Re: Serie A Thread - 2008/2009 Season
Jumbo said:
He sometimes does nice dances when he scores though.
fair enough
Gigi said:
and that walter and zamparini toghether are more dangerous than chuck norris and a nuclear bomb in the same room....
and the funniest thing is they signed a 3 years deal!! i mean com on! 3 years? are you kidding me?! this is not gonna last 3 months!
i do like zenga as a person, i really do. he's an honest hardworker, he went through a lot to get to this stage, and he's the "what u see is what u get" kinda guy, wich is something i admire (especially when u think we're talking about a former world class player).
as a coach, i think he's done pretty well so far, even though i believe he's a bit "overpraised".
but to be honest, ballardini is just on a different class. i've been raving about ballardini since more than a year now. after his first 2 months in cagliari it was already evident he's something special.
his job at palermo speaks for itself; this season the rosanero had the weakest squad since we're back in serie a... and yet i've never seen my team playing such a good football (and mind u, it's not like we played poor football during the guidolin era).
besides God himself labelled ballardini as the next best thing in the whole european coaches scenario (by saying "God", i'm referring to Sacchi).
his departure is a huge blow for palermo... and once again, it goes to show how impossible it is to build any sort of "project" with zamparini in charge.
delio rossi would have been a much better choice than zenga imo. not only he's a great coach, but he also knows sabatini (our new team director) very well (rossi and sabatini together built that nice team lazio is today).
zenga has a very strong temper. it can't work with zamparini. i believe he might break colantuono's guinness (colantuono was fired after just 1 match last season).
the only good thing about zenga coming here is that the catanesi must be soo pissed off right now
rfu said:
Lo Zio, I have a question for you, do you consider De Melo a "trequartista", because I hear there are rumors of him coming to Inter to play in that particular position. He's a physical player but his passing is average and he doesn't seem a playmaker. What do you think?
indeed he's not a trequartista. to be precise, at this moment of his carreer, Melo is nothing; he has an enourmous potential, but still didn't find his real nature.
he's not a deep-lying playmaker (and i don't think he will ever be).
he's not a trequartista. he might become a trequartista, though not a fantasista, not a tipycal italian "nr. 10". if he will work on his passing game and on his timing, he might become a trequartista a la perrotta.
he's not (yet) a metodista, neither a pure defensive midfielder. but i feel this (the metodista) is the role that suits most his skills. his positioning is still pretty poor however... he has really a lot to learn on this aspect.
at a certain point of the season, prandelli was so annoyed by his lack of sense of position, he even tried jorgensen in that role.
anyhow the guy is quality, and if he'll improve some aspects of his game, he might well become a world class metodista.
having said this, another metodista sure isn't what inter needs now.
Didn't se that coming, specially this soon.
"It is disappointing that he considers the Rosanero a better club than us." Can't wait for the Derby di Sicilia next season 
This is why I enjoy beating Milan more so than Juve.
