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Blog: Return of ‘real’ Juve
The fallout continues in Rome following Sunday’s loss to Juventus, but Scott Fleming takes a closer look at the winners – the bold new Bianconeri
As first impressions go, it wasn’t half bad. Ciro Ferrara’s Juventus may have been presented to the world in their Serie A opener against Chievo, yet they were only properly introduced to us on Sunday.
A home game against the stubborn but limited Flying Donkeys, with star signing Felipe Melo suspended, was no time to judge them. Away to Roma, a prospective title rival, in the fiery furnace of the Olimpico, was a much more fitting occasion, and it is fair to say the Bianconeri passed their initiation with flying colours.
The battle was won in the middle, where Melo played the midfield general role to perfection, marshalling his troops, Tiago and Claudio Marchisio, and forcing Daniele De Rossi and Co into retreat.
The 4-3-1-2 formation seems to have been adopted in order to accommodate Diego, but on Sunday’s evidence it has numerous additional benefits. The midfield three not only gave the Old Lady a platform on which to build attacks, but it left Francesco Totti and Jeremy Menez so utterly isolated they were in different postcodes to their teammates.
The star of the show was of course Diego. Luciano Spalletti had spoken of using De Rossi to pressure the crafty playmaker, but three years in Germany appear to have made the Brazilian immune to physical intimidation.
Ferrara himself also proved a few points. Anyone suspecting an old boys act will surely have been convinced otherwise when the fit again Alessandro Del Piero was consigned to the bench in favour of Amauri [or Amory as he’s known on ESPN] and Vincenzo Iaquinta, a decision vindicated by the barnstorming performance of the pairing.
With height, brawn, finishing and the ability to work the channels, both are the complete striker on their day. They’ve made a good claim to be the first choice pairing this season. The selection of Fabio Cannavaro ahead of the younger Nicola Legrottaglie and Martin Caceres can’t really be questioned either after the veteran’s assured performances in the first two fixtures.
The most important question remains however – can Juve unseat Inter? The way the Nerazzurri clinically dismantled poor Leonardo’s Milan will have sent a chill down the spine of Serie A’s bosses.
The fact remains that on the whole Ferrara’s squad isn’t up to the standard of Jose Mourinho’s. You wouldn’t take Zdenek Grygera ahead of Douglas Maicon or Tiago ahead of Thiago Motta for example. Crucially though, Juve’s best players are the equal of Inter’s. Inter may have Julio Cesar, Maicon and Samuel Eto’o, but Juve have Gianluigi Buffon, Felipe Melo and Diego.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/blogs/sf35.html
The fallout continues in Rome following Sunday’s loss to Juventus, but Scott Fleming takes a closer look at the winners – the bold new Bianconeri
As first impressions go, it wasn’t half bad. Ciro Ferrara’s Juventus may have been presented to the world in their Serie A opener against Chievo, yet they were only properly introduced to us on Sunday.
A home game against the stubborn but limited Flying Donkeys, with star signing Felipe Melo suspended, was no time to judge them. Away to Roma, a prospective title rival, in the fiery furnace of the Olimpico, was a much more fitting occasion, and it is fair to say the Bianconeri passed their initiation with flying colours.
The battle was won in the middle, where Melo played the midfield general role to perfection, marshalling his troops, Tiago and Claudio Marchisio, and forcing Daniele De Rossi and Co into retreat.
The 4-3-1-2 formation seems to have been adopted in order to accommodate Diego, but on Sunday’s evidence it has numerous additional benefits. The midfield three not only gave the Old Lady a platform on which to build attacks, but it left Francesco Totti and Jeremy Menez so utterly isolated they were in different postcodes to their teammates.
The star of the show was of course Diego. Luciano Spalletti had spoken of using De Rossi to pressure the crafty playmaker, but three years in Germany appear to have made the Brazilian immune to physical intimidation.
Ferrara himself also proved a few points. Anyone suspecting an old boys act will surely have been convinced otherwise when the fit again Alessandro Del Piero was consigned to the bench in favour of Amauri [or Amory as he’s known on ESPN] and Vincenzo Iaquinta, a decision vindicated by the barnstorming performance of the pairing.
With height, brawn, finishing and the ability to work the channels, both are the complete striker on their day. They’ve made a good claim to be the first choice pairing this season. The selection of Fabio Cannavaro ahead of the younger Nicola Legrottaglie and Martin Caceres can’t really be questioned either after the veteran’s assured performances in the first two fixtures.
The most important question remains however – can Juve unseat Inter? The way the Nerazzurri clinically dismantled poor Leonardo’s Milan will have sent a chill down the spine of Serie A’s bosses.
The fact remains that on the whole Ferrara’s squad isn’t up to the standard of Jose Mourinho’s. You wouldn’t take Zdenek Grygera ahead of Douglas Maicon or Tiago ahead of Thiago Motta for example. Crucially though, Juve’s best players are the equal of Inter’s. Inter may have Julio Cesar, Maicon and Samuel Eto’o, but Juve have Gianluigi Buffon, Felipe Melo and Diego.
Source: http://www.football-italia.net/blogs/sf35.html
Mourinho tops salary scale Thursday 3 September, 2009
Inter boss Jose Mourinho is the highest paid individual in Serie A, according to a report in La Gazzetta dello Sport.
The famous pink paper has looked into the wage bills of the top-flight clubs for this season and this morning printed its findings.
For the first time ever, the biggest earner in the Division is a Coach with the Portuguese maestro reportedly netting 11m Euros a campaign.
And in an odd twist, given that the San Siro giants are still paying former boss Roberto Mancini 6m a year, the Nerazzurri’s coaching wage bill is more than the combined 15.7m total paid by the other 19 sides for their tacticians.
On the player front, Samuel Eto’o has taken over from Zlatan Ibrahimovic on and off the pitch seeing as he is Italy’s most costly thanks to his 10.5m Euros fee.
Milan’s Ronaldinho is second with 7.5m, ahead of Gigi Buffon and Patrick Vieira who are reputed to earn 5.5m Euros each.
If it is value for money you are after, then Cagliari’s Federico Marchetti is the cheapest Italian international as he is on only 150,000 Euros a season.
Inter are unsurprisingly the biggest payers, ahead of Milan and Juventus. Chievo and Atalanta have the smallest wage bills.
Serie A’s most expensive XI: Buffon (Juventus – 5.5); Maicon (Inter – 4.5), Nesta (Milan – 4), Lucio (Inter – 4.5), Chivu (Inter – 3.5); Vieira (Inter – 5.5), Pirlo (Milan – 5), Sneijder (Inter – 4); Ronaldinho (Milan – 7.5), Eto'o (Inter – 10.5), Totti (Roma – 5.5).
Club by club wage bills: Inter 150m; Milan 125.5m; Juventus 115m; Roma 69.7m; Fiorentina 40m; Genoa 38m; Napoli 37m; Lazio 32.9m; Palermo 30m; Parma 26m; Sampdoria 24m; Bari 20m; Bologna 20m; Cagliari 19m; Udinese 18m; Siena 17.5m; Catania 17.5m, Livorno 14.3m, Chievo 13m; Atalanta 13m.
All figures above are in Euros.
http://www.football-italia.net/sep3k.html
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The way Moratti is overpaing is just ridiculous, but still it's funny how an 11m a year paid coach couldn't match the amount of points that Mancini got in his last season in Serie A.
Inter boss Jose Mourinho is the highest paid individual in Serie A, according to a report in La Gazzetta dello Sport.
The famous pink paper has looked into the wage bills of the top-flight clubs for this season and this morning printed its findings.
For the first time ever, the biggest earner in the Division is a Coach with the Portuguese maestro reportedly netting 11m Euros a campaign.
And in an odd twist, given that the San Siro giants are still paying former boss Roberto Mancini 6m a year, the Nerazzurri’s coaching wage bill is more than the combined 15.7m total paid by the other 19 sides for their tacticians.
On the player front, Samuel Eto’o has taken over from Zlatan Ibrahimovic on and off the pitch seeing as he is Italy’s most costly thanks to his 10.5m Euros fee.
Milan’s Ronaldinho is second with 7.5m, ahead of Gigi Buffon and Patrick Vieira who are reputed to earn 5.5m Euros each.
If it is value for money you are after, then Cagliari’s Federico Marchetti is the cheapest Italian international as he is on only 150,000 Euros a season.
Inter are unsurprisingly the biggest payers, ahead of Milan and Juventus. Chievo and Atalanta have the smallest wage bills.
Serie A’s most expensive XI: Buffon (Juventus – 5.5); Maicon (Inter – 4.5), Nesta (Milan – 4), Lucio (Inter – 4.5), Chivu (Inter – 3.5); Vieira (Inter – 5.5), Pirlo (Milan – 5), Sneijder (Inter – 4); Ronaldinho (Milan – 7.5), Eto'o (Inter – 10.5), Totti (Roma – 5.5).
Club by club wage bills: Inter 150m; Milan 125.5m; Juventus 115m; Roma 69.7m; Fiorentina 40m; Genoa 38m; Napoli 37m; Lazio 32.9m; Palermo 30m; Parma 26m; Sampdoria 24m; Bari 20m; Bologna 20m; Cagliari 19m; Udinese 18m; Siena 17.5m; Catania 17.5m, Livorno 14.3m, Chievo 13m; Atalanta 13m.
All figures above are in Euros.
http://www.football-italia.net/sep3k.html
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The way Moratti is overpaing is just ridiculous, but still it's funny how an 11m a year paid coach couldn't match the amount of points that Mancini got in his last season in Serie A.
He was concidered one of the 3 best DMs in the world when he signed the contract.
I can't read Gazzetta before 16:00 CET so i don't know if they have info about the wages of every single player (they had it 2 years ago).
I can only check what's on gazzetta.it and so far i'm searching without success.
Someone who has complete info?
I can't read Gazzetta before 16:00 CET so i don't know if they have info about the wages of every single player (they had it 2 years ago).
I can only check what's on gazzetta.it and so far i'm searching without success.
Someone who has complete info?
