Federico Gatti (61 Viewers)

icemaη

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Aug 27, 2008
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Guys, it’s fucking Empoli. Sure, he’s better than Sandro. But that’s not saying much at all.
He was caught out of position multiple times against Empoli. Not saying he shouldn’t start instead of Sandro, but he wasn’t all that great. But just for his aggression he should play vs Lazio. In a team full of docile pussycats, he’s a welcome change.
 

Alen

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Apr 2, 2007
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He was caught out of position multiple times against Empoli. Not saying he shouldn’t start instead of Sandro, but he wasn’t all that great. But just for his aggression he should play vs Lazio. In a team full of docile pussycats, he’s a welcome change.
He's not good at all. Quite bad actually. But not worse than Sandro and Rugani, and he's much more fun than those two.
So it's an easy choice to start him.
 
Jun 16, 2020
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He's not good at all. Quite bad actually. But not worse than Sandro and Rugani, and he's much more fun than those two.
So it's an easy choice to start him.
In contrary to Sandro and Rugani, Gatti surprisingly offers something in attack. Besides that he also has that drive which I like to see in defenders.

Personally I think that his ceiling is a lot higher than Rugani and Sandro’s.
 

Alen

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Apr 2, 2007
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In contrary to Sandro and Rugani, Gatti surprisingly offers something in attack. Besides that he also has that drive which I like to see in defenders.
I agree about the part in bold.
For the sentence preceding the bold one, I am not sure that it's correct regarding Sandro vs Gatti. Last season their offensive input was almost identical. Sandro had 3 G+A in circa 2600 minutes, while Gatti had 2 G+A in around 2150 minutes. Both have won 1 penalty. This year too, both won a penalty in their first match. But Sandro (I don't remember) probably played some matches as a LWB, so that gives him an advantage in the attacking part.

It's the defensive part that matters here, and Sandro is plain terrible. It can't get worse than this imo, so it's only logical not to play him at all. And if a choice has to be made between Rugani and Gatti, I choose the latter, mostly because of that drive you're talking about. He seems like someone who can motivate his teammates. Rugani will make a hyena cry.
 

JuveJay

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Mar 6, 2007
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You can see in Gatti the background he comes from, where his football grounding is. He doesn't have that top level coaching at an early age but the way he is mentally I wouldn't bet against him being very good in the right system in 2-3 years.
 
Jun 16, 2020
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I agree about the part in bold.
For the sentence preceding the bold one, I am not sure that it's correct regarding Sandro vs Gatti. Last season their offensive input was almost identical. Sandro had 3 G+A in circa 2600 minutes, while Gatti had 2 G+A in around 2150 minutes. Both have won 1 penalty. This year too, both won a penalty in their first match. But Sandro (I don't remember) probably played some matches as a LWB, so that gives him an advantage in the attacking part.

It's the defensive part that matters here, and Sandro is plain terrible. It can't get worse than this imo, so it's only logical not to play him at all. And if a choice has to be made between Rugani and Gatti, I choose the latter, mostly because of that drive you're talking about. He seems like someone who can motivate his teammates. Rugani will make a hyena cry.
About the attacking part, personally I don’t look too much into those stats. We’ve seen plenty of attacking dribbles of Gatti which is quite surprisingly for a defender of his height. I dont recall many of them of current Sandro and certainly not of Rugani. They really don’t have to become goals, assists or penalties, it just helps with building momentum and applying pressure on the opponent.
 
Aug 2, 2005
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You can see in Gatti the background he comes from, where his football grounding is. He doesn't have that top level coaching at an early age but the way he is mentally I wouldn't bet against him being very good in the right system in 2-3 years.
I like him and I wish he succeeds.

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s4tch

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Mar 23, 2015
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Gatti is Wish version Chiellini at best.

Great personality but no more than a decent squad player.
chiellini was the wish version of himself for a long time and only became chiellini around our unbeaten season though. he was what, 27-28 at that time?

also, i wish we had a 4th or 5th cb like gatti, but in this current squad gatti is an easy starter for me. bremer, danilo, gatti, that's our best 3 cb's currently
 

Akshen

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Aug 27, 2010
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Gatti is a good player and his grinta has an affect on other players imo. there can’t be any debate between him and Sandro starting.

Totally, if anyone then the liability in defence is Danilo who is shaky at times. Gatti has too much of an impact on the whole team to bench him. Really good buy.
 

Alin

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Jul 27, 2015
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chiellini was the wish version of himself for a long time and only became chiellini around our unbeaten season though. he was what, 27-28 at that time?
From as far as i can remember, Chiellini became truly world class/legendary status CB in our unbeaten season plus in the years that followed where he established himself as almost irreplaceable, but by no means was he mediocre or an unknown before it, by then he had been already making a name for himself as one of the top CB’s in the world since 2008 or so… while keeping in mind he started initially as a LB that was a Serie A regular for Fiorentina before even turning 21yo.

Comparing the career trajectories of the two is pointless anyway, Chiellini is and was one of a kind, but i do agree that Gatti has the room to grow and mature even more, and there are interesting similarities between them.
 

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