SERIE A: Campionato più bello del mondo

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Stendardo's move to Bologna has been put on hold while we wait for Inter...
Potential is best unleashed at Lazio, think Pandev
If Ledesma leaves, its Pele or who?? Manfredini?? I'll take Pele thanks

Can't see Mutarelli playing for Lazio again.

I told you Vieira & Figo, I'd throw in Dacourt but being ex Roma I won't offend

No offence but can you see Pandev being in our first 5 strikers? Good deal that one for both clubs.

I'd rather loan out Bolzoni rather than letting him play 3 coppa Italia games a a CL group stage game once qualification is assured.

[Napoli_Sempre]

Napoli have the potential to do well this season with some good signings. Top 10 is very possible even maybe top 5 pushing for UEFA

[Juventino]

Yep Napoli look the goods and should make the UEFA Cup. Give it another year and with some more quality buys it is a top 4 side.

[pires7]

What a goal to send Fiorentina to the CL!

[Piola]

Chievo (sorry north_side), aren't looking too flash. Early days but to me they look like a potential yo-yo side, too good for B, not good enough for A.

Lecce have done a bit better, Cacia is highly rated, Tiribocchi and Konan are both guns and I they also signed Caserta from Palermo, so had a more active mercato. Linked with some quality names, but nothing materialising.

Cagliari lost Foggia, big blow for them. Acquafresca needs to have another bumper year and maybe the joke Larrivey will do something this year when noone expects it?

Reggina, I hope they don't have their customary escape. There has to be a year when they bite the dust. For me, Corradi has a lot to do to replace Amoruso.

I told you Vieira & Figo, I'd throw in Dacourt but being ex Roma I won't offend

No offence but can you see Pandev being in our first 5 strikers? Good deal that one for both clubs.

I'd rather loan out Bolzoni rather than letting him play 3 coppa Italia games a a CL group stage game once qualification is assured.

Who will pay Figo's wages?? Vieira, yes even being a fan of 12th placed Lazio I will politely pass
Exactly the reason why players potential gets unleashed at Lazio.
Who were Behrami and Ledesma before Lazio? and was Rocchi in contention for a nazionale place at Empoli?
At what club did Oddo become a World Champion?

[FerrariTifosi27]

Chievo (sorry north_side), aren't looking too flash. Early days but to me they look like a potential yo-yo side, too good for B, not good enough for A.

Lecce have done a bit better, Cacia is highly rated, Tiribocchi and Konan are both guns and I they also signed Caserta from Palermo, so had a more active mercato. Linked with some quality names, but nothing materialising.

Cagliari lost Foggia, big blow for them. Acquafresca needs to have another bumper year and maybe the joke Larrivey will do something this year when noone expects it?

Reggina, I hope they don't have their customary escape. There has to be a year when they bite the dust. For me, Corradi has a lot to do to replace Amoruso.

Right about Corradi, yes he does have big shoes to fill after Amoruso leaving. I think our squad is looking like one of the best sides we've ever had. Our squad is just about set. A trident of Brienza, Corradi & Stuani will be a big hit this season. Stuani has been on fire in pre-season, he is looking promising for this season. Barreto will pick up from where he left off. Our side is looking the goods. I'm hoping for a 10-13th finish fingers crossed.

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Who will pay Figo's wages?? Vieira, yes even being a fan of 12th placed Lazio I will politely pass
Exactly the reason why players potential gets unleashed at Lazio.
Who were Behrami and Ledesma before Lazio? and was Rocchi in contention for a nazionale place at Empoli?
At what club did Oddo become a World Champion?

Problem is when you don't consolidate. Napoli & Fiorentina have managed to keep players and bring in, while your still selling it's near impossible to move forward.

Not Lazio's fault they had to break the bank to compete against 12 man Juve

Don't forget Dabo was unveiled by Inter during our dark days

[Juventino]

Right about Corradi, yes he does have big shoes to fill after Amoruso leaving. I think our squad is looking like one of the best sides we've ever had. Our squad is just about set. A trident of Brienza, Corradi & Stuani will be a big hit this season. Stuani has been on fire in pre-season, he is looking promising for this season. Barreto will pick up from where he left off. Our side is looking the goods. I'm hoping for a 10-13th finish fingers crossed.

I think there is too many sides better than Reggina for them to get close to tenth. 13th would be probably as high as you'd get I think.

[FerrariTifosi27]

Right about Corradi, yes he does have big shoes to fill after Amoruso leaving. I think our squad is looking like one of the best sides we've ever had. Our squad is just about set. A trident of Brienza, Corradi & Stuani will be a big hit this season. Stuani has been on fire in pre-season, he is looking promising for this season. Barreto will pick up from where he left off. Our side is looking the goods. I'm hoping for a 10-13th finish fingers crossed.

I think there is too many sides better than Reggina for them to get close to tenth. 13th would be probably as high as you'd get I think.

Yeah true, thats what I'm hoping for. I think this season is going to be the most competitive. Then the season's on and on will get better and better.

[Translator]

What a goal to send Fiorentina to the CL!

and sweeter still it was at Milan's expense

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eBhKYMYqo8

Great round of football that one

[Piola]

Problem is when you don't consolidate. Napoli & Fiorentina have managed to keep players and bring in, while your still selling it's near impossible to move forward.

Not Lazio's fault they had to break the bank to compete against 12 man Juve

Don't forget Dabo was unveiled by Inter during our dark days

Napoli and Fiorentina have money, don't forget their debts were wiped in relegation, we survived but our debts will take over 2 decades to completely pay off.

Juve had 13 men if you also include EPO, but then again even Moggi found himself second best to the one and only God one rainy summer day in Perugia

Dabo, I have much respect.

[Juventino]

Juve had 13 men if you also include EPO, but then again even Moggi found himself second best to the one and only God one rainy summer day in Perugia

Lazio with their 12th man Collina - makes us play on an unplayable surface!

[Translator]

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Napoli and Fiorentina have money, don't forget their debts were wiped in relegation, we survived but our debts will take over 2 decades to completely pay off.

Juve had 13 men if you also include EPO, but then again even Moggi found himself second best to the one and only God one rainy summer day in Perugia

Dabo, I have much respect.

or you could say 1 man and 11 mutants

Dabo impressed me when we played Lazio last season, guy played like he was possessed against us, he went missing for a while.

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Juve had 13 men if you also include EPO, but then again even Moggi found himself second best to the one and only God one rainy summer day in Perugia

Lazio with their 12th man Collina - makes us play on an unplayable surface!

Collina is only a man, why should he intervene in God's will

[Piola]

Juve had 13 men if you also include EPO, but then again even Moggi found himself second best to the one and only God one rainy summer day in Perugia

Lazio with their 12th man Collina - makes us play on an unplayable surface!

Collina is only a man, why should he intervene in God's will

gotta love Collina

when he retired - "yes I must admit it... I am a Lazio fan"
during the last season, Lazio are struggling badly - "ah you must remember. I only supported them as a boy. The media runs with the propaganda that I am a Lazio fan".


Dabo, moved to Citeh cause he wanted to play EPL. OK left on good terms, then gained respect taking a massive pay cut to play for Lazio and played well. Top professional, very popular. If he was a white Italian, he'd be up there with Rocchi and Lorenzo.

[Piola]

for Montalbano. I know he's not a fan of C4 opinions....

“European giants Inter…” You’ve all read it, some of you would have heard it and I’ve probably even typed it in the past. But how accurate is such a term when referring to Internazionale? There’s no real right or wrong answer of course, given that we are dealing with personal definition here, but it’s a question that does highlight how little the Nerazzurri have done in the Champions League over the years.

While fans and officials from the San Siro outfit will proudly and rightly point to the two European Cups which they lifted successively in 1964 and ’65, the Coppa Campioni has since become something of a taboo for Inter. Although they are now regular participants in the competition, their semi-final tie against city rivals Milan in 2003 was their first appearance in the last four since defeat to Real Madrid 22 years earlier.

That’s not exactly a record to be proud of. Granted, they have actually won the trophy, but that double triumph alone shouldn’t guarantee giant status. After all, you don’t exactly see Nottingham Forest – champions in 1979 and ’80 – hailed in such terms. Okay, that’s an unfair comparison given their domestic slump since relegation under Cloughie, but the likes of Aston Villa, Porto, Borussia Dortmund and Hamburg have all been more recent winners than Inter.

The expansion of the Champions League should, in theory at least, have helped Inter to live up to their supposed international pedigree, but it hasn’t. If anything it has weakened their standing. With the Scudetto no longer needed as a passport to Europe’s top prize, the UEFA Cup specialists [Inter won it three times in the 1990s] would have been expected to make a number of serious assaults funded by Massimo Moratti’s millions.

It’s never really happened. Putting 2003 to one side – as they ludicrously lost to Milan on the away goals rule in a stadium they share – Inter have been one of the tournament’s serial under-achievers as the recent painful defeats to Villarreal, Valencia and Liverpool help to illustrate. Perhaps then it’s not surprising that they opted to replace Roberto Mancini this summer with Jose Mourinho, a man whose recent history in the competition is more impressive than that of his employers.

So are Inter European giants? It’ll probably be more precise to call them sleeping giants for now. But as they re-emerged on the Serie A scene with a hat-trick of Scudetti following a 17-year title drought – they are undoubtedly Italian giants today – this may just be the year that they wake on the continent too.

European giants Inter? What's the spanish word for yes??

[Translator]

for Montalbano. I know he's not a fan of C4 opinions....

Pretty sure Channel 4 write a similar article questioning how Inter could be called Italian giants a few years back, hopefully they bring the same luck

not a fan of any ones opinion in the media

fair enough if they've played the game in the league they're commenting about but journo's today are majority shock jocks with no class or integrity.

[King Henry Returns]

silly article

[Juventino]

Just been watching seaosn highlights 2001/02 and that was a great season. Not just for the ending (as good as it was ) but there was some real quality there. Three teams fighting for Lo Scudetto until the last match and a title race that swung every which way throughout the season and then of course the Chievo story.

Great season, good football played, some real stars of the game active and with good crowds. Still was not as good as the glory days of say 10 years earlier, but I would love to see another season like that one in 08/09 (wouldn't mind another ending like that ).

[Police Deputy Mitch]

I think Fiorentina will win the title, Torino will finish second, Genoa third and Sampdoria fourth... Udinese and Napoli will get Uefa Cup

[ForzaChievo]

Chievo (sorry north_side), aren't looking too flash. Early days but to me they look like a potential yo-yo side, too good for B, not good enough for A.

We all know you are not sorry

[King Henry Returns]

Just been watching seaosn highlights 2001/02 and that was a great season. Not just for the ending (as good as it was ) but there was some real quality there. Three teams fighting for Lo Scudetto until the last match and a title race that swung every which way throughout the season and then of course the Chievo story.

Great season, good football played, some real stars of the game active and with good crowds. Still was not as good as the glory days of say 10 years earlier, but I would love to see another season like that one in 08/09 (wouldn't mind another ending like that ).

I remember a chievo banner reading ' come si scrive campions lig? ' Luckily Milan made it though and went on to win it the following year!!

Anyway this post made me think about the many grand seasons of old. What is your favourite Serie A season? Yes I could/should make a new thread, but what can you do.

As a supporter of the Rossoneri there are many great seasons to choose from, but my favourite season does not come from any of Milans ‘golden years’ the season im talking about is one that im sure Il Duce as well as other Laziale will remember fondly

After two disastrous seasons, Milan were outsiders and not really given a chance to win this scudetto, and on paper the squad was somewhat average compared to the Milan of old.

I shall spare all the details and go on to the final games…

With a head to head game Milan played Lazio at the olimpico, the game finished 0-0 and Lazio with 7 games left and 7 points in the clear were looking like they would finally repeat their victory of 1974. (Please keep in mind this was the awesome Lazio team, one of the best teams in the world at the time.)

In the remaining games Milan went on to win them all defeating Parma, Udinese, Vicenza, Sampdoria, Juve, Empoli and then Perugia on the final day

While Lazio slipped up against rivals Roma, Juve and then Fiorentina giving away top spot to Milan.

The final ladder is also interesting to look at and I wish times were still like this, so many quality teams..

Inter lost more games than they won!

1998/99 Thanks for the memories

1Milan
2Lazio
3Fiorentina
4Parma
5Roma
6Udinese
7Juventus
8Inter
9Bologna

Evidently im bored and have nothing better to do.

[Juventino]

1994/95 and 1997/98 are two great ones for me, but probably the one I do like the most was 2001/02. Great championship all the way through and what a finish.

[delfino_1936]

My favourite- 2005/2006 Serie B!!!
we were only 3 points off 6th play-off spot where Brescia finished during most of the year

with the likes of Jadid, Cammaratta and Matteini

[Translator]

easily 79/80 backed up by 81/82. To quote a Inter legend "once for totonero and once for free"

was the basis for the following classic:

MA MILANISTA CHE CAZZO CANTI
NELLA TUA MENTE I RICORDI NON SON TANTI
CI RICORDATE DEL 6-0
MA VI SCORDATE SERIE B E TOTONERO
PERCIO' RICORDA NELLA TUA TESTA
QUAND'ERI IN B TUTTA LA NORD FACEVA FESTA
TIFOSO PIRLA MA CHI MINACCI
PIU' CHE UNA CURVA SIETE UN GRUPPO DI PAGLIACCI
E MILAN MERDA MILAN MILAN MERDA

06/07 was classic, records galore and Juve in B made it sweeter than 88/89

[Piola]

2000 was the best, sandwiched between 2 unbelievable painful years, 99 and 01.