Hey guys just wanted too see what you guys think of Tuma Martinez joining Sampdoria for the rest of the season?
Hard to say but I'm hoping that he will do alright. Cacciatore is mediocre but he left. Zauri is a left-back out of position and he is a poor defender. At least Di Carlo will have a natural RB. Cagliari beat us 1-0 but it was a great goal though. We will struggle now because Garrone has sold our best players and it remains to be seen if Maccarone and Macheda can deliver the goods. I really don't understand why Poli doesn't play. He was a gun against Roma and Tissone is utter garbage.
Despite all these players leaving, he isn't a good coach anyway. The starting line-up looked like a mess against Udinese and he doesn't play Poli and Mannini enough. He has a man-crush on Tissone and he played a part in Parma getting relegated in 2007-08. He was a bad appointment in the beginning and aside from the Roma win, we have been atrocious in the last two months. He needs to go! Plan and simple!
WE need to keep Di Carlo because he is a salvezza specialist and unfortunately, that is now what we require.
At Chievo, he was but that's no big deal. Chievo are a club that punch out of their weight and Di Carlo only saved them. You can expect that from Chievo. Del Neri and Pillon would make them play better than what they should and Pioli might be heading that way. Di Carlo has been bad news. He was in charge of Parma at the start of the 2007-08 season and they got relegated. He was not the coach that you should look at if you want to get into the Champions League. We offer nothing in attack. We can talk about losing our main forwards but the fact is the rest of the team is a mess. Is there any logic in playing Lucchini at RB? What is wrong with Poli and Mannini? They should start! Tissone is worthless! I'd also give Biabiany and Macheda a go in attack. I'm not too impressed with Maccarone. I checked the probable line-up given on La Gazetta's website and it's looking decent. I'd swap Zauri with Martinez and Maccarone with Macheda and the team would be fine.
Sampdoria 3-1 Bologna Poli started and we had both of our regular CBs playing, Gastaldello even managed to score! The score could have been 5-2 or 5-3, IMO. Maccarone has broken his drought and maybe he will return to his Siena form or better.
Re: Sampdoria 3-1 Bologna Alberto Cavasin is the new coach and we lost 1-0 to Catania on his Samp debut. We host Parma today and this is an important match for both teams. Both are in the relegation battle and both sides are missing important players. This 3-5-1-1 formation Sampdoria has been using hasn't done much but the team doesn't know how to put chances away. Maccarone needs to put his chances away. If not, when Macheda comes off the bench, he needs to score. He won't start games if he doesn't score.
Goodbye Sampdoria. Mostly Garrone's fault for this whole mess. Cavasin is a disaster too. The loss to Genoa put the nail into the coffin. Sampdoria's chances of survival in the Serie A are remote now. And why oh why does Tissone keep playing over Andrea Poli? That's one of the biggest mysteries. Poli is a way better player. Sampdoria still has good players... some very talented players... and they aren't utilized correctly. Tissone should be sent to the Serie B. The guy is awful.
The difference between this year and last was not having Cassano and Pazzini on the roster. These two will have gained Samp at least 10-15 more points no doubt. Selling them both at midseason was the death nail.
I think they could have scrapped by if the played Poli a bit more... and changed up their line-up... they just have a bad tactician too.
Garrone is a lifelong Genoa fan, and also probably has early-stage senile dementia. He won't be losing any sleep over relegation. Basically as long as we had Marrotta to make ingenious deals to get quality players, especially in attack, for cheap, we could manage. But he saw the writing on the wall that Garrone viewed the CL as more of a problem than an achievement in terms of raising supporter expectations, and was not going to invest in the team even for such an opportunity, so he wisely left for Juve. Basically it's just like the shit ownership situation at Bari and some other clubs that drastically underachieve relative to their support base and potential... All that being said, and as much as we deserve to go to Serie B, we have owned Roma recently and I expect us to win that match and possibly avoid going down. However even if we achieve salvezza this season, we unquestionably have a Serie B squad, especially since Poli will be sold, so it's just a stay of execution. Basically it's just a matter of time until we go down and stay down, or until Garrone dies. Hopefully the latter comes first.
Sacking Di Carlo was idiotic. He could have saved us, it's what he does best. His teams play awful football but they stay up.
from 4th to being 3rd from the bottem holy crap has this ever happend before in Serie A history a team achiveing CL one season to be regulated the next hell i think the Verona team that won the scudetto in 82 manged to stick around after the won it this is terrible.
Serie B is inevitable. I can't see how we can beat Palermo and Roma. Di Carlo got us in this mess and Cavasin isn't any better but Garrone was stupid to employ them in the first place. Selling Cassano and Pazzini was a real kick in the balls. Hopefully we get new owners and start a new era with them. Garrone has destroyed the club. If we go down to Serie B and then to Lega Pro, I'll go to Genoa and demand that they give me a trial! They might as well get a Doria to play for them! Who else can have the heart and desire to play for this team?
Sorry to all the Samp fans who had to see their team go down today. It was a shame watching a team go from the brink of Champions League Group Stage to Serie B. I'm sure that they'll regroup and come back next year, and stay up for a while.
Agreed. It's a shame that the owner of Samp's pride was just too huge that he had to get rid of Cassano. He was the heart of that team. Once he was sold, Pazzo had to go. Samp's owner is getting what he deserves for being a brat to Cassano. Unfortunately, it's the fans who suffer now.
I doubt he will go to Serie B and risk the national team. Anyone know if Angelo Palombo will be sold or loaned out?
I think Palombo, Gastaldello and Poli will all be sold unfortunately. It seems like Sampdoria is a sinking ship.
how has been palombo and poli been doing, both were linked with inter in the summer and in the winter
Sinking? We are already on the bottom and the sharks are gnawing at our corpses. While Admiral Garrone sails on his merry way to senile decrepitude. He sent his son to make a pathetic apology to the fans from the safety of a convened news conference, which included no promises that players would not be sold or that new money would be invested, nor any taking of responsibility on the part of the Garrones, but merely platititudes that the "fans deserve better." Damn right we do.
It was on the cards. I'm just glad that it is all done with. We need to make a fresh start and get rid of the Garrones. A new era must commence. I'll write up a blog soon on the season, club personnel and the future. Most of it will be serious but I will say that there will be a few lines that you can take with a pinch of salt.
He has a lot of heart, doesn't he? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyv2SALIAe8"]YouTube - Palombo in Lacrime Chiede Scusa Samp-Palermo 1-2. 15-05-2011[/ame]