Re: Serie A Thread
adrian is quite a tipycal nr. 10. an unbelievable technique, a touch.... well i wouldn't even call it "touch", he simply treats the ball as if it was a part of his body.... the same kind of "natural control". he has the dribbling, the shot (and what a shot!), the passing game of a cassano, a rosina, a ribery..... and he has also the same attitude..... but to be fair i wouldn't call it a bad attitude issue... it's more a matter of ego. when u're young rich, and, well, a bit stupid....when millions of people adore u like a god and some fools give u millions just to play football, well there are a lot of "dark charachters" who loiter around u... they try to flatter u, to adulate u, they always tell u what u want to hear, just to gain your trust and take advantage of your social and economic status.
and being u a spoiled big child, u may allow theese people to direct u in the wrong direction.
adrian is such a good example. his star started to shine in parma under prandelli's guide (who else!). he captured the attention of thr top european clubs and so chelsea got him...... but London is not Parma. u see adrian never showed any attitude problems in parma coz parma is some kind of a footballing heaven. it's one of the most beautiful cities in the world... it has the tipycal italian flair.... without the tipycal italian noise. The city is such a nice place (it's considered as one of the best place to live in europe since 20 years now), it offers fun.... but doesn't offer too many "distractions". it's italian, but it's also quiet, it's a fantastic city, bit in the same time it's not as "dangerously tempting" as london can be..... especially for a spoiled big child with a huge ego and lots of money, who doesn't understand who are his real friends...who is not able to distinguish people who wanna help and guide him from people who just wanna "use" him.
In London he destroyed his life and carreer. met some "bad companies" ruined his marriage, got in touch with drugs..... and this obviously had an effect on his performances. he hit the bottom. his value decreased a lot and juve realised he could have been a bargain.
he actually did pretty well in juve, but he wasn't a starter there.
The legend says that Corvino asked Prandelli "are u sure u want adrian? he's a trouble-maker, he might spoil the dressing room chemistry" and prandelli repled "don't worry about this. i can handle him. Just bring him here and i'll make his a star again".
and that's exactly what happened. Adrian never created any kind of problems in firenze, prandelli made him the fulcrum of fiorentina's gameplay (well, actually fiorentina's gameplay has not a real fulcrum... wich is what makes their football so nice... but still he's the closest thing to a leader in fiorentina).
the partnership with toni was just unbelievable (much better than the toni-ribery parntership), and even this season, without toni on his side, adrian was such a huge factor.
people in europe noticed it, of course, and it seems shalke did offered him a very rich contract.
now, after shining for 2 years, adrian probably thinks he doesn't need a "father" like prandelli anymore. he probably thinks he can go somewhere else and still keep himself focused on football.
and that's why he asked corvino the same contract shalke offered him, to stay in firenze.
now i don't know if he's really grown. i don't know if he really wanna leave or if he's just trying to get a new contract from Corvino. neither i know if he would be able to keep performing at this level in another team, without prandelli taking care of him.....
to sum up, i don't know if adrian "can live without fiorentina"..... but (and that's for sure) fiorentina "can live without mutu". even though he was a huge factor for fiorentina, the della valle-corvino-prandelli trio already proved they can replace any player, no matter how good he is (as they did with toni). So there's no way Corvino will accept adrian's request and give him 4 millions per year.... if adrian won't reduce his requests, then he will be sold for sure. Corvino will just find an appropriate replacement, or another current player will step up (kuzmanovic? semioli? santana? jovetic?). anyway milito couldn't replace adrian, ste. diego is a fantastic player, but he's completely different (for roles and features) from adrian.
anyway guys, i wouldn't compare adrian, ibra and quaresma. they're different players, they play in different roles... and they also are on a different level (ibra and adrian are definitely world class, while quaresma defeinitely isn't).
Abhishek said:
What happened to Rosina at the end of the season? Really impressed me at the start, but didn't watch any Torino matches come the end of the season.
well at the end of the season rosina was even more impressive. he has been simply IMMENSE against inter, napoli, livorno and fiorentina.... IMMENSE!
Milanista said:
All good signings though! Just hope that he doesnt fire Colantuono since they are his signings. Did you also notice how Jankovic suddenly started to play a lot more and much better when Colantuono returned? It was his signing originally.
yep, very good signings. of course it will take a while raise a football team from theese very good players, to find the rght balance, to give palermo's football a clear plot.... let's just hope zamparini will give enough time to colantuono.
and talking about jankovic, i've got huge expectations on this lad
. I didnot believe it but SkySports announced it so... It is going to be Rajkaard knowing his history with the club.
