Re: Serie A Thread - 2009/10 Season
rfu said:
Hmm so many different managers, same president = no titles
I wonder what's causing it?
well it's not like we can blame zamparini for not winning any silverware.... first of, coz zamparini has been in charge here just for the last 7 years, while we didn't win a thing since our club foundation (wich was in 1900 if i remember well). and then, coz we're not supposed to challenge for the title... we never were... i mean, if roma isn't a challenger how could palermo ever deserve this label....we're not even a champion's league team..... uefa cup spot, that should be our place.... and it it's not gonna be easy to get that place, as there are plenty of other competitors who are just as good as (or even better than) us (like samp, genoa, napoli, roma, udinese).
infact people here in palermo (the president included) didn't expect zenga to get much more points than he did get so far.... as caressa correctly remarked yesterday, we're about 2 spots behind the place we deserve in the table, so no complaints about that.
the reason why we dumped zenga is because we're almost in december and he still didn't give us a gameplan, a personality. watching palermo playing u get a sense of total frustrating ramdomness, that, after 3 months, u just can't tolerate anymore.
sure we missed liverani all this time, but that's not enough to justify the total lack of a plot on the pitch.
as zamparini said "
after 2 months all our contenders were progressing, getting more acquainted with their schemes, playing each week better than the previous..... while we didn't".
and he's right. u look at sunday's match and u look at our seasonal opener match and u just can't spot any sort of progression.
i kinda feel for zenga. he's a good guy and i'm sure he'll eventually get another chance (although, given his tactical education and skills, i'm not sure he deserves it), but we really need to move on and start playing some proper football asap.
delio rossi might not be ballardini, but he's a very good coach and a huge step up from zenga.
infact the real mistake zamparini did was not firing zenga and getting rossi..... he should have signed rossi in the very first place (this summer), as clearely he was the right man to continue ballardini's project.
so bottom line, even though i'm usually very critic towards zamparini's moves, i gotta agree with him on this one.
rossi did an amazing job at lecce and lazio. i always loved his football. plus he has an amazing ability in discovering talents, and here in palermo, he will find sabatini, the sport director that helped him building that great lazio team.
some very interesting post about milan, but i'm already late so i can't write anymore (nice metaphor, hey there!
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oh and dafrenz, don't worry about melo.... sure he's not that monster everyone thought he was this summer.... but he's not as bad as he showed lately either.... that's not the real melo..... he's much better than that. now he will probably be benched for a few matches (yesterday caressa said that with del piero getting back from the injury, ferrara will probably get back to the diamond formation, drop melo and put sissoko in the middle... totally agree with him).... and that will allow felipe to calm down, stop trying to "overdo" and get back to his football (once he will get another chance in the starting formation).
eventually u'll see the real melo, i'm sure of it.
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I expected Milan to be in the bottom half of the table, not third behind Juve. Never a dull day in Serie A. And its funny watching Genoa and Samp drop points 
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