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Sirigu, Bocchetti, Quagliarella, Cossu and Borriello to be dropped according to Gazzetta

Yeah fair enough with Maggio, and I have even said in other threads that he will for sure take him now. Meh, you never know with Lippi.

I highly doubt any manager would go to a one month tournament with 5 defenders. There is no way he's dropping Bonucci BTW. IMO the defenders will be: Canna (CB), Chiellini CB), Bonucci (CB), Zambrotta(RB), Criscito(LB/LWB), Bocchetti(LB and CB) and Maggio (RB/RWB). And LOL @ taking 4...

I cant pick out of Cassani/Maggio Lippi will drop. I'm 51% sure it'll be Cassani who misses out as Maggio is a touch more versatile. My other picks to get dropped are Sirigu, Quagliarella, Camoranesi and possibly Gattuso.

Good choice for manager IMO I think we will see the likes of Balotelli, Cassano, Miccoli and even some more youth etc once he takes charge. Interesting times ahead.

Grosso and Candreva have been dropped from the team. In reality Cannavaro and Camoranesi should also be cut from the team as well.

No Roma or Inter (lol) players called due to Coppa Italia final. Weak looking squad.

The annoying thing is, if the players who SHOULD BE THERE were actually selected Italy would have a pretty damn good squad. Its a shame the amount of talent thats going to be left home. Oh well, theres always Euro 2012 for them.,

And in the realm of fanboys there is no country worse than Brazil for that business here in Australia. Most people hate Italy here (even before the "dive" incident). Fuck Brazil. Fuck them in the eye.

Al Qaeda vaffanculo!

Its really all about Lippis supposed man management skills, and seeing if he can get the absolute best out this group of players in a one month tournament. Club form and other factors go absolutely out of the window in these tournaments. Ronaldinho came into the last WC as the FIFA World Player...

No but other then around 4/5 teams which other teams would be able to boast the attack Italy has? I didnt say it was the best, quite the contrary but it isnt as bad as most make it out to be.

Unlike 90% of the teams at the tournament ay.

Shit, when you look at it Italy really do have an abundance of pretty good options upfront. And this isnt even taking into account players like Balotelli, Miccoli and Cassano who will be nowhere near selection. If only they had these selection headaches in defence. Grosso, Cannavaro...

Yep! Sorry forgot about him. I seriously think Quagliarella should be nowhere near the NT at the moment. The others have been ok this season. How has G Rossi done at Villareal this season?

Wouldnt shock me. Italy for once have quite a few strikers - not necesarrily any world beats though. Pazzini, Gilardino, Di Natale, Rossi (andys boy), Toni, Quagliarella and maybe Iaquinta will be the obvious choices Lippi will make. I think he'll take 5 of those 7 I mentioned.

I can see why Lippi doesnt pick players like Cassano, Miccoli and Balotelli. According to his "united team" philosophy having one of them, let alone all three of them would be considered madness. I don't necessarily agree with his stance on this, but I can see why he does it. He's the coach and...

Why are you so confident of that? Italy wont win it, but neither will England. And I reckon if Italy met England in this tournament, Italy would win. England are a bunch of chokers at this level. No foreign superstars to save your average international team. And to add to that, if Rooney...

Yet they'll still probably go further than England.

Im sure he cares.