Daily Dose: Oct 04th, 2010

The Inter Offside disgusts me.Its the worst offside page i've visited......extreme bias and MAD and the the co-blogger(Johanna right???) are doing a very poor job.I've seen the Milan,Roma and Palermo offside and they do a good job.

http://www.football-italia.net...
this is a stupid list. football italia has created a starting eleven for foreign born stars who played in the serie throughout its history. while i like some of the choices, it seems WAY too slanted to included so many current players. i mean, is zanetti really one of the best foreign born defenders EVER to play in italy? cmon man...

even considering post 1980's stars Salas, Ibra getting there ahead of Schevchenko is a bit of a stretch. and Cordoba...really!!!!!!!!!!!

i think the goalie should be gillet - he is the epitome of how much a foreigner can fall in love with calcio

It uses number of titles to determine number of spots taken by players from certain national teams.I think Giancarlo did a good job personally and it only takes the past 30 years into consideration so we are bound to have current players.

not to nitpick, but not to mention sivori or john charles and to automatically place julio cesar and zanetti on the list seems like a silly equivocation. like the author just wanted an even mix of inter and juve players. bullsh*t, if you ask me.

All the player choices are post-1980s.

haha, maybe if id read the article in its entirely, i would have known that. whoops!

Dzeko has been signed apparently.

Forzza Goal.com :D

Yeah I don't know...
http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2010/10/05/2151278/juventus-have-signed-edin-dzeko-from-wolfsburg-report

It basically said Dzeko (30mill) = Diego (20mill) + Momo (10mill). With the Wolves already paid 10mill for Diego, we need to give back the 10mill they paid us + Momo for Dzeko.

It did sound conspicuous back then when we sold Diego for only 15mill so I guess goal.com followed it up with another theory especially since the Wolves were interested in Momo. I agree with Paul. I'll believe it when Dzeko shakes Andrea's and Beppe's hands and flashes the no.11 shirt (*cough... amauri... cough*).

EDIT - We'll know more in January won't we? If Momo does go to the Wolves, it will certainly be more believable.

We all know that Goal.com are the best rumour mongers in the game but HOPEFULLY its true and we maybe we could even give them Amauri as souvenir then get Poli as regista.

can you be more speculative?

A Possibility perhaps. Football-italia says the same thing.

http://www.football-italia.net...

this sounds like such bullshit its just bloody ridiculous! bahah im laughing my arse off

I won't start the party yet.. as Goal.com is sometimes giving out a speculative news sound like official. Not until he is wearing black and white and shake Andrea's hand

ha quite true.. but lets hope its true..
It will a Diego, Sissoko for Dzeko. :D

Aka "very expensive". Although I wouldn't mind one bit ;)

haha.. I think Goal.com has lots of rubbish speculations.. Now they say, we are going to sign Torres too. WOW!

Hey guys.. this may be the wrong place.. but is this article true??

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10...

Gotta disagree with you about us, buddy.

I have (obviously) seen all of our games so far and, yes, Hernanes is fucking amazing BUT Stefano Mauri has been even better, career best form from him, Giuseppe Biava and Andre Dias are playing out of their skins at the back. We have a wealth of options in midfield: Ledesma, Matuzalem, Brocchi, Bresciano....compared to relying on Roberto Baronio a few months ago.

I'm not sure it'll last but right now Lazio's success isn't all down to Hernanes (Godlike though he is). We haven't even seen the best of the guy.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10...

So are we, Cristian. So are we.

Guys one very interesting dilemma that came from the Inter game was whether to start Aquilani or Marchisio in the middle of hte park- why should be first choice?

From that game we saw Aquilani give us some great creative and everything came from him and Krasic. He veryu much played in a deep-lying playmaker role and great game.

Marchisio, is just a real professional, He is such a complete player that if worst come to worst just put this guy in as our DC! With Marchisio in the middle, we dont get too much creativity, but we get a hard working and complete midfielder!

Personally i just LOVE MArchisio, but that probably because he is a born and bred Turin boy!

We all know GDN is a staunch 4-4-2 believer but Marchisio won't be happy to play LW permanently so to play both Marchisio and Aquilani, how about this:

storari
grygera--bonucci--chiellini--pdc
melo--marchisio
krasic--aquilani/adp--martinez/quags
iaquinta/amauri

How about this

-----------storari
grygera--bonucci--chiellini--PDC
------------Melo--------------
---Aquilani------Marchisio-----
Krasic--------------------Pepe
-----------Iaquinta-----------

Something i am experimenting with in FM right now

yeh personally not a big fan of the 4-4-2 and it is a formation that is really outdated. Bigfan of the 4-2-3-1/ 4-3-2-1/4-5-1 these will include MElo Marchisio and Aqua man in the middle, BUT not going to happen.

It really is a great dilemma to have!

I think they can easily rotate between one another, depending upon their fitness and most importantly the opponents we face.

No matter what our midfield duo is, as long as it's not Melo-Sissoko I'm fine with it. Not sure how well Aquilani-Sissoko could work, waiting for GDN to hopefully try it soon (Lecce?).

Either way though, this entire season we will play at least 49 games (38+10+1), most likely more so there will be plenty of playtime for all 4 CM's.

Since Aquaman cannot play in EL now, they can be toggled. Marchisio for EL, Aquilani for Serie A. Aquilani does offer better options when going up, plus he can hit htose nice long rangers. If Melo continues his form, Delneri can afford to bench Marchisio & play Aquilani.

Serie A is basically ever week Europa is every 3-4 weeks.

I like how they are rotating, but suppose in the big games who starts? I highly do doubt Marchisio will play left wing against AC Milan etc.

Before this match I would have said with confidence our best starting midfield duo is Melo and Marchisio, now its Melo and ?

Btw, Melo is playing one hell of a season and has been very cosistent which is making me very very happy!!!!

I dont expect Aquilani to be fit for every game. For now he can play more in Serie A, till his club-tie in EL is over.

How about a staffeta between Aquilani & Marchisio ? They are not similar players but can be used depending on the opposition. When defending a lead Marchisio is a better fit, as he has good snatching abilities. However, when attacking Aquilani is a far better option.

I too love Marchisio. I had him playing on my teams in Fifa 08 when he was just a kid. PC games aside, he is a great professional and a great Juventino.

With that being said I think this team needs to have them both because they bring different things to the team and it will mostly depend on who we play and how we want to play. I am not saying they both have to play at the same time either.

If you noticed yesterday, Juve was playing a 4-3-3 with the ball, with Melo-Marchisio-Aquilani on the midfield and Krasic-Iaquinta-Quags as forwards. When we lost posession Quags went to occupy Maicon's flank which stopped him from running up the flank. And just in case Maicon dared to move forward he had to contend with Marchisio and De Ceglie (when he wasn't busy with Milito or Bibiany). So essentially we had a 4-4-2 with Quags playing pretty far to the left. This type of formation is very useful if we want to neutralize the wingers and not expose our fullbacks too much (we all know they are not exceptional yet).

However against Lecce playing a 4-4-2 with Marchisio-Melo-Aquilani-Krasic we will be shooting ourselves in the foot. We should bring the game to them and Melo and Marchisio should be able to keep possession well and pass quickly to the wings. I think yesterday Marchisio and Quags made Aquilani look good. If you changed Marchisio for Pepe and Quags for Del Piero (less physical and more inclined to play in the middle) and we would have gotten run over in the middle of the park.

I think both of them will be useful. When we are playing very strong teams I wouldn't be surprised to see Marchisio-Aquilani-Melo. Against Manchester City we played Martinez-Marchisio-Melo-Krasic, but you could tell that Martinez' orders were to defend more and attack less. Similarly to the Inter game, with that being said we all know Marchsiio is a better defender than Martinez will ever be. But all in all we were able to contain them.

Against weak teams expect Pepe-Marchisio-Melo-Krasic, or Martinez-Marchisio-Melo-Krasic, or even Marchisio-Melo-Sissoko (in a 4-3-3 with Martinez playing as a wide attacker).

But then, what do I know, I am just a fan and want to see Marchisio develop into the star we all know he can be.

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news...

FORZA JUVE

that MAD character is why i hate so much inter fans....just go see in inter blog....

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why you did you removed my comment...i wasnt insulting no one? dude you shouldnt give a fuck what those guys think or say...were are juventus fans...and naturally we hate inter fans...so lets be fans!

I deleted it. Much as I agree, don't want people slinging shit at other people on this board. Just at Inter.

ok

What's the most accurate definition of perfect pitch?

The ability to throw an Inter jersey across the room into the toilet without hitting the rim.

A man walks into a bar and said: "Hey, bartender, have I got a great Inter Milan joke for you!"

"See that black belt on the wall, kid?" said the bartender. "That's mine. I'm an Inter fan, and I don't have much of a sense of humour. See that guy sitting at the back? He's my cousin. He's an Inter fan, and he hasn't got much of a sense of humour either. And this here is Bubba."

The man looks over at the large, tattooed figure on the next bar stool wearing a black leather Hell's Angels jacket. "Bubba's an Inter fan, too, and he doesn't kindly to criticism. Now, are you sure you want to tell you Inter joke in here?"

"Well, not if I'm going to have to explain it three times!"

Pretty heated debate going on there at the Inter Offside...