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#561601 2020/21 Premier League
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I've mixed feelings about Bielsa's aborted term at Lazio, on one hand it would have been amazing to have a world class manager at the helm, on the other, the players he asked for (the reason things fell apart, Lazio said they'd talked to all of the players, turned out they didn't!) were mediocre at best and Igle Tare, on a slim budget, has brought in an amazing amount of players who've either developed or rebounded at Lazio and became far better than they were.
Like most football fans I love Bielsa and it would be amazing to see him tear up the Premier League with Leeds, history isn't in his favor, hopefully it's wrong this time.
#264646 Remember when...
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Ha ha, from one old timer to an even older one, welcome back lad!
#243513 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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For what it's worth darjeeling makes a nice home made iced tea and chai is easy to make yourself as well.
#199419 Scottish Independence and shit
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I was at the count last night and was pretty surprised by how big the gap was in some of our areas as well as the country as a whole. I think Dundee was about the only place where Yes won comfortably, they scraped Glasgow but only by 30k or so votes and that was cancelled out by the Borders where Yes won by a similar number of votes despite it only having 80k or so papers.
#192948 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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#182595 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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The true situation seems to be United made contact, Juve said something along the lines of he wasn't for sale or he's not available for less than €50m and that was pretty much it.
#182593 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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He had some input but it waa those two that had final say. It was also Allegri's choice to push Pirlo to the left of the midfield to make room for a defensive player in the centre and try to convert an average midfielder like Constant into a terrible fullback, then keep playing him...
#182540 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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Doubt he'll go there, we're meant to be close to agreeing terms with him and Inter had a look a few weeks back, he's even being linked with Juve but that just seems lazy reporting based on little more than Allegri trained him at Cagliari and was linked with him during his time at Milan.
Speaking of Allegri he's not highly rated because he's an average tactician and horrific man manager, give him a decent team with the dressing room leaders on side like 2010/11 Milan and he'll do fine but when things start getting tough he struggles. Other reasons are that for such an attacking coach at Cagliari his Milan sides were very defensive, his subborn insistance with sticking to a 4312 when Milan were built for a 433 was strange to say the least, then there's replacing Pirlo with MvB, Kevin Constant as a fullback...
#182229 Transfer Rumours 2014/15
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Now Conte has gone I really doubt we'll see Vidal or Pogba leaving Juve, the board wouldn't have the balls to sell them after losing Conte.
#173635 Group D - Costa Rica, England, Italy, Uruguay
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#173631 Group D - Costa Rica, England, Italy, Uruguay
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#173629 Group D - Costa Rica, England, Italy, Uruguay
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Nice to see Candreva finally deliver at international level, he's been great for Lazio this season but I have to admit I was sceptical he'd cut it at the top level.
#171969 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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#171966 The Italian Football Thread
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A lot of the blame has to lie with Galliani though, the squad's a mess and the potential signings of Alex and Menez show their still looking to either revive older guys or give trouble makers a second chance. The stuff about them thinking of selling Cristante to fund a move for Rami says it all really. Inzaghi's always been a personal favourite of Berlusconi so he might be given a bit more time.
Slightly better news of the Lazio transfer front, a €15m deal for Dusan Basta and the other 50% of Candreva is almost done and we're meant to be in negotiations for the like of Parolo, Astori, Paletta and Feyenoord's De Vrij. The only cloud is Allegri being among the names being linked with our managerial position, the others are Donadoni, our youth coach Simone Inzaghi and Reja himself.
#171949 What's the last thing you bought thread
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#171940 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Loved Bottom, The Young Ones & Filthy Rich & Catflap when I was growing up, saw them live as well, think it was their 3rd show - the first on the desert island.
#167402 The Italian Football Thread
Hibee
There's been some nonsense about Man Utd and Radu but I've not seen anything about Newcastle, Milan are sniffing around Santon so I suppose it makes sense for you guys to be looking for a fullback. Seeing as Stefan's injured half the time and a card magnet when he's actually playing I'd happily see the back of him for €10m.
#167333 Scottish Football Thread
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Have to admire Butcher's honesty when he said the players didn't really know what to do with themselves afterwards.
#167332 Lennon Leaves Celtic
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#166148 Parma have 303 Players in FM2014 - How realistic are the Italian leagues in Football Manager?
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Parma have been astonishingly busy though, even by Italian standards, I thought Genoa were bad when they has something in the region of 90 loans and co-ownerships to resolve in the summer.
Dunno about you guys but I always turn off transfer budgets in the first window, so it's usually the second summer window when I can have a proper clear out when managing an Italian club, at least by then you've had a year with your squad and seen how your players away on loan have got on - there's usually a few worth keeping and offering out on co-ownership.
#165874 World Cup 2014 Thread
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Any defense with Federico Fernandez in it is suspect by default... Shame Gino Peruzzi didn't make it, he's been good whenever I've seen him with Catania, even got a goal against us in Sicily.
#165873 World Cup 2014 Thread
Hibee
It's just the provisional squad list, no idea why he's been named but you can bet your house he won't be going. As for Tevez he's a casualty of Argentina finally finding a system that gets the best out of their attacking triumverate of Messi, Higauin & Lavezzi, he just doesn't seem to fit whereas Lavezzi and Palacio do.
#164323 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
Hibee
Deserved I'm afraid.
The Immobile/Dortmund stories have been going around for weeks but in the last day or so a delegation's meant to have arrived in Italy to start negotiations. The only sticking point is he's co-owned by Juve and Torino, given the season he's had I can't see either being that happy with €10m/€11m for their share.
Edit: Sky Italia reporting he's agreed a 5 year deal with Dortmund, they just have to agree terms with Juve/Torino now, pressure on the Italians if he has agreed terms.
Oh aye, Mino Raiola confirmed that he's meeting with Juve to finally sort Pogba's contract extension, typically Football Italia posted some recycled horsesh*t linking him to Man Utd & Chelsea around an hour before Raiola's announcement...
#163303 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
Hibee
I wouldn't worry, the only source is Tuttosport and they aren't very reliable, plus they've brought up the Nani deal 3 or 4 times over the last year, usually when there isn't much to report...
After watching him against Lazio tonight Juve could do a damn sight worse than Juan Iturbe (like Nani), safe to say somebody at Porto's been fired for only giving him a €15m release clause.
#162172 Europa League 2013/2014
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#161860 Italian Catenaccio 1982
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So, you've got your libero at the back, a classic stopper/cover CB pairing and an attacking leftback in the Facchetti role completing the defensive line. Next, in the DM band is your ball winning midfielder. The midfield band has a right sided midfielder with an automatic mentality, this is a crucial position and represents Jair/Domenghini linking defense and attack. Inside him you've got your deep lying playmaker just infront of the ball winner. Depending on the player/average position on the heatmap you may want 'Jair' as a fullback in the DM band - he should be getting forward and linking with your DL forward as well as tracking back.
This is where it gets difficult, you need a Corso type sitting inside Facchetti in the left of the AM band, you've also got a second/withdrawn striker to the right of your main forward. I think I switched between a lone forward and a pair with the deep lying one set to 'support'.
I do remember this taking a while to get right, the wings were a constant issue and I'm sure I had to bring my ball winner and deep lying playmaker into the same band more than once.
Edit: I also tweaked one of my CB's in the editor so he was comfortable playing as a libero, no point trying the tactic if you've nobody for one of the key roles!
#161488 The Italian Football Thread
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#160868 Tactical Approach: Single vs Multiple?
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#160172 Rob...
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#159388 Inter U19 playing Copa Libertadores Sub-20? What the ...
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As for Inter's primavera being entered in the Copa Libertadores Sub-20, well, their practically a South American team anyway, surprised Catania and their motley crew of second rate Argies aren't there as well...