Leonel Vangioni Thread

Mario · Oct 24, 2014

Rocco has identified him as a possible reinforcement when he was in South America earlier this month.
SKY and GDS reported Milan are very interested and this week SKY said Milan have officially approached River and are expecting a response on the price etc.
He has Italian citizenship.
Seems to be a genuine interest.

@Milanello Oct 17
Video: Leonel Vangioni's goals and skills for River Plate:

Armero must have left a very bad impression on Pippo & co. if they want to sign a LB.

Mario · Nov 14, 2014

Update: @MilanEye Milan haven't closed the deal for Vangioni yet, but the interest is conrete and contacts are ongoing. #Sky

Rumors were that River set a 5-7m price tag on him.

edit: Looks like this is another bs from Milan eye, its not on milannews or gdm website

milanator · Nov 15, 2014

27 yo still not playing in Europe, doesn´t sound great to me. I don´t know him but from his CV I rather have Pasquale, although Pasquale is simply to old to be signed as FB.

ForzaSandro · Nov 16, 2014

Somehow Europeans think everyone must play their football in that island. Thank God for Pelle.

Soldier_of_god · Nov 16, 2014

dint know graziano pelle played in south america.

Benz_1803 · Nov 16, 2014

wonderful latinos rock music...

okay serious note: atleast they throw some heroic save and one tackle :rolleyes:

Sven · Nov 16, 2014

He will play two bad games and R&B will call him Leonel Vagina

Dawn · Nov 21, 2014

Loan with option to buy only please :g:

Sod-Lod · Nov 21, 2014

Sven said:
He will play two bad games and R&B will call him Leonel Vagina

belloefamoso · Dec 1, 2014

he confirmed milan offer. did he play argentina national team?

Mario · Jan 12, 2016

Milan are working to sign Vangioni from River Plate in the summer, according to @DiMarzio

Would not mind him as Antonelli's back up. He'll be a free agent in the summer.

Ender · Jan 16, 2016

Wrong, wrong, wrong type of deal for us. I don't need to see highlights to know that at 90% he's not a player that can make the difference, probably not even Armero level.

He's being bought as a backup and is already 28 (will be 29 in May). You can't tell me that there is not a young player in Italy that would be at his level and most likely have a much smaller salary and a higher ceiling in terms of growth . Heck, even Calabria is probably not worse than him.

If we buy him, he'll either warm the bench until the end of time or be sold after a year to a turkish team after paying some extra money to end his contract sooner. Where did they get this guy, at Football Manager?

Wake the Dead · Jan 16, 2016

Those red are

VultureSheva · Jan 16, 2016

Mario · Jan 18, 2016

Galliani confirmed earlier today that Vangioni will join Milan. Remains to be seen whether he'll join now or in the summer

Hitman · Jan 18, 2016

Galliani said Vangioni is confirmed for the summer and he might even come in January but it depends on River Plate who we have a good rapport with.

Here's one of the better youtube videos I've seen of him:

But these two videos below are of very poor quality but they are each above 25 minutes... If anyone here has time to watch 50 minutes of Vangioni I'll attach the links. I must say that I just saw the first of the videos and I'm very impressed. He seems like he can defend well, attack very well, cross really well, shoot really well and most importantly has a lot of character. He could be one of the best free agents Galliani has picked up. He seems to definitely be better than all of our fullbacks combined. We should take any offer for De Sciglio and rotate the LB role between Antonelli and Vangioni if we have any ambition of returning to winning titles again.

The footage in the last couple of videos I haven't seen in any of his recent videos. It's worth the watch especially now that Galliani has confirmed the signing for the summer at the latest.

joyrider · Jan 18, 2016

29 yrs old in may 2016 :eek:

peak-era of a defender :g:

Hitman · Jan 18, 2016

joyrider said:
29 yrs old in may 2016

peak-era of a defender

reminds me of the Cafu/Pancaro signings. they were free and old but boy were they amazing deals.

xDxMxSx · Jan 18, 2016

Hitman said:
reminds me of the Cafu/Pancaro signings. they were free and old but boy were they amazing deals.

But we knew what was coming to Milan, now with this guy it's just weird.

benjamin · Jan 18, 2016

Same can be said for Barzagli and Rannochia. Let's get them too.

ykou · Jan 19, 2016

not convinced for this deal. might be another Mesbah

Sven · Jan 22, 2016

Always liked him in River Plate. He's a good player and he's gritty.

But not sure he's good enough to make impact in Milan specially coming to Europe at 29 and all that... Weird deal.

Anyway we need a new fullback. Send Calabria on loan for 2 or 3 seasons plz

necromancer · Jan 23, 2016

Milan has a history of older signings doing well in the fullback role. Cafu, Pancaro, Antonini, Favalli, Oddo, Jankulovski...Antonelli looks fine so far.. So I'm not that worried about age.

Much rather late twenties than Calabria, De Sciglio, Abate, Taiwo type youngsters without consistency.

Master Smurf · Jan 27, 2016

necromancer said:
Milan has a history of older signings doing well in the fullback role. Cafu, Pancaro, Antonini, Favalli, Oddo, Jankulovski...Antonelli looks fine so far.. So I'm not that worried about age.

Much rather late twenties than Calabria, De Sciglio, Abate, Taiwo type youngsters without consistency.

Hmmmmm

Abate was converted after years of Carlo saying no to him

Taiwo was supposed to be a beast and not a kid on his way up.

Antonini had one good season and then went to crap - How can you distinguish between his time here and De Sciglio.

Oddo , Favalli had better teams and limited chances.

But yes we need a competent player that will be consistent, regardless of age. Also him coming to a new league and a disjointed team cant be seen as a positive to be a calming effect at the back.

Seems to be a risk and the reason it still hasnt gone through (money of transfer is outweighing the upside)

Naraku · Jan 28, 2016

necromancer said:
Milan has a history of older signings doing well in the fullback role. Cafu, Pancaro, Antonini, Favalli, Oddo, Jankulovski...Antonelli looks fine so far.. So I'm not that worried about age.

Much rather late twenties than Calabria, De Sciglio, Abate, Taiwo type youngsters without consistency.

Highlighted are very dubious as " doing well" , Oddo was good for a while and Antonini was very serviceable for the most part .
Antonelli should be our starting LB no question for me with DeS as his back up.

How dare you forget to mention Zambrotta though!

A bad comparison but would you rather say Manuel Pasqual/ Vangioni or any of the younger guys you've mentioned ?
Vangioni ? IF he comes of course I hope he does well, but I have no faith in our South American system.

Ender · Jan 29, 2016

Risky move, worst fear is that I'm not sure how good he'll be defensively and how strong positionally and tactically he is. If he's bought to be a backup to Antonini, than this deal becomes even more confusing considering that we could have found a backup here in Italy that wouldn't need time to get familiar with Serie A, learn the language, settle down, etc.

Savo · Feb 1, 2016

******ed move. Absolutely pointless. Why buy this guy when we have a good number of SB's. Abate, Anto, DeS, and even Calabria should get mroe PT than this guy. If he does "work out" for us he'd be a like-for-like. Absolutely wrong thing to focus our attention on, but this is typical of Galliani, he just sees deals regardless of whether or not they're necessary. For us its time to look at #1: a top class CM like Verratti. #2 a top class CB. Other than that this team has very good coverage right now.

ykou · Feb 14, 2016

Savo said:
******ed move. Absolutely pointless. Why buy this guy when we have a good number of SB's. Abate, Anto, DeS, and even Calabria should get mroe PT than this guy. If he does "work out" for us he'd be a like-for-like. Absolutely wrong thing to focus our attention on, but this is typical of Galliani, he just sees deals regardless of whether or not they're necessary. For us its time to look at #1: a top class CM like Verratti. #2 a top class CB. Other than that this team has very good coverage right now.

exactly. maybe the plan is sign him and loan him out.

Birsaforever · Feb 14, 2016

It's a tactical signing.

On summer there will be a bid-war for Ricardo Rodriguez, then Wolfsburg will have a lot of money and no replacement for him, so they will panic buy Vangioni for 10ml.

voom · Feb 15, 2016

This signing is very good.Vangioni can be our new Serginho.To be in position for scudetto you need quality from the bench.

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