Argentine defender Gonzalo Rodríguez to go to Juve? (11 Viewers)
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and cuptied is a prick of a rule which is destroying juves chances of signing quality defenders who have played in europe so far this season
and cuptied is a prick of a rule which is destroying juves chances of signing quality defenders who have played in europe so far this season
its would be like a friendly Sports Day tounament at schools where you can play in more than one team in the same competition coz nobody took notice...
Welcome to the forums, Mago
Your description of this Gonzalo Rodriguez kid seems to fit Juve's bill completely. When you are an opposing team and you look at our starting line-up and see the likes of Ciro Ferrara and Paolo Montero, two things go through your mind. 1) Pace is gonna kill these grandfathers. 2) These guys are grandfathers.
If you're a Juve supporter, you know and think about these things as well, so when we're linked with a young, fast defender, we can't do anything but hope and pray that Moggi makes it happen. If Gonzalo Rodriguez is as good as you say he is, Moggi better get his act together and get him along with Massimo Oddo. Mexes can wait until the summer.
Your description of this Gonzalo Rodriguez kid seems to fit Juve's bill completely. When you are an opposing team and you look at our starting line-up and see the likes of Ciro Ferrara and Paolo Montero, two things go through your mind. 1) Pace is gonna kill these grandfathers. 2) These guys are grandfathers.
If you're a Juve supporter, you know and think about these things as well, so when we're linked with a young, fast defender, we can't do anything but hope and pray that Moggi makes it happen. If Gonzalo Rodriguez is as good as you say he is, Moggi better get his act together and get him along with Massimo Oddo. Mexes can wait until the summer.
Hi guys! Thank you everybody for your warm welcome! You're all very kind 
I'm sorry I couldn't come here yesterday but I was a little bit busy... :groan:
Anyway, there's a lot of new things to let you know about Gonzalo Rodríguez's transfer. Big updates, indeed. :thumb:
The latest information here is that according to the Italian media Gonzalo's arrival to Juventus is a fact. The operation would cost 4 millions dollars, 3 millions of which would come to San Lorenzo.arty: We certainly need that money! :greedy: Though personally I was expecting a bit more taking into account Gonzalo's quality and constant room for improvement. Yet, some other newspapers here say it's 4 millions euros. Either they think 1 euro is still equal to 1 dollar or they handle different sources. Whatever the price is, we can officially say that Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez is the new player of F.C. Juventus and you read it here first!
The only disagreement between the parts is that Juventus wants Gonzalo right now for the second part of the Italian season as part of their inminent "defense rejuvenation", while San Lorenzo would rather him stay another six months so as to have his important contribution for the Clausura Tournament. I'm also sure our National Team coach, Marcelo Bielsa, must be wishing the same, otherwise he won't have Gonzalo for the Pre-Olympic Tournament starting on January the 7th, 2004. The thing is that European teams are not allowing their U-23 players (Saviola, Coloccini, Santana, D'Alessandro, etc.) to come because it's not an official FIFA tourney (eventhough FIFA does support the Olympic Games football competition) so I guess Juventus would do the same with Gonzalo.
Also, another disagreement seems to reside in the payment. Juvents wants more facilities and is asking to pay by 24 monthly installments. San Lorenzo, on the contrary, wants instant cash! Does it show how desperate we are? :embarass:
The thing is that our board members who went to Turin are already on their way back to Buenos Aires, so they expect to work out these differences over the phone...
Just a little detail: our club's lawyer was one of the members who travelled to Turin. And whenever he's asked to go it's because it's a serious issue and negotiations are about to succeed.
What I still don't like is that it was our board members who had to travel to Italy. Wouldn't it be Juventus' obligation to come down to Buenos Aires to negotiate if they are the ones who want the player so badly? That way we are somehow showing everybody we are in desperate need to sell some players, which ends up reducing our players value and a tentative bigger offer. Yeah, I know... You don't care about San Lorenzo! Anyway, the rumour here was that Juventus had eyed Gonzalo a long time ago and that they had been negotating with San Lorenzo way before everybody found out. That's why Juve's board wasn't too happy to see that all this got to be leaked in the media.
I thought I had heard somewhere that La Gazzetta dello Sport had published this piece of news yesterday afternoon but I haven't found nothing on their site yet.
However, the most popular sports journal of the Argentina, Olé, which is like the La Gazzetta dello Sport from Argentina, has been commenting all this for two or three days now. The same with Clarín (the most popular newspaper in Argentina) on its sports section.
Here are the articles that appeared in Clarín in cronologcial order:
http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/12/17/d-07005.htm - Wednesday
http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/12/18/d-06602.htm - yesterday
http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/12/19/d-07301.htm - today
If you can't understand what it says, let me know and I'll see if I can do some translating for you, OK?
Also, if you want to read the news in Olé's site, you will first need to register. But don't worry: in the next hours I'm going to copy, paste and translate an interview their reporter in UAE made with Gonzalo Rodríguez while he was still playing the U-20 World Youth Championship (by the way, we finished playing today and we couldn't get the third place... yes, we lost to Colombia 2-1 :down: ) and had just learned about Juve's interest in him.
P.S.: I almost forgot. Of course I'm gonna answer all your previous questions and doubts regarding Gonzalo on a following post.
I'm sorry I couldn't come here yesterday but I was a little bit busy... :groan:
Anyway, there's a lot of new things to let you know about Gonzalo Rodríguez's transfer. Big updates, indeed. :thumb:
The latest information here is that according to the Italian media Gonzalo's arrival to Juventus is a fact. The operation would cost 4 millions dollars, 3 millions of which would come to San Lorenzo.
arty: We certainly need that money! :greedy: Though personally I was expecting a bit more taking into account Gonzalo's quality and constant room for improvement. Yet, some other newspapers here say it's 4 millions euros. Either they think 1 euro is still equal to 1 dollar or they handle different sources. Whatever the price is, we can officially say that Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez is the new player of F.C. Juventus and you read it here first! The only disagreement between the parts is that Juventus wants Gonzalo right now for the second part of the Italian season as part of their inminent "defense rejuvenation", while San Lorenzo would rather him stay another six months so as to have his important contribution for the Clausura Tournament. I'm also sure our National Team coach, Marcelo Bielsa, must be wishing the same, otherwise he won't have Gonzalo for the Pre-Olympic Tournament starting on January the 7th, 2004. The thing is that European teams are not allowing their U-23 players (Saviola, Coloccini, Santana, D'Alessandro, etc.) to come because it's not an official FIFA tourney (eventhough FIFA does support the Olympic Games football competition) so I guess Juventus would do the same with Gonzalo.
Also, another disagreement seems to reside in the payment. Juvents wants more facilities and is asking to pay by 24 monthly installments. San Lorenzo, on the contrary, wants instant cash! Does it show how desperate we are? :embarass:
The thing is that our board members who went to Turin are already on their way back to Buenos Aires, so they expect to work out these differences over the phone...
Just a little detail: our club's lawyer was one of the members who travelled to Turin. And whenever he's asked to go it's because it's a serious issue and negotiations are about to succeed.
What I still don't like is that it was our board members who had to travel to Italy. Wouldn't it be Juventus' obligation to come down to Buenos Aires to negotiate if they are the ones who want the player so badly? That way we are somehow showing everybody we are in desperate need to sell some players, which ends up reducing our players value and a tentative bigger offer. Yeah, I know... You don't care about San Lorenzo!
Anyway, the rumour here was that Juventus had eyed Gonzalo a long time ago and that they had been negotating with San Lorenzo way before everybody found out. That's why Juve's board wasn't too happy to see that all this got to be leaked in the media. I thought I had heard somewhere that La Gazzetta dello Sport had published this piece of news yesterday afternoon but I haven't found nothing on their site yet.
However, the most popular sports journal of the Argentina, Olé, which is like the La Gazzetta dello Sport from Argentina, has been commenting all this for two or three days now. The same with Clarín (the most popular newspaper in Argentina) on its sports section.
Here are the articles that appeared in Clarín in cronologcial order:
http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/12/17/d-07005.htm - Wednesday
http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/12/18/d-06602.htm - yesterday
http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/12/19/d-07301.htm - today
If you can't understand what it says, let me know and I'll see if I can do some translating for you, OK?
Also, if you want to read the news in Olé's site, you will first need to register. But don't worry: in the next hours I'm going to copy, paste and translate an interview their reporter in UAE made with Gonzalo Rodríguez while he was still playing the U-20 World Youth Championship (by the way, we finished playing today and we couldn't get the third place... yes, we lost to Colombia 2-1 :down: ) and had just learned about Juve's interest in him.
P.S.: I almost forgot. Of course I'm gonna answer all your previous questions and doubts regarding Gonzalo on a following post.
Thanks for the updates santana!! Ill rad them right now.
About the agreements.. yeah i already knew it. San Lorenzo want to keep the player for the clausura, but juventus wants him right now.
I dont know if they will use him right away in the first team. He must be very ood to do that task right away.
About the agreements.. yeah i already knew it. San Lorenzo want to keep the player for the clausura, but juventus wants him right now.
I dont know if they will use him right away in the first team. He must be very ood to do that task right away.
Hi guys, I'm new here but some of you might know me from another board. Hi magosantana81, I knew about the interest in this player a couple of days ago and I just learned that the discussions stoped and now AS Roma will try to get Rodriguez. San Lorenzo waits for Juve's reply. If they start a bidding war Juve never ends up with the player. But if Roma are interested, then he's gonna play for Juve.
I still wish we had a lefty to replace Montero. I feel that you have to be left footed to play left center back.
I still wish we had a lefty to replace Montero. I feel that you have to be left footed to play left center back.
Hey, Mark!!!!!!!!
How are you, buddy??
I guess yash finally talked you into coming on board.
Welcome, friend.
So what's this you hear about Roma getting involved now? do they even have the financial resources to pull this off?
Hey, mago, you're doing a great job giving us updates, by the way. We really do appreciate it.
How are you, buddy??
I guess yash finally talked you into coming on board.
Welcome, friend.
So what's this you hear about Roma getting involved now? do they even have the financial resources to pull this off?
Hey, mago, you're doing a great job giving us updates, by the way. We really do appreciate it.
Thank you! I get what he meant now. Yeah, if you ask me, there should also be a leaguetied rule if you know what I mean. For instance, I can't stand either when on most leagues (including the Argentinean one) due to the transfers book (what's the actual English for this?) being closed once the competition has started (generally after three or four rounds*). I remember not long ago a player started the first two rounds in one team and then he was transferred to another one where he began playing in the third round. An to make matters worse, his new team hadn't played his old one so you can imagine how upset his ex club supporters were to see him on another team.
* I know this word is used more for Cups and Eliminatory Tournaments rather than for Leagues. So what other word is there? Or you have to say Day 1 Games... Day 19 Games... and so on?
Good to hear that. Frankly, I had no idea. But this piece of news confirms it.
http://www.sports.it/it/cmc/calcio/200351/cmc_60978.html
I knew someone would be asking me about this. I'm sorry, I just couldn't come up with the appropriate words. I guess I'll have to learn more soccer vocabulary these days. What I was trying to say is that Gonzalo usually likes, and is very good at, dominating the ball and going out of the box without just rejecting it or sending a long high ball, unlike more rusty players like Paolo Montero who tend to limit themselves to doing the last thing. Do you understand? He prefers making short accurate passes rather than kicking the ball the highest and longest he can and praying on the strikers to capture it... And you will see that as he gets more and more confident, he will even take more risks and try to choose more difficult or awkward passing lanes...
I understand your concern, and it's a legitimate one. But sometines you have to understand that age is not a crucial factor for all players. It depends on their character and strong will. If I'm not wrong, there's a 19-year-old central defender from Paraguay (can't remember his name... Mareco maybe?) playing in Brescia's first team and he's doing pretty well. Yes, I know you can't compare Brescia to Juve but it's a fair example, though.
Anyway, as I said before, my only concern about Juve giving Gonzalo on loan to another team is that then they kinda forget about their players on loan as they keep buying and buying other players... Besides, they could think that if they lend Gonzalo to, let's say, Empoli, he will have to solve all the problems of that team defense. And if he doesn't do that, he will be considered a failure, and it isn't that way. One sole defender alone can't carry all the defense on his shoulders!
¡Muchas gracias! ¡Muy buen castellano, por cierto! :thumb:
Wow! I was also greeted by the Juventuz.com president! I'm really flattered!
Again, I was almost sure that someone would ask me about our gifted playmaker, Leandro Pipi Romagnoli, as soon as I said that I was a San Lorenzo fan. Well, as you must know, he suffered probably the worst injury any footballer can have, to break his crossed ligaments of the knee. I'm sure that translation is awful . Do you know the exact English for this? To give you a hint, it's the same injury Ronaldo suffered twice or three times....
Well, this is the second time Romagnoli has suffered that injury on the same (right) knee. It happened in mid May as he was running after the ball (yes, he was injured all alone, no clash againt a player or something, unlike the first time), he went under another surgery the week after and since then he has been on recovery. Right now he's ready to start pre-season training with the rest of his teammates.
Yes, I was well aware that Romagnoli had been eyed by a lot of Italian teams ever since his first appearance in our first team. First it was Milan (which was said to be willing to offer 10 million dollars), then it was Napoli (looking after the next Maradona maybe? ) and finally Udinese, this year. You won't believe this but Udinese actually made an offer in the middle of this year (during the Italian off-season) while Romagnoli was still in recovery! This was a real surprise even to our own board because Udinese actually didn't have a clue in what state Leandro was, whether he could ever play again or not. For your information, last year the Servette from Switzerland was also interested in Romagnoli but was in two minds because after they made Leandro travel to their club to have him checked by their doctors, the results weren't statisfactory enough. As I see it, that was bullshit from the Swiss club, probably to allow themselves to make a lower counter-offer if you know what I mean...
The thing is that Udinese was even offering Romagnoli to continue with his recovery sessions in Italy. Now that I dig more in my momory, I think their offer was to borrow him for 1 year for 600.000 dollars. Leandro ended up rejecting the offer because he preferred recovering at home, with his family, friends and teammates. But what surprised everybody most was that they wouldn't be able to use him for the first 6 months yet they were still interested in him. Obviously, they still consider him a true star, regardless of his recent injuries.
Another club that has also showed interest in Romagnoli is Bayern Leverkusen. That's right, in mid 2000 they wanted to get both our playmaker (Romagnoli) and goal-getter, Bernardo Romeo, currently in the HSV (Hamburg). Also, Werder Bremen, Stuttgart and New Castle were interested but their offers were considered too low.
If I had to describe him in a few words for those who haven't seen him play, he's your typical number 10 playmaker with the best dribbling skills you can find! He can dribble as many players as he wants. Dribbling is not a problem for him. And when he's on the mood and it's HIS day, NOONE can stop him. Not even Gonzalo . I tell you, not even Pablo Aimar has this guy's dribbiling skills. In my opinion, he has everything to succeed abroad. Maybe his only flaw is free-kicks. That is something he could improve...
I know you're probably saying "if he's that good, why isn't he already in Serie A or in Spain?"... Well, like I said, these recent injuries have kept him from bieng transferred before, after he won 3 championships with San Lorenzo (the Torneo Clausura 2001, the Mercosur 2001 and the Sudamericana 2002, in the final game of which he scored a real Maradona-esque goal, taking the ball at the half of the field, dribbling five or six players, getting into the box and beating the Colombian goalkeeper from Atlético Nacional) and the 2001 U-20 World Youth Championship in Argentina where he started the team together with guys like Fabricio Coloccini (currently in Villarreal), Maximiliano Rodríguez (Espanyol) and Javier Saviola (Barcelona). D'Alessandro? He was just his subtitute. He had to come off the bench and played in the second half once the game was closed because obviously the coach considered him better. It was in that Championship where Leverkusen's coach, Toppi, (now Hamburg's coach) eyed Romagnoli. He simply said: "I've fallen in love with this guy". :dazed:
That is why I love the net, too!
And whenever one of our guys is rumoured to be transferred to some club, I often pay a visit to the forums of any of its affiliated sites to share my views and get other people's impressions : ) But, I must say, I don't often find everywhere such a friendly and welcoming forum like this one!
I see your point. That was what I supposed after a second analysis. But will Olivera ever get a fair chance!? You're missing a very good player!
Oh! Someone from Austria. Cool! Did you know that San Lorenzo's current coach, aged 40 (yes, just like Ciro Ferrara ) Néstor Raúl Gorosito, played there? In Tirol...
Yes, it will always be a pleasure to keep you posted about what's going on down here!
And let me complete your Gonzalo remark. Young, central defender, fast and tall enough! Remember he's 1.80 metres!
Thank you. HA! Tévez... Well, at the risk of sounding a little bit partial, Tévez is probably the most hyped up player I've seen in a while. Now, don't get me wrong. The guy is good, has skills but as I see it he's enjoying too much our press campaign to find the new Maradona, if you know what I mean. For the media, it seems as if he's the only player that is beat by defenders. They always shout: "Take care of Tévez, please, one day they will break him!"... While other guys like our Romagnoli or Aimar used to be beat way before Tévez and noone seemed to care, let alone, complain. For you to understand why I say there's a pro-Tévez campaign, he has just been awarded MVP of our last tournament and he only played half of the competition for God's sake!!!
Of all those three you mentioned, I prefer Riquelme, despite his usual reluctance to mark and help his mates defend when the team loses the ball.
D'Alessandro is good, but again he used to be the other hyped-up star before Tévez's appearance. I call these players "cartoon stars". Again, I'm not saying they are bad, just way too hyped up!
I though you Juve fans were very happy with Trezeguet. Doesn't he score every game?
As for Cavenaghi, yeah, he can spend the whole match as if he wasn't really in the game à la Romario, but then at the drop of a hat he scores! You described him perfectly well. BUT, in the last year he has improved and can also get out of the box and create plays for his teammates. He is a bit slow but has a good technique and believe me when I say that he's a GREAT free kicker! Also, he rarely misses a penalty.
Yeah, it's good... But, between you and me, many San Lorenzo fans believe that it brings bad luck on the team. HA! Aye, I know it sounds crazy but it's a loooooooong story.
Anyway, this is one of my favourite unofficial sites.
www.gasometro.com.ar
It's named after our first stadium's nickname.
I wouldn't blame it on Gonzalo. As you pointed out later. I think that was more of a virtue from the striker. And our goalkeepr was a bit distracted, too. Anyway, who would have thought the striker was going to head from there?
Thank you, -Fantasista-. I like your nickname. Where are you from? First I was going to pick Reggista for mine, but then I remembered about Mario Santana, who was also rumoured to be bought by Juventus for the second half of the season.
Yeah, I've read about Juve's rejuvenation (no pun intended). It is said they also want Brazilian Lucio from Bayern Leverkusen and Dutch Jaap Stam from Lazio. Well, the latter isn't too young anymore
Hi there. Wow, I didn't know about that. That's another good update! But why would Roma want Gonzalo when they already have Samuel? I guess they want to build a full Argentine defense (remember they also have Cufré who is on loan in Siena)
Anyway, why are you saying he would be playing left center back? HIS position is sweeper or right center back, you know, the typical number 2. Does this mean Ciro Ferrara will continue to be a starter? Because being more experienced, Ciro Ferrara should be the one to switch to left center back, don't you think?
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Well, I'm a bit tired... :stress: I guess I'll take a rest and translate that interview I promised later...
* I know this word is used more for Cups and Eliminatory Tournaments rather than for Leagues. So what other word is there? Or you have to say Day 1 Games... Day 19 Games... and so on?
Good to hear that. Frankly, I had no idea. But this piece of news confirms it.
http://www.sports.it/it/cmc/calcio/200351/cmc_60978.html
I knew someone would be asking me about this. I'm sorry, I just couldn't come up with the appropriate words. I guess I'll have to learn more soccer vocabulary these days. What I was trying to say is that Gonzalo usually likes, and is very good at, dominating the ball and going out of the box without just rejecting it or sending a long high ball, unlike more rusty players like Paolo Montero who tend to limit themselves to doing the last thing. Do you understand? He prefers making short accurate passes rather than kicking the ball the highest and longest he can and praying on the strikers to capture it... And you will see that as he gets more and more confident, he will even take more risks and try to choose more difficult or awkward passing lanes...I understand your concern, and it's a legitimate one. But sometines you have to understand that age is not a crucial factor for all players. It depends on their character and strong will. If I'm not wrong, there's a 19-year-old central defender from Paraguay (can't remember his name... Mareco maybe?) playing in Brescia's first team and he's doing pretty well. Yes, I know you can't compare Brescia to Juve but it's a fair example, though.
Anyway, as I said before, my only concern about Juve giving Gonzalo on loan to another team is that then they kinda forget about their players on loan as they keep buying and buying other players... Besides, they could think that if they lend Gonzalo to, let's say, Empoli, he will have to solve all the problems of that team defense. And if he doesn't do that, he will be considered a failure, and it isn't that way. One sole defender alone can't carry all the defense on his shoulders!
¡Muchas gracias! ¡Muy buen castellano, por cierto! :thumb:
Wow! I was also greeted by the Juventuz.com president! I'm really flattered!
Again, I was almost sure that someone would ask me about our gifted playmaker, Leandro Pipi Romagnoli, as soon as I said that I was a San Lorenzo fan. Well, as you must know, he suffered probably the worst injury any footballer can have, to break his crossed ligaments of the knee. I'm sure that translation is awful
. Do you know the exact English for this? To give you a hint, it's the same injury Ronaldo suffered twice or three times....Well, this is the second time Romagnoli has suffered that injury on the same (right) knee. It happened in mid May as he was running after the ball (yes, he was injured all alone, no clash againt a player or something, unlike the first time), he went under another surgery the week after and since then he has been on recovery. Right now he's ready to start pre-season training with the rest of his teammates.
Yes, I was well aware that Romagnoli had been eyed by a lot of Italian teams ever since his first appearance in our first team. First it was Milan (which was said to be willing to offer 10 million dollars), then it was Napoli (looking after the next Maradona maybe?
) and finally Udinese, this year. You won't believe this but Udinese actually made an offer in the middle of this year (during the Italian off-season) while Romagnoli was still in recovery! This was a real surprise even to our own board because Udinese actually didn't have a clue in what state Leandro was, whether he could ever play again or not. For your information, last year the Servette from Switzerland was also interested in Romagnoli but was in two minds because after they made Leandro travel to their club to have him checked by their doctors, the results weren't statisfactory enough. As I see it, that was bullshit from the Swiss club, probably to allow themselves to make a lower counter-offer if you know what I mean... The thing is that Udinese was even offering Romagnoli to continue with his recovery sessions in Italy. Now that I dig more in my momory, I think their offer was to borrow him for 1 year for 600.000 dollars. Leandro ended up rejecting the offer because he preferred recovering at home, with his family, friends and teammates. But what surprised everybody most was that they wouldn't be able to use him for the first 6 months yet they were still interested in him. Obviously, they still consider him a true star, regardless of his recent injuries.
Another club that has also showed interest in Romagnoli is Bayern Leverkusen. That's right, in mid 2000 they wanted to get both our playmaker (Romagnoli) and goal-getter, Bernardo Romeo, currently in the HSV (Hamburg). Also, Werder Bremen, Stuttgart and New Castle were interested but their offers were considered too low.
If I had to describe him in a few words for those who haven't seen him play, he's your typical number 10 playmaker with the best dribbling skills you can find! He can dribble as many players as he wants. Dribbling is not a problem for him. And when he's on the mood and it's HIS day, NOONE can stop him. Not even Gonzalo
. I tell you, not even Pablo Aimar has this guy's dribbiling skills. In my opinion, he has everything to succeed abroad. Maybe his only flaw is free-kicks. That is something he could improve... I know you're probably saying "if he's that good, why isn't he already in Serie A or in Spain?"... Well, like I said, these recent injuries have kept him from bieng transferred before, after he won 3 championships with San Lorenzo (the Torneo Clausura 2001, the Mercosur 2001 and the Sudamericana 2002, in the final game of which he scored a real Maradona-esque goal, taking the ball at the half of the field, dribbling five or six players, getting into the box and beating the Colombian goalkeeper from Atlético Nacional) and the 2001 U-20 World Youth Championship in Argentina where he started the team together with guys like Fabricio Coloccini (currently in Villarreal), Maximiliano Rodríguez (Espanyol) and Javier Saviola (Barcelona). D'Alessandro? He was just his subtitute. He had to come off the bench and played in the second half once the game was closed because obviously the coach considered him better. It was in that Championship where Leverkusen's coach, Toppi, (now Hamburg's coach) eyed Romagnoli. He simply said: "I've fallen in love with this guy". :dazed:
That is why I love the net, too!
And whenever one of our guys is rumoured to be transferred to some club, I often pay a visit to the forums of any of its affiliated sites to share my views and get other people's impressions : ) But, I must say, I don't often find everywhere such a friendly and welcoming forum like this one!
I see your point. That was what I supposed after a second analysis. But will Olivera ever get a fair chance!?
You're missing a very good player!Oh! Someone from Austria. Cool! Did you know that San Lorenzo's current coach, aged 40 (yes, just like Ciro Ferrara
) Néstor Raúl Gorosito, played there? In Tirol...Yes, it will always be a pleasure to keep you posted about what's going on down here!
And let me complete your Gonzalo remark. Young, central defender, fast and tall enough! Remember he's 1.80 metres!
Thank you. HA! Tévez... Well, at the risk of sounding a little bit partial, Tévez is probably the most hyped up player I've seen in a while. Now, don't get me wrong. The guy is good, has skills but as I see it he's enjoying too much our press campaign to find the new Maradona, if you know what I mean. For the media, it seems as if he's the only player that is beat by defenders. They always shout: "Take care of Tévez, please, one day they will break him!"... While other guys like our Romagnoli or Aimar used to be beat way before Tévez and noone seemed to care, let alone, complain.
For you to understand why I say there's a pro-Tévez campaign, he has just been awarded MVP of our last tournament and he only played half of the competition for God's sake!!! Of all those three you mentioned, I prefer Riquelme, despite his usual reluctance to mark and help his mates defend when the team loses the ball.
D'Alessandro is good, but again he used to be the other hyped-up star before Tévez's appearance. I call these players "cartoon stars". Again, I'm not saying they are bad, just way too hyped up!
I though you Juve fans were very happy with Trezeguet. Doesn't he score every game?
As for Cavenaghi, yeah, he can spend the whole match as if he wasn't really in the game à la Romario, but then at the drop of a hat he scores! You described him perfectly well. BUT, in the last year he has improved and can also get out of the box and create plays for his teammates. He is a bit slow but has a good technique and believe me when I say that he's a GREAT free kicker! Also, he rarely misses a penalty.
Yeah, it's good... But, between you and me, many San Lorenzo fans believe that it brings bad luck on the team. HA! Aye, I know it sounds crazy but it's a loooooooong story.
Anyway, this is one of my favourite unofficial sites.
www.gasometro.com.ar
It's named after our first stadium's nickname.
I wouldn't blame it on Gonzalo. As you pointed out later. I think that was more of a virtue from the striker. And our goalkeepr was a bit distracted, too. Anyway, who would have thought the striker was going to head from there?
Thank you, -Fantasista-. I like your nickname.
Where are you from? First I was going to pick Reggista for mine, but then I remembered about Mario Santana, who was also rumoured to be bought by Juventus for the second half of the season.Yeah, I've read about Juve's rejuvenation (no pun intended). It is said they also want Brazilian Lucio from Bayern Leverkusen and Dutch Jaap Stam from Lazio. Well, the latter isn't too young anymore
Hi there. Wow, I didn't know about that. That's another good update! But why would Roma want Gonzalo when they already have Samuel? I guess they want to build a full Argentine defense
(remember they also have Cufré who is on loan in Siena)Anyway, why are you saying he would be playing left center back? HIS position is sweeper or right center back, you know, the typical number 2. Does this mean Ciro Ferrara will continue to be a starter? Because being more experienced, Ciro Ferrara should be the one to switch to left center back, don't you think?
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Well, I'm a bit tired... :stress: I guess I'll take a rest and translate that interview I promised later...
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