He would be alright for a season,just for cover,sure Totti turns 36 at the end of the month.Age is only a number my friend.
Bradley played 3 pre season games and 1 regular season game with an injured thigh which turned out to be a torn muscle. 2 goals and 2 assists not bad production.. I think you might be anti american ...
He's not bashing Bradley, he's just saying his style is not ideal for this system. It doesn't take an anti-american to say that Bradley's ball skills aren't on par with Tachtsidis, Pjanic, De Rossi, and Florenzi.
At first I thought it sucked that the international break came after such a huge win because you want to keep that momentum going. But with Balz, De Rossi and Bradley getting knocks, at least they will miss less games. And they should all be healthy for Juve so Zeman has a full squad to choose from.
I just hope De Rossi did't get serious injury. He walked off last night and Italy went to 10 men in last 10 mins. It confirmed he can't play against Malta. IMO, he shoudn't answerd the Azzurri call when he picked up injury against Inter. It's too risk.
De Rossi could be out for a month. http://www.football-italia.net/24821/de-rossi-risks-month-out EDIT - Damn we have Juve at the end of September.
Not demolished, but they should definitely play a smaller amount of games. It'd be easy to do, actually. Just make more groups with 4 or 5 teams each. Not 6/7 like it's now.
In this case I'm mostly irritated with the player and with the club. He went our injured against Inter and he then pushes himself to try and recover super quickly so he can play against Bulgaria. He could have opted to take it easy and maybe miss this first game and play the next one against Malta or whoever they are playing. The club should have strongly suggested it.
And another thing worth mentioning, 3 injuries. Bradley, De Rossi, and Balzaretti. All 3 players that missed the first pre-season training camp.
I'm not worried about not having DDR for the Bologna match.In fact it's just 2 fixtures I'm concerned about Cagliari who we have an atrocious record away at,fingers crossed they will be playing in that other stadium that they have been using this season,our only hope of not getting beat lol And the obvious one Juve. But saying all this I was very impressed with how the midfield we perfomred when we lost DDR in the Inter match,you know if anything we actually played better. Tachtsidis and Florenzi really stepped up.
The thing is De Rossi has hardly been at his best the last few years anyway. Compared to how amazing he played at the EC to what he shows us week in week out, his injury is not going to significantly hurt us.
Facepalm Baldini/Sabatini/Zeman/DDR . I agree they are all responsible and Roma should have never let him play especially with Bradley injured. We have no one to blame or protest to, and Baldini seems to be very supportive of our players participation in NT, maybe to our detriment?