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#137874 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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Exactly. Not even remotely good enough for a shite team like Fulham, and yet Seedorf seems willing to snatch him up. With a crocked Essien joining as well, it's like he's building a team designed meticulously to hilariously fail.


You've not seen much of Milan this season have you? Their a joke already and fully deserve to be where they are in the table.

Also, both signings make sense. Seedorf is set on playing a 4231 and with everbody present the bank of 3 consists of El Shaarawy, Kaka and Honda. The backup for which is the untested and seemingly untrusted Saponara, the sh*te Birsa and the rotting, rum-soaked corpse of Robinho. Taraabt fills a gap till summer.

Same as Essien, he's a shadow of the player he was at Chelsea but still a step up from utter dross like Nocerino and Muntari.
#137869 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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News tonight is that Dani Osvaldo is on his way to Juventus, allowing Vucinic to move to Arsenal on loan. He wouldn't be the most exciting of signings but he'd be better than no-one.


Vucinic has refused to move, Juve are looking at offloading Quagliarella to make space now - Cardiff's offer has been refused by the player though, another one that wants to stay in Italy.
#137867 The Italian Football Thread
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Christ, do people actually read the Daily Fail? Reads like it was written by a dense 10 year old...
#135910 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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Milan won't pay anything like his current wages, besides Seedorf looks like moving towards a 4-2-3-1 and with Balotelli & Pazzini both able to play the lead forward role they don't need him, nor is their space for him in the bank of 3.

Edit: Not sure why Multi Quote dropped King Luis & Bluemoon's posts, ah well, Shrek aint moving to Italy that's for sure.
#135465 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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It did sound like a bit of a stupid deal.


Aye it's a strange one, an overrated midfielder that turns up once or twice a month and a has-been that used to turn it on in big games but now doesn't really do anything.

If anything Inter need to improve their midfield, though Juve could certainly stand to lose Vucinic and his high salary.
#133854 Old Trafford Lounge
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Loan with an option to buy it seems. It'll be interesting to see how he gets on, Fiorentina have a good record of reviving flagging careers over the last couple of seasons.
#133853 The Italian Football Thread
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Yep, now there's a load of stories going about saying Seedorf's Berlusconi's choice to take over as manager...
#133726 The Italian Football Thread
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Allegri could be sacked tomorrow with Pippo Inzaghi's the favourite to fill in till the end of the season.

Right after the game Barbara Berlusconi was going on about how things had to change and the fans shouldn't have to suffer results like the one they'd just seen then Allegri was informed there'll be a meeting regarding his future tomorrow morning while he was in the middle of an interview.
#133724 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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So basically Astori. Vidal's just signed a 5 year deal and loves Juve, while Pogba's got a €4m deal on the table and really doesn't like United.
#133683 Old Trafford Lounge
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Astori's apparently available for the right price in the winter window, that could have forced his hand.
#133674 The Italian Football Thread
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Berardi has 4 now, his strike partner Zaza's been excellent as well, no goals but Milan's defenders are really struggling to keep tabs on him.

4-3 now, should have been 4-4 but Pazzini somehow missed.
#133667 Old Trafford Lounge
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Yeah I understand that, I just don't see him bothering to make the journey to look at a centre back we might need a bit of depth there, but I don't think its a priority position.


Well Rio's not up to much these days and isn't Vidic's agent making noises about not signing a new deal? Take those two out of the equation and your a bit short on numbers. As I said above Astori's a bit of an odd choice, he's not much of an improvement on what you've already got.

There's always a chance he was having a look at Ibarbo.
#133643 The Italian Football Thread
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Berardi hattrick, Sassuolo 3-2 up now. Very smart business by Juve snapping up 50% of his rights when they did.

Edit: Worth remembering Sassuolo had gone 4 games without scoring before tonight.
#133640 Old Trafford Lounge
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Nah, despite the rubbish in the UK media I really doubt he'll be leaving Juve, they certainly don't want to sell him nor do they need to.

As a former centre back himself I'm guessing Moyes was there to get a first hand look at Astori over the full match, especially what he gets up to off the ball.
#133474 Old Trafford Lounge
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Your manager's been spotted at this afternoon's Cagliari vs Juve game, seems he's there to get a closer look at Davide Astori. Personally I think he's be disappoined, at one time Astori was one of those 'next big thing' talents but he's not really improved since he was 24/25 (he's 27 now) and if anything has regressed over the last couple of years.
#133260 The Italian Football Thread
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Christian Maldini, Paolo's 17 year old son, has made the first tentative step of his senior career joining Brescia on loan till the end of the season, like his old man he's a leftback.

I can't say I envy the kid, that name must be a millstone round his neck, his father and grandfather not only Milan legends but up there with the very best of their generations.
#133046 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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Diakite's been linked to a number of relegation battlers in Serie A. I'm not surprised he's on the fringes at Sunderland, despite his age he's horribly inexperienced with a game based around his physical strengths and little else.


Bad news for United fans hoping they might make a move for Pjanic, Roma have just sold Michael Bradley to Toronto for €6.5m which balances the Nainggolan transfer.
#132464 The Italian Football Thread
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Antonio Di Natale announced he'll be retiring at the end of the season during the post-match press conference this afternoon.

Hoped he had another season in him but I suppose it's better to go out in Serie A than spend another year in the MLS or the middle east with a hefty wage packet but surrounded by players with a fraction of his talent.


On the Lazio front, we actually played quite well, kept a clean sheet and scraped a win on Reja's return to the bench. God knows where these stories linking Ranocchi to the likes of Chelsea and Man Utd come from though, whenever I watch him over 90 mins he makes 2 or 3 mistakes a youth team player would be ashamed of. It's actually sad to see such a highly rated player during his Bari days has become a total bombscare, especially when you see the so called less talented member of that partnership doing so well for Juve and Italy.
#131407 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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The Balotelli stuff turned out to be nonsense, never mind though you guys might be getting Berbatov for €2m
#128863 The Italian Football Thread
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These days Italy isn't much worse than other leagues, the main difference is they have the infrastructure and ability (wiretaps etc) to investigate fixing that other countries don't.

Poe does have a point though, when you look at it historically Italian football's often had fixing/doping scandals and incidents cropping up. Credit where it's due, some of the more recent doping stories are due to players being caught taking stuff while in Italy that they'd been on elsewhere, Stam for example.
#128860 Transfer Rumours 2013/14
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Loose rumours suggesting John Guidetti could be headed to Lazio in January.


That story has been doing the rounds for 18 months now, besides if we were to bring in a forward to replace Klose, with Keita breaking through and Perea needing minutes there's no need for Guidetti.
#125438 The Italian Football Thread
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Juve had their curva closed due to their fans chants (regional insults against Napoli etc are treated the same as rascist chants) and rather than having an empty stand they invited 12,000 kids to fill it.

Now they've been hit with a 5k fine after the kids spent an entire half (or the whole game, stories differ) going "ooooooooooo Merda!" Every time the Udinese keeper kicked or threw the ball out.
#113227 The Night Thread Mk. IX
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Don't think he'd have appreciated your 'RIP':

"It always bothers me to see people writing 'RIP' when a person dies. It just feels so insincere and like a cop out. To me 'RIP' is the microwave dinner of posthumous honours." - Lou Reed.
#113038 The Apple Thread
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The screen in my FM's gone a bit odd since installing Mavericks, it's zoomed in so you can't see the top and right of the screen but when you hover the cursor the options seem to be in the correct places.

Any ideas?


Edit: Should have said, windowed mode works fine but it's a workaround at best.
#113018 Old Trafford Lounge
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Is he not a #10? If so, why would you not just play Kagawa there?


He can play there but he can also operate deeper, Roma have been using him in a midfield 3 this season.
#111329 Barclays Premier League 2013/14
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Yeah. It makes a nice change from hearing people call him Carzola for the last 12 months.


Hope they remember their Spanish lisps if Real Zaragoza ever come up in conversation...
#111325 The Italian Football Thread
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Great to see him getting back to his old self, even better to see Juve blowing a 2-0 lead and getting thumped 4-2 in the end.
#111324 Scottish Football Thread
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Typical stuff from Lennon, b*tching about how physical Hibs were to deflect attention from how poor his side were in the final third.
#109757 The Italian Football Thread
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Took long enough...

Moratti's still got 30% and it sounds like he'll still be on the board, involved in the decision making etc, just won't be him footing the bills.
#109458 Player Eligibility Question
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If a player has no blood ties to any of the home nations they can only call him up if he received 5 years of schooling in that country before the age of 18, that's what all the fuss about Januzaj has been about, they'd have to tear up that agreement for him to play for England.

Your guy's in the same boat, he may be a citizen but your never going to see him called up for England - if the game's accurate that is...