Could be one of Real's newest signings, hes young, fast and extremely good at finishing, maybe in less important games for Copa Del Rey he could play with Robinho and we could see a good duo for the future..
He'll go to Inter milan before he ever signs for RM. Its not worth pursuing italian strikers... they tend to stay in serie A.
Real Madrid have made contact with Roma over a £4 million offer for striker Antonio Cassano. The bid is the largest any club has made for the Italy international, who refuses to sign a new contract with Roma and can leave the capital club in the summer on a Bosman. Inter Milan have registered their interest, but are unwilling to go higher than £2.5 million. Meanwhile, Juve are expected to come on the scene with Real now having shown their hand. ------- Moggi said: "Real will make a move in the market. In January they will buy a champion. An Italian." So far Cassano is the only person I can think of
hmm i dont know much about cassano, what type of forward is he..the type that stays in the box waiting for opportunities a.k.a VN(manchester) or more like a ronaldo who can take on defenders one on one....i think if RM is to puchase a italian player..it need to be a centre back to finaly get rid of pavon and helguera....if a forward then maybe toni,
4M pounds for Cassano! It's simply a deal we can't resist! You know sometimes I wonder why Juventus always pick up cheap and talented players while we always spend tens of millions. Cassano has been linked to Real Madrid for many years already. I think this time is a right time for him to join us. Only worry is... another ugly looking player....
He has cool tattoos, though Answering a previous question, Cassano is, believe it or not, a second forward (Just like Baptista, Raul and Robinho). However, he can play on the left (which is something we need) and is much more mobile than Baptista and Raul. Now that I think of it, he's a very similar player to Messi.
this is what worries me about Cassano. He's a great talent, and was Italy's best player in their pathetic Euro 2004 campaign, far outshining Totti. But. Roma are just itching to get rid of him, so they must have their reasons. Probably the kid's ego. Right now, that's not what Real need in a striker. He's a proven striker, with his best years ahead of him, so it's a conundrum.
Cassano does have a bit of an ego. However, this has nothing to do with it, Roma are trying to sell him now because his contract runs out in June and he has already said he's not extending it, as he wants to go to a bigger club. So the winter window is Roma's last chance to make some money off him. As for the ego/immaturity argument, Roma tried to make Cassano extend his contract by banning him from playing until he did. Despite these bully tactics, Cassano held up and is back playing (and giving it his best) without as much as an untimely complaint.
It truly is a great price for a striker of his quality. That alone doesn't mean we should buy him though. It wouldn't make any sense to pull a Baptista... buy someone for a high price and then watch his price drop due to either lack of play or a long run of bad playing. Look at the hell owen went through and how well he did as a sub for us... it is very unlikely any other players will perform as well if we are just in it for a short period of time. Maybe we could swap Baptista for Cassano. It's at least worth a try.
i didnt want cassano cuz of his attitude but at 4 mil i think its worth the risk hes a man that can win a game by himself
At that price u buy him and if he decides to be a prick, u sell him for a profit. One appealling characteristic of Cassano is that he has shown he can play as a LW which would go well with our present 4-2-3-1 Kuijt is purely a #9 as far as I know.
I hope you don't mind if I butt in for a moment, but Cassano is a player I happen to have followed for years . . . . He is indeed a support stiker, or, as they say in Italy, a 'seconda punta'. He's a small forward who's very mobile and can work as a complement to a bigger, center-forward type. Last season, when Roma was in shambles and Cassano did not play consistently for various reasons, he notched 9 goals and 9 assists. His assist numbers are always quite good; Cassano is as much creator as finisher. As for his goal-scoring record: he has 45 Serie A goals in about 130 appearances, and he's currently 23 years old. The Gazzetta dello Sport analyzed these numbers and concluded the following: no Italian fantasista (that's a creative forward) had ever scored as many goals by the same stage in their career--not Baggio, not Vialli, not Totti, not Del Piero, not Rivera, not Zola, not Mazzola. How did Cassano do it? Having watched him many times, I believe that his game is improvisation. Cassano has a background as a street player, and like many street players he is self-taught--also quick-witted, unpredictable, and audacious. Let me give an example: Cassano's first great Serie A goal showed just this genius for improvisation. A defender on his team hoofed a long ball to him from the penalty box; Cassano was racing upfield and being closely followed by Inter's right-back, but this is how he out-witted the defender: as the ball came floating down, Cassano--not stopping-- used the back of his heel to pop it forward to himself; he then nodded the ball down with his head, quickly cut between two defenders--Blanc and Panucci--and beat the 'keeper with a calm pass into the net. Few players would have tried this. Few would have executed such a nerveless move--the backheel of the long ball, the pass to oneself, wrong-footing the first defender in the process, and splitting two more with a sudden turn. But Cassano is like that: an improviser. A dribbler. An inventor. Yet these same virtues can also be vices, because his desire to improvise means that other aspects of the game--defending, tracking back, tactics, etc., have no meaning or value to him. What he can do is chaotic and unpredictable. He can terrorize organized defenses and find that moment of confusion and surprise that illuminates a game. But the parts of the game that are organized and predictable are hateful and foreign to him. This is why he has gotten into so many fights with coaches over the years: coaches seek to bring order and routine and predictability to the movement of players. This goes against the grain of Cassano's being. He is basically uncoachable. Yet how can a coach teach a player to do something totally unexpected in a split second? This is the quandary.
We need a centre forward or a left mid, not a support striker (we already got lots of those). I'd rather begin buying players specific for the positions we need instead of cramming talent without order.
Have u seen Cassano play LW? He has done it effectively. See Italian NT. Only bright spot last time around for Italian NT. Who else are u going to get at that price with that much talent? People said Owen was a bad buy since we had Ronaldo...how did that turn out? Owen played well and Real sold him for a profit. Cassano will be cheap and can play on the left side. Plus he is young and can always be flipped for profit if things don't turn out.
I don't think we are in a situation where we should focus in buying players for profit. Maybe after we have what we need.
In Caro's system, we lack wingers. ZZ has no cover on the left side. Robinho's cover right now seems to be Diogo. Ronaldo has no cover but he is not 33 and half retired. So I would argue LW>Striker need. Actually I would argue where as #9 we buy could be seen as a back-up, u need a starting caliber LW because I just don't trust ZZ being healthy. Now, u got Cassano who ridiculously cheap and talented. What I meant by selling him for a profit, is that this is a gamble worth taking. If Cassano has no chance of being influential at Real, and would be nothing more than a flip for profit then of course that wouldn't be bright. BUT...Cassano has the ability to influence Real and play a decent role. I just don't see how u can say no for the price I keep hearing.
I stand corrected. Between this and Sempre's post, I'm all for it. The good thing is that he's a player who could fit Real's needs (a left-sided attacking player and a 'hole' player to replace Raul) at only 4M. The bad thing is that with a good performance as the 'hole' player (to which he seems very well suited), he'll put Baptista on the bench. And that's an expensive bench warmer. Of course, Baptista could always battle it out with Soldado as backup striker, so Real can save their money in that department.
I like cassano's style, but I don't like how he flies off the handle. Perhaps, in playing with other such improvisational players as we have, he might fit in well enough that this will keep hiim content. Maybe it won't. 4m pounds is a hell of a lot less than I expected, so now I think its worth a try.
I dun think cassano would want to leave seria a for la liga, speaically casue he knows hes going to be on the bench. Mybe that dutch dude is better option. hes better target man with lopez's system
But his troubles began long before the transfer saga. He was storming off training ground for many years. he tended to receive unnecessary cards for silly things such as goal celebration. Once, he destroyed a corner flag afte he scored a goal. He did not do it in anger. he just did it for fun!!! Once he shoved an assistant coach after he was subbed and gave Capello a finger. I enjoyed watching him because he was entertaining during the game. Cassano grew up fatherless and was a child thief stealing car radios. Totti used ti be his father figure until they fell out. According to urban legend, Cassano was rude to Totti's mother. You know how Italians respected their mothers!!!!
Cassano has to agree to the move, which makes moving him hard. Teams know it will come down to Cassano's choice so whats the point in uping the offer. If he doesn't want to play for u......he isn't coming no matter how much u offer. Its more important to be appealing to Cassano himself than to lodge a significant bid at Roma.
That's right. And that's how Juventus got Emerson while Real Madrid outbid them. Juventus always pick up good players at low price, like Mutu and Vieira.