Fabio Cannavaro (19 Viewers)

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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Them examples are baseless canavaro had a history and he left on a sour note. I think its fair to say most Juve fans felt atleast disappointed and maybe angry at that initial time considering the circumstance he left in. I dont think anyone needs reminding this. Those who have accepted him do so because they have respected the boards decision and have a sense of ground rule where a juve player is untouchable. Whilst those who havent feel that that weve lost the pride that we once slowly recaptured following the calciopoli. Of course both are viable excuses.
And another thing and I will probably get roasted for this. I am no happier than anyone about the players that chose to leave. Canna had two great seasons with us and played a huge part in our two titles. It wasn't his fault that we got demoted. Kudos to the players that stayed and stuck it out, but I don't understand why Canna is getting roasted so hard for wanting to continue at the highest level. Everyone had their own decision and was able to chose on their own. No one forced them to stay or leave.

Look at Melo. Viola fans are calling him a mercenary. In one year he helped the club make nearly 20million dollars and it was the clubs decision to put the clause in the contract. Canna came for cheap and made us a slight profit when he left and by no strengthening a direct rival like Inter (Ibra) or Milan (Zamb).

I would have loved to see Canna suck it up and stay for that season, but he didn't. He made a choice to keep his career that he worked his entire life for to keep going strong. The others that stayed chose to stay and take the risk. Canna had two years history and DP, Trez, Camo had many more years under their belt than Canna did. As disappointed as I am, I am not going to put my club/board down for bringing him back when it isn't healthy or constructive for the overall project of rebuilding our club to what it used to be. And to any eggheads in here that think Andy and I have some secret pact that "I have been influenced" by him I am sure Andy will be the first one to tell me to fuck off on the Canna stuff.
 

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PhRoZeN

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Mar 29, 2006
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Look at Melo. Viola fans are calling him a mercenary. In one year he helped the club make nearly 20million dollars and it was the clubs decision to put the clause in the contract. Canna came for cheap and made us a slight profit when he left and by no strengthening a direct rival like Inter (Ibra) or Milan (Zamb).
Your latter comment strengthens why melo is called a mercenary by viola fans?
Dont need to clarify to the extent of how much viola fans hate us I mean surely we must have felt the same with Ibra though we didnt quite a) begin to love him as much compared to how affectionate viola fans came onto melo and b) We had more to worry about on the calciopoli scale. Also how did Canna come cheap? it was thanks to your favourite man Moggi ;)
 

Cuti

The Real MC
Jul 30, 2006
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The players i am most pissed off at are the ones which we 'created', like Zambrotta, and to a much lesser extent Thuram
 

Byrone

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Dec 19, 2005
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The players i am most pissed off at are the ones which we 'created', like Zambrotta, and to a much lesser extent Thuram
True but Canna's career was revived when he joined Juve,if the ultras were bitching about that i would understand.Ultimately the are complete tossers that are so far off from the real world.
 

PhRoZeN

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Mar 29, 2006
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Perhaps. I just want my team to win. Is anyone against that?
No of course not. You see one thing good calcipoli did bring was the removal of these mercenaries IMO. they left us, we soon had a a bunch of players who actually loved to play for team for the sake of the team. This was something that I often read across this forum. An opinion shared by the mosts optimists to pessimists. Of course its a matter of time and thats the reality of football that soon enough these professionals or merceneries will be brought in for us to win.. afterall football aint like the old days now is it.
 

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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Your latter comment strengthens why melo is called a mercenary by viola fans?
Dont need to clarify to the extent of how much viola fans hate us I mean surely we must have felt the same with Ibra though we didnt quite a) begin to love him as much compared to how affectionate viola fans came onto melo and b) We had more to worry about on the calciopoli scale. Also how did Canna come cheap? it was thanks to your least favourite man Moggi ;)
One correction there;)


Well, Viola should stuff that 20million dollars up their asses because they can do a lot with that. And Ibra went straight to our direct competitor. Fiorentina as much as they hate us were never a "direct" competitor to us like Inter or Milan.

We got Canna on a daylight robery. We made a profit on him going to Real if I'm not mistaken. And now we got him again, but this time for free.
 

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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True but Canna's career was revived when he joined Juve,if the ultras were bitching about that i would understand.Ultimately the are complete tossers that are so far off from the real world.
That is what I am trying to say as well. Those fans are just absent minded. Most fans obviously are not too happy with the players that left, including Canna. But to disrupt the team they claim to love just to prove a point. That is reckless and irresponsible. The board just spend 50m dollars to shut up the fans that roasted Secco. Now we finally are on to something and they want to jeopardize that. Sooner or later, these fans, are going to come to a bridge. Stay on one side and continue to threaten our growth or cross and just support the team anyway they can and just be pissed off to themselves until he retires.

Bottom line, we need to focus what is best for the team at this juncture in our rebuilding. The media is having a field day with this and its going to tarnish our image all over again. It is one stumbling block over and over again. First was Calciopoli, second was Secco's initial transfer blunders, and now the Fans going into rage mode about Canna.

I mean come on, we signed two great midfielders, a usually pretty solid defender, and are building a new state of the art stadium for our club to play in. Del Piero just signed his extension which even the media was starting to write "stories" about that. With the media's insane stories that hurt the club and the fans that hurt the club, someone needs to draw the line for which is best for the club.
 

Byrone

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Dec 19, 2005
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That is what I am trying to say as well. Those fans are just absent minded. Most fans obviously are not too happy with the players that left, including Canna. But to disrupt the team they claim to love just to prove a point. That is reckless and irresponsible. The board just spend 50m dollars to shut up the fans that roasted Secco. Now we finally are on to something and they want to jeopardize that. Sooner or later, these fans, are going to come to a bridge. Stay on one side and continue to threaten our growth or cross and just support the team anyway they can and just be pissed off to themselves until he retires.

Bottom line, we need to focus what is best for the team at this juncture in our rebuilding. The media is having a field day with this and its going to tarnish our image all over again. It is one stumbling block over and over again. First was Calciopoli, second was Secco's initial transfer blunders, and now the Fans going into rage mode about Canna.

I mean come on, we signed two great midfielders, a usually pretty solid defender, and are building a new state of the art stadium for our club to play in. Del Piero just signed his extension which even the media was starting to write "stories" about that. With the media's insane stories that hurt the club and the fans that hurt the club, someone needs to draw the line for which is best for the club.
Spot on.:tup: +rep
 

Hust

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May 29, 2005
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That want you to think "he was too old", but I have the sneaking suspicion it was because they couldn't afford his wages. But I thought Canna offered to cut them in half?
 

Stephan

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Nov 9, 2005
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I didnt like the idea of signing Canna again, not because of the "traitor" thing, but because of his age and decline of form. But the "traitor" thing also has its influence. I, personally dont hate Canna for what happened, but the way things have gone, it certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Also its not really a long term plan (canna signing), and here we are laughing at milans old defences for years now but sign a old cd whos best years are over.

What has now happened is exactly something what i expected. Its very easy for us, here, fans who dont visit stadium regularly to speak about these things. I can def understand the reasons of those fans who visit stadium regularly to react against Canna. And its not something what has happened first time, i mean you could also argue that those same fans boo Zlatan when he plays against us. No one seems to have a problem with that? From what i remember Figo was always booed when he played against Barcelona. Id say its quite a "natural" thing in football. Heck Utd fans booed Sissoko when we played a friendly with Utd last summer (for what reason?) :sergio:.


Some say that well Canna wasnt really "one of us", he was here only 2 seasons etc etc, yet now when we are back up, Canna comes back here and well we have to pretend he is one of us again as i understand?

I also remember him saying before that he would like to go back to his first club Napoli, he has stated it many times before, even before calciopoli, that hed like to end his career there. From what i understand Napoli didnt want him back anymore, he was linked with them before signing with us.

DP def has to react to this, before the season starts, its too early yet, but in the end of august if it hasnt finished, he has to step up and say something about this whole thing. We have a long season ahead and it could turn out quite ugly.

One things for sure, if Juventus is Canna`s last football club he plays for, he can forget about having a nice farewell party when he retires. He can also forget about lap of honor unless he borrows a helmet before.
 

Hust

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I didnt like the idea of signing Canna again, not because of the "traitor" thing, but because of his age and decline of form. But the "traitor" thing also has its influence. I, personally dont hate Canna for what happened, but the way things have gone, it certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Also its not really a long term plan (canna signing), and here we are laughing at milans old defences for years now but sign a old cd whos best years are over.

What has now happened is exactly something what i expected. Its very easy for us, here, fans who dont visit stadium regularly to speak about these things. I can def understand the reasons of those fans who visit stadium regularly to react against Canna. And its not something what has happened first time, i mean you could also argue that those same fans boo Zlatan when he plays against us. No one seems to have a problem with that? From what i remember Figo was always booed when he played against Barcelona. Id say its quite a "natural" thing in football. Heck Utd fans booed Sissoko when we played a friendly with Utd last summer (for what reason?) :sergio:.


Some say that well Canna wasnt really "one of us", he was here only 2 seasons etc etc, yet now when we are back up, Canna comes back here and well we have to pretend he is one of us again as i understand?

I also remember him saying before that he would like to go back to his first club Napoli, he has stated it many times before, even before calciopoli, that hed like to end his career there. From what i understand Napoli didnt want him back anymore, he was linked with them before signing with us.

DP def has to react to this, before the season starts, its too early yet, but in the end of august if it hasnt finished, he has to step up and say something about this whole thing. We have a long season ahead and it could turn out quite ugly.

One things for sure, if Juventus is Canna`s last football club he plays for, he can forget about having a nice farewell party when he retires. He can also forget about lap of honor unless he borrows a helmet before.
It's not just about not having a problem booing Ibra. He went to Inter. That is like the worst crime I think. But he did it, yes he is on another team so it is in my opinion OK to boo him. But now Canna is back, yes we can be unhappy but to throw things on the field, potentially hurting someone is crossing the line. The whole world including Canna and the Board know the Ultras are unhappy. They don't need to take it this far. The club will always be bigger than the player, I think they forgot that.

The contract was signed, it's a done deal. They need to move on. Focus on the now, not the past.

Yes, I am sure the last thing he is thinking about is a victory lap. I think he just wants to finish the season in one piece.:tup:
 

Juventinho

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Nov 4, 2004
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Them examples are baseless canavaro had a history and he left on a sour note. I think its fair to say most Juve fans felt atleast disappointed and maybe angry at that initial time considering the circumstance he left in. I dont think anyone needs reminding this. Those who have accepted him do so because they have respected the boards decision and have a sense of ground rule where a juve player is untouchable. Whilst those who havent feel that that weve lost the pride that we once slowly recaptured following the calciopoli. Of course both are viable excuses.
Thank you, i am done here.
 

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