Re: Serie A Thread - 2010/11 Season
true. those are some signings. i think they should calm down a little though. that's the 3rd consecituve season they almost completely change the shape of the starting 11. it's gonna be hard for gasperini to build something in theese conditions.
very good job anyway.
as for balotelli (thanks for the explanation of aggro guys), well if there's a player in the world who is worth this much trouble, that certainly is mario.
he is, without a doubt, an asshole (not a cunt though... or at least not yet), a little spoiled brat with a stupid, immature, unprofessional and confrontational attitude..... but boy is he good!!
i mean just think at the last season. he had some very serious issues with the coach, with the fans, even with some of his teammates. he started about 12 matches and he never played an entire match.... well maybe 1 or 2, but certainly not more than that....
he came in as a sub for usually nothing more than 30\45 minutes for pretty much the entire season.... and yet he scored 11 goals! that is simply mindblowing. how could a 19 years old kid deliver with such ridiculous consistancy, taking into account he wasn't usually lined up as a starter and also considering he had the coach, the fans and even some of his teammates against him... that is just crazy.
people rave about mario's boundless potential... and rightly so. but we tend to overlook how amazing already is his current skill. potential won't allow u to do what mario did this season (and last season). his current skill allowed him to deliver like this. his shots, his dribblings, those are not down to potential, unexpressed skills..... those depend by what he can already do right now.
btw i'm pleasently surprised by inter's management approach to this situation. they're keeping a very smart profile on this matter, showing absolutely no urge to get rid of him, unless some clubs shows up with a crazy offer.
i didn't expect this from moratti and branca... and i'm really happy they're proving me wrong.
let's also keep in mind that mourinho isn't here anymore. that obviously won't turn mario into an angel. mario is the main responsible for his own dramas and mourinho's only fault was to react in a very bad way to mario's mistakes (although that was a pretty big fault aswell)...... but with another coach in charge, especially an easy going-low profile fella like rafa, things might turn out to be very different and handling mario might become much easier than it was last year, who knows?
and if that's the case, then holding mario in milano would be a great move from moratti and branca...... as it will be absolutely impossible to replace mario with another player who could provide what mario can. absolutely impossible.
zeem said:
He is surely not Kjaer replacement right?
no he won't. goian will take the starting cb spot left by kjaer, and play along with bovo.
Our most creative player is about to leave for Flamengo and I hope we go for Ganso with that non-EU spot but that's just fantasy. We'll probably just end up with Mancini. 
you're wellcome mate. i think at the end of the season there's gonna be a WAR between genoa and inter to get "the other half of the player". both inter and genoa won't give up so easily.
