Comments on: So I Guess We Know Who Is NOT Leaving

By: MAD

MAD — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:16:06 +0000

The Lampard stuff is melodramatic, which is what I am referring to. I could care less when it gets done, because I don’t really feel any great love/need for the player.

It’s just loud and looks pretty bitter to me- between the player and his still official team. Considering how long I have waited for Inter to sign just one player without any real commentary– compared to the Roma board or the newspapers for example– I think I have done rather well. Have I mentioned how much I would prefer Quaresma to either player.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:01:42 +0000

MAD, the Mancini discussions have been going on since the end of the season. The Lampard ones only started in earnest last week.

You guys are all too impatient; the real world does not operate on a Football Manager time scale.

By: MAD

MAD — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:30:10 +0000

Quaresma is too good to give up on because you have Mancini. I don’t gush often, but he is playing Cl level football, is on the National Team and has an embarrassing amount of technical skill at the age of 25 or so. He would be the perfect player to bring in on a 4 or 5 year contract and then watch the assists roll in.

But Mancini is okay, I guess. I mean, he much cheaper apparently and Roma, for all their faults just held out for more money… unlike the horror show in London. What is their problem?

By: alessio

alessio — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:17:41 +0000

Juve gave up on Van der Vaart about 7 months ago.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:08:07 +0000

Alessio, I completely understand where you are coming from with that, but pretty much everything I’ve seen here and in Portugal is saying that he would be very happy to have both of them. Remember that he is also obsessed with having real cover at every position (though one wonders what he is thinking about the defence in that regard).

Looks like Van der Vaart is off to Real Madrid, btw. Had you guys given up on him? It really does look like Ranieri is going to give the kids a chance this season.

By: alessio

alessio — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:28:43 +0000

While I have no idea what’s going on in Jose’s brain, one would think Mancini arriving makes Quaresma a whole hell of a lot less likely, even with his fetish for wingers.

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:55 +0000

Gazzetta story on Mancini here:
http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercato/Primo_Piano/2008/07_Luglio/10/mancinifatto.shtml

I think that the 13 million figure is much more likely to be true than Il Romanista’s report of 15 million.

By: MAD

MAD — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:32:33 +0000

tuttomercatoweb had the Mancini to Inter story with the “official” red label on it but I don’t see a transfer fee. How sure are we that it’s 13 mil?

Goal.com (as always supply your own salt) says that we are NOT going after Quaresma anymore. I think Quaresma on our team would be phenomenal! I hope this is merely rumor.

By: Daniele

Daniele — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:56:26 +0000

Chuck E Cheese’s rocks!!!!

I used to go their for birthday parties, and get together’s as a little dude!!

I loved Skee Ball, and the ball pit.

Anyone remember the puppet shows with the huge human-sized puppets on the stage?

Those things scared the shit out of me!

Sempre Roma!

By: ursus arctos

ursus arctos — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:21:50 +0000

Mancini is an Inter player for “around” 13 million euro and has signed a 4 year contract worth 3.5 million a season.