Summer mercato 2009

I actually thought the reason why Carlo did not play Mattioni much was an instruction from MGT in order to lower the buying fees later.

Barcelona may have seen (how I'm not sure) some potential in the player....which Carlo overlooked.... as was the case with the CD (Pique?) they aquired from Man U, that had such an impact at the tail-end of last season.

It won't b the 1st time, or the last, that our garbage is another club's treasure.

To be fair though, in the not too distant past, we have benefitted from taking our cousin's trash, (Pirlo and Seedorf) and turning them into diamonds.

Pity that we haven't been able to do that recently...however our luck is bound to change again for the better...hopefully sooner rather than later...as we will need all the luck we can get this coming season.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

I actually thought the reason why Carlo did not play Mattioni much was an instruction from MGT in order to lower the buying fees later.

Wow, what a fantasy today...

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Barcelona may have seen (how I'm not sure) some potential in the player....which Carlo overlooked.... as was the case with the CD (Pique?) they aquired from Man U, that had such an impact at the tail-end of last season.

It won't b the 1st time, or the last, that our garbage is another club's treasure.

To be fair though, in the not too distant past, we have benefitted from taking our cousin's trash, (Pirlo and Seedorf) and turning them into diamonds.

Pity that we haven't been able to do that recently...however our luck is bound to change again for the better...hopefully sooner rather than later...as we will need all the luck we can get this coming season.

pique was regarded as a large talent from man utd, but where would he play.... surely not over vidic and ferdinand. He wanted to move back to barca (he's from there youth system like fabregas moved to england at 15 or 16). Man U respected his wishes....Fergie also had johnny evans who was above pique on there depth chart... same age, and probably a better fit. But pique did play in 07-08 for man u, a little in league, mostly in cups...

Pique is by no means trash from ManU. Actually if then Brown was a bit more solid and Rio was less reckless. ManU would have probably waited for Evans and Pique to mature for another year or two instead of signing Vidic.

Originally Posted by ZvonimirBoban

Wow, what a fantasy today...

You are talking about a MGT that created Dental problems for players in order to lower the fees.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

You are talking about a MGT that created Dental problems for players in order to lower the fees.

...which in the end turned out to be a smart decision in disguise, as Porto were clearly trying to rip us off in the deal.

Originally Posted by Milano84

pique was regarded as a large talent from man utd, but where would he play.... surely not over vidic and ferdinand. He wanted to move back to barca (he's from there youth system like fabregas moved to england at 15 or 16). Man U respected his wishes....Fergie also had johnny evans who was above pique on there depth chart... same age, and probably a better fit. But pique did play in 07-08 for man u, a little in league, mostly in cups...

I seem to remember he didn't go to Barcelona from ManU. He did instead move to another Spanish club that Barcelona later bought him from.

Originally Posted by M.O.I.

i ve been wondering why dont we get lugano????

Probably something to do with us already having to many CBs. I don't think we need more players in the stands.

Originally Posted by kris

I seem to remember he didn't go to Barcelona from ManU. He did instead move to another Spanish club that Barcelona later bought him from.

No, he was on loan with Zaragoza in the 06-07 season, then the next season he sat on the bench at United, who sold him to Barca a year ago.

i don't regret us not buying cissokho because he's nothing very special, theres better out there.. I think i would be the most happy with signing drenthe

Originally Posted by Itakid

i don't regret us not buying cissokho because he's nothing very special, theres better out there.. I think i would be the most happy with signing drenthe

I'd take Cissokho over Drenthe anyday. Like most in here I have seen only a few matches of Cissokho, but what I saw was very promising - and that I cannot say about Drenthe, when he has played at LB. And there's nothing strange about that, as the man simply isn't a defender, and I don't think even training with Zambrotta and Nesta could change that.

Originally Posted by Ceceves

I'd take Cissokho over Drenthe anyday. Like most in here I have seen only a few matches of Cissokho, but what I saw was very promising - and that I cannot say about Drenthe, when he has played at LB. And there's nothing strange about that, as the man simply isn't a defender, and I don't think even training with Zambrotta and Nesta could change that.

He is 22. At this point we cannot help him out much. Maybe if we bought him 15 years back, so he could learn from Baresi and Maldini.

Anyone see Italy v Swiss today? G Rossi was the life of our attack.

I know we have Dinho and Pato in the team, and I'm all for buying positions we actually need, but this would be one pick up I would absolutely love.

I'm convinced he'll be the life of the Azzurri for years to come.

yeah when is the trofeo tim and will streams be put up somewhere