Serie A thread

Gonzalo Higuain with his 70th goal since the start of last season, some finish tonight to equalize!!

Feel sorry for Torino who played really well, Juve's poor finishing aside from their last minute leveler was awful.

"He drives two Ferraris; I think he's a very lucky lad to have 50 caps for Ireland,"

Eamonn Dunphy on Glenn Whelan

lassassinblanc wrote:

Another racism story for Italy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39837872

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/may/07/said-and-done-football-diary-sulley-muntari-fifa

You can see how it becomes acceptable........

Totti for gaffer Clap

YBIG NPF founder and CEO

Stranger things have happened! It's likely to be Eusebio Di Francesco from Sassuolo. Thought Spalletti was unlucky to be sacked really, his relationship with Totti certainly didn't help, but they had a fantastic season in the league, just unlucky to be up against one of the best teams in Europe

pre Madonna wrote:

HuntysCousin wrote:

Stranger things have happened! It's likely to be Eusebio Di Francesco from Sassuolo. Thought Spalletti was unlucky to be sacked really, his relationship with Totti certainly didn't help, but they had a fantastic season in the league, just unlucky to be up against one of the best teams in Europe

I am not sure what Roma expected from Spalletti, domestically at least. I would imagine Juve's budget is much larger than Roma's and they have had a significantly better squad to start with, it would be a huge effort to overhaul them. I guess they can be disappointed with Europe, especially the manner of their defeat at Porto, but surely deserved another shot at it next year.

I would imagine it was to do with internal factors. Granted, they weren't great in Europe this season, but they still performed well overall. As you say, their budget is not even close to Juve's. Pallotta has backed them pretty well, but they still can't come close to Juve, and are likely to lose some players this summer now, Nainggolan at least

SuperDave84 wrote:

farfar wrote:

Heading to Bergamo again this weekend for Atalanta vs A.C. Think Atalanta just need 1 more point to secure a Europa league qualifying spot. Hopefully they do it in style on Saturday. Going to head to Turin on the Sunday morning to see if we can get tickets to Torino Napoli as well.

Cool. Did you get all the tickets you wanted easily enough?

I'm planning something similar in August.

Sorry, only seeing this now.

Eh they were actually difficult enough to get for the Atalanta vs Milan game due to Atalanta only needing a point to qualify for the Europa league. The streets were mental after! My mate usually sorts the tickets for the Atalanta games and seems to get them handy enough though. Got the Torino and Napoli tickets grand. Arrived at the stadium about an hour before and no problems.

Off to Real supposedly which would mean De Gea probably staying at United

Edited by Denis Irwin - 15 Jun 2017 at 5:31pm

Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".

Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn

coyne wrote:

HuntysCousin wrote:

That fat c*nt Raiola strikes again. No new contract for Donnarumma

Mino Raiola really is the don of the football world. What an absolute baddie he is.

He is an absolute pr*ck, but fair play to him, he is the best pr*ck there is in the game. I personally hope Juve put in a bid for him, even if just to stop all this Szczesny talk that Sky Italia are throwing out Dead

H'on Parma! One of the "seven sisters" (Milan, Inter, Juve, Parma, Fiorentina, Lazio and Roma) back in the 90's. Absolutely f**king dynamite team they had: Veron, Crespo, Cannavaro, Buffon, Chiesa, Thuram, Sensini, Asprilla and more. It was a sensational team.