The Other Teams Thread 2012 offseason

So Udinese Claim the 3rd and final spot for the CL competition. Napoli and Lazio go through to Europa group stages and oop: advance to qualifying stages of EUROPA

And Inter... ?

According to the match fixing thread it seems Inter will end up going to the champions league anyway.

That's the worst case scenario.

When all is said and done with this match fixing scandal, you'll see Inter take the third spot. As for the Europa spots, that's anyone's guess, but it's looking a lot like Roma, Parma, and 11th place Catania for the Europa League. It's expected that Udinese, Lazio, Napoli, Bologna, and Chievo will be banned from Europe.

Strange coincidence oop: benefit from scandals

i dont mind that since they helped us twice this season beating other Merda Milan

Every decent team in Serie A beat the hell out of Milan this year. Not saying much

And they want us to believe that it was the Muntari goal that made the difference.

Some beg to differ

i know udinese making CL is probably not the best case scenario for our coefficient (match fixing changes withstanding) , but i can't help but feel some admiration to see them emerge from a group of 4 teams, all the other 3 with more funding, and snatch the last CL spot. they do a wonderful job there at finding talent, putting a decent to good product on the field, selling and still remaining competitive. good luck to them in CL it would be very nice to see them do well, and if they don't i can't blame them lazio napoli and inter all had ample opportunity to take 3rd and failed.

ya those teams pretty much had shitty year....they lost about 1/3rd of their games

On Sunday, spectators observed that firsthand when Dutch soccer team De Graafschap were relegated from the Eredivisie after a 1-1 draw in their playoff against FC Den Bosch.

As midfielder Rogier Meijer sat hopelessly on the pitch after the game, his young daughter, dressed in her father's jersey, walked over to console him as he sat on the field reflecting on the loss.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...raafschap-relegated_n_1518242.html?ref=sports

Marcello Lippi is going to coach Guangzhou in the Chinese Super League. He has apparently signed a two-and-a-half-year deal.

Such a shame that he's going there. He should be coaching in Italy.

problably getting a truck load of money

i think he should stay away from italy for about a decade after 2009 confed cup and 2010 WC

10 million ERU per year!

AC Milan have announced on their official website that they have secured the services ofRiccardo Montolivo from Fiorentina and Bakaye Traore from Nancy on free transfers.

Supposedly, Milan need to replace 10 players this season because many of them are leaving on free transfers. That's a shit ton of the team to replace. They seem to have gotten 2 spots filled with these two but damn, there going to be doing a lot of manuevering. And, Galliani tends to get players on free transfers or on the cheap (and has done pretty well with his strategy thus far) but it's tough to rely on this sort of a strategy for a near third of the team.

I wouldn't be shocked if they sold Ibra somewhere and used that money to finance at least 3 starting positions.

According AC Milan's official website, Montolivo has scored 331 goals in his career.

It's like when they announced that they had earned more points over the past two seasons than any other club in Serie A.

Traore was not even a regular starter at Nancy.