Comments on: In Praise of Cristiano Zanetti

By: incredible cock

incredible cock — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:39:08 +0000

again, many praises about the work.
I also think zanetti is a bit of an underestimated player. but I disagree about the melo matter.
yes we pay a lot,… but not 30m€ like you claim.
but then again,… a brazilian international 25 years of age, midfield position, to me logic its not cheap.
seeying last years perfomaces he’s clearly much more then just musclepower in the midfield, he has much much more quality!

the only thing corcerning me is GIOVINCO
knowing ferrara will play a 4-3-1-2 formation+ arrival of diego+ del piero will continue untill 2011. it looks our youth diamond wont have to many chances to shine this season as well.
last year was a complete wasted year, another year on the bench and the kids career is already over ever before its started

By: intercheats

intercheats — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:11:41 +0000

Those sidebacks are way too weak to be talking about “strongest” anything. But the rest certainly looks good and in terms of quality depth at positions other than those, Juve looks fantastic.

By: alessio

alessio — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:16:58 +0000

Marchionni still plays a sexier position than Nocerino. He should be valued around Behrami and Mudingayi, not Simone Loria. We sold him for way too little and paid way too much for Melo. Secco screws up again.

New post up.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:51:56 +0000

…Like 1 TeraEuro, that’s a fair price I think… (to be inserted in the 2nd line of my previous comment).

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:48:18 +0000

The value of a player depends on how much other clubs want to pay. It’s like if someone ask me: “how much for Del Piero?”, I’d just laught… or say like a ridiculous high number, one of those numbers you really don’t understand cuz they are sooooo uncommon. But the truth is probably there’s no club who will pay more than 12-15M euros for Alex right now (probably not even that). That’s not a problem with us, cuz we want to keep him (FOREVER!… and beyond), but with Marchionni it was a different case. We couldn’t use him with our new formation so we needed to sell him (remember he gets paid too, so if we sell him we are also saving his salary) and I don’t think anyone would have paid more than 5 M for a player which in the last 3 years hasn’t played much (probably he had most of his games in serie B, and that’s not marketable enough).

In a nutshell, we got rid of a player we didn’t need, got a fair price (we could have got maybe more, but we could also rob a bank or something), sent the player to a fairly good team (which is classy since he gave us a lot… not playing time, but support mostly), and made space for a new (hopefully) good enough player. And if you ask me, I prefer a slightly overpaid young Melo (who already knows Calcio) than an also overpaid Poulsen (who’s biggest achievement was to upset Totti a few years ago… ok, he’s better than that, but we couldn’t even use him against Roma, Sevilla should return some of his transfer fee cuz I’m sure we paid what we paid just to have him play those 2 games last season).

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:27:49 +0000

i agree with Nnahoj…when healthy he is good…but that was the problem with him in recent history…and that hurts value…

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:25:45 +0000

all i know is the juventus site said they paid 25 to fiorentina over 3 years and they are giving us 4.5 over 3 years which makes the net for melo 20.5..

By: Sam Dj

Sam Dj — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:11:43 +0000

ekdal is on loan to siena yeah?

By: Calisi

Calisi — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:01:10 +0000

I think Inter lost Maxwell to Barcelona but picked up Lucio in the process from Bayern

By: Nnahoj

Nnahoj — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:45:37 +0000

Marchionni is 5 years older than Nocerino, and injury prone.