesterday and even though Pogba didn’t play his best, he made some brilliant passes. Also stole a ball that nearly ended with a goal from Benzema. I would not do a straight swap between him and Verratti, PSG will have to add money.
Well its just my opinion :p
I know, but yesterday i said i agreed but Pogba made me change my opinion
Yeaa, but i really meant was that i feel that a straight swap between the two would be more than fair for us, but i would definitely push for some money in there of course.
Pogba could be better than Zidane. Verratti cannot become that type of player. Verratti could be one of the best midfielders. Pogba could become the best soccer player in the world.
I wish we could keep pogba. But 70+m offer will come soon enough. Then more of them.
We shouldn’t sell him this summer though. He still says he’s happy in Turin and at Juve, so let him be for now. When he’s ready to move on, we should let him go and we will get a shitload of money for him. By then Pirlo might be retired and we should go for Verratti with that money so we can have Marchisio, Vidal and Verratti.
If Verratti can improve that is. That year/years will also give us time to keep an eye on his development, because buying him now might be a little fast.
Or maybe one of the midfielders in our youth section can develop into one of the greatest midfielders to take Pirlo’s/Pogba’s place.
Totally agree pogba should stay until he wants to go. He is excellent for what he is now.
Rushing into things and buying spares “so you have it” can lead to devastation. We have a very solid base to this Juve squad. We can take our time and let this squad come to prime. We have won scudetto for 3 years in a row and this squad is only getting better. The sky is the limit for Juve right now. Not build from money and influence. The team is built on hard work and strong relationships. I still miss ce capitano.
Pinturicchio, ci manchi.
Verratti isn’t the type of player to get all the pundits though, much like pirlo has been his entire career up until he happened to have a good game vs england 2 years ago and suddenly gets recognised for his genius. Pogba however is a player who already has the spotlight from England (where much of the worlds hype comes from) because of the way he left and is someone who scores goals which is unfortunately all people who buy into hype notice.
For 70+m I’d carry him to whatever club signs him
“Pogba had good season and ges being labelled as one of the best midfielders in the world by many, thats worthy of being called massively overrated.” – John
to now being all over Verratti after 2 group stage matches.
Ive always like Verratti and saw small glimpses of him…
I only love him more now because not only was he a genius against England, but he was one of the only ones who looked extra determined and was one of the ones who was dangerous against uruguay when Italy was down.
To point out the irony you think Pogba is overrated on such simple criteria. Then turn and overrate a player in the same way.
Im not talking about how good anyone is, mostly that you contradicted yourself 😛 Its easy to use buzz words and not explain em.
Im sorry, its early… In what way did i overrate Verratti? Is it because i called him a genus?
You did call him a genius against England, a team who didn’t win a single group game and only got 1 point because Costa Rica didn’t give a damn about the last game. I’m not saying that he isn’t a great player. I just agree with Juventin1897 in his assessment of your assessment of Pogba vs Verratti. If that makes sense.
Well yea thats true. I guess i let the emotions of the elimination of the WC get to me and i was kinda irrational… Happens often if you guys didnt notice :p
Anyways, have you gone on that diet plan thing i posted who knows how long ago ?
Epic subject change there John, top draw lol
I was just wondering because it took me a while to right my diet plan and i struggled a bit because it was in a hot sauna!
I hardly think saying someone was brilliant in a game that he was brilliant in is overrating him. For the record pogba is massively overrated.. Won’t complain if it works out in our financial favour though.
We should keep pogba and sign verratti.
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