Yup. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) And to think that Hernanes is someone that can play anywhere in the midfield, has tons of league experience, and is someone that could helped us with our lack of creativity in attack. Him Lamela and Witsel should have been the three signings to alleviate a lot of our concerns.

I don't know but I have not written off Bertolacci totally, though he has been a disappointment. But sometime I think Galliani is riding a vendetta train and actually wants to bring down the club with bad signings and splashing the cash on wrong players.

I'd tire if I started naming them from 2007, our CL win, onwards. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) One after the other, oh man!

By the way, I like how you have Galliani in his trademark "Golden Tie" in your signature. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Best one in the forum right now, love it more than the anti Allegri one you had going around a few years back.

Haha, I didn't even notice the yellow tie.

Trademark Golden Tie®. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I think Serie A is between Inter, Juve and Roma this season. Juve are favourites but I think the loss of their three best has upset them hugely and they're struggling. Inter have scraped their opening matches but the stats showed complete dominance in EVERYTHING in both except goals. And Roma have signed rather well in the window to re-balance their squad.

"Instead, we have f*ck all."

I'm not sold on Inter, not yet at least.

Me neither, just pointing out on paper (we love paper so much) they are pretty balanced, have a decent squad, and have managed 2 from 2.

They also have a pretty safe pair of hands in Mancini.

Our net spending was 56.9 M, only PSG and Man City spent more.. Juve was at 36 and inter at -2.7

Which makes it even sadder that we're as bad as we were last season.

#GallianiLeave

Worse. Last season we had a balance, just a badly managed one. Now we don't even have that.

This post has been edited by Danny: Sep 3 2015, 03:24 PM

Sure, he's obviously better than Bertolacci, I mean that was pretty obvious from the get-go. And this is not just an argument about one player though. Their midfield has been considerably weakened and Macini seems to want to go in the root of having an all action midfield and the creativity coming from the attack. It might have worked for him in the EPL with City but in Italy it generally doesn't work that way, just like it doesn't in Europe.

Like I said, I was envious of their midfield about a month ago, now not so much. They had a very good balance of creativity and physicality. They just went down the latter route completely now

Their signing of Melo leaves me a bit perplexed. Failed horribly at Juve, spent the last four seasons in the Turkish league. And he's 32. But from what I understand Mancini plans on using him as a starter. Meh...

Anyway, even after the sales of Kovacic and Hernanes they're far better than us in every department, aside from defense maybe.

PS: When you think about it, their starting line-up barely has any Italians. Typical Inter.

And ours is absolutely full of them. Maybe that's a symbol of why we're so bad. Italian football is not what it was, and the national team is the pits. I gather they scraped a 1-0 over the might of Han's guys.

Point is Italian players are not as good as they used to be. And our first team is:

Antonelli, MDS, Romag, Berto, Monto, Bona. The spine of the team.

Not really a shock we're so bad.

I was laughed at for saying this a few months ago. When I said I'd rather pick from the French pool of talent in midfield than Italy's

But fact is, the only shining light for Italy right now is Veratti, when in the past it was littered from front to back with world class talent.

Sure there are even good or great players in the Azzurri set-up nowadays like Marchisio, Chiellini, Darmian, De Rossi and maybe even Buffon still. But no where near in the past where you had top world class talent all round, even on the bench when short sighted coaches couldn't manage to play both Del Piero and Totti at the same time.

The talent in Italy has completely dried up. Sure there are a couple here and there who are shining lights but the majority simply aren't good enough to wear the shirt.

I personally cringe at seeing the likes of Eder, Candreva, Pele, Bertolacci, etc playing for Italy

And btw, Berlu's bright idea was to have an ItalMilan, and we followed that to a T aside from the attack which as usual, under this regime, is always given special treatment

Imaging how I feel when I see the hacks that play for Brazil these days. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif) And the fudgers that coach them, that always give preferential treatment to players from big clubs in Europe, instead of of those with talent, effort and local fan following behind them.

Point being, Italy may be in a bad state right now, but Brazil is worse.