Re: Serie A Thread - 2010/11 Season
this is gonna be the beginning of the final act of this drama. the last nail on zamparini's coffin. he managed to turn everyone against him. not just the ultras but also common fans. the entire city doesn't want him here anymore. the press is litterally making him the laughing stock of serie a. and now even the players are publicly blaming him.
zampa is, by all means, alone now. the general reaction of palermo fans to his "
rossi ruined MY palermo" statement leaves no room for misunderstandings and could be epitomised by the words of the leader of one of palermo's ultras groups:
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this is the last straw. as long as this will remain HIS palermo, like zamparini said, it won't be OURS palermo. this ownership has now fatally lost our support. and this is not going to change until he will step back, find a buyer to sell the club and put us out of this misery. he treated the club like his personal toy, he delegitimezed the coach, he put on the players' shoulders a huge ammount of heat and pressure.
he criticised our team manager Walter Sabatini so heavily that, out of frustration, he decided to resign. he undermined our players' confidence. he deprived the coach of any authority whatsoever in the dressing room..... and when the fans begged him to show some common sense and self restrain, he dismissed em and insulted em.
he is the only responsible for this situation. and after putting up with his dramas for years, even palermo fans had enough of him. it's time for him to walk away. maurizio zamparini is not wellcome here anymore and this city doesn't want his name to be associated to this club anymore."
i expect to see an half empty stadium from next week till the end of the season.... and that's just because many seasonal ticket holders don't want to waste their money, having already payed. and from next season on, i think palermo stadium will be deserted. that until the club has a new owner (wich realistically won't take less than 1 year).
as for me, i'm definitely not going to the stadium from now on (despite being a seasonal ticket holder).
the palermitani will litterally force zamparini to sell now. it's obviously gonna take some time to find a buyer and negotiate a deal, but believe me, this is what's going to happen. zamparini already realised he's completely cornered. yesterday during the whole game the fans were signing chants against him. after the game, miccoli (who wasn't playing because of an injury) publicly attacked him. and he also pointed out that, being the captain, he wasn't just speaking for himself, but on behalf of the entire squad.
i'm just glad i wasn't at the stadium yesterday (btw Sina, do u remember that
thing we were talking about a few weeks ago? well, mission fucking accomplished!
i did it just yesterday, while palermo was collapsing under udinese's attacks).
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rfu, i wouldn't really bother looking for tactical explanation of yesterday's disaster. u can explain a 0-2 loss with wrong tactics. but a 0-7 loss, at home, against a team wich is on your same level... with 2 red carded players. there's only one explanation for this: the players didn't enter the pitch. it was a mental collapse, wich has nothing to do with tactics...... beside i don't really agree with that article u posted. we are definitely not a narrowed team... infact one of palermo's main tactical features is our spread formation and our tendency to use the pitch in all its width.
just to mention a few other wrong assumptions in that article, ilicic is not a trequartista, we don't play counter attacking football and our formation is not a 4-3-2-1.
don't take yesterday's game as an example. cassani is injured, balzaretti was forced to play despite not having recovered from his injury, beacuse his backup (garcia) was suspended.
as a matter of fact we had darmian playing on the right and andelkovic playing as a cb; in case u don't know andelkovic is the backup of the backup of the starter.... there's munoz, then there's goian and the 3rd pick is andelkovic (who is a new signing with only 6 matches with palermo under his belt and even less as a starter).
i also disagree about bacinovic. he's a very good prospect and has done great so far this season. but don't forget that, like many of his teammates, he's just a youngster (21 yo) who is having his first taste of serie a (that's his first season in palermo).
zamparini has vomited so much shit on his own team over the last 2 months that even already established and mature top class players would have cracked under the pressure.... nevermind a bunch of teenagers (i'd like to remind palermo is the 2nd youngest team in europe after rennes).
Marco Marco Marco Di Vaioooooooooo!!! 
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Anyway Udinese have really impressed me, with the type of football they brandish, they're deserving of an even higher place on the table. 
honestly i'd be surprised to see napoli winning this one. they lined up several starters in the villareal match thursday (and they sure didn't save their enegergies inb that match!) and lavezzi won't play....
