The Serie A Thread

[primax79 79]

  On 13/02/2014 at 12:51, BluesMaster said:

If you can win the league title under Benitez, then good for Napoli (even his rubbishness in the league has to end at some point) but don't be surprised if you don't. His record of having won no league titles or even challenging consistently for it every season (even Arsenal have done it better than Benitez's Liverpool) since leaving Valencia tells its own story.

In 90 years Napoli won 2 scudetti di serie A, 1 uefa league and 4 coppa Italia

We won the scudetti and uefa league with Maradona, before his arrival no team from the south of Rome never won anything in Italy

I say that to explain that it will be not so terrible for us not to win the europa league, we see a growing project and we are totally satisfied of this, we pretend a qualification to Champions League for next year and a good performance in this europa league

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  On 13/02/2014 at 13:02, primax79 said:

In 90 years Napoli won 2 scudetti di serie A, 1 uefa league and 4 coppa Italia

We won the scudetti and uefa league with Maradona, before his arrival no team from the south of Rome never won anything in Italy

I say that to explain that it will be not so terrible for us not to win the europa league, we see a growing project and we are totally satisfied of this, we pretend a qualification to Champions League for next year and a good performance in this europa league

Your team that faced us in the Champions league was a team that would have won the scudetto with a little investment.

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  On 13/02/2014 at 14:12, Roquila said:

Your team that faced us in the Champions league was a team that would have won the scudetto with a little investment.

We had the maximum of the grow With mazzarri, he can train only italian speaking players, he plays only only 5-3-2, and he can focus only on one competition at time (we arrived 5th in Campionato that year, focusing only on champions)

Our plan was to build a team with Benitez around Cavani, but he decided to leave and with his 64 millions of euros nets we bought higuain, Albiol, callejon and Mertens

I think that this team is really stronger that the one played against Chelsea, and has bigger grows prospect

[Roquila 1,335]

  On 13/02/2014 at 14:17, primax79 said:

We had the maximum of the grow With mazzarri, he can train only italian speaking players, he plays only only 5-3-2, and he can focus only on one competition at time (we arrived 5th in Campionato that year, focusing only on champions)

Our plan was to build a team with Benitez around Cavani, but he decided to leave and with his 64 millions of euros nets we bought higuain, Albiol, callejon and Mertens

I think that this team is really stronger that the one played against Chelsea, and has bigger grows prospect

Lavezzi,Cavani,Hamsik,Inler was so deadly everybody would love to have an attack of these 4. Maybe you are a better team now but that time you were really deadly, but yea, a better manager would have done better. I still think Mazzari would have done better if he had the money Benitez had during the summer.

[primax79 79]

  On 13/02/2014 at 14:51, Roquila said:

Lavezzi,Cavani,Hamsik,Inler was so deadly everybody would love to have an attack of these 4. Maybe you are a better team now but that time you were really deadly, but yea, a better manager would have done better. I still think Mazzari would have done better if he had the money Benitez had during the summer.

We were looking for Mertens and Callejon already 2 years ago, but Mazzarri refused them because they didn't speak Italian

You can have how many money you want, but if you look only to players playing in serie A you can never grow

Benitez had this money because we sold Cavani, so ok he had a big budget but he loses the bigger to player Napoli had after Maradona

Mazzarri had 30 millions when we sold Lavezzi, we bought Mesto, he was looking for Bianchi, refused Mertens and callejon

We bought Vargas, 12 millions of euros, 2nd best South American player behind Neymar, and Mazzarri let him play maximum 5 minutes at the end of matches, because he didn't speak Italian

Watch now Mazzarri at inter, without a top level player like Cavani

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Balotelli

That was just ridiculous!

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

  On 14/02/2014 at 21:50, iceboy said:

WOW Balotelli

  On 14/02/2014 at 21:55, CHOULO19 said:

Balotelli

That was just ridiculous!

DAYUM SON.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Someone actually topped Balotelli's goal and in the same weekend as well!

[kellzfresh 7,229]

That's the difference between a team with finishers and another without. Milan had 7 clear chances and don't score juve lead with their only attack in the first half.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Not sure if Asamoah or Roanldinho...

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  On 09/03/2014 at 12:20, CHOULO19 said:

Not sure if Asamoah or Roanldinho...

Definitely Asamoah, because Ronaldinho would never play for a shit club like Juve!

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  On 09/03/2014 at 12:40, Rmpr said:

Definitely Asamoah, because Ronaldinho would never play for a shit club like Juve!

I'd never want him there, anyway

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Better view of that, addictive!

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[Nero e azzurro 13]

  On 13/02/2014 at 14:57, primax79 said:

We were looking for Mertens and Callejon already 2 years ago, but Mazzarri refused them because they didn't speak Italian

This is false.

So why Napoli picked up Rolando from Porto?

Don't hate Mazzarri just because he preferred Inter to Napoli, come on.

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  On 01/04/2014 at 16:17, Nero e azzurro said:

This is false.

So why Napoli picked up Rolando from Porto?

Don't hate Mazzarri just because he preferred Inter to Napoli, come on.

Tbf, Napoli fans hated Mazzarri long before he left. At least the ones I know. I remember when we played Napoli in the CL and had tens of them here and they kept saying how shit he is.

[Nero e azzurro 13]

  On 01/04/2014 at 16:28, CHOULO19 said:

Tbf, Napoli fans hated Mazzarri long before he left. At least the ones I know. I remember when we played Napoli in the CL and had tens of them here and they kept saying how shit he is.

Many Inter fans are hating Mazzarri, too, but they don't invent that Mazzarri didn't want Bale because he doesn't speak italian... it would be ridiculous...

Mazzarri drove Napoli to last sixteen of Champions league after 20 years and won the first match against Chelsea with Cavani, Hamsik and many mediocre players. This is what I know.

I think Mazzarri is a good coach, he has never been kicked out from previous presidents, but at Inter there are many works in progress now, it is difficult to manage that team, too many old players and other mediocres besides... On the last years many good coaches have failed in Inter... there will be a reason behind...

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  On 01/04/2014 at 16:17, Nero e azzurro said:

So why Napoli picked up Rolando from Porto?

Rolando is so much brighter than he looks he's not a dumb guy and Italian is a walk in the park for him coming from Portuguese. Maybe he doesn't absolutly expect it but I think he does put demands on players learning Italian, even Kovacic is learning a bit but still a lot better than than many non-English speakers in the league (remember Diarra ). He may have a point on the language thing

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  On 01/04/2014 at 16:49, Nero e azzurro said:

Many Inter fans are hating Mazzarri, too, but they don't invent that Mazzarri didn't want Bale because he doesn't speak italian... that's quite ridiculous...

Mazzarri drove Napoli to last sixteen of Champions league after 20 years and won the first match agaisnt Chelsea with Cavani, Hamsik and many mediocre players. This is what I know.

I think Mazzarri is a good coach, he has never been kicked out from previous presidents, but at Inter there are many works in progress now, it is difficult to manage that team, too many old players... On the last years many good coaches have failed... there will be a reason behind...

Got absolutely no idea about Bale, but it's hard to imagine him or anyone turning Bale down.

How would you say he's done at Inter so far? I don't think he's completely failed, but I can't say that he's been a success either.