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Welcome back mago. Too bad the only game I saw this year of San Lorenzo you lost 4-0.
HA! Yeah... That wasn't the best game you could have seen... But don't tell me that score wasn't deceiveful! Our team was the one attacking all the time in the first half and they just were too lucky to score first. And then in the second half they found themselves scoring two identical goals from corner kicks...
I know Gonzalo had that mistake on Racing's first goal... But anyway, what did you think of his performance overall?
Could you also catch a glimpse of Leandro Romagnoli?
By the way, I'm curious... How many games from the Argentine league do you get to see on your local TV? Only what is known as the Sunday derby or you also get the Friday night game, the two Saturday games and the two Sunday games (including the derby)?
I can't believe no other top team wants Gonzalo. I find it a bit odd.
Well, well, well... Here comes the big
UPDATE I've got for you...
Remember I told you that more important teams would be asking about Gonzalo after that Ukranian team?
Well it happens that the Ukranian team was
F.C. Shakhtar Donetsk. And let me make it clear that that team was FIRST interested in Rodríguez. It was ONCE Gonzalo had turned down their offer that they decided to focus on Burdisso, NOT THE OTHER WAY ABOUT, as our ignorant press (always addicted to Boca and River) will like to put it. Believe me, I have my sources and the offer to Gonzalo came a Wednesday and all the talk about Burdisso was the week after...
Anyways, on our last game but one, we had visitors from France. That's right. Representatives from
Paris St. Germain came with their South American scout to see Gonzalo Rodríguez play live against Nueva Chicago. Believe me when I tell you that they must have fallen in love with him because he had a great performance. In fact, he has been having very solid performances since the season got started. If it weren't for our lousy scoring, we would be in the first places... :down:
I also taped that game and the reporter covering San Lorenzo announced that more clubs had been asking about Gonzalo in the last days... Apart from that offer from Ukraine, there was another one from Russia, this very serious interest from Paris St. Germain and...
REAL MADRID
VALENCIA
DEPORTIVO LA CORUÑA
Yeah, Real Madrid does really need good defenders with all their Galactics on the offense, don't you think?
Anyways, if you ask me, I say the most serious offer right now comes from Paris. They have already been here and all so if Juventus doesn't make a move quickly, I don't see Gonzalo in Italy. And I really bet that Paris St. Germain will also want to pick Romagnoli since Leandro had a great game that night, too.
By the way, for those who asked me about Romagnoli, let me just say that he's considered the best playmaker of our League. You are probably going to think I'm exaggerating, but just think about Del Piero... Well, Romagnoli is three times as good as Alessandro. Oh, and add REAL dribbling skills and a GREAT court vision to that. Some people here were talking about Udinese's Pizarro for a good move to Juve. All I can say is HA-HA-HA! that guy doesn't even deserve to appear in the same line with Romagnoli, who belongs to the last generation of really good playmakers in Argentina and just turned 23 one week ago.
But don't worry guys. In the next week or so I'll be getting a new computer and I'll go over all my tapes of Romagnoli and Gonzalo and I'll see if I can edit some highlight clips so that you can see for yourselves.
What I do wonder is how many of you have actually SEEN Gonzalo play. Because many of you say that it would be a good addition but at the same time you say he should be loaned out. Based on what?
Oh, I almost forget! Gonzalo was called yesterday for the Argentine National Team. He's only 19 years old and he's already in the first team. Yay! He'll probably be filling in for Walter Samuel, who is suspended. So those of you who can get to see the match against Ecuador this next Tuesday at 20.30 - local time -, please do so and judge for yourselves!