Transfers and Rumours Season 08/09

c. testa wrote:

Dainelli would be a great signing. remember we need extra strength in centre of defence. do you want to play another season with Cribari, Siviglia, Stendardo and Rozehnal??

after that sign the laziale Maurizio Domizzi and I believe we have a side that can finish top 5.

We have Radu, probably Moti. And Carrizo in goal, our defence is already twice as good as the one you're naming. Also people tend to forget that the transfer market only closes the 31st of August - there's time, negociations (with Palermo, Viola, Napoli) are happening on this very moment, let's be patient.

Dainelli is worst than Cribari, Rozenhal and Radu...
To be honest we are not linked with a decent central defender at the moment except Domizzi...
If we could sign him, would be great...
If not, just keep Siviglia as back-up...with Artipoli and Diakite...

In this moment our defence is one of the worst from Serie A.We have Radu and De Silvestri...anyone else,who's valuable?I don't know what to say about Rozehnal,my opinion is that he's not the best solution as a CB.We need two more valuable central defenders,who are better than the current defenders.(if we want to qualify for Europe)

nando wrote:

HITMAN wrote:

I dont care what nationality is player.as long as he is good.

Italian team doesnt look to have champions.now totti and nesta are gone.soon cannavaro materazzi and del piero...only cassano is fuoriclasse.
just look at spain.they have a lot of young and talented players.future is not looking so promesing...best defender in euro was chiellini???? come on....while england have terry and ferdinand...only in middlefield looks good I think with Pirlo and de rossi...

sorry I went off the subject

you obviously dont follow serie A then

who is the next italian riseing star??? cigarini..dessena? come on I have heard that cigarini goes to atalanta.inter are preatty smart.they buy best players no matter what nationality player is...and the result=3 scuddeto.
I remember once Mancini said: "right now there isnt that good italian players that we can buy.maybe de rossi but he isnt for sale!!!".they bought grosso and year later they offload him.maxwell is better.

maybe you are italian and you love italian players but I love more Lazio.and dont care what nationality player is.ofcourse Lazio is italian team but that is up to Lotito to buy italian player if he think he is good for us.

LaziOttimo wrote:

In this moment our defence is one of the worst from Serie A.We have Radu and De Silvestri...anyone else,who's valuable?I don't know what to say about Rozehnal,my opinion is that he's not the best solution as a CB.We need two more valuable central defenders,who are better than the current defenders.(if we want to qualify for Europe)

Rozenhal - he was first team player for Czech Republic at Euro, he played very good
Kolarov - good on the left, young
Cribari - i know u all say he is bad, but he is not...he had very good games for us, he has value
Siviglia - ok, he was bad last season, but at least he has experience and he can play as a backup
+ Radu and De Silvestri
...we have 6 good defenders.

+ if we lose Zauri (the 7th defender) we get Moti, who is also very solid.
+ we have Artipoli, Tuia, and Diakite from the young sector.

I know is nice to have another experienced defender, but it is not a real emergency like all of you try to say.

Last year we started without Rozenhal and Radu, with Cribari and Diakite injured and we managed ok.

21-22 years old ITALIAN players I would love to see in Lazio:
Ignazio Abate
Luca Cigarini
Domenico Criscito
Claudio Marchisio
Roberto Acquafresca
Daniele Dessena
Davide Lanzafame
Giuseppe Rossi
Nicola Pozzi
Andrea Russotto
Arturo Lupoli
Francesco Bolzoni
Alberto Paloschi

drazvan wrote:

21-22 years old ITALIAN players I would love to see in Lazio:
Ignazio Abate
Luca Cigarini
Domenico Criscito
Claudio Marchisio
Roberto Acquafresca
Daniele Dessena
Davide Lanzafame
Giuseppe Rossi
Nicola Pozzi
Andrea Russotto
Arturo Lupoli
Francesco Bolzoni
Alberto Paloschi

If Lotito thinks they are good he would bought one of them. Ofcourse Rossi is the best from the list but Lotito and Sabatini think that Zarate is better and I agree! marchisio and cigarini are intresting but it looks like they will bring better players then them.even if its a forigner

Forza Lazio

drazvan wrote:

LaziOttimo wrote:

In this moment our defence is one of the worst from Serie A.We have Radu and De Silvestri...anyone else,who's valuable?I don't know what to say about Rozehnal,my opinion is that he's not the best solution as a CB.We need two more valuable central defenders,who are better than the current defenders.(if we want to qualify for Europe)

Rozenhal - he was first team player for Czech Republic at Euro, he played very good
Kolarov - good on the left, young
Cribari - i know u all say he is bad, but he is not...he had very good games for us, he has value
Siviglia - ok, he was bad last season, but at least he has experience and he can play as a backup
+ Radu and De Silvestri
...we have 6 good defenders.

+ if we lose Zauri (the 7th defender) we get Moti, who is also very solid.
+ we have Artipoli, Tuia, and Diakite from the young sector.

I know is nice to have another experienced defender, but it is not a real emergency like all of you try to say.

Last year we started without Rozenhal and Radu, with Cribari and Diakite injured and we managed ok.

In this case we can seriously candidate for the 12th place once again.From these defenders,in my opinion,only De Silvestri is at Lazio's level.
Kolarov has no experience,you can't count on him,only if he'll play more.He has potential and if he will have the chance he will show his real value.
Rozehnal needs to play more and after that we can say if he can succeed or not.What I saw at Euro08,I think he can't play at Serie A level.I hope I'm wrong...
Cribari:no comment.In my opinion he's a substitute.
Siviglia has done more for us,but it's time to leave.I prefer young defenders from our Primavera.
Radu:he will be a good defender starting from this season,if he plays more
Zauri:I have no confidence in him.He was part of the first 11,but I think Rossi doesen't count on him anymore.
Moti:he needs at least one year in Seria to show his value.I have a feeling that he isnt' better than Siviglia in this moment.I know he's young and bla bla bla,but we'll see.
If we don't sign nobody,then I prefer the youngsters from our Primavera.I would be happy if in the forthcoming years I could see at least 4 players from our youths.We have values,that's a fact...
I say this opinion only in that case if we want to finish in the first 5,cause without solid signings we can't do anything.We don't need stars,we need players with heart and ambition,who knows what means "Lazio".

In my opinion Italy has plenty of young talents but the fact is that we cannot attract them to our club.
WE are not playing in our standards, not them are not in our standards.
And I think our defense now is good. It can be better, though, but I think we need to focus first on our midfield... we lack creativity...

Perhaps Cribari deserves another chance. In the 2006/07 season we had the best defensive record in Serie A or something like that. It can't all have been down to Peruzzi although he was amazing at times.

LaziOttimo wrote:

drazvan wrote:

LaziOttimo wrote:

In this moment our defence is one of the worst from Serie A.We have Radu and De Silvestri...anyone else,who's valuable?I don't know what to say about Rozehnal,my opinion is that he's not the best solution as a CB.We need two more valuable central defenders,who are better than the current defenders.(if we want to qualify for Europe)

Rozenhal - he was first team player for Czech Republic at Euro, he played very good
Kolarov - good on the left, young
Cribari - i know u all say he is bad, but he is not...he had very good games for us, he has value
Siviglia - ok, he was bad last season, but at least he has experience and he can play as a backup
+ Radu and De Silvestri
...we have 6 good defenders.

+ if we lose Zauri (the 7th defender) we get Moti, who is also very solid.
+ we have Artipoli, Tuia, and Diakite from the young sector.

I know is nice to have another experienced defender, but it is not a real emergency like all of you try to say.

Last year we started without Rozenhal and Radu, with Cribari and Diakite injured and we managed ok.

In this case we can seriously candidate for the 12th place once again.From these defenders,in my opinion,only De Silvestri is at Lazio's level.
Kolarov has no experience,you can't count on him,only if he'll play more.He has potential and if he will have the chance he will show his real value.
Rozehnal needs to play more and after that we can say if he can succeed or not.What I saw at Euro08,I think he can't play at Serie A level.I hope I'm wrong...
Cribari:no comment.In my opinion he's a substitute.
Siviglia has done more for us,but it's time to leave.I prefer young defenders from our Primavera.
Radu:he will be a good defender starting from this season,if he plays more
Zauri:I have no confidence in him.He was part of the first 11,but I think Rossi doesen't count on him anymore.
Moti:he needs at least one year in Seria to show his value.I have a feeling that he isnt' better than Siviglia in this moment.I know he's young and bla bla bla,but we'll see.
If we don't sign nobody,then I prefer the youngsters from our Primavera.I would be happy if in the forthcoming years I could see at least 4 players from our youths.We have values,that's a fact...
I say this opinion only in that case if we want to finish in the first 5,cause without solid signings we can't do anything.We don't need stars,we need players with heart and ambition,who knows what means "Lazio".

With Siviglia, Stendardo and Cribari we finished 3rd 2 years ago.
Give the team some confidence.
We can't count on Kolarov? Rozenhal needs to play more? Common, be serious!

some things need to be addressed within the squad before Lazio can improve on last season.

firstly, all this inner turmoil needs to be sorted. we could lose Stendardo, Foggia and Mauri over disputes with Lotito and Rossi. These guys have either played for Italy recently or have been on the verge of the squad. we need these players in the team, playing.

mauri has been hugely undervalued. he is a player with experience which we need.

yes, De Silvestri is a talent, but, you are missing the point. Zauri can improve De Silvestri's development, after all, Zauri is an ex-international, captian of the club, experienced, won trophies here, he can only improve and lead De Silvestri. It's the same with Kolarov too. Kolarov and De Silvestri are neither mature enough or disciplined enough to lead this side to a top 5 finish.

we may have come 12th in the end, but even with about 6 or 7 games left, fifth or sixth was not beyond us, considering the gaps some teams made up in that period. we could and maybe should have been top 5, but we were not, simply because situations were not handled well from last years mercato onwards. we got our man in Carrizo, maybe Ballotta should have stayed as he could have helped Carrizo adjust to Serie A. we also have Zartae who we need. a few of you are forgetting Rocchi's age and forgetting that in 2 or 3 years time, he cannot play in Lazio's first team, in fact, sonner or later, 90 minutes will be tough for him and if Pandev goes in the near future, who do we have in attack that we can rely on?

I feel we have made 2 crucial signings but it's no use if we get rid of the wrong players and keep playing some who shouldn't be in there. we can be a Top 4 side again, I do believe that, but, Inter, Roma, Juventus, Fiorentina, AC Milan are a different class to us, we can join them if we make smart decisions, but Sampdoria look like they could pull ahead and I think Udinese, Palermo, Genoa and Napoli have the resources to as well. Therefore, with bad decisions being made again, we will struggle for a Top 10 place. Our future is in the hands of Lotito and Rossi.

I am with LaziOttimo 100% plus that for those defending Cribari let me remind all of you that he was playing alongside with one of Seire A best players and above all WC winners: Peruzzi and Oddo and that is all, once those guys left us we get illusioned that Cribari was the dark horse in our back line yet to discover he is a total burden! I still believe Siviliga is less worse than Cribari who can't make a single sliding tackle in all of career?

Moti? He is not a starter with his NT? I know that you will say Rdau, but Radu was called the new Chivu in Romania and that is sufficent to know that he is apotential signing on the opposite I dont call our romanian friends praised Moti before! Did they?

As for Lorenzo learning from Zauri??? Are u really serious Caxi! Zauri was called for 1 game against Serb during Trap era and that is the summry of his record with Azzuri not to forget that a player like Zaccardo who is 100 times better than Zauri played with the Azzuri and won the WC to! does that make a him a player to follow! Not to mention Zauri's reord is full of bookings, and above all he is an average and limited player that does not have any chirsma to lead a club like Lazio or to be the role model in the youth eyes.

Domizzi? i cant judge on him simply beccause I didnt watch Napoli games last year, as for Rozehnal he did well in the EURO but it is not neccessary must that he will replicate his performance with us! Dellas was the best defender in EURO 04 before and yet he was a flop in Serie A!

Italy is full of talents and it would take days for me to post them! Those who will play in China next month are true talents that even Pirlo was not that superup when was in their age!

I hate to inform you that most Italian players would choose other mediocre sides like Genoa and Napoli over Lazio simply because they are more likely to be in Europe in 3/4 years time because they have the resources. we cannot get the young Italian talents for this reason, hence we are trying to recruit Romanians and Argentines.

you sound like you are feeding off past glories and also that you have forgotten them. Zauri has been at the club for longer than the vast majority of our squad, he's had success and he's experienced. Rocchi is the same however he would be off to Juventus tomorrow if they put in a bid. Loyalty, it's what the laziale pride themselves upon.

you also forgot that Zaccardo was dropped from the WC first team as he was inexperienced and made mistakes and what country is he playing in? Yeah, exactly.

Zauri has played not once but 5 times for Italy, if I'm not mistaken.

I think the defense is not as bad as most people make it out to be. It could use a new player or 2 in it. A central defender would be nice. I also hope Lazio hold onto Stendardo as he is a good player and although falling out with Rossi last season, I really dont want to see him leave us. Please Lotito keep him here!

Domizzi is the central defender I would most love to see at Lazio this coming season. I am not too sure about Dainelli. The season before he was good and I think was called up to the Italian NT but last season was not his best. At 29 I would be keen to give him a go at Lazio - even on a loan. Regarding Zauri I know he did not have the best season last time around, but neither did most of the squad. He does have experience and has been at Lazio for several years now. I think Rossi should hold onto him for this season. He is versatile and bar last season he has always had a good impact on the team as is versatile and a leader. Rozehnal had a good EURO but unfortunately it is unknown whether he can translate that success into Serie A quality. I think he can, but will need time. Siviglia and Cribari are also worth keeping hold off in my opinion. I think the defense this season will not be as bad as last seasons so I have faith in the squad but I feel as though one more addition at the back could prove very effective. Domizzi is my favourite!

But there is still time, nearly 2 months of the mercato left so I am confident with the progress made so far!

Looks like Zauri left us and he signed with Fiorentina for 3.5 mil. Hope that this is true.. we got rid of one useless player (for us at least..he didnt showed in the pitch that he rather stay on bench then on the field..and this isnt a player who can be captain of Lazio).

No..i didnt praised Moti (since Laziphilic said that romanians didnt praised him) ..and i really believe that Lazio is too big for him. Although..he`s an interesting guy..i just don`t see the potential in him like i saw/see in Radu.

I just can't believe Zauri is going, for me, this is the first bad decision of the mercato. A 30 year-old defender, who should be reaching his peak, who played for Italy, who was loyal to his club, who won silverware, who was the club captain, who scored a few vital goals is being sold for 3.5 million to...OH, a Champions League side, that competition we used to be in. this is just ridiculous. people said he has had a bad season. ONE bad season that he was mostly injured for, ONE bad season that pretty much everyone in the team had.

Of course, most Lazio fans would like to see him go and be replaced as captain by Tommaso Rocchi, a guy who refused to stay at Lazio demanding more money at a time when we couldn't afford it, a guy who is Juve through and through, a guy who is 30 and won't be in the side in 2 years time (unless we are in Serie B), a guy who deputised as captain for a vast amount of games last season and managed to lead us to the remarkable heights of 12th.

Seriously guys, you really should rethink this whole captaincy thing. I don't mind that Rocchi wanted more money or even that he wanted to move, but, as far as I'm concerned, those facts should rule him out as a captaincy candidate. what kind of example does that attitude set to players like De Silvestri? yeah, Lorenzo, go to a bigger club if Lazio can't pay you enough or just keep complaining until they increase your wage. does anybody grasp my point?

I still want to see Rocchi at the club, but not as captain!!! forward players are generally the worst captains anyway.

Caxi wrote:

I hate to inform you that most Italian players would choose other mediocre sides like Genoa and Napoli over Lazio simply because they are more likely to be in Europe in 3/4 years time because they have the resources. we cannot get the young Italian talents for this reason, hence we are trying to recruit Romanians and Argentines.

you sound like you are feeding off past glories and also that you have forgotten them. Zauri has been at the club for longer than the vast majority of our squad, he's had success and he's experienced. Rocchi is the same however he would be off to Juventus tomorrow if they put in a bid. Loyalty, it's what the laziale pride themselves upon.

you also forgot that Zaccardo was dropped from the WC first team as he was inexperienced and made mistakes and what country is he playing in? Yeah, exactly.

Zauri has played not once but 5 times for Italy, if I'm not mistaken.

Napoli and Genoa are medicore sides! The same 2 clubs that promoted last year from Serie B and finished a head of us! This is really strange! Napoli finished off Milan CL hopes last year when they have nothing to play for while we lost by 5 at home! Eh?

Without going far away, Marchisio and Rusotto said they will be happy and proud to join us this summer not to forget that we are keeping the eye on Dessena to! We are not competing with the northen sides to sign them but the likes of Palermo, Napoli and Viola instead! Just give me 1 offer from Lotito for any of those young talents and they turned it down for the sake of others and I will stop arguing with u.

Zauri just won the Coppa Italia in his 1st season with us were he was a bench player even in this competiton! And I think you know that Dabo is also brought from Atalanta in the same deal that saw Zauri in! we should not measure by how many years he was with us because that means both Inzaghi and Baronio who were in the club years before Zauri should be a head of him and ironically they won alot vs him! I will not say he is experienced player, because he only feature in Serie A plus few games in the CL! I cant find a word to describe the likes of Favalli, Negro and Pancaro if Zauri is called experienced because I think it will be an insult to them to be on bar with Zauri who is the only player or Capitan who came in and will go out without noise or attention and I am quite sure he will not be missed with all my due repect to him of course i!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was only Peruzzi in the last years we all should learn from him, a true legend in and off the bitch, I though Behrami is going on the same bath just to get shocked by his attitude to leave the club in the way he is currently doing! Last year I saw only Pandev, Lorenzo, Radu, Behrami and Dabo worth to wear our jersey.

Now i read that is Rocchi`s fault that we ended on 12th position =)))))))))) that was the best bad joke i have read in my life. If we didnt had Rocchi`s devotion and fighting spirit..now we were in serie B.
Some guys around here really have some macabre sense of humor.. i mean we had 2-3 players who fought all by themselves for this colours ..and ended on 12th with that joke that we called "a team" .. with Zauri included.

drazvan wrote:

With Siviglia, Stendardo and Cribari we finished 3rd 2 years ago.
Give the team some confidence.
We can't count on Kolarov? Rozenhal needs to play more? Common, be serious!

Be serious man....What kind of championship was that?With point reductions and so on.It had been a disaster for us if we couldn't finish in that place.We could say that there were only 5 competitive teams then.I don't say that we weren't playing a good football,but after Juve came back to Serie A,and there were no point reductions where were we?
How could Stendardo play for us if Rossi doesn't want him?!And when we are beaten by Serie B teams don't say to me that we need confidence.Confidence you must have when you play the big teams,not teams like Catania,Reggina and so on.Why do you think Udine gave us Cribari?Cause he was to good for them?
And in this moment we cannot count on Kolarov.I don't say that he hasn't got value,but he must have at least 1 year experience in Serie A.If we don't strenghten the midfield and the defence,probably then we'll finish on the 8-10 place.(only cause now we have Carrizo)
And regarding Rozehnal:I don't say that he isn't valuble,but if he's so good,then the Czech Rep.should not be eliminated by Turkey(from 2-0),and Newcastle would keep him.The same story when he was at PSG.
In this moment I would prefer players with Serie A experience.And I say once again:we don't need stars,we need players with heart.The reality is if we don't sign at least 1! CB we could say bye bye to Europe.

LaziOttimo wrote:

drazvan wrote:

With Siviglia, Stendardo and Cribari we finished 3rd 2 years ago.
Give the team some confidence.
We can't count on Kolarov? Rozenhal needs to play more? Common, be serious!

Be serious man....What kind of championship was that?With point reductions and so on.It had been a disaster for us if we couldn't finish in that place.We could say that there were only 5 competitive teams then.I don't say that we weren't playing a good football,but after Juve came back to Serie A,and there were no point reductions where were we?
How could Stendardo play for us if Rossi doesn't want him?!And when we are beaten by Serie B teams don't say to me that we need confidence.Confidence you must have when you play the big teams,not teams like Catania,Reggina and so on.Why do you think Udine gave us Cribari?Cause he was to good for them?
And in this moment we cannot count on Kolarov.I don't say that he hasn't got value,but he must have at least 1 year experience in Serie A.If we don't strenghten the midfield and the defence,probably then we'll finish on the 8-10 place.(only cause now we have Carrizo)
And regarding Rozehnal:I don't say that he isn't valuble,but if he's so good,then the Czech Rep.should not be eliminated by Turkey(from 2-0),and Newcastle would keep him.The same story when he was at PSG.
In this moment I would prefer players with Serie A experience.And I say once again:we don't need stars,we need players with heart.The reality is if we don't sign at least 1! CB we could say bye bye to Europe.

I recommend you to watch again the game carefully, Rozehnal played brilliantly there.. none of the turks goals was his fault.. and he was good at PSG.. and the reason he was sold, of course, was money.. I don't really know what happened with him in Newcastle.. I think he was played in the wrong position if I'm not mistaken

Well, actually Zenit is offering us a lot of money for him (I forget how much), but Lotito and Rossi are still thinking about it.. that's why we're still looking for another CB..

You are repeating yourself once again guys!
We have decent defense. Not brilliant, but acceptable for the current moment.
Lotito and Rossi are trying to improve the situation, and I don't know what more do we want?
We don't need stars , we need players with heart.....Ok ,as if our players don't have such , what about Kolarov , De Silvestri , Radu, Rozehnal....They don't have heart , right ?
And stop reiterates you about these youngsters, as though they are our savers or something. We have enough young players in our squad and I believe you are clutching at a straw here. We can't rely on them to gain our Europe spot.

Apparently Lazio has bought Libor Kozak, 19 year old striker from Czech.

Lucky Strike wrote:

Apparently Lazio has bought Libor Kozak, 19 year old striker from Czech.

Who is he?? Is he good?

I searched his name... and nothing is in English

all I know that he is 193 cm (great.. we desperately need a towering striker! so bye Tare)

Scored 18 goals in 29 appearances at SFC Opava

and the member of Czech u-19 (4 app 3 goals!)

sounds like promising to me!!



Well, welcome Kozak!!

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