Serie A 2012/2013

[Ode to Django]

I know. i was talking to you

 

[XaviMessiGirl]

I know. i was talking to you

 

[Fishdoll]

So today's late thanks are due to former primavera captain Matteo Darmian. (FT Inter 2-2 Toro)

All in all a good footballing weekend for Milan.

 

[Sergio]

Yeah screw Inter, was about time their mediocre team was found out.

Anyway Niang was very impressive I thought. Didn't really rate him at first but he is steadily forming a good partnership with El Shaarawy, to the extent that Bojan and Robinho are just an annoyance upfront now.

 

[Raed]

Yeah screw Inter, was about time their mediocre team was found out.

Anyway Niang was very impressive I thought. Didn't really rate him at first but he is steadily forming a good partnership with El Shaarawy, to the extent that Bojan and Robinho are just an annoyance upfront now.

Inter were always going to go downhill, for sure was happening because that team has zero creativity. I am surprised others haven't taken more advantage, how we are hanging up high is still beyond me. One of the worst teams in the last ten games with only 3 wins. Strama shocked me with selling Coutinho, what a dumb move, instead of working on his diet they made him fat, like Cassano. I mean, there is about 10% Inter will get Paulinho, not more. I'd be surprise if they got him actually.

 

[XaviMessiGirl]

I have a feeling that Paulinho would flop, anyway. I have no clue why Moratti/Branca/Strama are so obsessed with trying to get this guy.

 

[Sergio]

Inter were always going to go downhill, for sure was happening because that team has zero creativity. I am surprised others haven't taken more advantage, how we are hanging up high is still beyond me. One of the worst teams in the last ten games with only 3 wins. Strama shocked me with selling Coutinho, what a dumb move, instead of working on his diet they made him fat, like Cassano. I mean, there is about 10% Inter will get Paulinho, not more. I'd be surprise if they got him actually.

Well I understand why Inter have to cost cut, as do Milan. But you have to question how wise it is to do it in the middle of the season. Milan bit the bullet in the summer when making the big sales, and suffered in the first half of the season for it. And yet are only 3 points behind Inter now and seem to have got the worst of their growing pains over with.

 

[Cule4life]

Inter's bubble was bound to burst sooner or later. You can only go so far with no creativity
Selling Coutinho in the middle of the season
Why this obsession with Paulinho? Betting all on an unproven Brazilian. How stupid can Inter get?

 

[Sergio]

Well I was never convinced by their bubble to begin with. For one it was built around Cassano and Palacio, two old, inconsistent has-beens. And even then their results were relying heavily on good fortune rather than good play (notice how their usual whining about referee's has mysteriously disappeared this season, even defending them in the papers today). And now in the new year we find there advantage of no European football more or less used up, their 2 most creative players gone, no replacements, the oldest squad in the league managed by a man with virtually no experience, and currently not even in the CL spaces. Hardly a great bubble was it?

 

[Fishdoll]

Gonna be some very unhappy bunnies in Turin in the next day or so. According to Gazzetta, the league is likely to come down hard on Juve for their post-match collective hysteria - the sporting director, coach and several of the players are likely to face fine/suspension. They were REALLY unhappy about a call and said some pretty unfortunate things about the ref (who they didn't complain about earlier this season when possible errors he made went in juve's favor).

 

[Alissa]

Nobody complains when errors go in their favor. You have got to love Gazzetta, a drama queen as usual!

 

[Fishdoll]

well, yeah. But Conte and the players went way overboard after the game based on the footage I saw on RAI. And Marotta's statements were definitely out of line (unless, of course, you're a hardline Lega Nord supporter).

 

[Alissa]

I totally agree that they went overboard and that they should be fined because of the unappropriate things they said. But sometimes I just have to laugh at people expecting the impossible only because it's Juve we are talking about. Yes they complain when errors don't go their way, which team doesn't? And yes they gladly accept it when the errors go their way, again, which team doesn't?

 

[Fishdoll]

True enough. I know our guys have at times gone too far. I think what surprised me about Saturday was that it was everyone from Marotta down to the substitutes complaining. Tbh, the Conte/players stuff is more along the understandable. What really bothered me was the ugly tone of what Marotta said.

 

[Fishdoll]

So the bans for Juve are:

Antonio Conte : 2 match ban and 10K fine
Leonardo Bonucci: 2 match ban and 10K fine
Giorgio Chiellini: 1 match ban and 5K fine (chiellini wasn't even suited up for the game. he came out of the stands to yell naughties at the ref)
Mirko Vucinic: 1 match ban (accumulation of cards)
Stephan Lichtsteiner: ditto
Giuseppe Marotta (Juve sporting director: banned from all football-related activities until February 18.
The Club as a whole: 50K fine