Good evening! "An hour ... so ... without a program" was the title of the legendary episode of Maria Reezan, which broke the state radio in the 80 decade. This title came to my mind as a guide to my first text in the infobeto, when Yannis Makratzakis asked me ... exactly this: "An introductory text with everything you want to write. Without labels and commitments ". So let's go in a text ... so ... without a subject, taking as a sole fact that the reader has first read my short CV and understood that I am here to deal with the Italian football alone.
My initial thought was to do exactly what I did in every new collaboration, printed and electronic. What they did and those colleagues already had their first job: to give some guidelines for my game. What I am used to, what I am avoiding, going, where I am, usually ending in terms of profitability.
I quickly abandoned this thought, reflecting the course of last season's Italian season. The strange results, the weekly group transformations from week to week, the proliferation of groups that have done their doctrine "what is right", and generally a state of "shaky bougatsa". Disappointed, one evening in May, I turned and said, in a spirit of absolute leveling, to a friend not so closely related to the bet: "What do you want ... Italian football has come to play 22 and to kick a ball. No difference between one group and the other, everything is "what they sit down". 33.33% at each point, so the stacked set must be 3.00-3.00-3.00, so any point that goes over 3.00 is value. " My friend looked at me with a look suitable for dealing with a disturbed one who for some time everyone had to say 'yes' to him.
If this text was written before 2-3 years ago, when it was still in Italy playing soccer and not pencil and MAINLY when almost everything around the influence of an invisible hand was not rotated, I could write too much about betting tactics or theory with general rule too much, but very rarely I would play something less than 2.00. The affirmation applies only to the things that see my troubled eyes, to the stinging of my mouth until it returns to its original position (it takes no half-hour after the whistle of the end) and for the bellwells that shock my living room , even 2.00 looks too low as the threshold. Well, maybe just for someone over ....
The plague? In order not to get tired of you, having redefined a lot of things since the end of the tough and predictable last season, I have not even decided myself how to move. I have definitely kept my notes, I have definitely eliminated (or rather pushed myself into deciding to expel) certain elements of my game that once took me a lot and now they just seem to have been tricks, but my whole tactic seems to be determined by seeing and making it from the time when the country's country championship starts.
A country where Karlo Tavekio, chairman of the football federation, said in early July that football has a maximum of five years in front of him to change tactics and brains to avoid bankruptcy. After the decision to reduce the number of players in each team, you would expect similar moves at other levels. Moves in the same direction, moves that would help to eliminate the bustle-busting phenomenon in the middle of the season (Parma, for example, but it was just the tip of the iceberg, as in the lower categories every year you come to see) would contribute to the upgrading of the spectacle, which is becoming more and more repugnant every year.
Yet! When the table dropped the Serie A team's reduction plan from 20 to 18 with two downsides and a run-in with the third Serie B, they rebelled and eventually succeeded in quoting the planes, who do you say? The Small and Medium! It is precisely those who are legally closer to relegation and will soon have big problems if the number of professional teams and professional players is not drastically reduced! Instead of coping with the problem, they preferred to seek refuge in the short-sighted logic of "Come on, will I fall? I'll find three suckers to get underneath! "
Seriously, eh? And then why were Parma, Siena and even Catania trapped? Why have Napoli, Sampdoria, and Genoa been in trouble for a while? For instance. Sizes like the last three would find, as they did, their way. Smaller sizes, however, are not the ones that should first be cut to create healthy self-protection structures? It seems that priority has once again been the logic of intrusion, which has been chosen by factors that think with the underdeveloped tongue they have in mind.
As for the spectacle? OK then! No one has a claim on the players to order players to play ball or coaches to get rid of the sick ideas they have on their heads. Most can both, so they do. But when a few days before the start of the championship change the yellow card punishment regulation, REBLING the limit from four to five, then what message are they sending? "You kick and pull freely! So we did not lose more than three matches because of a yellow card or a request! " And if in recent years we have seen the spectacle we have seen, you understand what it was like to happen from this year ....
"This year was the first summer after years of money! Is not it logical to expect a higher quality league? " Of course, this reasoning or lies does not contain or detract from the basis. I will try to leave a trace of my view of whether we should eventually expect something radically better through the analysis of some Serie A teams and I mean those who actually had something interesting and worthy of commenting during the summer. The juncture brings them to most of them with big names, bets and high goals.
JUVENTUS
It was not for the fans of the Old Lady that the final Berlin cuff was coming. The two high-quality players' retirements, such as Andrea Pirlo and Carlos Tevez, have been almost resumed to make it clear that the directors, contrary to what their interlocutors did five years ago, and yet the nerazzuri can not they decided that the circle of this group had been closed and there had to be a partial renewal (the withdrawals of the aforementioned ones) and the success of the last few years (selling Vidal later this summer and probably Pugba).
All this is very nice, as long as there is a concern for adequate replacement of the retired. In the attack, we can say that replenishment moves have taken place: Paulo Dymballa, Mario Mantucki, Simone Jazza. I do not think that the first will ever become Tevez, but just as it is, one left, three came. But what about? Outside Vidal and Pirlo, inside Sami Kedira, which is of no qualitative relevance to the retired, and is already in his favorite sickness due to injury. As for the trequartista that Max Alegre desires to support 4-3-1-2's favorite on stronger bases without being forced to adapt to the top of the diamond diamond with simple aggressive features (Vidal and Perera last year)? He has not yet appeared in Vinnovo, as administration has long been obstructing the case of Schulke's Julian Druxler. At some point, it was out there that a proposal of 15 million was not accepted for ... Coman, on the grounds that Alegre will support him and Dymbala with 4-3-2-1. Stories that do not stand as anecdotes and certainly not at random are not that in the Super Cap Alegre returned to 3-5-2 by Antonio Conte, waiting for better days and assuring at the same time that the ongoing muscular injuries (Bertzali, Kellini, Kenitra, Mora , Marquis) do not refer in any way to a problematic preparation of the group.
All this has given the right to analysts who are either anti-huben, bored with the monarchy, or just want to make an impression, saying that with a Juventus inferior to last year, it is clearly a matter of losing sighs. I do. Even if we accept that Juventus will prove to be inferior to the circumstances, we must find the team that will throw it from the throne. So far no competitor convinces. And see why:
ROMA
The preparation started with the worst, as the tifoseria did not wait for ten days to disapprove managers and players with slogans like "We will stay in A" after the lost friendly with the Hungarian Göcor. It was a time of unbearable stagnation on the transcriptional front, and it was clear from the group's presentation that Technique Rudi Garcia, who started third season on the bench of giallorossi (this in itself is a feat of enormous proportions) behaved like a foreign body. No participation in the events, frozen smiles, typical handshakes. In other words, very different from the Garcia of other times.
Do you feel the oil on his candle gathered? Has he taken them cranically with the decision of the administration to take charge of him and load his own trainer (Dars Norman) by dismissing Paulo Rongoni, who has been charged for many past years? The fact is that Garcia's frustration was the cause of endless episodes in the tournament of the group, such as the tournament to executive director Italian Jandji on the occasion of some autographs signed by the players at the end of a training session in Melbourne or his demand to get up Indonesia leaves the whole group (!), because due to insufficient travel documents, Lajc, Ibarbo, Saabria, Jerusalem and Dubai were not allowed to enter the country. It took Jangji's dynamic intervention and the recall of millions of contracts with heavy clauses to calm the French technician, who is certain that at other times there was no way to react.
The continuation of the summer was much better and it helped some great successes of technical director Walter Sampatini, who came from a devastating mercato in January. Sabatini managed to receive little or no 45 million from the sale of Bertolatsi and Romanioli in Milan! In this ... XMUMX + 8 2 + 50 has been added to the XNUMX + XNUMX sale of the Jiang Biua opium and somewhat thus financed the stay of Raja Ningolan (XNUMX% owned by Cagliari) and the moves that renewed the saturated and in the friendly offensive line of the team. And I'm not talking about Giago Falket from Genoa as much about the heavy artillery: Mohamed Salah and Edine Jake. Movements that have definitely upped the team and world psychology and rightfully make the Roma claim the title as far as the attack line is concerned.
But back? Only five defenders left! Vassilis Torosidis, aged Maikon, Kastan's one-time inaction, Kostas Manolalas and despondent and ready-for-contract Ashlee Cole. Where are you getting brisk on cucumbers? Even if the multiplayer player Alessandro Florentzi is forced to jail right, the situation is not saved. And it will be good for Sabatini to bring the two center back to the team and at least one extreme, because I fear that whatever the newcomers will bring, they will not reach or live.
(On the press): Sabbatini two days before the opening has not managed to finish the acquisition of the French left-handed Bak Dineier, while for the BK center he took the 22man German Roditzer, who is injured and the ... substitute of Catania Norbert Gjobber , raising questions about the feasibility of developing and developing the alzheimer at such a speed in a human brain.
LATZIA
He did not qualify for the Champions League qualifiers when conditions were much easier (two consecutive times Udinese), but he did it last year, which she had not even set. In another group, an orgasm of aid or even targeted moves would have been observed to increase the chance of entering the clubs and their good presence. In another group, we said. Not in the team of Claudio Bonito, who was absolutely not surprised by anyone's tactics of not taking virtually any linden player and waiting for the favorable result of the qualifier MINI and bringing the team back. Ferrying players who have come from the Netherlands can only be judged on the course of an otherwise difficult season, where they will be asked to play on two fronts essentially with the same human potential. It is already coming out of a potential overpowering season, and since he does not seem determined to put the stumbling block for anything more, he has a very good chance of sinking into mediocrity.
NAPOLI
Raphael Benitez's second failure to put Napoli on the Champions League (not even the qualifiers now) did not mean only stopping the Spanish technician's co-operation with partenopei, but also starting a time of austerity, tailored to the limited expected earnings. The initial estimates, which spoke of the withdrawal of footballers, have been dashed, since Ignais, Kayehon, Mertens, Hamik, Gabidjini, Indien, Albiol have not been departed so far, and experienced goalkeeper Pepe Reina has returned after a break of one year. The point is elsewhere: the players who have been won are nothing but interesting bets (Chirac, Isai), good-natured workers (Alan) and play maker Mirko Valtifiori, who discovered Serie A at his 29 in Empoli and came to Napoli to get the team on his ... legs, at the request of technical Maurizio Zari, who did exactly the same route having also late arrived at Serie A.
From the time of the Lusons with Benitez and exact transcripts, to Zari's and the very careful moves. The first season was accompanied by several dreams, some really big evenings, but ultimately a complete failure to achieve goals, 80 loss of millions of euros in income and 135 million euros in spending on acquiring players almost exclusively from Benitez's agent friend Manuel Killon. The latter is characterized by low profile moves and behaviors, by many praises for Zari's work ("We had been working since the time of the Mattar," commented President Aurelio De Laureadis, essentially nailing Benitez), but also from the following inevitably questions:
"I do not understand why those who get the most have to run less," Zari commented at the start of preparation and, over time, even demanded that the team's stars do dirty work and double up in the defense phase. Will he be only in his second season in Serie A at the age of 56 years to persuade such high-stakes star in the roster?
- Most teams that Zari has worked on even in Serie B and Lega Pro were low-pressure teams for goals by management and (sometimes) supporters. No relationship, that is, with the ambitious Napolitano plate, who lived and breathes for football. How does Zari manage this? To begin with, in order to avoid the problematic start that usually marks his season, he chose to diversify the preparation, hence to change himself and his habits. Understandable. Employee 2012-13 gave him a start-up credit that brought five points in nine games, not releasing him at 0-3 with Ascoli. Such a situation in Napoli would certainly not even give him the right to reach the ninth game. She tries, therefore, to avoid it, but does this pay the group in the long run?
- Are Zari and Valtifiori, even if in the short run help the team to return to its devotion to the basics and cease to be a viper as it had become Benitez, diminish the team, inevitably lowering its ceiling?
INTERNET
"Manchini has asked me at least nine players, of which seven are undeclared," was the first statement made by the technical director of Inter Milan in the beginning of the summer, gladly in Athens. As if we did not know that the mastermind of the "I do not have players" school, Mankini would not once again ask Mother and his father to stomp and represent the great reformer, having just finished a season in which four players it also went worse than his predecessor, Walter Matzari.
What happened to these players? Pondolski was cleansed, right. Santon was considered inadequate, Brozovic was considered irreplaceable regardless of the position to play, and Sakirri suffered a ruthless chase until he left for England and found his health. We go, too, we say! The coach has no time to waste: new defense with Miranda, Mourigo, Montoya. A jerk of money for the acquisition of Jeffrey Congoigia (a great communal victory over Milan, which was almost closed to him), which so far has not justified the expectations. Stevan Jovecic for the attack and we got the five players in the madness with Mancini continuing to spit, since Erik Tohir, although he gotten away from the outrageous sale of Mateo Kovacic, does not say that he will go on to acquire the winger Perisic, the Brazilian haf Felipe Melo, who, for a reason I can not understand Mancini, thinks she is superfluous for the new effort.
"Quickly, quick" was the first 51 technician in the first two doubles of preparation, imposing the following rules: once a team had to take the ball to the final attempt, it would have to spend a maximum of 20 seconds. If the shoot had not been made then, Madsio was whispering and the ball passed to the other team. The goal is obvious: stop the big chess-chess and play the team vertically and quickly. The result; A mere disappointment, since Inter was only friendly with a jubilee and a blessing, he lost twice from AC Milan and stuck at 0-0 even with AEK.
From experiments? Dozens, that makes no sense to sit down to describe or analyze. Virtually all middlemen except Medel were tested in .... all the positions of the diamond, while a lot of plaque had the 4-4-2 with ... ending with Ernäes. Often-dense Mancini had a tone that referred to "With the sun I put them, with the sun I make them, what have ballasts and rocks?" The only thing I'm right to do is the limited quantitative and qualitative roster in the attack, which is not going to be saved even if the now versatile Perisic is acquired.
Conclusion; Inter is at the start of the championship in a much worse situation than what her supporters expected. Not because he has terrific players and he should have been flying, but because at least a refreshing wind would blow and the players would have the most beautiful and optimistic football on the court.
MILAN
"I will never go to Palermo or Milan, since I've been training Catania and been at Inter Milan. I prefer to be hungry rather than go to AC Milan, "said Cinisa Mihajlovic five years ago, as if he was not the one he once played in Roma and Lazio, or if he did not come the crew of the time that would force him to swallow the words of. This was done in June when the Serbian technician took the greeting from Silvio Berlusconi to rebuild as a regular coach after the bitter breaks of Clarence Zeendorf and Pipo Idangi, a decent team that will not stay away from the Euro Cup but will be steadily in the first three.
The first evidence of whether Berlusconi was willing to support the project was not good. Milan on Saturday night 20 June lost Congo and Jackson Martinez, who were her two main transcriptional targets. But then, and with the help of Asian Mr. Bee, who bought 48% of the shares instead of 500 million euros (a price quite disproportionate to the point that several economic analysts have expressed their question, given that in Tokyo, 70% of the Internet cost only 180 million), the transfer of dancing began. Alexios Romanioli (Michailovic's cult center, who forced the administration to spend the extravagant amount of 25 million on his acquisition), Andrea Bertolatsi (many here 20), Carlos Boca and Luis Adriano, and for a long time name of Zlatien Ibrahimovic is heard in the rossoneri reportage.
The first violin, however strange, remains Michaelovich. Man straight, raw when needed, who knows how to make changing rooms and insists until the final fall on basic principles such as determination, fighting, football cynicism. Principles that attempted to take root from the very first few days of preparation, forbidding players even to walk to drink water between two exercise exercises. "I told you to slow down, not to walk!", The Serbian screamed, demanding that the players run even slowly so that they do not lose their pace and are constantly alert.
The image of the team in the friendly was initially moderate to poor, but then the first encouraging messages began to come, and it clearly shows the climate in the changing rooms and at the disposal of Silvio Berlusconi. The racing problems remain: a defensive four with Abate (de Sille), Mexico, Romanioli and Antony is not exactly the definition of stability for a championship team, while the midfield is missing the man who puts the class in play, causing Romanioli to be forced to comes out of defense with the ball on his feet. However, the coincidence that has been cultivated and the expectations for a better bond between Luis Adriano and Basha suggest that Milan will surely make a much better year than last year's miserable year.
RECOMMENDATION OF LARGE TEAMS
Tell me, therefore, if any of the above-mentioned groups, at least with the data so far, fill you with the eye for the successor of the four-legged champion Juve. Let's say the Roma with enough strength (but if I fill the roster back)? Let's say, with even more excitement, Milan because of a good aura and that IF added to the roster of the Ibrahim type and to favor all the circumstances? I think we're done. Juventus is likely to be even higher than the other contenders, even if it falls flat. And that means something for the quality of the championship and for the many money spent, especially by the two Milanese. They do not seem to be enough to lift them up so they can overturn them.
PARTIES OTHER ASSOCIATES
SAMPLONIA
It would be very easy and quite cheap to isolate 0-4 from Vojvodina to the Euro Cup and begin to crawl into the genuinely liked team of Genoa. My point is not the European scandal itself, but from the beginning of summer the climate in Bolyostamo smells cadaveric. It is not just the departure of Xinjiang Mikhailovich and his replenishment by 55man Walter Jingga, who in Italy is marginally considered as a coach after many years he has worked in only two teams. They are the withdrawals of almost all the players who could bring money to the cashier (Ombang, Duncan, Okaka) or lighten the bets (Samuel Etho). It is also the transfer of players almost exclusively with free (Barreto, Casanno, Kassani), which show great reluctance of the crazy president to make serious investments or even maintain a good team trunk. Finally, the reports that made their appearance revealed that last year, Ferrero's first in the group, came out with money that was secured by the former owner, Eduardo Garone, who wants to get rid of Sampdoria, not only does he not? took money, but he also gave up a surprise! But these have barely hit the last season. And now that the man Ferrero has to walk on his own, while the balance sheets already show no pleasant things, what does he do? Signs free thirty (and roll).
TORINO
Do a pretty interesting project! A team that lost its most prominent player (Matteo Darmyman to Manchester United), who did not have to give up where he did, but he quickly took serious moves to build a youthful and promising torso with Jopakosta, Obi, Bazelli and (less crazy, though advertised enough) Belotti. Having a chairman and technical director (Urbano Cairo and Tianlanka Petraki respectively) who are in full maturity and being "free" from the burden of European obligations, Turin hopes that the fifth season of the Giorgio Ventura, better. Better even from the pre-season, which through the broke (Parma punishment) led her to the Euro Cup.
EMPOLI
The second year of a small group in the big category is usually harder than the first. There is no longer the element of the surprise of the opponents, nor the extraordinary enthusiasm of the rookie nor the players that contributed to the successful course of the previous season. This seems to be true for Empoli, who in a few weeks lost the technician who created the very good ensemble of the last three years (Maurizio Zari), play maker Mirko Valtifiori, the extreme boss Elsaye Isai, while the most basic Michele Rugani Back) and Matias Bethino (midfielder) returned to Juventus and Fiorentina respectively.
As far as the players are concerned, the replacement seems to be, with the exception of the young and well-tested Luca Bidante, coming from the inside with players such as Duisse and Zielinski, who remain questionable, especially since players who have not even stumbled based on expectations (Michele Camorreze), or they have long gone to the downside (Andrea Costa, Marko Tzambeli). It is also characteristic that 36's longest striker, Massimo Macarone, is the longest striker, and what he can mean for a team that has not managed to find a worthy striker to help him adequately.
The biggest problem, however, is in the name of Marko Tziabao. He is a 48 coach with many recent failures and incidents of a peculiar and whimsical nature that thanks to a myth he has been doing for a decade now, he has been doing almost every year a job much better than his CV. His public relations and his mysterious depressing profile, more suited to the Cavafy King of West Libya than to a wise professor of benches as many want to believe, are good. Failure in Catania, Cesena, Brescia, Cremonae of Lega Pro and what is the sequel? Recruitment to Empoli in Serie A!
If you can make a tip, tell me and me, you fuck and break it. It was, then, the best option that Marcello Carli, the technical director, could have done, which, as if it were not enough, allegedly raced with President Fabrizio Corsi and reached just one step before resignation. The followers, however, watched for three weeks the tribulations of Tziabaolo with 3-5-2 (they had to see 4-3-1-2 to mark their own stamp), opened in their forum a special topic titled: "After Jiabao who?" In their consciousness they had "eaten" him before August was well!
After this anger explosion, and while Empoli did not play one in the friendly, Jiabao came together and returned to the diamond. But I do not know if he has met or if he has the prospect of a team meeting. The 0-1 from Vicenza at Coppa Italia is certainly not the best omen.
CARP
The team last year literally blew me off after I had a demo favorite, and she had mathematically raised about six games before the end! World; Zero. Money decent for its size due to the property of mister Gaudi Stefan Bonacci, but still again avoided the excesses. From ball? Very little but very effective football, hence the success of the climb.
However, the uranium cries of promise that Carpi would hold the Lega Pro and Serie B trunk, and in the big category were drowned or better forgotten in the early weeks of the mercato, when in the small town of Emilia, several torpedoes or squatter football players began to arrive, composing a strange mosaic, whose unique relationship with last year's team is in mind. Sleep heavy, low rhythm and sudden (anti) attacks aiming to put two goals with .... half an effort. That's what we saw last year, and this is even more exaggerated to see this year with the obscene 5-3-1-1 prepared by the supposedly resigning and rebellious Fabricius Kastori. Three pockets, two backs, two suspenders and one goalkeeper. There was a defeated asshole (Andreas Latsari), the Brazilian-enigma Matos and the Serie B Serie B, but not yet tested in A, Jerry M Bakogu. My eyelids were gone before I even saw the first match.
