Re: Grella to Roma Its hard to say he's one of the best DM's in Italy, simply because italy produces and attracts the best DM's in the world. Thats the problem with being a defensive midfielder in Italy. Its sort of the home of DM's. There are two sorts of DM's in Italy the traditional "mediano" or the more creative adventurous type. Grella is up there as one of the most solid DM's in Serie A. Places like Spain and especially England, the style of play does not suit a "mediano" and Grella would struggle. Torino would be a nice club for him, cause its a mid-table club, with the ability to put good seasons in, and give shock results. After players like Pirlo, Gattuso, De Rossi, Cambiasso, Pizarro, Viera, Ambrossini, Liverani etc, etc. Grella would be high on the list with the likes of Almiron, Guana, Corini, Simplicio, Falcone, Obodo, etc, etc.
Re: Grella to Roma EXCLUSIVE: Grella's 'biggest decision' Socceroos coach Graham Arnold has given Vince Grella a two-day Asian Cup leave pass as the out-of-contract Parma midfield enforcer ponders whether to reunite with national team-mate Mark Bresciano at Palermo or instead join ambitious Torino http://www.theworldgame.com.au/home/index.php?pid=st&cid=90482
Re: Grella to Roma Its official Grella, hates Juve, and mark his hate, he has just joined Torino til 2010
Re: Grella to Roma Top Socceroo signs for Torino AUSTRALIA midfielder Vincenzo Grella has joined Torino on a free transfer from Serie A rival Parma. The deal for the 27-year-old midfielder was confirmed by Torino director Stefano Antonelli. http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21941214-23215,00.html
Re: Grella to Roma Parma were lucky to stay up, but looking at the table from last season, Torino isnt a lot better. I know that signing for a lower table club means that Grella will play most games, and not stuck behind a big name signing like say at Roma. But is it the best for his game- or really has Vinnie got to a level where he wouldnt get much better or learn any more? Personally I wouldve liked to see him jump up to the higher clubs than Parma or Torino, but maybe they just dont rate him enough- so he was never getting many bites from the bigger clubs?
Re: Grella to Roma In all honesty the table means jack shit. If your familiar with Torino, they spent massive amounts of money in the off season, but the team greatly underperformed. Quite embrassing for the president, cause at the start of the year they were talking about wanting to qualify for europe. And Torino have already started fixing their problems, with a new striker, and 2 DMs. It looks like they'll take another midfielder, and another striker. In their team they have italy's best young talent in Rosina, with a better Torino team he'll do much better. Torino is higher than Parma. Parma, is not the Parma of old anymore, they were lucky to save of relegation. They no longer have the ambition of the old. Its a sad a sorry site for Parma fans. Whereas Torino is a club with a rich president, and with plenty ambition. Last season Torino spent a lot of money but the players flopped. Here are the expected battles Mid to high table - Torino, Sampdoria, Udinese, Palermo, Napoli, Genoa, Empoli (depends who's going). With the top half battle between Milan, Inter, Roma, Fiorentina, Juve, and Lazio. Milan-Inter battle for top spot. Relegation/low mid table Reggina, Atalanta, Livorno, Cagliari, Catania, Siena, Parma. It would of been silly if he did take an option with a bigger club, cause in some cases he would of been for 4th or 5th in line. Torino or Palermo were the biggest clubs he could hope for. IMO its the right move, as he ensures a future in Serie A and first team football, at a mid table club. Yeah like i said Torino underperformed greatly. Probably similar to West Ham. If i looked at the table i could also say Blackburn is far better than West Ham, and Lucas Neill has gone to the wrong club can't i??? In fact when you look into it West Ham is a club with ambition. The Table means jack shit.
Re: Grella to Roma Corini also signed for Toro, he's a true work horse, and Grella will be given the opportunity to learn from him and this is what will help the socceroos more than anything. A true defensive midfielder who knows where and when to distribute the ball as good as gattuso is what australia needs.
Re: Grella to Roma Torino aren't that bad, next season could challenge for a UEFA Cup spot if they have a good run, but yeah isn't not really a step up or anything...
Re: Grella to Roma I just hope for Vinnie's sake that the team does perform next season. Good luck to him anyway, i hope it works out.
Re: Grella to Roma What a dumb move must have done itfor the money. Torino barely survived the drop. Why he would chose Torino over Palermo I cannot understand. Palermo are contenders for a european spot, Torino not. I mean Corini is not gonna set them on fire...... Even Everton would've been a better choice.
Re: Grella to Roma See this is when non-Serie A supporters make assumptions on situations. You should read my above post about Torino. Did you not know that Palermo was one of the worst teams in the second half of the season, which saw a worse record than relegated Ascoli for the second half of the year????? What so Corini was good enough for Palermo contending for "euro" spots (which you said) now not good enough for Torino???? Now if Corini had a better season than Bresciano, that must make Bresc sh1t???? No everton is a bad choice cause, they wouldn't know how to play a defensive midfielder.
Re: Grella to Roma I agree, Grella is more suited to Serie A he should stay there, seriously what is with this unwritten rule that every aussie must play in the EPL? I don't want to turn this into another EPL vs so and so thread. But the "OMG x player should go to EPL to play in some mediocre midtable team" crap needs to stop.
Re: Grella to Roma As opposed to a mediocre mid-table team in Italy? I think another poster touched on why they would like Grella to go to the EPL- and that was solely to see them on tv here more often- which is a reasonable wish. Personally I'd rather that we got the Serie A on tv more regularly again, rather than having players move so we can watch them. I remember when SBS had the weekly Serie A wrap show on Sunday mornings- whatever happened to that? I wish they'd bring it back.
Re: Grella to Roma At the end of the day serie A is a more tactically tuned league. EPL is all pace and power and long ball. Not that its not entertaining, but some players arent suited to it if they dont have raw pace. As for SBS.... forget them, waste of bloody time. They are dropping everyone from the show and bringing in the stupid fark-head all-stars. Might as well call them the MLS experts now.
Re: Grella to Roma At least the mid-table italian team will him correctly, and have tactically understanding players around him, who know what his type of player does, in every situation. Answer to the SBS question - Les Murray. He dislikes italian football. Even though he dislikes the long-ball type game, his heart is firmly with the EPL. Which is fair enough cause before EPL was the only football shown.
Re: Grella to Roma So what it may be a mid-table mediocre club in Italy, but his game is much more suited to Italy. If he went to England IMO He would have a hard time, he would have to go to one of the top clubs to succeed and even then he would struggle, cause his game is just not suited to the EPL... IMO in the future alot of our players will look at the other leagues around the world now because of the new style of football we play now.... Which hopefully means that Australian broadcasters can now realise that there are other leagues that exist other than the EPL and show as at the very LEAST a nice highlights package of these leagues.....
Re: 'The Real Vinnie' Grella Thread Grella is heavily linked with Blackburn reported in the daily mail
