Summer Mercato 2010

Better than ours. Did we really need Yepes now that we have Onyewu back?

Originally Posted by #3Forever

Better than ours. Did we really need Yepes now that we have Onyewu back?

Yepes is a Favalli 'replacement' Amelia for Storari and Dida and Papa is an extra gift
Perfect mercato in management's eyes.

Papa is a replacement for Thiago Silva, so if management sell him they don't have to make new signing.

Am I the only one who thinks Berlu will sell T. silva?

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

Am I the only one who thinks Berlu will sell T. silva?

Nope. I fear it too.

Economically speaking, 25 mil and maybe a player is good for TSilva... and he is all about balancing the books. But if we sell him we can really say bye bye to europe next year.

Originally Posted by Reza

Yepes is a Favalli 'replacement' Amelia for Storari and Dida and Papa is an extra gift
Perfect mercato in management's eyes.

Technically Onyewu COULD have been a replacement for Favalli since we didn't use him last season. Does our CB hierarchy look like this?

1. Nesta
2. T. Silva
3. Papa
4. Yepes
5. Onyewu
6. Bonera
????

Originally Posted by #3Forever

Technically Onyewu COULD have been a replacement for Favalli since we didn't use him last season. Does our CB hierarchy look like this?

1. Nesta
2. T. Silva
3. Papa
4. Yepes
5. Onyewu
6. Bonera
????

If you count these as CDs then it is the strongest position of the team....sad but true

Originally Posted by #3Forever

I'm actually hoping Roma and Inter go far this CL to save our CL spot.....again
Are we even a seeded team for the draw?

We are #9 (Inter at #8), and will be seeded because at least one team ahead of us (I don't remember exactly which one at this point) are not in this year's CL, so we are good.

I work all day , and come home hoping for some news but can only read about Genoa , Inter , Juve , Palermo , Lazio , Sampdoria.......and they say we are spoiled.

Originally Posted by Xudong

We are #9 (Inter at #8), and will be seeded because at least one team ahead of us (I don't remember exactly which one at this point) are not in this year's CL, so we are good.

So we have avoided Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man U, Chelsea, Inter for the draw. The big guns. Do you know who the best team in the second pot is? Roma?Arsenal?

how good is boateng, and if there is a player you could compare him too, who would it be. he is a midfielder but where does he play, left, right, center. idk alot about him, but i have a gut feeling off all the players we are linked to, he will be the one that we acquire.

I just looked up the club coefficients.....they dont make any sense.

So Pot 1 includes Inter, Barca, Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan. Sevilla are in the non champions path so if they don't qualify Lyon will also be Pot 1.

The teams to avoid in Pot 2 are Real Madrid and Roma. And the easiest team is..... probably Shaktar or Valencia. With our luck we'll have Real again. Can two Italian teams be in the same group

Originally Posted by #3Forever

I just looked up the club coefficients.....they dont make any sense.

So Pot 1 includes Inter, Barca, Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal, Bayern Munich, AC Milan. Sevilla are in the non champions path so if they don't qualify Lyon will also be Pot 1.

The teams to avoid in Pot 2 are Real Madrid and Roma. And the easiest team is..... probably Shaktar or Valencia. With our luck we'll have Real again. Can two Italian teams be in the same group

Teams from the same country can not be in the same group, and will not play each other at the 1/16 final either. After Top 8, there is no such limit.

I feel that we might get Real Madrid again; better yet, I feel that Inter Merda will get them, since UEFA likes drama.

Boateng was dog sh1t with Spurs and honestly with Portsmouth the most talked about thing was injuring Ballack and other than that he was average - bad.With Ghana he really tried and was super pumped up , he has a history of being a trouble maker with a big ego for an average player in a 38 game season.He is young could improve so we'll see.

hidden in the shadows Genoa is really gunning for CL this time around !
their squad is def. better than ours ! There have been so many free transfers this time around. why we haven;t lapped up any ? well arrrghhhh !!!!

rafinha goes to genoa it's official ! maybe our eyes will open up when ilsinho also goes for free to another competing European Team ! Honestly i am just looking forward to seeing our youngsters in action this year. I swear to just turn off the tv the moment Oddo/bonera/kaladze come on to play !

i swear every time i see that picture of seedorf modelling our new jersey on the internet i feel like just shooting him ! wtf is he smiling for ?? the CL win was 3 years ago !