Serie A 2016/2017 (34 Viewers)

[DAiDEViL]

It will difficult tho with Milik back, Mertens cant play false 9 anymore so he will go back to competing with Insigne, and Mertens didnt like being rotated or being sub option majority of the time. But whats even worse is Insigne had a hissy fit any time he was rested or even subbed off, imagine if Mertens keeps up this deadly form and Insigne loses his spot? In middle of contract talks and being the local boy? (also the teams most creative player most of the time) Mertens has been patient off the bench, but doubt Insigne can be, he is kind of difficult fella, enough for Sarri to tell him to shut up.

Let's steal their local boy.

 

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[Bianconero_Aus]

I like both clubs, as I think that both are traditional clubs with a good fanbase and history in Serie A. I am happy Palermo won, I hope they won't relegate this season. They are the Sicilian proud (with Catania).

Crotone, Pescara and Chievo (I hate them, ugly football, small fanbase, no colourful players etc.) are smaller clubs who I like to see earlier relegate than traditional ones. Sassuolo and Empoli belong to this group aswell, but they compensate it with playing (Italian) youngsters and attractive football.

I have a love for 'small' clubs with a big fanbase. I cheer for Bari, Hellas Verona, Perugia, Salernitana, Pisa and Cesena in Serie B. Good fanbase (and history in Serie A). I also hope Parma and Siena will come back to Serie B soon.

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Don't know where to place it, so I'll do it here.
Just discovered that this club is 5th in the Czech competition (yes their highest tier/first division)

FFS it looks more of a Chinese imitation of our club

Shit, I've now found a team to support in the Czech League :.

 

[Hængebøffer]

you don't score 2 hat tricks during 2 consecutive matches too often. for stat nerds: mertens is the first player to achieve that since batistuta did the same during the '94-'95 season.

What a pad stater.

 

[il brutto]

Shaqiri: Inter a shambles!
By Football Italia staff

Xherdan Shaqiri has blasted Inter for “promising” him a new Nerazzurri – but giving him an “infrastructural shambles” instead.

Shaqiri arrived at Inter from Bayern Munich in January 2015 amidst much fanfare, but the winger lasted just half-a-season with the Beneamata and went on to join Stoke City the following summer.

“That summer, I had offers from Liverpool and Atletico Madrid,” he told Spox.

“I wanted to leave Bayern at all costs. I decided to join Liverpool, Brendan Rodgers had already called me a couple of times before the World Cup, but Bayern stopped me.

“The Bayern directors thought that the situation would change, but it didn’t. Gianluca Gaudino was preferred to me in the first game.

“This was, of course, a signal for me, in that I didn’t understand why they wanted to keep me at all costs.

“Inter? They simply tried for me the most. They promised me a new Inter. In the Bundesliga, I’d already won everything.

“The reception was really crazy. A security guard almost choked me because there was chaos and he had lost control.

“The lifestyle was great, almost the best six months of my life. The training complex was located in Como, also close to Switzerland.

“Italian football, however, I didn’t particularly like. It was too slow, full of tactics and difficult for me to show my explosiveness.

“Once, during a training session, I took 200 corner kicks from right and left for two hours. I had never done such a thing.

“Mancini? He wanted me at all costs. Looking back, we should’ve done some more research on the club. To do this, however, we needed more time.

“At the time, I was a bit impatient and really wanted to close the transfer because the season had already started and I wanted to leave immediately.

“Still, I never had problems with Mancini. Like Guardiola, he rotated every weekend so that there was never a fixed line-up.

“He had also done that at Manchester City and Galatasaray. I didn’t feel good so we looked for a mutual solution.

“What’s different at Stoke? The Inter infrastructure is genuinely a shambles. For a club so famous, that they couldn’t find a way to invest in infrastructure is truly amazing.

“Nutrition, recovery, performance analysis, variety in training: I find that in England, it’s all more professional.

“There’s also the grass: in Italy, the weather was nice, but the grass was always very longl.

“In England, it may rain heavily, but we still train on a carpet, which is taken care of every day.”

Premier league players in a nutshell.

Seems crazy that Inter keep on making the same mistakes over and over again too.

 

[Bianconero_Aus]

I liked the part where he pretty much called out Inter for the disgraceful, shambolic and horrible mess of a club that they are, but this interview just highlights what a weak-minded, feeble and brainless player he is. The poor darling doesn't like slower paced football and tactics - little wonder why he went from playing for Bayern to playing for Stoke City ffs.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Complain about pace, but joins Stoke

 

[Ocelot]

Remember when virtually the entire tuz was crazy for him and crucified Beppe when we didn't buy him?

 

[JuveJay]

Shaqiri, Iturbe, ends up with Dybala.

 

[lgorTudor]

Shaqiri discussion spotted

time to show up and brag about being right

ok go on

 

[Post Ironic]

I liked the part where he pretty much called out Inter for the disgraceful, shambolic and horrible mess of a club that they are, but this interview just highlights what a weak-minded, feeble and brainless player he is. The poor darling doesn't like slower paced football and tactics - little wonder why he went from playing for Bayern to playing for Stoke City ffs.

Former Inter players are as retarded as the club they play for.

Guarin just said that Chinese Super League is as strong as Serie A.

“I wanted a new experience and chose China. I didn’t think it was a very competitive League, but I’ve had to change my mind.

“We’re not at the level of the Spanish League, but I think the standard is substantially similar to that of Serie A."

 

[Hængebøffer]

Former Inter players are as retarded as the club they play for.

Guarin just said that Chinese Super League is as strong as Serie A.

Hist probably agrees. Wouldn't surprised me if he skips Juve game to watch Shanghai Shenhua.

 

[Post Ironic]

Serie A, the ultimate tinpot league.

 

[Ocelot]

To be fair, if the only Italian club I'd really know was Inter, I'd say that the Chinese League shits all over Serie A.

 

[il brutto]

Hist probably agrees. Wouldn't surprised me if he skips Juve game to watch Shanghai Shenhua.

Who wouldn't, especially if there's a traditional derby like Shanghai Greenland Shenhua versus Shanghai SIPG.

 

[JCK]

Who wouldn't, especially if there's a traditional derby like Shanghai Greenland Shenhua versus Shanghai SIPG.

Your knowledge of the Chinese league amazes me.

 

[DutchJuventino]

Tonight Atalanta - Empoli.

For the Caldara, Gagliardini & Kessie fappers.

 

[il brutto]

Your knowledge of the Chinese league amazes me.

I have to give the credit to Google for this one.

 

[DutchJuventino]

Atalanta: Sportiello; Toloi, Masiello, Zukanović; Conti, Gagliardini, Freuler, Spinazzola; Kurtić; Petagna, Gomez

Empoli: Skorupski; Cosic, Bellusci, Costa, Dimarco; Tello, Diousse, Buchel; Croce; Marilungo, Mchedlidze


No Caldara
No Kessie
Tello is our youngster.

 

[Klin]

Complain about pace, but joins Stoke

I was thinking the same.

 

[Lion]

Shaqiri discussion spotted

time to show up and brag about being right

ok go on

proof?