Re: Serie A Thread - 2010/11 Season
Up and til around 2004, Dida was invincible and never dropped a ball like that so easily, except the Leeds incident once. After that, he was a liability and lost all his concentration, must've been something psychological. But between 2002-2004, he was arguably one of the best GKs at the time imo.
to be honest i wouldn't describe dida as a wold class keeper who had a downfall. he's been a liability for milan ever since they bought him till 2002. then in the summer of 2002 abbiati (who was the unquestionable starter till that moment) got injured and dida took his place. from that moment to 2004 dida has been absolutely amazing.... then he got back to his previous poor standards.
2 years are a very short span in a goalkeeper's carreer. hardly enough to define a keeper's standard. a top class keeper performs to his highest standards for at least half of his carreer... wich means about 7 years. buffon, casillas, peruzzi, schmeichel, zenga, van der saar, kahn. they belong to this category..... dida just doesn't.
dida is a decent keeper who had a great peak.... but those 2 years didn't represent his standard, it was just a
peak. and when u talk about top class keepers, u talk about keepers with top class
standards. at least imo
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some very nice matches this week end.... didn't expect this quality football so early in the season honestly. palermo brescia was very entertaining..... that brescia team is really really nice!! didn't expect them to be this good... and how about that eder kid!!! very impressive.
we were a bit too naive and didn't really focus ouselves on the match until the 30th minute... fucking europa league, it didn't even begin, yet it already compromised the first 2 matches of palermo's season
juve samp was pretty nice too. i think i've already praised the baby-pozzi many times, but i'll say it again: it's a shame this kid isn't getting the playtime he deserves... he should have asked to be sent on loan somewhere else. he's just too good, too young and promising to be a backup, and he'll never be anything more than a backup in samp of course.
also nice to see marilungo in serie a. i've got high expectations on this kid aswell.
Gerd said:
Just read on the Guardian website that Manchester City is rumoured to be prepared to pay 41 million pound for Javier Pastore...Real Madrid would also be interested.
I hope Zamparini can keep him a few more seasons in Palermo. Great, great player...
we already rejected a 25 millions offer from real madrid this summer (ozil was mourinho's 2nd choice... and rightfully so)...... there's no way will will be able to hold him for another season.... i'd love to, but that's impossible.
besides i'm confident we're gonna get at least 30 millions for him, and boy we sure could use those money.
afterall palermo's main asset is the management. zamparini, foschi, sabatini and rossi brought pastore in palermo for 6 millions euros.... hernandez for 6 millions, kjaer for 4 millions, balzaretti for 3.8 millions, miccoli for 4 millions, cassani and nocerino came here for about 6 millions (it was part of the amauri deal), sirigu for less than 1 million....
can u imagine what they could do with even just half of those 30, 40, 50 millions we'll get from selling pastore!?!
i'm fine with palermo selling pastore at the end of the season... my only hope is to manage to hold hernandez for 1 season more.... coz loosing both pastore and hernandez in the same transfer window would be really sad.
Feel bad for Conti though. 30 stitches on his knee. Hope no muscle is seriously damaged. Burdisso went in real hard.
.... i'd rather call him dida la pantegana 
what a monster fontana was!
