Italian Football Thread III

necromancer · Oct 10, 2014

benchod I think.

jammin · Oct 10, 2014

Bellend

Ha!

acm55 · Oct 10, 2014

http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method4/ccoef2015.html

Sod-Lod · Oct 10, 2014

Friday October 10 2014 Tavecchio: 'UEFA ban means nothing'

FIGC President Carlo Tavecchio insists the six-month UEFA ban for racist comments “makes no practical difference.”

The chief was handed a six-month ban from committees, but can still hold meetings and attended tonight’s Italy-Azerbaijan game in Palermo.

“Am I embarrassed by the ban? I want to repeat that investigations in Italy from the Federation, the CONI and FIFA found there was no need for action,” Tavecchio told Rai Sport.

“UEFA made this decision, but it makes no practical difference to me. I haven’t missed out on anything because of the ban.

“Will Italy be marginalised because of this? I want to remind everyone that UEFA assigned Italy the Euro 2020 quarter-final and Milan the 2016 Champions League Final.”

Dawn · Oct 10, 2014

Gandini

Champions League: AC Milan director wants Euro wildcards

AC Milan director Umberto Gandini believes Champions League wildcards should be introduced to ensure some of Europe's biggest clubs do not miss out.

Currently, the Premier League top three qualify automatically, with the side in fourth entering the play-off round.

In Italy, the top two go straight into the Champions League, with third going into the play-offs.

"I think we have to look at ways of improving the Champions League," Gandini told BBC World Service.

"I would like to see opportunities for wildcards or different routes for clubs who have the ability, the prestige or the size to compete in the Champions League."

However Uefa general secretary Gianni Infantino said this week that wildcards would never happen.

Manchester United and AC Milan, past winners of the Champions League, are not competing in this season's competition after finishing seventh and eighth in their respective leagues.

"Look at Italy for example, every year you have two teams qualifying directly and one to the play-offs, but you have Juventus, Milan, Inter, Roma, Napoli, Fiorentina and Lazio trying to play for the top three spots," Gandini said.

"In England now you have Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and Liverpool trying to qualify for the top four.

"Every year one two or three miss out and either play in the Europa League or have to go without European football."

Gandini said that revenue from European football is too important for clubs, adding: "Today we play a competition with 32 clubs, every season you have a fantastic run by underdogs who, say, get to the quarter finals. This is good for football.

"On the other hand there are more and more important clubs - important because of history and size - that miss out."

Mr. Milanista · Oct 10, 2014

Milan is Champions League so I definitely agree that there should be "wild cards" if Milan doesn't make it

vB9 · Oct 10, 2014

Dawn said:
Gandini

"I would like to see opportunities for wildcards or different routes for clubs who have the ability, the prestige or the size to compete in the Champions League."

We still dont make the cut.

Senatore_M84 · Oct 11, 2014

he's basically arguing some sort of intertoto cup format right?

Dawn · Oct 11, 2014

Mr. Milanista said:
Milan is Champions League so I definitely agree that there should be "wild cards" if Milan doesn't make it

yeah might as well give wildcard to Nottingham Forest, Feyenoord, Steaua Bucharest ... since they also won European Cup before :fp:

Dottore Joey · Oct 11, 2014

Stupid Idea.

necromancer · Oct 11, 2014

No secret plan, no backdoor entrance, simply a personal answer to a question on potential changes in future. Rules won't change in '15-'18

@umbertogandini

Ramzee · Oct 11, 2014

Sod-Lod said:
FIGC President Carlo Tavecchio insists the six-month UEFA ban for racist comments “makes no practical difference.”

He still does not get it :fp:

It's like he feels nothing wrong about what he said. Is this idiot with middle ages attitude the best Italy can appoint?

Mr. Milanista · Oct 11, 2014

Dawn said:
yeah might as well give wildcard to Nottingham Forest, Feyenoord, Steaua Bucharest ... since they also won European Cup before

no

joyrider · Oct 11, 2014

necromancer said:
benchod I think.

ninjammin said:
Bellend

Ha!

there must be something else

i guess he doesn't eat daal roti so he didn't say benchod

bellend, no!

Dawn · Oct 11, 2014

Mr. Milanista said:
no

AC FreeLoan wants a free ticket to play in the champions league. Soon, AC FreeLoan managers will ask UEFA or Seria A to give them some free trophies. They also look for a free stadium to play in.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1716/champions-league/2014/10/11/5174220/wildcards-would-improve-ucl-milan?ICID=TP_HN_1

Nottingham Forest FC - AC Milan in UEFA CL History section.

That's why it is called the champions league not history channel

Kalac#16 · Oct 12, 2014

Dawn said:
Gandini

Champions League: AC Milan director wants Euro wildcards

Translation: We have no real substantial ambition or plan, please let us ride on our past glories as we have for the last 5 years.

Jivara · Oct 12, 2014

Our directors are embarrassing

joyrider · Oct 12, 2014

Galliani gonna seduce uefa.

Gandini is just foreplay.

Mario · Oct 12, 2014

I call Montella to Napoli next season. Rafa won't be renewed.

Speculation in the media Thohir wants Moyes to replace Mazzari. Moyes will be at San Siro for Inter-Napoli. It's like Morratti never left :proud:

Eternal Presidente :proud:

Sod-Lod · Oct 12, 2014

Sonny.Bill.Williams · Oct 13, 2014

Pallotta ....

Meanwhile

Mario · Oct 15, 2014

Bologna were (offcially) purchased by some American guy.. says he has 60 million ready to invest into a new stadium

~

^ It's amazing how much Pallotta knows about each of his players starting from their background to character work ethics etc. Berlu probably can't name half of his team.

Sod-Lod · Oct 15, 2014

Wednesday October 15 2014 Tasers to be used in stadiums

The Italian Government passed new laws on stadium security, forcing clubs to pay for policing and authorising tasers.

The new law was passed today with a 164-109 vote, despite clubs protesting that it was an “illegal tax.”

Sides will now be asked to devolve between one and three per cent of the ticket sales per game to pay for extra policing on match days.

An even more controversial element of the law is the authorisation for police to use tasers inside stadiums.

However, the same party that passed the law also demanded the Government “regularly monitor the use of tasers and refer the results to Parliament within a year.”

Dinar · Oct 16, 2014

Price of Football calculator 2014

How much will you spend supporting your team this season?

This year's BBC Price of Football study found that the average price of the cheapest match-day ticket in the top four divisions of English football is up 4.4% from 2013.

The BBC contacted 207 clubs for the study. Of those, 176 were in England, Scotland and Wales and another 31 in Europe.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29527838

Lord Snow · Oct 16, 2014

Sonny.Bill.Williams said:
Pallotta ....

Meanwhile

Thank You for this,I read Soccernomics recently and that talked about how useful statistical analysis has been for baseball and how it has entered football recently everything.everything. Roma followed that system,the sort of "American" system that is used in Baseball/NBA etc.It is the way to go.

Other than that,We really do need someone like Sabatini.Give him 5 packs a day and make him with a projector and statistical data.

Tadej · Oct 16, 2014

amay said:
Thank You for this,I read Soccernomics recently and that talked about how useful statistical analysis has been for baseball and how it has entered football recently everything.everything. Roma followed that system,the sort of "American" system that is used in Baseball/NBA etc.It is the way to go.

Other than that,We really do need someone like Sabatini.Give him 5 packs a day and make him with a projector and statistical data.

Brad pitt followed to this system in the moneyball movie, at the end he failed.

Btw, i heard that many managers use it football manager in rl, when scouting the players.

General · Oct 16, 2014

Tadej said:
Brad pitt followed to this system in the moneyball movie, at the end he failed.

Btw, i heard that many managers use it football manager in rl, when scouting the players.

So 'money ball' didnt work eh?

necromancer · Oct 16, 2014

No matter what corporate decisions Roma took, they wouldnt have reached this stage without the Rudi Garcia signing. Primarily their rise is due to a very good coach.

And don't forget that they went for Garcia because Allegri turned them down.

joyrider · Oct 16, 2014

Exactly without garcia they would be shit.

And they also have a bigger transfer budget than us.

Mario · Oct 16, 2014

joyrider said:
Exactly without garcia they would be shit.

And they also have a bigger transfer budget than us.

with the Rudi appointment they hit the jackpot

as for their budget they spend more on the youngster that mostly dont even make the bench like paredes, sanabria, ucan and so on than we do in our market..

great work by pallotta and sabatini

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