how can a team that practically sells its best players each summer be expected to have high expectations?
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One reason why Milan had a storming end to the season, everyone had given them up and the pressure was off, or why teams start playing good football at 3-0 down.
Psychology is so important, which is why at this point I'm more concerned by Napoli - who know what it is like to be around the top - than I am of Roma right now. That's not to say Roma won't be up there, but we have nothing to base their challenge on. Certainly not the first 8 games of the season. Maybe they'll do a Juve 2011-12. Maybe they'll do a Juve 2010-11. Too early to tell.
Psychology is so important, which is why at this point I'm more concerned by Napoli - who know what it is like to be around the top - than I am of Roma right now. That's not to say Roma won't be up there, but we have nothing to base their challenge on. Certainly not the first 8 games of the season. Maybe they'll do a Juve 2011-12. Maybe they'll do a Juve 2010-11. Too early to tell.
I think I've already mentioned it some pages ago, Udinese always have a weak start and usually recover later on when their new players have settled in and/or a few of their many talents have a break-through (last year it was Muriel, my money this year is on Zielinski). That being said, they do seem a bit worse than the last few seasons, and you never know when Di Natale, of course THE key figure to the team will start to detieriorate.
That was the case when they had Ranieri, a true born loset. It was from 2009/10 season where they were on top of the league for the first time towards the end, and they fvcked it up the last 2/3 games of the season and handed the scudetto to Mourinho's Inter.
Rudi Garcia is already a winner. This team might burn out for few games eventually, but they will not "choke". They will definitely finish in top 3.
Rudi Garcia is already a winner. This team might burn out for few games eventually, but they will not "choke". They will definitely finish in top 3.
Jorginho wants to play for Italy.
http://www.football-italia.net/40863/jorginho-wants-azzurri-future
Great news. He's Brazilian but he came to Italy when he was young and he has lived in Verona for a long time. He's also a youth product of Verona. He has an Italian passport as his great-great grandfather was Italian. We should sign him, by the way.
http://www.football-italia.net/40863/jorginho-wants-azzurri-future
Great news. He's Brazilian but he came to Italy when he was young and he has lived in Verona for a long time. He's also a youth product of Verona. He has an Italian passport as his great-great grandfather was Italian. We should sign him, by the way.
Nothing new.
Yesterday, the club's tailor, Domenico Brescia, 55, was revealed to be a convicted murderer who is close to the Crisafulli Mafia clan.
Brescia is also thought by police to be a cocaine dealer, and his conversations with several Inter players and Roberto Mancini, the manager, were recorded by investigators.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/2300553/Inter-Milan-caught-up-in-Mafia-row.html
Yesterday, the club's tailor, Domenico Brescia, 55, was revealed to be a convicted murderer who is close to the Crisafulli Mafia clan.
Brescia is also thought by police to be a cocaine dealer, and his conversations with several Inter players and Roberto Mancini, the manager, were recorded by investigators.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/european/2300553/Inter-Milan-caught-up-in-Mafia-row.html
I was looking at the Seria A standings and i realised, its always like this. If it is not Roma then it is Lazio, if it is not Lazio then it is Sampdoria, if it is not Sampdoria then it is Palermo....One of the Seria A mediocare teams almost always is at the top of the table for the first 10 to 13 matchdays. Then, the first defeat they suffer, they all crumble. That will be the situation with Roma also.