18th June 2014
Domenico Berardi – An outcome is expected to be reached today for Juve’s half of Domenico Berardi. From what i’ve read in the papers this morning, Saussolo are prepared to part with their half of the player in exchange for full ownership of Simone Zaza. Gazzetta, Tuttosport and various others are all stating that the player has already said yes to a move, despite his agent refuting this in the last few hours. It seems the likeliest deal to take place, especially with all the talk of Conte switching to a 4-3-3 and the relative ease with which Berardi would fit into this.
Alexis Sanchez – I’ve read a lot of conflicting reports on this potential move. The price seems an obvious stumbling block with Barcelona expecting at least £20m for the player. Manchester United were reported to be close to signing the player as the first major signing of the Van Gaal era. Liverpool were also interested in the Chilean but reports in the UK and in the Italian press suggest the player is more keen on a return to Italy and would prefer to play under Conte. A deal with the player was supposedly reached last week but the stumbling block was Barcelona’s valuation of the player.
Romelu Lukaku – The Belgian striker, currently on duty at the World Cup, is almost certain to leave England this summer. Asked about Juve’s reported interest in him, the Chelsea man said:
“I’m proud of Juventus’ interest in me, but I’m just thinking of Belgium for now,” [Sky Italia]
A later story appeared in the Metro Newspaper just yesterday stating that Chelsea want £32m for the striker and have already rejected a loan move from Juventus for the player.
[Source: Metro]
Juan Iturbe – A new name to be thrown into the mix. With Alexis Sanchez (see above) reportedly being priced out of a move to Turin, Juve may turn their attentions to Juan Iturbe of Hellas Verona. The talented winger was on loan to the Italian side last season but they made quick work of making the deal permanent at the end of May for a fee believed to be €15m. The latest on this comes from trusted transfer figure, Gianluca Di Marzio:
Juventus is monitoring the transfer market to find new reinforcements for Antonio Conte. They are targeting Hellas Verona’s Juan Manuel Iturbe and Romulo. The sporting director Sogliano attended Juventus’ meeting with Sassuolo and set the price for the Argentinian winger: €30M plus add-ons. Juventus isn’t interested at these conditions. They can offer at max €15M and give some players in exchange. The negotiation is difficult and has been postponed until the resolution of the co ownerships. (Source: Gianluca Di Marzio)
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First and sweet you decided to go with my idea!
2 victories right there guys!
Dont be too proud… Rav only re exercised the old idea of having one thread for transfer talks!
Used my idea.. Deal with it 😉
https://football-italia.net/49800/dortmund-offer-%E2%82%AC19m-immobile
Dortmund to offer 19m for Immobile. Still say no to this, we need a CF like him, keep him lazy eye, keep him!
Immobile should stay at Torino next season. Torino is playing European football! It will be good experience and he is not ready to start and we need a better striker than llorente. Immobile would waste a season as a 3rd choice striker. Decide after next season, or in January (help us hold scudetto if we have european ambitions).
But with the way hes banging in goals, he wont be a 3rd choice. He d be rotated along with Llorente. There wont be a 1st choice or 2nd choice, itll be who does better in training or whose style would be more effective against said opposition.
Banging in goals for Torino and Juventus are different things. Im not against bringing him in. I dont want him going to germany thats for sure.
Yeah, it should be easier for us.. Assuming he could deal with the additional pressure.
Immobile is better than Llorente, he would start alongside Tevez. If anything, I would buy our half of Berardi and move him to Torino and move Boakye to Sassuolo, in exchange for our half of Immobile.
This is ridiculous. Germans having a laugh over this probably. They must’ve said, “lets lowball at 19 just to make them mad,” damn were they surprised when it actually worked.
So Marotta s favorite loan with OPTION to buy is now gone like the wind and it has turned into an obligation to buy… Does that mean Sassuolo will have to buy Berardi after next season if he were to stay there for an extended year(which is looking likely)?
Their contracts are signed as they are so it shouldnt affect them. As all italian laws there is probably wiggle room no one understands yet. Besides the ones making the decisions. Juve should bring him in just incase. As goes with Gabbiadini, Masi, Boakye, Immobile, Marrone, etc. Refresh all the loans to include reduced call-back fees, better buy-back priority options, and all.
I thought it was the co-ownership which is being abolished?
co-ownership is the only thing i know of that is getting abolished. as i understand, teams are allowed to extend co-ownerships for up to one more year, after that teams must decide whether to buy or sell the player.
You can extend them for an extra year (btw its co-ownerships not loan and option to buy that is being stopped) but even so we could have just loaned berardi to sassuolo.. Come on John, get on the ball!
Did you just tell John to get on your balls?
On the ball Dutch.. You fantasies are taking over again, take deep breaths and return to reality :p
https://www.football-italia.net/49828/immobile-dortmund-tomorrow
Fuck this.
lame. watch us pay 15m for Osvaldo now, or 15m for the completely unproven Pereyra….
Jesus Christ Pereyra… Surely Marotta has bigger ideas than him… Has he even had that much if a good season?
He had an alright season. Not even good
I dont get this shit. We paid 11mil for half of giovinco…but will only get 9mil for half our half of immobile? Marotta is a fucking retard when it comes ro selling players. Gala completely played him on the melo deal and bvb are just getting an amazing deal for immobile
Marotta isnt very good at his job. Hes brought us some good players, but for every good player he brings in, he brings in a fucking loser, or lets a quality player slip away.
You’re kidding right..?
No, im not kidding. Hes done a good job, but not a great job. And if you look at a list of the players hes bought, half are busts, or players i would consider busts, like Krasic, Isla, Gio, Vucinic and Quagliarella. Just because the fans like them, doesnt make them good players. Hes also passed up on many good players, just because he doesnt want to spend an extra 1-5m. But he finds money for gems like Padoin and Martinez, and money to co-own every fucking kid in Italy(that he will eventually let slip through his hands).
Quags was pretty good until he tore his acl. Even then, he was always good in the CL. Vucinic is inconsistent but his runs of good form have been a major factor in our wins over the years
Quagliarella had a good half a season, and has been shit since then, scoring a couple decent goals here and there. Him not starting, and barely playing, should tell you how good he actually is, same goes for Vucinic. When we had shit forwards, of course they both looked good, but now that we have good forwards, you see how bad those 2 actually are in comparison. If I had to rate Marotta out of 10, hed be a 6.5. He tells people we have little money to spend, when in reality we could spend more on players, thats just not how he manages transfers. If we had Secco still, we wouldve fought for Aguero and Sanchez, amongst other players. He wouldve overpaid, but we wouldve had a much better team, a team that could fight every year for the CL. And no we wouldnt have gone bankrupt, we might have more debt, but no banks give a shit about football debt for top clubs, as evidenced by La Liga, EPL and Ligue 1.
For the record, there arent any “10’s” out there as far as transfer directors go, for me at least. Atletico Madrid and Udinese would be the closest at an 8.5. Nobody is perfect, or even close to it, every director has a few “wtf” transfers, some more than others.
i agree with alot of what you say but the part about secco is wrong…. sure, me and you would fight for those players because it’s common sense, any fan would make those types of players their first order of business.. he also didn’t in any remotely way show that he would have had a much better team, they were horrible when he was there, the worst in their history maybe… and about the debt thing, everyone would go into huge debt when buying those types of player on a consistent basis, thats why teams dont do it… Juve doesnt have the ability to carry debt loads like Man U, Barca or Madrid. plus they’re tight asses too.
Playing a 4-4-2 is what killed us during the Secco era, going through what? 5 coaches in 2-3 seasons killed the team, and directly lead to 2 7th place finishes. We had a 3 CM team, but played Melo and Diego out of position. He wasnt afraid to spend big money, and for the most part, Melo, Diego and Amauri were all really good before coming to Juve. Thats what I liked about Secco, he gave us hope that the big name players could actually arrive at Juve. With Marotta, we know damn well that 25m is a stretch. And Im not talking about spending 100m like those teams you listed, but we could spend 50-70m again, like Secco did, and we would be fine. 70m would set us up nicely.
yeah, he is a tight ass .. 25 million certainly is a stretch because I don’t think he ever spent even half that on a transfer … No? Vucinic and Martinez come to mind as his highest priced transfer.
Martinez…there’s a winner. I think vucinic and Matri were the most at around 18m. I just wish Marotta was a little more like secco. Not the overpaying part and ridiculous salaries part, but his ability to spend. His understanding that money spent now could set us up for seasons of positive returns. If secco had Marottas scouts we would’ve been golden. The scouts are who deserve a good bit of the credit for our current success.
Banks don’t give a shit about debt but you just know that the FIGC and inter would come up with some way to screw us over if it was juventus breaking the FFP rules.
i like what you have to say.. It’s logical and it makes sense…
But you can’t say he’s not very good at his job though..
good, but not very good.
He’s pretty good. He manages to work under a tight budget and get good deals but he is fucking horrible at selling players
We dont have a tight budget, Marotta just tells people that. Do you honestly believe we only have 30-40m a season to spend on transfers? after years of Secco spending whatever he wanted? We make more money than we did when Secco was in charge, and are a higher profile team now, with more fans than ever.
Absolutely correct.
Couldnt have said that better myself.
There was a global financial crisis in 2008. The auto industy (fiat is owned by agnellis) took major hits and still isnt recovered. It probably never will. Juve doesn’t have that much to spend. Although its unlikely they only have 40m to spend. It is more unlikely Juve could spend 100m+.
At the time gio was worth the 11mil for half of him.. Besides with co ownerships it’s never really just half you’re paying for at the end.. It’s more 75%. I’m not that surprised by the fact that juventus are willing to accept this deal for him (even though I’m pissed about it) but the fact that Torino will accept it is the shock for me
Marotta must be weeping tears of blood with FIGC abolishing co-ownerships.
Actually I recall he was one of those in favour of it.. Which I found rather bizarre
Maybe Marotta is just a ”go with the flow guy”. When it was allowed, he couldn’t help but go with it, now it’s not allowed, he will do something else that’s allowed and become a super director.
I am happy it’s not allowed anymore because it was a pretty annoying thing.
I liked it, it gave the smaller teams something to gain for playing the players that were half owned. With the exception of genoa of course but fuck genoa
Yes, Marc yes. If theres any other club that i hate in Italy, its Genoa.
Because inter doesn’t class as an Italian club! F*ck the real Italian club enemies.. Genoa!
Why selling Immobile? Why can’t we try the guy out for a year, rather that then Drogba.
We arent getting drogba either.
Oh well I guess there is a silver lining after all
https://www.football-italia.net/49853/valencia-ready-make-llorente-offer
If this means we keep immobile I’ll be all in favour of it.. Sorry Llorente I was one of the few who liked and had faith in you from the start but you’re just not Italian enough for me
Watch both leave and get replace by Osvaldo and Pereyra….yay….
The things dreams are made of.. Well nightmares.. But.. You know.. Whatever.. Technicalities
So Ruganis Empoli have won promotion and Lealis spezia have made the play offs, would like to see spezia in serie a next season but I guess it doesn’t make too much of a difference to leali either way since he will be in serie a regardless
Nice to have a post like this again, talking to people was really hard with 3 new pages every day xD
Agreed. I even think i was in one thread and you were in the other. Havent seen you in years 😀
Edit: this is 9 days ago, you really are gone 🙁
It’s official, Immobile joins Dortmund for 19.5mill..
https://football-italia.net/49977/immobile-completes-dortmund-move
https://football-italia.net/50370/italy-test-anti-england-xi
Not a bad formation, itll be interesting to see how Darmian and De Sciglio do if they start.
I wanna carry the cleat conversation onto here soo yea…
Anyways, i like youre way of thinking when it comes to cleats. Nothing beats K leather, but im still a baby in soccer years so im still easily awed by flashy looking boots. I understand that cleats dont make you better; its the feel that matters. If shoes dont feel comfortable, you wont play well, but the shoe itself wont do crap. Maybe it ll make a slight difference, MAYBE, but nothing more. Tho this is the first time i spent that much for cleats. I usually pay 80-120$ for cleats and i once hit the jackpot and got K Leather/ carbon fiber Ctrs for 20$ at ross.
haha ya ross usually has some nice cleats. i found a pair there a long time ago that were $25 with a tag that said originally $140.
best feeling cleats i ever owned were a $100 pair of Kelmes. I have a wide foot and these were AMAZING. Oh the things I would do in them. They were just so comfortable I felt like I could do anything I wanted on the field. Long ago before I took an arrow to the knee.
Thats how Ctrs are with me… That is unless im overly anxious :p
An arrow to the knee? Were you battling hawk eye from the avengers :p jk
haha, nah, just a torn ACL lol. I don’t know which one would be worse. It lock up on me randomly. I haven’t played more than 3 games in the last 2 years. I’ve gotten so fat lol, but i’ve committed to playing every weekend this summer. I don’t Messi it up though (see my play on words?) i like to think of myself more like pirlo now, get the ball, jog a little, look for the best man available, and distribute.
Ive torn my ACL too. Im fully repaired and worked very hard to get there. Physical therapy was very very important if you didnt do it…
I didn’t get surgery on it. I probably will though, it doesnt hurt unless it locks up, which happens at the most annoying moments.
oh. see i tore it and broke the top of my tibia. needless to say im done with 360s on skiis
damn, yours was a lot worse dude.
Yeah it really sucked. I had a hard cast on my leg from hip to ankle for 2 months. I was living alone at the time too. Was one of the shittier periods of my life.
Wow that sucks! How old are you? Would you like to go on a Papilaya nutrition plan :p
From thanksgiving to last month, i went from 170 to 215 and lost it all in a month, NO LIE and i did in a healthy way.
Anyways, i have many different style of plays. I love playing like Il Capitano. Just dance past or run past a player and slip through limited space for an assist, but i find it far easier to play like Pirlo/ Marchisio. Im not saying their style of plays are easy, just it comes to me more naturally. This past sunday i joined a team and the owner of the team was all over my balls! I bossed the midfield and marked out like 3 players by myself bwcause my cm partner was rubbish and the Lm was as well and i did it all successfully by replicating Principinos way of covering space and anticipating space. I also was beasting in the distribution part 🙂
I’m turning 24 in two weeks dude. I would love to know what you did man, that sounds incredible.
Dude you should make some youtube videos of your games or some skill vids.
Well i made a complete flip in my eating habits. I went from eating complete junk(i.e. mcdonalds, pounds of ice cream, chips etc even at 1 am or later in the morning) to eating only chicken/roasted turkey breasts from ralphs, omelettes(for breakfast w/jalapeño, spinach, bits of broccoli, tomatoe, and leftover chicken/turkey), and fruits+almonds 2 hours after major meals(breakfast lunch dinner).
My eating schedule pretty much is:
The omelette i mentioned above using two eggs(no seasoning), but removing 1 and a half of egg yokes because all the bad fat and cholestrol is in the yoke. Then two hours later, i eat either an apple, banana or orange plus less than a hand full of almonds. For lunch i eat a mega sandwhich with low sodium Ezikial bread, no salt turkey breast slices(both bread and turkey i get from whole foods market), lettuce, tomatoe, jalapeño, cilantro(for added flavor), spinach, red onion, avocado, green bell pepper, cucumber, avocado flavored hummus(also from whole foods) and i slice a mini lime amd squeeze the liquid on the each slice of bread(also for flavor). For dinner amd second dinner i buy whole chicken( no salt or with seasoning doesnt really matter to me) and eat the legs and wings for first dinner and use a 3/4th of the breast for my second dinner and save the rest for my breakfast omelette. I try to get the roasted turkey breast, but thyre usually out, but when i do it, i divide it into thirds. Both dinners are with a hefty side of spinach. So yea thats meals for the past month. I also drink like 2-3 gallons of water a day plus i used to drink 4 tsll glasses of green tea a day before meals, but got too lazy to continue. Ill continue this post later if you any questions, go ahead and ask, i was nt as specific as i wanted to be. I was also typing it in my gyms sauna and kinda wanna let my head rest… Plus i have to drive home :p
I too would let you run past me if you danced at me on the pitch..
Not literally you freak!
Do we post here now? I don’t know anymore.
Give it time… Everyone will follow shortly
So Pirlo officially signed a 2 year extension
good, now maybe Pogba will sign a new contract with a 100m release clause.
Pogba just resigned a month or 2 ago. I dont think that is coming at least until next spring
No he didn’t
So tuttosport say that Conte personally spoke to Sanchez and told him to join us next season and explain his role and importance…
If that is true, theres a major chance that he will be coming. Conte is a very persuasive man, but the only problem would be Marottas unwillingness to spend.
Didn’t Kroos already extend his contract? Not sure but if not, he’s only got 1 year left, I would love him at our team
Pirlo, Marchiso, Kroos and Pogba all for a deeper position(in my favored 4-2-3-1) would be so amazing. Pirlo wouldnt have to play so much and get some nice rest when we need him for bigger matches.
I think if Conte has had a personal talk with Sanchez, Marotta already gave the okay. If Conte, the clubs and Sanchez all agree, what will Marotta do? I don’t see him pussying out when everything is a done deal. I really hope you are right that Conte personally talked to Sanchez.
It’s been reported in a few places
Marotta is a puppet .. conte and agnelli are making the decisions.
besides, didnt conte stay for the year because they were supposed to have guaranteed him they’d spend the money to get the players he wanted?
i thought that was the deal ….
I sometimes suspect the same thing, but you cam tell the three have the say in every decision. I believe Agnelli provides the budget, Marotta negotiates and Conte asks for what he wants and through what hes said in the past, hes not really all that he wants in terms of squad depth.
And i never believe that Conte was gonna leave. I think Conte was trying to make his voice heard and let the fans know that he knows what it takes to win the Cl, but Agnelli/ Marotta werent willing to meet him there.
Well thats one of the more ‘special’ things ive read here and thats saying something.
Actually when it came out he was saying it said a deal was reached, not that conte is getting what he wants
Do you mean special in derogatory manner? Cuz it does happen a lot, maybe not in the exact manner as he said, but similar. Usually the coaches are the “puppets” and the president is the one who calls most of the shots.
Boy did I!
if you think marotta doesnt spend because he’s the tight ass, you’re wrong. he doesnt spend because the club is tight .. when i say he’s a puppet, I’m sort of exaggerating but of the three, I think he’s 3rd in command ..sort of like a GM like Cashman, he’s good at what he does, but those around him are making the decisions, he’s just the administrator.
and if that’s one of the more outlandish things you ever heard on here, that’s also saying something..
people have called agnelli, conte and everyone and their mother much worse things, I didn’t think the word “puppet” is that bad …
Kroos is being linked with RM now 🙁
RM needs to stop being so selfish!
The current state of the Manaus pitch, where Italy vs England kicks off on Saturday…..
what is it??
Not as bad as Galatasaray.
Just looks like it hasn’t been manicured well.
At least its as bad on both sides
So both teams are equally f*cked 🙂
Unlike in Istanbul.
Not well maintained..
https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27800681
Booo im going to miss the WC s first game… I have graduations to go to! My cousins couldve just waited til next year, but nooo
Scumbags! 😛
I too am going to miss it, I am instead going to watch paint dry which seems like a far more interesting and productive way to spend my time rather than sit and watch the commentator having his head stuck up neymars overrated ass
The magic of the mute button my friend, unless youre like me and need to hear sound whilst watching a match
I like to hear commentry, just not BS, bias ass kissing commentry
Watch the game and judge Neymar for yourself. Don’t let commentators get to you.
Theres now an official transfers page with confirmed transfers : https://www.juvefc.com/transfers/
THE WORLD CUP STARTS TODAY!!!!
because the pitbull song sucks heres Wavin Flag from 2010. get pumped!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgyJY9yndv4
I loved that song
Fabregas to Chelsea for L30m. Damn, what a deal. (i dont have a pound button)
30M pounds. So about 37M Euro. Still a steal.
Hilarious Chelsea. Willian, Oscar, Matic, Hazard, Eto’o, Ba, Torres, Shurrle, Fabregas, Lukaku, Diego Costa… Can field a whole field of world class attacking players. Yet waste the Russian tax payers money.
matic is a defensive mid
Meh Chelsea still makes FFP look like its innefective
with mouriniho, they are all defensive mids 😉
What in the actual fuck is this ceremony? I am sooo happy i just smoked a bowl because this is trippy as hell haha
I just tuned in… Wow wheni thought pitbull couldnt get anyway worst, i watch how crappy his stage presence is
They had people walking around dressed as trees and flowers waving their arms, fake jujitsu fighting, some kids kicking ball on a rope, then the performance.
Mr worldwide indeed..
Dallé
Well.. That seemed fixed (not really but some BS calls from the ref there)
I think Neymar just became my dad’s favorite player today :/
so neymar scores from a mishit and bs pk and everyone thinks he’s incredibly world class and stuff. wow.
People are stupid, plain and simple. There was nothing world class about his performance. I do want him to fulfill his potential because i missed out on the true legends… But for the time being hes just potential nothing more. Nowadays, people dont watch football, they listen to the media.
THANK YOU? It seems every time he does anything it’s labeled as ‘amazing’ the goal against Italy was ‘amazing’ when frankly the only amazing thing about it was the fact Buffon didn’t save it.. I saw a video where it was an ‘amazing neymar backheel’ all he did was back heal it behind his teammate.. Like wtf?
Oh and also the PK was a dreadful attempt and both his goals were helped by bad keeping
Keeping? That was keeping? I thought the goalie was doing his best impression of a falling tree.
Neymar is amazing just by being alive…. His day of birth was a day that went into history as amazing.
His first goal was weak and terrible goalkeeping, his penalty was a bad shot and terrible goalkeeping. He did have some good moves, but not world class.
If you dont think Neymar is very very skilled and a top player you are stupid.
That said, hes a skinny twig that falls over by the wind.
If you think Neymar is a skinny twig, you are stupid.
I never said he’s not very skilled and a top player, i said he’s not world class. Not yet atleast. He didn’t prove his world class this match, he didn’t prove to be world class at Barca. He proved to be a top player, which he is, but not world class.
Wat. Neymar is a twig man. I wasnt directing what I said totally at you. And its true. Neymar is top 5 under 25 talent.
Also its very tough to be a “class” player when you are young. Experience is bulk contributor to classiness and being young he just doesnt have much yet. Neymar has impressed me very much at points. He torched Brazils club league, I think he will do the same in Europe after he bulks a little and learns some more.
Edit: Also I think he will never succeed his full talent at Barce
It was more of a butthurt joke to get back at you. Sorry for that :p
That is pretty much what Marc means. Marc probably thinks Neymar is a good player, but people are overrating him heavily. His first goal was not a good shot, and he’s lucky that it went in, yet people praise him to be a football god. His penalty was bad, but people praise him as a football god. That gets pretty annoying at times.
Also, i love this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ccYBsc4258
https://i.imgur.com/sFJkXri.png
Oh those orphans and their itnetlligent comments.
LOL
I heard that Alexis Sanchez signed for us … is this really true ?????
From what i heard, Juve are backing off their interest in Cuadrado as Barca want him – This will help in the negotiations for Sanchez from what i hear.
good, I don’t like Cuadrado. He’s a square
That’s great. I really want Sanchez and Cuadrado not so much. This would be the perfect scenario.
Fantastic preview of all the Juve players featuring this week over here: https://www.juvefc.com/world-cup-warm-up-group-stage-round-1/4
There will also be a match thread and preview for Italy v England – Be sure to come over there on match day as we hope to have live minutes and coverage etc.
The Dutch are kicking some Spanish ass!! Theyre even playing 3-5-2.
3-5-2 works very well against them
5-3-2 actually, but it doesn’t make much of a difference.
I think it was more a 5-2-1-2. But again. Not much a difference. It was 9 men behind the ball and RVP and Robben working their asses off to win 5-1
Yeah that was the purpose. It’s impossible to play attacking football with this team, so Van Gaal kinda ignored ”the dutch way”. I’m glad he did.
Its not about attacking football. Its about winning the game. I guess thats why Nederlands have 0 world cups.
Ouch 😛 But yeah that’s true. Dutch academy sucks in defending and it costs us.
Its not me trying to hate or jab, just talkin facts :/
i no
So Dutch, how you feelin so far mate? 😀
4-1 up, theyre all stoned, it may be a while before he answers.
This is so fucking great. 5-1 over the guys who took our world cup from us. And with this team, i can hardly believe it.
And how exactly is Casillas considered the top GK?
5-1!!! DOWN WITH SPAIN!
AWESOME from Holland. I was rooting for you guys, Dutch.
Is this a good time to mention that i had just found out(like 2 weeks ago) that i have Dutch blood in me 😀
YEAA. You guys smell that? I think the Dutch just crapped all over the chests of the spanish
eeewww, I have spanish blood in me lol. I don’t like spain, I was LOLing the whole second half.
I think everyone was having a great laugh during the second half 😀
MY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do you feel the orange power? 🙂
Feel it? I almost snapped my neck screaming and head banging to the goals
My neck is hanging from a small threat too! About to go to the hospital to have it put back 😛
I just enjoyed that 45 minutes sooo much. Omg i could not stop laughing. Fucking spain. Overrated
i hope vidal recovers so he can knock spain out of the world cup
Is it weird that I was breathing heavily for the past 20min lol?
No its okay, it just means you should go for a run or work out tubby
lol
Lol I’m fit. But after robben hit that fifth in I suddenly became a morbidly obese kid running in PE lmao.
Dont get so defensive fatass
Who u callin fatass, fatass? Lol
Mm damn strait i like fat asses. push push
Well ur out of luck dude
Naw theres plenty for me
U sure?
Oh hank hill ass. So pale.
So majestic.
Aren’t you just big boned though?
Hahahahaha that’s every fat kids excuse for being fat, I used to be fat like 2yrs ago. Then I decided to actually work out and get fit, and last summer I lost a shit ton of weight. But big boned used to be one of favorites 😀
I never got that excuse. Its like.. you dont have bones on your stomach and your fingers are twice the size around as mine. Why would you try to tell me youre not fat
Word that worked for me in like elementary school, but then middle school I was like f*ck it I’m fat lol. It feels so good to not be anymore though
Well who doesnt want girls to like them? No ^self respecting decent looking girl* girls gonna wanna touch fat rolls
idk man some girls are into that u know, they like that extra cushion hahaha
unless by girls you mean guys cuz cushion is for the pushin. also fat guys produce less testosterone so are inherently pussies and less likely to fight for whats theirs. thats why they get picked on so easily. because they dont fight back.
Damn that explains alot. I used to be the biggest pussy, now if someone actually picks on me or hits me, I don’t think twice about dropping that fucker.
The body is a funny thing. Just wait til lifting weights becomes like a drug and you want to lift instead of do a lot of things. But thats if your not gettin bucked. All is solved if youre letting loose the juice
I’m already starting to get into that, that post lifting feeling is just great.
I just know it from Cartman 😛 Makes sense though since South Park uses accurate stuff.
Hahaha Cartman is so funny. I love when hes like “Hippies… Hippies. Damn Hippies.. They want to save the world but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.”
XD yeah i love him
Weeeeeellll https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z17oC6Jxw3E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I saw that movie in theaters. Goddam that was in 1999
gOld
Brilliant…
Cartman is life bruh.
Im in love with Robben now. The WC is truly a powerful tournament…
Lol Robben was so good in his prime, teams played counter-robben football. Although it wasnt that hard too, Robben will certainly make you pay if he is not played out of the match. Or if he doesnt miss and fuck everything up like 2010
vidal is starting for chile right now. hopefully his knee doesn’t get worse
PROUD TO BE DUTCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now for Vidal to score the winning goal against Spain and knock them out. Spain would be DutchJuve’d then 😀
Vidal gonna score a hat trick!!
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Haha there was a picture on facebook of a dolphin wearing Van Persie’s jersey 😛
Sanchez goal. +10 million on his price tag.
Sanchez assist +5m more.
Luciano Moggi comes back to Juventus as GM. Sanchez to Juve on free transfer. Messi decides to join him.
Corruption… Not worth it.
Moggi was not the problem, but he took the fall.
YEAH Sanchez! Vidal to Sanchez to Isla to Sanchez GOOOOAAAAALLLLL!!!!
well be seeing some more of that juventino
Didn’t even realise Isla was in there too. Nice stuff.
Sanchezzzzz
Australia probably said they wanted to be like Spain before the world cup, well that backfired at them.
Nice goal, Valdivia
https://i.imgur.com/2eTRpfy.jpg
Pretty realistic for when I play. Only it would be first half.
Dude :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
Haha i did a good photoshop right?
I took it from the Heat v Spurs post on reddit yesterday. (NBA finals spurs won game 4 by 40 points)
You made it?
If by put the Opponent left box over the picture yes.
Actually i meant the 5-1 win, i still don’t quite believe it 😛
Yeah i mean that, nice job man i like it.
@ the edit: i see haha. Heat is just like Spain, center of the jokes when they do something bad 😀
Isla playing his best football in the past 2 years and its only 23 minutes in
He plays really well for chile
He looks good at RB, maybe a permanent change there is in his future.
He will still have to be fine to be a 2nd choice, unless we play with 4 defenders. If he plays like this consistently, he would be a good RW.
Lol pleaseno. Isla is perfect for a 4-4-2 RM. That we dont play
hm don’t think i’ve heard 4-4-2 before. Which other midfielders would play?
What 4-4-2 is the anti 4-3-3. Instead of attacking wingers its more defensive-ish minded wingers. So they are midfielders. It was most popular up until the 80s and refashioned and played alot by Sir Alex Ferguson at Man U.
Seen when played (Treble winning):
—Yorke-Cole–
Giggs-Scholes-Keane-Beckham
Irwin-Johnson-Stam-Neville
Then (CL winning):
—Berbatov-Rooney–
Ronaldo-Scholes-Carrick-Nani
Evra-Vidic-Ferdinand-Rafael
no 4-4-2. i hate that formation, and we dont have the players for that. if we had a nedved and a camo in the team, then ok, but we dont.
Yeah exactly. In my post above I show we are missing 3 key players to run a 4-4-2 well
I want Nedved back…..
he just needs to come back for 1 season, just because. hes still better than 99% of the players out there.
A time machine would be nice too. We would get Nedved in his prime.
THE HAMMER OF CZECH
That’s Krasic 😛
Krazic couldnt shoot for shit though. And he wasnt czech
But you said Serbia.
Edit: After refreshing the page it says Czech. Disqus doesn’t like being up to date.
To answer your question, If Juve were to 4-4-2? Id say:
Tevez-STRIKER
Asamoah-Pogba-Vidal-RM
LB-Chiellini-Bonucci-Lichtstiener
This is all PP (Post Pirlo) though
Yeah so next season its not possible. 4-3-3 remains the dream?
Exactly. 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1.
one of pogba or vidal will be gone this summer … too much money being offered for these two.
Optimism is a fun thing.
hell, if they can get 80 million for Pogba I’m all for it
Yeah I think 75m Euro is what Id definitely go for with Pogba.
If anyone pays 80 million for a young player who is just playing this good for 1/2 seasons, they are idiots. I don’t expect anyone to pay that much for him. Even sheiks would be idiots to do such a thing. Other than that, it’s better for Pogba’s carreer to stay with us for a little while longer and Pogba is a smart guy who seems to choice whats best for him and not mind Raiola so much.
Man city, PSG and Real Madrid exist so we should be good for getting that much
Yeah haha. RM paid 105M for Gareth Bale.. Especially with a strong agent like Mino Raiola who got Eto and 55m for ibrah when inter sold to barce. THEN he got ibrah out of Barcelona for 20M to milan!
Juve knows the cash cow they have. If they were smart they would spend money on getting deals for pogba in commercials, starring in this and that. Pay the media to put him everywhere.
People are superficial as fuck.
just because you think it’s crazy for a team to pay that much for a player doesn’t mean it’s not reality (see Zidane, Bale, Ronaldo, KaKa, Cavani etc. David Ruiz for 50 million or whatever).. What makes you think a team like PSG wouldn’t pay that when they have already offered something in the vicinity of 70 million which was turned down by the club.
its reality you moron. if you think Pogba is here forever you’re insane.
Vidal will not be leaving. He is the heart of Conte’s Juve. Pogba is most likely. I just cant see this summer. Unless we really want world class wingers for the 4-3-3.
If you think i ever said forever you’re insane you moron dumbass dipshit. Seriously dude don’t insult.
Pogba is happy right now and i really think he will be here next season. Reality is that it’s pretty much 50/50. Reality certainly isn’t that he will leave, that’s just your negative imagination. I think he will leave in 2/3 seasons and join Real Madrid like Zidane did and we will get a shitload of money for him.
Cme on you should no by now that he only ever shows up to say something negative (though pogba will go soon enough..Vidal I think will stay though)
Vidal subbed off and apparently didn’t walk cleanly to the bench. I hope he’ll be okay for the next match :s
FAK
Dammit why did the coach risk him… Itw was Australia!
I wouldve done the same tho
I’m almost starting to hope they don’t play him anymore. We need him next season too.
Rumors Ive seen recently;
IN: Sanchez, Morata, Candreva, Guarin
OUT: Vucinic (Valencia), Isla (Inter), Quagliarella
The Morata deal would be one of Reals famous buy back deals. The numbers I saw, which are way too high, are 30m to buy and 40-45m to buy back in a few seasons. 25m for Sanchez, but Marotta once again refuses to just pay, and is offering 18m. Vucinic or Isla in part exchange for Guarin. Guarin is a waste, if we get any CM we should get either Allan or Bruno Fernandes from Udinese.
Id like morata but I dont think he will be coming. Also, Guarin is lined up if we sell Pogba.
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There are reports that we ve signed Drogba for free on a 2 year worth 4.5 mill per year…
Thats too much money for him, but I guess if hes free its not too bad.
Menez signs with Milan on a free transfer… Marotta must be reaaal confident we’re getting sanchez
Thats too bad, hes a good player, and free.
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SIAM PRONTI ALLA MORTE
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Interesting that 3 of our players are starting at positions they dont normally play at, and we need help at. Caceres and Asamoah at LB and Isla at RB.
We dont need help at rb
We need quality backup players, and players for when Lichtsteiner is done at this level in a couple seasons.
Caceres is a better RB than LB
GdS says Conte wants Berardi immediately (yes!!)
And la stampa says that Conte is an admirer of Darmian(yes!!)
Berardi would be nice, but hed have to be 3rd in the order or higher to come play for us. I cant see him coming to maybe make a couple starts and 10 sub appearances, like a 4th or 5th choice forward.
he would play LW in 433 so he would be 1st choice as LW
He plays RW.. Not LW
How old is Darmian?
24, plays for torino. torino purchased the 2nd half of co ownership before 12-13 season for 1.5m
He would probably be the 8m we just got from torino. Which I am totally down for.
He’s RB right? Can he play LB?
Well i cant say he cant play LB. But I wouldnt want him for LB. Lichtstiener probably has 1 season left running like forest gump.
He’s played there for Torino this season and is probably playing there for Italy in the next game too
Oh come on Ghana……..
Sanchez to Isla: ” youll never want to leave Juve now that ive arrive”
😀
Lol, 40mill for Candreva, 18mill for Lulic. Apparently Juve has interest in these players and this is the price Lazio asks for them, thats a definite “no” 😛
There also reports juve might go for iturbe instead of sanchez
Not for those prices but I would love to see us sign Candreva
Yeah, Lulic not at all though. Candreva would be nice for a lower price, but isn’t high priority for me.
He’s brilliant in the RW role.. But not worth more than Sanchez!
Yeah I liked him when he was with us the first time already, I wanted him to stay back then! Would have been far cheaper than he goes for now too 😛
PAge updated with the latest news and a new poll !
Is the double Sanchez in the poll a mistake or am I just forgetting someone? 😛
Corrected !
Nice job man!
https://youtu.be/vRjVGoKcPgU
I never realised that leali had already made his serie a debut.. Heck of a game by him judging on this video..only beat by a defeated shot from a rather familiar face
If we really are bringing back berardi, maybe we should look to depay for the lw
so torino paid us 8mil for our half of immobile and then recieved 19.5mil from bvb. how does beppe see us getting only 8mil while they get 11.5mil a good deal?
Sometimes this is how this work out. One of the issues with co-ownerships. Confusing end-deals.
with us this interested in bringing berardi back, i don’t think we’ll be getting sanchez considering they play the same position. hope we get a good LW and LB (since asamoah said he doesn’t want to play LB).
Ive wanted kolorov for 3 seasons.
He’s not that good defensively
Well hes at the end of his prime now. But there is few top left backs in the world.
#1 choice would be coentrao besides the obvious ungettables, ie lahm, marcelo.
I think we should sign rodriguez and murru. Loan murru out and keep rodriguez. Then in a couple seasons we can sell rodriguez for a big fee and bring murru back
I’d like to see us give Murru a chance, I think he could be worthy of a starting place judging by his performances last season
So happy chile won today. What a great week of soccer.
Isla had a pretty good game today. That last man tackle on diego costa prbly saved the game for chile. Hopefully teams are now interested in mauricio
That tackle was great. Saved them from 1-2. He’s having a great world cup, even though i think he should have scored that one chance he got. It was difficult but he should have scored.
haha well busquests did miss that wide open sitter too
That was unbelievable. I didn’t mind though, i dislike Busquets.
dislike would be putting it tamely for me.
Sergio Biscuits lol
I hate his guts, that guy dives better than a dolphin does
So does Van Persie xD
Oh that glory hunting costa shouldve shouldve stuck with Brazil hahaha
Ahaha yeah, guess that backfired hard xD I read somewhere that Costa is the new Fernando Torres( as in, not doing shit:p) and the fun fact is: Chelsea have both the old and the new one 😛
Haha he definitely didnt do jack in the Wc, but its still a little premature to call him a flop, but i know your kidding.
Welcome back btw
Yeah, it was just a funny read 😛 Thanks, working hard these days, far less time to comment than usually, I’m still reading most of it though 🙂 Trying to watch Italy and Belgium on the WC, don’t have the time to watch every match 🙁
ADIOS ESPANA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Proud of Vidal for being the usual beast even though it wouldn’t go well today. Played 80 minutes while still not being completely healed.
So we will be seeing Palermo and Cesena back in Serie A and Empoli again too. Any thoughts on the promoted teams or who you’d have preferred? I would have liked to see Latina promote just for the heck of it. Don’t think they’ve ever been in Serie A? I am especially happy about Palermo coming back and Empoli deserves it now. Failed last season in the last match.
Bari would have been great. I lived there for 2 years and they are my second team 😛 but its good to see palermo back. They belong in serie A
The first match i seriously watched from Juve after becoming fan was away at Bari. We lost 1-0.
Hmm was that a couple years ago when Donati lasered it into the top corner from distance? Only 1-0 i remember
I think so. It’s was at the start of the 2010/2011 season.
I’d have liked to see spezia.. Lealis team this season and never played in serie a.
Overall though I’d have obviously wanted my second team ternana to be promoted but that was never going to happen
Sea horses and pink… Hell yeaa!
But no pink seahorses 🙁
I’m really enjoying the fact Spain already crashed out. Hopefully this is also the end of the Spain/Barca overrating
It won’t be though.. Not if Argentina and brazil do half decent
Messi will always get a shitload of praise and they don’t want Alexis, or at least don’t rate him highly. The majority of Barca players is out, so I do expect ppl to at least stop looking at barca/spain as some sort of living gods, they’re such an overrated bunch
That’s why I didn’t mention Chile, as long as Messi is as highly rated as he is and neymar is as overrated as he is people will always overrate the entire barca team
I think their godlike status is faltering though, a season without trophies, a humiliating end to their WC campaign and some veterans leavin (Puyol, Valdes, maybe Xavi) and Cesc gone. Just those 2 won’t carry Barca to trophies, thank god
The wont but they will certainly extend their reign as an overrated team
Hehe oh well, more tears to enjoy from, right xD
I don’t think Barca was rated that highly in these past 2 years losing in the CL to Bayern and Atletico. Players individually were rated highly because they have world class players still, but tiki taka was already rated as pretty useless after the loss to Bayern.
https://football-italia.net/50741/juve-make-formal-morata-offer
Juve make a formal offer of 12m for Morata. Apparently Wolfsburg had offered 20m, but I cant see Morata wanting to go play there. With the Berardi reports, idk why he would come here, seeing as he would be 4th in the order. Hed be a good pickup for the bench though, especially if we can escape Reals buyback clause.
if the buyback clause is high, then i wouldn’t mind. what i’d prefer though is to get morata on loan with an option to buy. he’d be a good back up for us and wouldn’t cost anything. more money for wingers
We wont get him for 12m though, itd cost at least 18m.
If immobile is worth less than 20mil he is worth less than 10mil.. I don’t want him
Ya, but we are talking about buying someone who Real Madrid rate very highly. They are going to want more than hes worth to let him go.
I know which is why I just plain don’t want him, I’d much rather bring back gabbiadini
You need strikers for wingers. If we can get berardi back cheap and sanchez for under 25 that would be great. Signing a top striker should be #1 still.
Isla: Right now I am only thinking about Chile and the World Cup. I know Juventus fans want me to play well and I will be happy to stay but it all depends on the coach.
I wonder if Conte will try him out at RB now that hes shown he can play there, or maybe even RW in the 4-3-3.
His finishing is too poor for rw
His crossing isn’t very good either from what I’ve seen of him at juve
ya, his crossing is terrible, but he did play there for Udinese before.
His crossing is good when he is given time on the ball but when he has to hurry he botches it
I think we saw today how Tiki-Taka can quickly turn into a game of hot potato haha.
“You take this”
“No You”
“I dont want this”
“Shit I cant hold this you take it”
until someone fucks up.
LOL spanish commentator was yelling at them: “SHOOT SHOOT, WHY WILL NO ONE SHOOT THE BALL? THEY ARE IN THE AREA AND NO ONE WILL SHOOT”
Is it just me or there was Juve chants during Spain-Chile match? Have you guys heard anything?
Heard it too 🙂 but they said CHILE instead of JUVE
This. I thought Juve at first too but after listening better and using logic it was Chile.
Ole, Ole Ole Ole, *Country* *Country* is done world wide and I dont think it is Juve’s chant. But adapted by the Juve fans.
i am juventino from indonesian,,
Welcome!
Congratulations, you have top draw taste in teams. Oh and welcome! (Yeah that’s right John, stepping on your toes)
Welcome 🙂
https://football-italia.net/50782/morata-juve-%E2%82%AC7m-less
Apparently Morata is willing to earn 7m less over the course of 5 years to come play for Juve. Hes said to have accepted a transfer to Juve, its now up to Real and Juve to decide a price.
https://football-italia.net/50773/samp-gabbiadini-renewal-close
Juve and Samp close to extending the co-ownership of Gabbiadini for another year. Note:
“Clubs have until 7pm Italian time on Friday evening to resolve current
co-ownership deals. Whilst the Italian Football Federation is ending
such deals from this summer, clubs are allowed to extend existing deals
by a further year.”
Looks like we will be bringing Berardi back instead. Theres a rumor stating we are offering our half of Zaza for the other half of Berardi.
Fuck this. We put so much money into buying youngsters and then never even give them a chance. If we took all the money wasted there and the money we spend on average players, we could buy some really good players
I know its stupid especially when we are trying to sign the overrated morata
I don’t get this. For the money being rumored for Morata, we could’ve brought back immobile
Immobile didn’t want us…
I like the idea of Berardi at Juve, but I don’t see the need to give up our half of Zaza.. Sure, right now Berardi is rated higher so we ‘win’ on this trade, but I’d prefer to just pay up in this case. Why bother getting 50% of a million youngsters if all we use them for is to make other deals, it’s hardly logic..
Zaza is a great player, he still got 10 in his first season in Serie a, playing for a relegation fighting side.. Thats a damn sight better than immobile did in his first season, we would be stupid to let him go so easily
Yeah I wouldn’t let go of him this easy either, he’s very promising. I would rather pay up now, even for both of them and with a straight loan back if Sassuolo agree to that. It’s always the same, managements in Italy complain about a lack of funds and that they can’t make big money transfers, but they don’t invest/use youth either.
Or at least, we don’t use it properly. Milan is better at using youth, but they buy so many washed up 30 year olds, all wasted money too, like we waste it on average players/youngsters we never give a chance
I’d pay for berardi and extend Zara’s co ownership
Milan is good at using youth but their medical staff is dreadful which just ends up just setting their growth back.
Yeah the famous Milan lab is crap these days, but they don’t buy players with a strategy, it’s more like “hey thats a big name on a free transfer, its him we want!” Screw the fact that’s he’s old and unwanted at his current club! xd
They aren’t the only club to do that though, big names sell shirts!
Sell shirts yeah, but what’s the use if you can’t even get a top position with them 😛 And I don’t exactly expect Menez shirts to be a big hit
Menez isn’t a big name though he is a good player
Neither was Essien or most of the free agents they brought in, barring Kaka. Not a big name anymore either imo, but there’s ofcourse the sentimental value for milanistas
So for the World Cup are the teams ranked head to head in the group phase? Or is it goal difference?
goal difference comes first, I wiki’d it 😛
Thank you my minion :p
xD you’re welcome
lol england
Yep, I’m hoping Italy don’t do them any favours
haha England sucks, i wonder how long it takes them to start campaigning for a UK team again, instead of just an England team.
but theyd be sooooo much better with gareth bale right? haha
Well anyone worth over 100million should really render the game pointless because they are just too good at it..
We saw how dominant ronaldo was vs germany
He only cost a measly 70million though
They actually wouldn’t ever want to do that.. Remember they ‘are better than Italy’
So gabbiadini is staying with samp, Sorensen is returning to juve, I assume (and should hope) as a makeweight for some other deal. But here are a few of the other deals that have been wrapped up
– Nazzareno BELFASTI: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Pro Vercelli;
– Giuseppe RUGGIERO: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Pro Vercelli;
– Daniele RUGANI: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Empoli.
– VincenzoFIORILLO: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Sampdoria;
– Stefano BELTRAME: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Sampdoria;
– Hordur MAGNUSSON: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Spezia;
– Alberto MASI: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Ternana;
– Alberto LIBERTAZZI: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Novara;
– Edoardo CERIA: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Atalanta;
– Simone EMMANUELLO: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Atalanta;
– Luca BARLOCCO: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Atalanta;
– Davida CAIS: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Atalanta;
– Laurenţiu Constantin BRANESCU: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Lanciano;
– Mame THIAM: renewal of co-ownership agreement with Lanciano.
Woah since when did we have fiorillo?
Last year, we traded 50% of beltramne for him
Have you watched masi at ternana? how is he doing?
So-so.. Not exactly hitting the heights he did in that pre season with us, been dropped a few times etc. Rugani is looking far more promising though, he was fantastic last season and will be playing serie a football this coming season
Curious what Juve plans to do with them after the next season then, when they can’t use the coowning anymore 😛 Some of these should really be bought imo.
All co-ownerships. When is the co-ownership rule gonna stop?
Yeah.. Its a list of our co ownership deals from last year. It’s already stopped, no new co-ownerships but you can extend them for a season
STRINGIAMCI A COORTE
SIAM PRONTI ALLA MORTE
SIAM PRONTI ALLA MORTE
L”ITALIA CHIAMO! SI!
PO PO PO PO PO PO PO PO
Italia (4-1-4-1): Buffon, Abate, Barzagli, Chiellini, Darmian, De Rossi, Pirlo, Motta, Candreva, Marchisio, Balotelli.
FORZA ITALIA
We have renewed Co-ownership for Berardi and Marrone and sold our half of zaza to sassuolo, retaining the option to buy him back
Oh, option to buy back, that is awesome. Good work.
Selling him seems pointless though.. Why not just retain the co-ownership.. Shows a bit more faith in him that way.
They paid us 8mil for our half. We have an option to buy back for 15mil
Well now it seems like a bad deal on their part
We have redeemed Isla for 4.5mil and Pasquato for 1.5mil
so Isla is completely ours now? And Pasquato sold?
Isla and Pasquato are both ours. I’m assuming Pasquato is gonna be sold
Oh they actually bought him? Never expected that but yeah, he’ll be used for some other deal most likely
Fucking Balotelli. I’m so fed up with him. Just as I expected. He gets praise for one game and fails for five. Two incredible misses in this game…
And why the fuck would Prandelli put in Cassano……….. I was so pissed off when I saw him coming on.
It was balotelli vs 5 defenders.. He missed a chance, it happens. He can’t be singled out for blame here.
The one positive from this game is the fact that that prick of a commentator is going home disappointed because England are out
Fuck that. Balotelli’s role is to score. He completely failed at that. He’s completely useless without goals. I can’t believe that we’re in danger of being knocked out. Uruguay have an amazing team and this is gonna be a very close game.
5vs1.. Thats a tactical fail, not a balotelli fail
Cassano was sh*t, but i dont blame Prandelli for playing him. His creativity couldve really torn apart C. Ricas high lines… Too bad he was sh*t.
So any chance of Luis Suarez getting suspended for the next game?
It’s gonna very tough match plus Suarez is on fire. Hopefully it was a wake-up call for Italy
Fuck it. He’s a beast and he’ll punish any mistake we make.
Thoughts:
-Balotelli cannot face a 5 man defense alone. he gets disinterested early and it rubs off on the team
-Italy need to rotate players more, this world cup will largely be about endurance
-Prandelli doesnt have faith in Immobile
-Abate fucking sucks
-Barzagli and Chiellini looked sluggish
-Thiago Motta isnt as improved as we thought
-Darmian is human
-Pirlo cannot play next to De Rossi, they get in eachothers way and play is disrupted when they are too close
-Verratti should start over Thiago Motta
-Sirigu made his case to start over buffon
-Nothing to say about Cassano besides he played like shit
-YOUTH/FITNESS seems to be the common denominator between teams playing best at this World Cup.
-Costa Rica played a hell of a match, hats off to them.
I think that the reason fitness is getting wins is because Brazil’s temperature and humidity is just too much to handle for players with low stamina to play properly.
And yes, Cassano and Balo were terrible. I just wanna see Immobile play a proper game to judge him.
I think our midfield lineup is fine though.
Thank you captain obvious. The fitness points are because of that.
Also, pretty much all of Costa Rica plays in the MLS. The MLS is right 3 months into season right now. They are at pretty much peak fitness while all of Italy just finished a long season.
It has nothing to do with rest times. It’s all the heat. There’s a reason no European team has won the World Cup in South America.
Shit you are thick. I was saying the heat, humidity is an obvious difference to europeans, north americans, asians that we all know. I was making an additional point. Hence the word “also”.
It’s all the heat.
Why are you so aggressive? Calm your ass bro.
Italy just lost, dont mean to. And it is not the heat. Heat isnt that bad. Humidity is what gets to them. It makes it hard to sweat. Players with larger muscles have a lot of water in them and need to sweat to be efficient.
They often play in higher temperatures over in Italy but unfortunately fifa is too thick skulled to take humidity into consideration when deciding if water breaks are allowed
You shouldve taken a nap after the match… Naps make everything better
They just make you more groggy.. Bad advice!!
I took a nap afterwards and i felt all happy and mellow!!
I took a long hot shower with a nice shower beer. Feel better now.
Playing in high humidity is much more difficult than playing in high temperatures, so i would think the humidity is the reason for the poor physical display
Well the midfield looked like shit today. That midfield should win games for us.
I agree most of your points but even Sirigu could not save that header. And Really want to see some actions from De sciglio and Immobile. Please Prandelli NEVER PLAY CASSANO AGAIN FOR FUCK SAKE!!!
Im not saying sirigu would have saved the header. but buffon dealt with corners and crosses poorly today. Buffon did fine, but Sirigu played top of his game.
never play chiellini ver again either, he fuckin sucks ass.
most overrated defender in europe. he looks so lame out there.
If Prandelli had any real balls he’d sit Chiellini, especially if Desciglio is healthy.
I still wish we had Di Natale in the team
Rossi would be much better choice IMO.
Di Natale may have slowed down a bit but I still feel that he would still get the job done for Italy. As for Rossi he of course should have went instead of Insigne, but Toto should have went instead of Cassano.
Di Natale never did anything for Italy
He was just a good sub tho.
He was a good sub.. Once. Other than that he did nothing for Italy
More than Cassano at least
At least cassano has done positive things in an Italy shirt before, plus he played better than Di Natale this season.
I agree that cassano should have gone but di Natale was injured a lot and still managed 17 goals.
He still played 32 games.. Still a good tally but he didn’t have the best of seasons in terms of performances.
when did he ever get the chance? not very often. he scored a beauty against spain at the euro 2 years ago.
A Pirlo breathed beauty 🙂
It was a decent goal yeah but he was hardly a game changer against them. He didn’t get a chance for a reason because whenever he played for us he was terrible. Brilliant for udinese but could never do it for Italy unfortunately
Hes too old and Brazil’s climate would eat him up
You missed a vital one
– None of Italy’s players had a first touch
Oh also the final sub should’ve been immobile on, not cerci.
(prandelli doesnt have faith in immobile)
Thank you captain obvious..
Your welcome sargeant pepper
I feel Prandelli shouldve subbed off Balo, he was becoming more and more of a ghost after his 2nd chance on goal.
Tho i thought the Cerci sub was smart. Pacey winger vs high defensive line… But it shouldve been a much earlier sub. Bringing in a player to make a difference that late in a match puts far too much pressure on him.
Cerci or insigne would’ve been smart.. Or even both had he not put Cassano on.. At the time of putting him on it was a bad decision made worse by the fact we have seen how devastating an immobile-insigne partnership can be
These are one of those moments where Prandelli frustrates the hell out of me. Thiago Motta has never impressed me in his natural deeper positions, so why play him in a more advanced position? Hes a crap player imo.
Abate doesnt suck… Maybe today he did, but overall, hes a great winger.
I agree Verratti shouldve started. He and Pirlo were the stars against England, why choose that useless motta over him? Another decision Prandelli made that frustrated the crap out of me.
I disagree that Pirlo and De Rossi cant play together, they were an awesome pair in the euro. Perhaps its De Rossi playing behind Pirlo that is the problem.
Edit: i wanna see Marchisio in the middle, im tired of seeing him on the flanks.
I never want to see Thiago Motta in an Italy shirt again, Abate was awful… and all of our subs had no impact at all, disappointing to say the least
So this new Kingsley Coman kid is supposed to be a huge talent. Apparently this pickup is already being likened to Pogbas arrival. Ive heard he can play on the left side as well as attacking mid.
I just hope we haven’t pissed off PSG by getting him.. I still want verratti
Naw. The Veratti-Pogba swap is in the future.
Not so sure.. Not with real after him too
So are we still posting here? Overwhelmed by all these articles
Yeah I think so
Rav/Mod, any way to stick this page back at the top? Seems people are having a hard time figuring out where to post.
Well I think the ref and Suarez deserve to be shot.
From a juventus point of view, we really need to sign verratti, he’s fantastic.
I don’t know why everyone is critising balotelli, he was the one player driving us forward in the first half, immobile was anonymous and without balotelli we had no real outlet.