Re: Serie A Thread - 2009/10 Season
p.s. You once said he's a 'nice' boy ala Montolivo, Ben. Though of course I remember you did also highlight some of their 'differences'. At the time I forgot to reply to you but wanted to say that I don't agree. He's not a bad guy or a cunt or unprofessional or anything. Not at all. But I wouldn't exactly call him a 'nice' boy either... he's certainly no saint.
he's definitely not "nice" indeed. at least not in the sense u'd call nice a guy like montolivo. but he's a good boy. every summer he goes in pantelleria to help the irregular immigrants who come from the african shores. pantelleria is an italian little island, it's between italy and africa. it's the landing stage used by african criminals who smuggle poor african immigrants who try to reach italy clandestinely. those poor people reach the italian shores after days of navigation... 200 people packed in a small boat that could only board like 20 passengers... some of them die along the travel... those who manage to reach pantelleria alive are in critical conditions. the italian government provides some help with facilities and doctors who take care of theese people... but most of the job is done by private charity workers and voluteers. well this young billionaire spent his last holydays in pantelleria, helping those immigrants, rather than having fun on the sicilian beaches and little "paradise islands" around the sicilian shores (as most of his colleagues usually do).
he's young, immature, rich, stupid, confrontational but also kind-hearted..... and that's a very bad combination, as it makes him extremely easy to manipulate (by people who might have interest in taking advantage of his position and money). i just hope he won't take adriano's path (or, even worse, maradona's path). sure he's making many mistakes right now.
i remember some months ago i wrote i thought mario was much more likely to become a top class player than montolivo, because of his "gutsy" attitude (as opposed to montolivo's shy and low profile temperament).
well, so far they both proved me wrong. mario is going way too far with his "gutsiness" and that's causing him some serious problems. i remarked many times how bad inter handled this whole mario situation... but it must be said, if mario would have acted properly, there wouldn't have been a "mario situation" at all (wich means he's obviously responsible for his mistakes).
montolivo, on the other side, had a very good year, and he finally seems on his way to step up.
i guess time will tell.
leo said:
plus you need to consider that Palermo and Sampdoria don't have a good UEFA coefficient so they will be in 2nd range, and can play with a top team like Celtic or Zenit (both already qualified for play-offs) or even the 4th spanish or english club. Not an easy match...
to be fair, i'm not much worried about the opponent themselves. this palermo could face a 4th english or spanish team (and with good chances to win aswell). we beated pretty much every italian top club in the last 2 seasons.... we could have beaten inter just a few weeks ago... and inter is gonna play a champions league semifinal in 2 days.... we scored 3 goals in san siro against inter and confortably beated both milan and juve in both the away and the home fixture. this team shouldn't really be afraid to face any team in normal conditions.
the thing is this qualification stage is not a normal scenario. the timing is my main concern. italian teams begin their summer preparation later than any other team in europe (because of the hot italian summer)... and usually italian teams look awful until september\october.... in theese conditions even a championship team might beat an italian team. and that's my main concern.
but of course we should first worry about reaching the 4th spot
Gerd said:
Three great goals, but the move i liked most of all was the 1-2 that brought Pastore 1 on 1 before the Milan Gk...that was splendid.
yeah, that's why i suggested u guys to look for a replay. coz theese highlights don't really do justice to our performances ... take the milan match for instance. i can remember at least 4 of those quick one touch combinations like that one u saw in the highlights... but just one of them is shown in the highlights themselves.
as for your point about pastore, you're right, he's not the signing i would use to make the point that palermo as a good scouting network, as all the top teams in europe probably had a scouting report about him... and the same goes for hernandez and bertolo..... but kjaer was completely unknown when we signed him
pastore's facial expression while hernandez was dancing was simply great btw.
yeah, it made laugh me aswell
