Transfers and rumours 08 09 section 3

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..The Bianconeri are in the market for an enterprising young full-back especially on the left flank and De Silvestri fits the bill....

bullshit. stupid journalists even doesn't know DeSilvestri position

Juve look to Lazio ace Wednesday 13 May, 2009

Lazio defender Aleksandar Kolarov is a new transfer target for Juventus, according to Press reports.

The Old Lady will look to galvanise the squad this summer in a bid to secure the Scudetto next term.

One position that needs reinforcement is left-back with Christian Molinaro out injured for around four months and Paolo De Ceglie's future still not certain.

According to Tuttosport, Juve are lining up Lazio man Kolarov after an impressive season from the Serbian.

The 23-year-old is versatile and can also help fill the gap on the left wing that Pavel Nedved's retirement will create.

A £7m price tag has been placed on Kolarov by the media, but Lazio chief Claudio Lotito is unlikely to be keen to sell him as he tries to build a winning squad.

Juve are also not expected to make any definite transfer swoops until they have decided who will lead the side next term.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/may13e.html

Ha ha, keep dreaming Juve...

Giolazio wrote:

Thanks for the info Cash.

I want us to invest in a young Italian defender over the summer. Portanova would be my reccommendation.

Portanova is 31 years old. Are we talking about the same Portanova? Besides, why invest in a young Italian defender if we already got Tuia and Cinelli?

Why buy Cruz as the 4th striker, if we could sell Inzaghi and bring Mendicino and Kozak to the first squad? Lazio's current problems are the centre of defence (Angeleri, Felipe) and lack of a good playmaker (Elano). Get these 3 players, bring in Zenga, Mancini or Ranieri as head coach and Lazio will be a perfect team, I promise. It's dead easy, but no, Lotito has to complicate it...

maybe u should talk to claudio and let u run things for a while

u seem to have the key to everything, i wonder y no one thought of it before.

Forza Lazio wrote:

Giolazio wrote:

Thanks for the info Cash.

I want us to invest in a young Italian defender over the summer. Portanova would be my reccommendation.

Portanova is 31 years old. Are we talking about the same Portanova? Besides, why invest in a young Italian defender if we already got Tuia and Cinelli?

Why buy Cruz as the 4th striker, if we could sell Inzaghi and bring Mendicino and Kozak to the first squad? Lazio's current problems are the centre of defence (Angeleri, Felipe) and lack of a good playmaker (Elano). Get these 3 players, bring in Zenga, Mancini or Ranieri as head coach and Lazio will be a perfect team, I promise. It's dead easy, but no, Lotito has to complicate it...

You seem to want to integrate our youngsters with the senior squad but in the same paragraph you mention that you want to have Ranieri as our coach! Ranieri whoo??? The one that wasnt able to integrate on of Italy's best youngsters to his senior squad and I'm talking about Giovinco here. The same coach that requested to sign Poulsen?

The guy wasnt able to build a winning squad with 100m in 2 years.. what would he do if he was given 70m in 4 years like Rossi was given.. at least Rossi managed to win something.

None want Mancini back! He has to big of an ego. Zenga is very much untested, like Rossi was, cant see much difference.

yesterday the press here in Romania mentioned that Lazio is interested in getting Mutu...i don't think this could happen...i pray it won't happen...

Boksic wrote:

Forza Lazio wrote:

Giolazio wrote:

Thanks for the info Cash.

I want us to invest in a young Italian defender over the summer. Portanova would be my reccommendation.

Portanova is 31 years old. Are we talking about the same Portanova? Besides, why invest in a young Italian defender if we already got Tuia and Cinelli?

Why buy Cruz as the 4th striker, if we could sell Inzaghi and bring Mendicino and Kozak to the first squad? Lazio's current problems are the centre of defence (Angeleri, Felipe) and lack of a good playmaker (Elano). Get these 3 players, bring in Zenga, Mancini or Ranieri as head coach and Lazio will be a perfect team, I promise. It's dead easy, but no, Lotito has to complicate it...

You seem to want to integrate our youngsters with the senior squad but in the same paragraph you mention that you want to have Ranieri as our coach! Ranieri whoo??? The one that wasnt able to integrate on of Italy's best youngsters to his senior squad and I'm talking about Giovinco here. The same coach that requested to sign Poulsen?

The guy wasnt able to build a winning squad with 100m in 2 years.. what would he do if he was given 70m in 4 years like Rossi was given.. at least Rossi managed to win something.

None want Mancini back! He has to big of an ego. Zenga is very much untested, like Rossi was, cant see much difference.

So, what do you advice? Not Ranieri, Not Manchini, Not Zenga. So, who??? Rijkard? Eriksson?

Kaiser - Jeff wrote:

Boksic wrote:

Forza Lazio wrote:

Giolazio wrote:

Thanks for the info Cash.

I want us to invest in a young Italian defender over the summer. Portanova would be my reccommendation.

Portanova is 31 years old. Are we talking about the same Portanova? Besides, why invest in a young Italian defender if we already got Tuia and Cinelli?

Why buy Cruz as the 4th striker, if we could sell Inzaghi and bring Mendicino and Kozak to the first squad? Lazio's current problems are the centre of defence (Angeleri, Felipe) and lack of a good playmaker (Elano). Get these 3 players, bring in Zenga, Mancini or Ranieri as head coach and Lazio will be a perfect team, I promise. It's dead easy, but no, Lotito has to complicate it...

You seem to want to integrate our youngsters with the senior squad but in the same paragraph you mention that you want to have Ranieri as our coach! Ranieri whoo??? The one that wasnt able to integrate on of Italy's best youngsters to his senior squad and I'm talking about Giovinco here. The same coach that requested to sign Poulsen?

The guy wasnt able to build a winning squad with 100m in 2 years.. what would he do if he was given 70m in 4 years like Rossi was given.. at least Rossi managed to win something.

None want Mancini back! He has to big of an ego. Zenga is very much untested, like Rossi was, cant see much difference.

So, what do you advice? Not Ranieri, Not Manchini, Not Zenga. So, who??? Rijkard? Eriksson?

Mancini is out of our League regarding wages, he didnt leave here on the best of relationships hence impossible of a come back.
Ranieri he's not suitable for our projects, big wages, he is not a top class coach cant see him doing better than Rossi is doing here. I cant remember Ranieri winning something.
Zenga has done well for Catania, he already had some good players there, he's hugely untested in the big stage. It wouldnt make sence to fire Rossi as he's not a big name coach and hire Zenga instead of him.

Unless we can afford a Respected coach who's experienced in european cups and is known to integrate youngsters well with his squad, then from the people mentioned untill now. Rossi is the best considering our situation.

is there a probability that mudingayi rejoin lazio he has biancocelsti s heart dabo is 33 he isint that young i be very happy if gabby join lazio

pazzolaziale93 wrote:

is there a probability that mudingayi rejoin lazio he has biancocelsti s heart dabo is 33 he isint that young i be very happy if gabby join lazio

I wish Mudingayi would return too mate, but I highly doubt it. He was sold for 6 million was it (?) less than a year ago to Bologna. If they get relegated then perhaps Lotito could resign him but its unlikely that would happen anyway.

But I also miss seeing Gaby in the middle of the pitch for Lazio....

Lotito on transfer market: Lotito è pronto ad acquistare due difensori centrali, almeno un centrocampista e un altro attaccante. Lotito is ready to buy two central defenders, one midfielder and another striker.



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Jofo wrote:

Lotito on transfer market: Lotito è pronto ad acquistare due difensori centrali, almeno un centrocampista e un altro attaccante. Lotito is ready to buy two central defenders, one midfielder and another striker.



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Exactly what we need. Which says to me Cribari, Stendardo, Mauri and Rocchi are gone.

Watching Tommaso's face after we won the cup, he's not staying. Reminded me of Mourinho's when he won the Champions League and then pissed off to Chelsea.

Tranquillo Barnetta Set To Leave Bayer Leverkusen....

http://www.goal.com/en/news/15/germany/2009/05/15/1266682/tranquillo-barnetta-set-to-leave-bayer-leverkusen


We can take him...and finally have someone who knows how to take corner kick!

Caxi wrote:

Jofo wrote:

Lotito on transfer market: Lotito è pronto ad acquistare due difensori centrali, almeno un centrocampista e un altro attaccante. Lotito is ready to buy two central defenders, one midfielder and another striker.



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Exactly what we need. Which says to me Cribari, Stendardo, Mauri and Rocchi are gone.

Watching Tommaso's face after we won the cup, he's not staying. Reminded me of Mourinho's when he won the Champions League and then pissed off to Chelsea.

well not sure if Rocchi is going to leave...if we can't manage to keep Pandev ( God forbid that! ). It's a good thing Lotito said those things.. it means he realizes where our problems are - as we have a good attacking trio, two good wing backs ( +2 LDS and Radu) and one of the best young GKs ( I include JPC in that number) - the only thing we lack is stability in the central defense and a classy midfielder. Yes we have Ledesma and Matu but they are inconsistent. I must admit that Ledesma did a hell of a game against samp!

Bobbi wrote:

pazzolaziale93 wrote:

is there a probability that mudingayi rejoin lazio he has biancocelsti s heart dabo is 33 he isint that young i be very happy if gabby join lazio

I wish Mudingayi would return too mate, but I highly doubt it. He was sold for 6 million was it (?) less than a year ago to Bologna. If they get relegated then perhaps Lotito could resign him but its unlikely that would happen anyway.

But I also miss seeing Gaby in the middle of the pitch for Lazio....

I admired Gaby but we have a much better player in Brocchi now. You couldn't doubt Mudi's passion but he couldn't pass to save himself and he gave away too many fouls. Brocchi has been class and his technical play has been none too shabby either.

It would be a shame to see Rocchi leave Lazio. But perhaps you are right Caxi.

As for Barnetta.... that would be a brilliant signing. He looks very good and is still young and developing but a lot of other clubs are after him too (Arsenal, Liverpool, etc. and I also think Rioma want him) so it will be difficult to sign him. Maybe Lotito should get Lichtsteiner to persuade him to join us?

we need 1 midfield ?? veron would be nice to cover matu + ledesma

Makinwa will be leaving not Rocchi.

Think about it, tough schedule with Europe, we'll have Zarate, Pandev, Rocchi, new striker + Mendicino/Kozak.

I doubt that capitano would leave and I think it'd be a disgrace if he did.

and then there's the rumour which says Lotito is considering signing 30-year-old prima punta Rolando Zarate (yes Maurito's big brother).

Nice touch but personally this sounds more like a "Digao" type signing and well outside Lotito's smart style. Full respect to the Ecuadorian league but I think we need to set our sights a bit higher, family relations or not.

Lotito apparantly declared that Pandev's contract will not be renewed and he is going to leave in summer so that we can pay Zarate...this would be really a bad deal...I mean I know that Zarate is a good player and that he raised our level this year from a middle class team to the Coppa Italia winner, but Pandev is at least as good...Pandev - Zarate next year is our future, we must keep them both...plus that Pandev is worth quite a lot (I would say 15-20 mil), but if he is going to leave on the back door we will get max 5-6 mil for him...plus that he will go to Juve and score 20 goals next year in Serie A and then Juve will sell him for 3-4 times more the money we got....
Zarate must be bought, but if that means Pandev will leave...then better not...

I did a poll regarding this over at The Offside where I asked if people would prefer Pandev or Zarate and the result was incredibly close.

If Pandev leaves and Zarate stays, I don't think people will mind too much. Pandev was close to signing a new deal but it mysteriously stalled. Latest rumour I've heard is that a swap deal with Fiorentina for Mutu is on the cards.

As for Ledesma, he looks set to stay.

Caxi wrote:

I did a poll regarding this over at The Offside where I asked if people would prefer Pandev or Zarate and the result was incredibly close.

If Pandev leaves and Zarate stays, I don't think people will mind too much. Pandev was close to signing a new deal but it mysteriously stalled. Latest rumour I've heard is that a swap deal with Fiorentina for Mutu is on the cards.

As for Ledesma, he looks set to stay.

I'd prefer none of the three left. Rocchi has been the symbol of the revival of the club since 2004 and bleeds Lazio, Pandev is on the way to becoming one of the most successful foreigners in Lazio history and Zarate has the potential to be one of the best players in the world.

I can't see that Pandev-Mutu deal being anymore than bullshit. Why would Goran swap Lazio for Firenze?? OK CL football and a bit more money but I think if he leaves he'll only leave for a real giant like Juventus, Bayern or Chelsea. and then why would Mutu give up CL and big $$ to come to Lazio??? If anyone here's been to Firenze they'll know how big a star he is there. Mutu in Roma, lets just say he's not very popular and he hasn't exactly got the best treatment from Curva Nord over his career....

I think we need to make as little changes as possible. The core of this team is very, very good. We need to keep them all, not just Pandev and Ledesma, but also Rocchi, De Silvestri, Foggia, Kolarov, Muslera.

IMO the only mercato work that needs to be done is letting guys like Bonetto and Manfre go and bringing in the key defenders and midfielder that we need. If we lose the guys that have been central to the team for the last 3-4 years, we'll ruin a good project.

I agree, this season has been brilliant from the perspective that we've learned so much about our squad.

Only thing I disagree with is Rocchi. He has disappointed me immensely this season, doesn't seem to be handling his bench role well, certainly not handling the captaincy well from where I'm sitting and this is a guy I know would jump ship to Juventus if they made a bid. For me, he's a hero of recent times but does not "bleed" Lazio and never will.

Caxi wrote:

I agree, this season has been brilliant from the perspective that we've learned so much about our squad.

Only thing I disagree with is Rocchi. He has disappointed me immensely this season, doesn't seem to be handling his bench role well, certainly not handling the captaincy well from where I'm sitting and this is a guy I know would jump ship to Juventus if they made a bid. For me, he's a hero of recent times but does not "bleed" Lazio and never will.

I'm a massive fan of Tommaso and so I'm biased but I just think he's pissed off at having a smelling as season and that smelling as season started right back at the Olympics when he copped that injury. That had him on the back foot right the way through and he could never really cement his spot or any good form because of it.

He probably expected better of himself and he's probably not happy that he missed the chance to be the real leader of the team, always in and out of the side.

I wouldn't hold anything against the guy, for me the fact that he's still managed to score the same amount of goals as Pandev just shows he hasn't lost his touch. I also reckon he can be a good influence on Mauro considering his experience in the game. The guy bleeds Lazio in that he was there when we were doing it tough and he bailed us out many many times. He's not Di Canio or Firmani but he has given a lot to this club and so I think it'd be wrong to sell him after one average year.

but I guess we'll just agree to disagree. calcio is a game of opinions.

I pretty much agree with that, only thing is, is it really a smelling as season with that injury ruining it, or is he a shadow of his former self?

Becuase I don't see the point in keeping this guy here for another 5 years. We're moving forward (hopefully) and he's going backwards by the looks of things. So what is the best solution? Letting him rot on our bench? That's the problem I have.