Re: Serie A Thread - 2009/10 Season
10M? euros or pounds?... if it's euros we're talking about that's really low. i wouldn't even consider a 10M euros offer.... i'd rather hold him for 1 more year and see what happens in the next transfer window.
as for the team choice, i don't think that'd be a step forward nor backwards. wolfsburg and palermo are both midclass teams in very competitive leagues (although it must be said, to reach the midclass status in serie a, u need a much bigger effort than in bundi).
playing in italy gives u access to a better football-education system, especially if you're a young cb..... but playing in bundi gives u more visibility...... and wolfsburg can afford much higher wages than palermo.
in the end it all comes down to money. wolfsburg can double the wage kjaer gets here in palermo, so i can't blame him.
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anyway i was just passing by to comment on serie a's last news....
milanista said:
Lega Calcio has reduced non-eu signings from 2 to 1 per season!
this is a disgraceful move. it's nothing but a demagogic move of a man (giancarlo abete, federcalcio president) who has absolutely no idea of what he's doing!
1 - first of,
there's not an "italian players issue" to solve. about 70% of the players in serie a are italians. that's the highest percentage of domestic players in the top european leagues... there are more italians in serie a than germans in bundesliga or spanish in la liga, for fuck sakes! and our acadamies are packed with italian players already.... so what the fuck is this move about!?!? palermo's academy counts 35 players and just 4 of em are not italians.... 4 out of 35 for crying out loud!
2 -
this is not gonna make our clubs "more italians". this is just gonna raise the number of naturalizations requests! all the non EU players will find an EU ancestor and get an italian passport (or another EU passport)..... for instance inter is the only non italian team in serie a....well i can tell u every inter foreign player could get an italian passport and become "italian"..... all of them, zanetti, burdisso, milito, samuel, all of em. so the only result of this dumb move is that we'll have dozens of non EU players
converting themselves into italians or spanish or germans and getting an eu passport so they can get around this rule.
3 -
this move will have a terrible impact on our market. as a result of this rule, the italian players' pricetag will raise and the "not eu players" pricetag will reach the sky! those of u guys who know about economics will understand what i'm talking about.
but then again u don't really need to be an expert in economics to get this, as it's pretty straight-forward. as soon as u limit the supply, the demand's value raises.
and that's gonna be a huge problem for our midclass clubs. it took a lot of time for italy to have a "healthy" players market. players pricetags are reasonable in italy today. u can buy (italian or foreigners) for a good price, improve them as players, give them visibility and then sell them for 2, 3, 4 times what u paid for them. that's what keeps many serie a midclass clubs in business. palermo, samp, udinese, catania, the majority of italian clubs built their franchises precisely thanks to this pennywise-smart management policy. never buy famous hyped players, look for unknown players with good potential and try to turn them into better players.
this is gonna change if this new rule will be approved. our market will change, and as a result of that, serie a will change. i can say that's gonna make serie a a weaker league, that's not gonna improve the quality of serie a football (at all), that's not gonna increase the number of italian players in serie a clubs (it's just gonna increase the number of FAKE italian players, namely foreigners with an italian passport).
the entire serie a establishment is against this rule. i really hope they'll do everything and i mean everything, to stop abete (i say let's skip the first 3 weeks of the season, let's refuse to play and mess up the entire serie a schedule and let's see how that idiot likes that!).
i have no time to read football newspapers theese days, but i truly hope the major italian sport newspapers are remarking theese points too. we need the whole country to back up serie a's presidents in their war against federcalcio's president abete.
abhishek said:
So Ben, seems your favorite English manager is going to be Liverpool's new manager. I'm very happy. Your opinion?
good choice.... the very best available option imo. sure he's not really a "cool guy", and since coaching in england is mostly about "glamour" and "image", i can imagine a lot of liverpool fans will be disappointed by this appointment (not u of course, but afterall u know better than most fans
)..... but the truth is hodgson is one of the very few english coaches (probably the only one) who really understands the game and knows what his job is really about. he's a very clever person, who has huge experience... he's one of the few english coaches who had the balls to move abroad and actually learn something about coaching. he already knows the league very well, so no adaptation needed, he knows the players and the other teams aswell.
i don't think he will turn liverpool's situation upside down and turn the reds into title contenders.... as there are other issues in liverpool, problems that have nothing to do with the coaching guidance.... and until those problems are addressed liverpool's situation will remain tricky.....
but u can be damn sure, hodgson is not gonna add more problems to the ones u already have..... and that's already a great step forward.
really? i honestly don't think i am. i mean, i didn't say wolfsburg is a worse club than palermo (i actually rate a lot wolfsburg)... and i clearely said this is not a step backwards (as much as it's not a step forward).... it's just a move, a new experience (wich is usually nothing but a good thing).
in fact, Palermo is the main reason why I will be there. you also have to tell me where the palermo store is. 
