Palermo's Zamparini

Zampa tips Inter for title Saturday 18 November, 2006

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Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini believes his side have only a five per cent chance of winning the Scudetto ahead of Inter this season.

“The probability that Palermo will take the title are five per cent in my view, 75 per cent for Inter and I’ll give the other 20 per cent to Roma,” said the patron on Sky Italia television.


The Rosanero are the joint leaders – ahead of the Nerazzurri on goals scored with an identical goal difference – and take on Cagliari later this evening.


“I’ll say that if we’re the Winter Champions at the halfway point of the season, I’ll start to talk about the Scudetto as well without hiding away from it,” he added.


The door has been opened for the smaller sides to make an impact after Calciopoli demoted Juventus and left Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina with points penalties.


“We saw that Milan and Juve had great advantages, the ones the little clubs saw every weekend. At the time they called it a psychological sublimation. Truth is, they were psychological phone calls,” he joked of the wire-tapping scandal.

“I know that at this moment in time I’m a President envied by many, but I frankly couldn’t care less. I’m top of the table!”


Zamparini is a fiery character who has gone through a lot of tacticians in his time at Venezia and Palermo, including Francesco Guidolin, who was dismissed at the end of the 2004-05 campaign only to be brought back this summer.


“I have weekly meetings with Guidolin in which I express my opinion, he hears those of director general Rino Foschi and a few others, but in the end he makes the decisions. I have never picked a line-up or told him who has to play. However, it’s only right that there is a liberal exchange of ideas.”


One of the secrets of the Sicilians’ success this season has been ex-Chievo striker Amauri, drafted in on the final day of trading.


“The credit for that goes to Guidolin. I wasn’t really convinced by Amauri, because I hadn’t watched Chievo much and didn’t know him. I paid a pretty penny for this player, but he has gone beyond even those expectations.”



I am starting to hate Palermo more and more because of their arrogant president. This is the third time I read something like this from him, within the words of "we can see how good Milan really is now, without the refferies help......etc."
Who does this guy think he is? He is having a good season and he trully thinks his team is better then Milan? I can't wait to play them again and humiliate them. I was trying to find the other couple of times he mentioned something like that, but I was unable to. I can't stand that guy!

I just got really mad when I read that AGAIN from him, so I had to post it here!