Other Teams ** Only Italy ** [R]

I hope the season is canceled. Football/sport without fans is pointless.

 

All 20 Serie A clubs vote in favor to complete 2019/2020 season https://t.co/vna7csgkbl pic.twitter.com/jUNGULzUkY

— RomaPress (@ASRomaPress) May 1, 2020

 

Lmao. Theres a man with his ear to the ground. Legit lol at that

 

The former FIGC prosecutor Giuseppe Pecoraro reveals the VAR audio from a controversial Inter-Juventus incident in 2018 went missing. ‘We need more transparency.’ https://t.co/JocCxWDFOz #FCIM #Juventus #Napoli #SerieA pic.twitter.com/QoOEpTHWHh

— Football Italia (@footballitalia) May 3, 2020

 

BREAKING: #Torino register their first COVID-19 case.#SerieA pic.twitter.com/2oo2dX5NxS

— Football Italia (@footballitalia) May 6, 2020

 

rEsTaRt tHe lEaGue

 

German Bundesliga is about to restart next week (got the green light by government yesterday) even though Köln and Gladbach had players and staff that tested positive last weekend.

 

BREAKING: #Fiorentina confirm SIX new #COVID19 cases, three of them players. pic.twitter.com/uJC0cAZAo3

— Football Italia (@footballitalia) May 7, 2020

 

BREAKING: #Sampdoria find 3 new cases of #COVID19 and one who was negative, returned to positive.

Full story to follow...https://t.co/8aLZojVgr1#SerieA pic.twitter.com/UeXQ8ogaD8

— Football Italia (@footballitalia) May 7, 2020

 

Cannavaro meh, he wasn’t that good in the league, Samuel should be in his place. Also Seedorf has to be there.

The rest makes sense.

 

🗣 Chiellini: “Felipe Melo is even worse: the worst of the worst.

"I can't stand disrespectful people, those who always want to go against the grain.

"There was always a fight with him.

"I told the coaches: he's a rotten apple."

🙄 pic.twitter.com/fdXMYHIgJn

— GOAL (@goal) May 9, 2020

🗣 Melo: “He always p*ssed himself with fear. Sorry, it's too easy to speak ill of others in a book.

“Maybe 'this defender' is still mad because when I went to Galatasaray we slapped them out of the Champions League.

“Or because Inter won everything and I'm an Interista."

🔥 https://t.co/3dnzOunQEK

— GOAL (@goal) May 9, 2020

Killini umiliato.

 

He got punked by Mueller of all people. Its easy to be "hard" when refs give you free reign to tackle however you please.

 

He had sort of a chip but I don't blame Balotelli too much. The media made him out to be something he wasn't. They hyped him up way too much and he couldn't live up to the hype forever. From 2012 to around 2014 though he was among the b better Italian strikers. They didn't make a big deal out of other forwards as much they did with him but they were quick to judge and blame him for everything.

 

Mario drank that hype up. If he kept his head down and focused on working the 18 yard box instead of thinking he was a number 9 slash 10 slash I'll just walk around and dive for a free kick whenever I feel like it he would have been once of his generations best strikers. Talent doesn't matter if you're lazy with a poor attitude. I called it 8 years ago when the hype train was full steam ahead. He would be irrelevant before 30. An average of 1 goal every 5 games from open play. The writing was on the wall.

 

His career is hardly surprising given his attitude. He was often unfairly painted as an outright bad guy in his youth but he didn’t do himself any favors either.

Considering his talent he wasted his career and I honestly don’t doubt it if Balotelli has a disrespectful attitude in the NT. It means very little coming from a career criminal like him Chiellini though.

 

In recent times, the only other Italian offensive player who suffered a similar bad boy fate was maybe Cassano. He merited that role though but he at least he was a very talented striker. He could have been in my opinion on par with Baggio, Totti , Delpiero , Mancini and Zola in regards to how true #10’s are judged. His head on the other hand , was just too much for his coaches.

I also think Baggio also got the short end of the stick. I had neve really read how he was a burden or disruptive other than what I saw from his coaches like Sacchi Lippi (twice) and Capello who wouldn't didn’t want him to be the main guy. Ullivieri said once that Baggio would tell him off but other than that, I hadn't heard or read much in regards to his attitude. One thing I did hear from all of Baggio's managers was that they all praised and revered him as a top player.

 

So bad ass. There's a reason Paolo is universally loved and respected.

 

Serie A after the lockdown:

You have never seen anything like this before.#football #soccer #funnyfootball #funnysoccer #stokefooty

🎥 via IG/saoroque.fc pic.twitter.com/Qfriz0W4qr

— Stokefooty (@stokefooty) May 8, 2020

 

What do you guys think about Maldini’s comments about Ragnick?

IMO it’s completely ridiculous, Ragnick has the right to ask for whatever he wants to take the job. Milan are the ones recruiting him and if he’d rather stay in his job unless he’s guaranteed certain powers that’s completely within his right. If Ragnick is happy in his current job it’s up to Milan to convince him, if Maldini should be criticising anyone it should be his own bosses.

 

From what I picked up on it, Maldini is annoyed that he publicly talked about it with details. From a professional POV, you keep quiet as there are the other people's lives and contracts involved right now and a season to finish if possible. Maldini was aiming his anger at that.