News: Transfer News and Rumours Involving Italian Players

what a ball! he instantly looks about Ndour/Casadei.

 

He's really good. He better not be on the bench though because of Di Lorenzo. That would be a tragedy as I think he can be a future Azzurri RB.

 

It's staggering to me that Portuguese, Dutch, Germany teams etc scout and value our players more than our own clubs. Speechless.

 

I'm still seeing WAY TOO MANY young talents having to either play in Serie B or get picked off by foreign clubs who have real scouting.

It won't matter if we have Pep Guardiola on our bench if we keep doing this BS.

 

Btw...in case you haven't heard it before from me, Bastoni SUCKS as a defender. I can't stand his loose marking. He doesn't have the pace to be a LB so we have to stop with those pipe dreams.

He's a poor CB with great feet. The only way he works in a 4 man defense is if he has a STUD CB next to him to clean up his mess. (Leoni?)

I hope this underage prostitution investigation takes a while so we can try out other CBs.

 

https://www.mondoprimavera.com/calciomercato/juventus-diego-pugno-prestito-ajax-calciomercato/

 

Retegui shouldn't of started against Bosnia so that we would've lost 1-0 then. Retegui has a bad game vs N Ireland, and Pio had a bad game vs Bosnia. But ya, point the finger at Retegui.

 

Bastoni, Kean, Donnarumma.

 

Don't go blaming Pio for the Bosnia loss. The problem AS ALWAYS is that we do nothing to prep the young players for big moments. If they aren't getting prepped to play big moments on their club, and we don't even use them in FRIENDLIES or NATIONS LEAGUE....then how can we expect to trot Pio, Palestra, and Pisilli into a cauldron stadium in a do-or-die game?

I'll say it til I'm blue in the face. This is all about YOUTH. You have to prepare your youth. You have to give them chances. You have to allow them to make mistakes. You can't just throw them into the fire when you are desperate. That is poor planning and no vision (which our conazionali clearly have).

 

Yes Saudi players have struggled. He looked like he aged 10 years.

 

Yes that is a clear example. We are stuck in this pattern but now there is a generation wth talent and the league is losing them all just because the big clubs are not in the routine of going after Italians. We failed to mold talent and now the talent is just there and we are letting them all go abroad.

 

I never blamed Pio for the loss, just like I might be the only one who never blamed Bastoni for the loss either. And I agree with everything you said about our youth. I am just tired of the stupid notion that whereever a player plays will dictate his form when you had World Cup winners playing in the same area. When a player plays bad, people use that as an excuse. When they play good, you never hear crap. Retegui was having a good half vs Bosnia, if it wasn't for him we would've never scored a goal.

 

🚨 Christian Comotto has reached an agreement with Milan for a 5-year deal. He will sign the contract tomorrow

[@MatteMoretto] pic.twitter.com/7Grf9dFEOK

— Milan Eye (@MilanEye) July 21, 2026

 

Yes I feel bad for Portugal now Trincao is also going to Saudi.. they are destroying their golden generation with this. It matters a great deal. The biggest issue is there is no way to rate a player.
Ronaldo scores in Saudi and in qualifiers but is clearly cooked at the top level. If he was being benched in a real league the Portugal manager would be able to bench him too. it creates plausible deniability.

Bastoni is already on thin ice there would be no reason to even call him. He is not even proven in a back 4 to begin with.

 

Hopefully this means Amorin is interested in him.Could be why Ricci is on his way out of Amorim see's Comotto as a substitute for Modric instead.

 

Hopefully!

See @Vieri#9? Isn't is good that Liberali chose Como instead of Milan as to not compete head to head with Comotto? Comotto's gonna take Zlatan's sons lunch money. Nepotism will only get you so far.

Forza Christian

 

I agree with you. Mario Balotelli was interviewed by ex-NFL'er Chad Ochocinco (Chad Johnson) of all people recently and he was saying as much when asked about Italy.

TBF, current Spain might be an exception to the rule.

 

Yes even Barca do this well. We can't just go for the most hyped players after selling our most hyped players. You have to get these guys early. You just end up with teams full of guys with superstar attitudes without the superstar talent. Worst of both worlds.

 

Is bastoni the reprobate actually considering middle east soccer?? Beppe bergomi on line 1 crying

 

Bastoni has played a lot of CL football and won Scudetti. He still sucks. Nothing is going to improve him because he loses his mark way too often. I honestly struggle on where I'd put him. He doesn't have enough pace to be a LB. He's poor in the middle marking. MAYBE he could be a CDM, but even that doesn't suit him. His ONLY chance at success would be having Cannavaro or Nesta next to him. So unless Leoni develops into that, Bastoni will struggle.

I hope he goes to Saudi Arabia to get away from the underage girl investigation. Then we could move on from him on the national team.