VIVIANI’S QUALITY ADMIRED BY TEAMMATE Alessandro Iacobucci, goalkeeper of Serie B outfit Latina, praised his on-loan teammate Federico Viviani, who is owned by Roma: “Federico is a guy with great technical quality and excellent vision. He’s grown a lot, but I think he’s ready to have his say in Serie A.”
Paredes can be our Pjanic backup. Verre can be DDR backup. Bertolacci can backup Radja while Stroot is out.
We really can't rely on our youngsters next season. Viviani is good enough for serie A, as is Politano. However I don't think they should be with us. They need play time and should be loaned. Bertolacci could be used as a back up but the others no. Neither Viviani or Verre are destroyers like De Rossi, Viviani is more of a regista. Also I'll mention Antei since he usually gets mentioned. We have to temper our expectations. Sassuolo had no defenders and was playing with a 3 man backline. Antei is a good player but he isn't good enough to be our back up next season.
GDS claims that Rudi asked Saba to bring Viviani, Bertolacci, Paredes and Sanabria to the US training camp to be tested and evaluated.
I really want them to give Viviani a shot next year, I think he just needs to learn under DDR and Co for a season
we should Pjanic, Torosidis, Gervinho, Nainggolan, De Rossi, Florenzi, Destro, Totti, Maicon, Castan will have just gotten back from the World Cup and should be rested
What type of player is Bertolacci? Is he a creative type that could be a vice-Pjanic? Or is he more of an attacking midfielder?
he's another vice Strootman / vice Nainggolan, box to box i think he's basically here until Strootman recovers, then we'll evaluate whether he has a place in the squad or if we will sell/loan him out. no need having 3 players to cover one position/role
He's a vice Pjanic really. At Lecce he did well playing behind the first forward. At Genoa, he's played there in a 4-2-3-1 but he's also played deeper a la Strootman. I did a write-up about him 2 days ago. I think he should come back at least for the remainder of 2014, until Stroot gets full fitness
Is Sanabria the kid we bought from barcelona? Can anyone update me where we loaned him and if he played this season? If so was he any good? Sorry but i recently started taking interest in the primavera and have no clue on young players..
Here is a full list of all the loans and co-ownerships. Use transfermarkt.co.uk to check their minutes at their respective clubs. GK: Curci - Bologna Švedkauskas - Pescara CB: Luca Antei - Sassuolo Federico Barba - Empoli Fullbacks: Crescenzi - Novara Frascatore - Reggina Jose Angel - Real Sociedad Stefano Sabelli - Bari Simone Sini - Perugia Sebastian Mladen - Olhanense Golubović - Novara Midfield: Bertolacci - Genoa Viviani - Latina Verre - Palermo Matteo Ricci - Grosseto Paredes - Chievo Lucca - Atlético Paranaense Wingers: D'Alessandro - Cesena Caprari - Pescara Politano - Pescara Piscitella- Cittadella Stoian - Genoa Frediani - L'Aquila Ciciretti - L'Aquila Strikers: Tallo - Ajaccio Lopez - Udinese Pettinari - Cortone Scardina - Poggibonsi Alexis Ferrante - L'Aquila Sanabria - Sassuolo
Don't think he did much. But shouldn't be surprising seeing as he was only given 15 minutes of playtime after months of doing nothing
For anyone interested in watching Viviani, Latina vs Siena http://www.stream-foot.tv/channel16.html Latina are playing a 3-5-1-1 with Viviani in the regista role.