Re: Serie A Thread - 2010/11 Season
Seriously! I think you are being too hard on him. I never considered him a coach. More of a temporary solution. Both teams were in rock bottom when he took over and he did a very good job in letting them survive their normal standards..... Plus, he can't be worse than Simeone.
u just said u don't even consider him a coach..... and i am harsh on him?!?
i don't think he's done anything special both in milan and inter honestly. i find it hard to even label his milan as a football team (it was more a bunch of very good players playing football..... and not necessarily together). and he certainly didn't do anything special at inter. his first 2 months were very good but the the last 3 months showed how inadeguate he is to be a coach.
and i also don't think he had anything to do with inter's brilliant performances in jannuary\febbruary. that very good form period was just bound to happen after that terrible first half of the season. infact i believe inter would have done just as good even with benitez in charge (probably even better).
concerning simeone, he's coached in italy for only 4 months and i haven't seen enough of him to properly rate him..... but from what i've seen, leonardo seems to be even worse than diego. but that's just my opinion of course
rfu said:
from Moratti: "I am looking for a coach of Inter, who doesn't pretend to change team a lot. I think of a one year contract with an option on the second."
......About his contract, it's not a straight 2 year contract, he has the option of a second year ONLY if we qualify for Champions League the following season, i.e. a top 2 finish *ouch*.
i see. so it's a 1+1 contract and not a 2 years deal. that doesn't sound good indeed. gasperini is not a good short term coach. he needs time to deploy his football.
let's just hope he will persuade moratti to sign him the players he needs. if that happens i can see this becoming the beginning of a new cycle for inter. otherwise this will turn out to be a wasted chance, coz, like u said, this current inter squad really isn't suited for gasperini's football.
having a football teacher like gaspa and not letting him do his magic would be a real shame.
rfu said:
By the way, is no else surprised by the lack of investors coming into serie a to purchase teams? Even PSG get investors and truck loads of money I'm pretty sure Lolito, Dalla Valle even Zampirini would gladly sell. What's up?
the lack of investments is really not surprising mate. it's extremely difficult to make good profits with serie a clubs, coz, financially, serie a is a very poor league. matchday incomes are ridiculously low, clubs don't own any facilities and the poor visibility of the league makes it very tough to exloit merchandising incomes.
in italy in order to be a succesful club owner and make some profits u must know very well what u're doing. arabian sheiks or russian millionaires wouldn't work well here coz they're noobs.
in the epl american, arabians and russians investors can afford to make the stupidest moves and waste dozens of millions.... and they still make profits because the incomes generated by english football are huge.
here in italy instead there's no room for any mistake. therefore u have to be clever AND competent.
the della valle family, pozzo, de laurentis, zamparini. they manage to make profits because they're very good at their job. they're competent. they are all heavily involved in every aspect of the club. they know how to handle (and pick) the best general managers, they know how to handle players agents, they know how to build and run a cheap and effective scouting network.
only profitable investments attract foreign money.... and serie a is everything but profitable. u must know and understand very well not only football, but also every other aspect involved in football management and club running....... and most foreign investors have no idea of how to run a football club.
PLF said:
What happened with Viviano?
as u probably know viviano was co-owned by inter and bologna.
co-ownerships can only last for 2 years tops. that means that by june of the second season, the clubs must reach an agreement (one of em must buy the remaining 50%). if the clubs reach this agreement then no prob.
but it might happen that the clubs can't find an agreement (say for instance, because both clubs want to buy the other club's 50%..... or simply because they can't agree on how much money the other club's 50% is worth).
in theese cases the italian federation helds a silent auction. both clubs present an offer(the clubs must write down their offer in a specific form. the envelop with the form is then sent to the federation). this silent auction is held in the 3rd week of june. the federation opens the envelops and the club wich offered more money gets the player (and will have to pay that sum to the other club).
now what happened in viviano's case? bologna wanted to buy inter's 50% of viviano. not to hold him in bologna, but in order to sell him to roma. roma and bologna already negotiated the transfer and reached an agreement (bologna would have got a few millions cash plus some roma players).
bologna were willing to pay 4.5 millions to inter for viviano. but inter replied that was not enough so both clubs ended up "alle buste" (that silent auction i mentioned).
here comes the hilarious part. bologna presented a 4.7 millions offer, while inter offered 4.2 millions.
but bologna's general manager made a huge mistake and wrote the offer in the wrong part of the form so their offer was considered void.
so inter got the player for even less than what bologna offered. what a monumental fail!!! bologna's general manager was so embarassed he resigned (poor guy).
and this is a very impressive team, one of the finest i've ever seen. all eyes on Enrique this season.
as for your geographic question, Novara is a small village in Piemonte (Torino's region). the village is located between torino and milano.
