re: ¡¡Transferapalooza!!

Man City to open talks w/ Atletico Madrid over Aguero within the next day.


Drogba (CFC) and Zabaleta (MCFC) are signing contract extensions.


Redknapp says 35million is not enough for Chelsea to sign Luka Modric.

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Javier Pastore

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Pretty, pretty, pretty please.

I always liked Menez as a player. He was one of the reasons I was thinking about making Roma my Serie A team of choice (they still probably will be assuming I watch enough Italian league stuff - it would help if FSC would hire new announcers). But I didn't watch Roma enough to really know about his attitude issues.

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I always liked Menez as a player. He was one of the reasons I was thinking about making Roma my Serie A team of choice (they still probably will be assuming I watch enough Italian league stuff - it would help if FSC would hire new announcers). But I didn't watch Roma enough to really know about his attitude issues.

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Menez: I've held out hope for him forever because I agree that he's one of the more exciting players in the game when he's on his game. Few have his combination of pace and dribbling skills which lead to a number of Messi-esque youtube moments of him making 5 defenders seem like they're chasing a greased pig at a county fair.

Unfortunately, however, it just wasn't that often that Menez seemed motivated enough to actually contribute. Seriously, it seems as though he suffers from depression or something as every other match sees him moping around the pitch looking like 5 year old forced to clean his room. It also only takes him a couple times losing the ball before he gets frustrated and just completely quits trying.

He's been benched a number of times and had had blow-ups with every manager he's played for at Roma due to simple lack of effort.

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French players usually have terrible attitudes, especially those from the burbs of Paris (like Menez) and Marseilles (like Nasri). The 87 class of awesome French players (Benzema, Ben Arfa, Menez, Nasri) have notoriously bad attitudes

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I hadn't really considered that so many of these guys have attitude issues but it sure seems the case. It's really too bad.


FSC and FS+: Most of their Serie A announcers are just pathetic, especially the one man crews that calls the 2-3 undercard matches who often don't even know most of the players names. It's so bad I'm convinced there must be an EPL promotional conspiracy behind it.

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FSC and FS+: Most of their Serie A announcers are just pathetic, especially the one man crews that calls the 2-3 undercard matches who often don't even know most of the players names. It's so bad I'm convinced there must be an EPL promotional conspiracy behind it.

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Surely you aren't talking about Whittle, Patrick, and Visca. Those guys are awesome.

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"It's very probable that Pastore will go to Chelsea," says Palermo VP.

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I can't imagine that there were ever real possibilities for Pastore other than Chelsea or maybe Man City/U, the Milan clubs or Real.

Roma was rumored to have interest but I doubt it was ever serious due to the fee unless some top players had demanded transfers and were sold. Buying Lamela kind of confirmed that we weren't after Pastore.

I wish he would've gone to Arsenal or Tottenham if to the EPL but I suppose that's the same as Roma due to the price tag.

Zamparini holds about 25 press conferences a day and has been harping on the €40+ forever every time for months. After the Sanchez deal, it will be interesting to see how much Chelsea will pay?

I've always enjoyed them. Do wish they'd focus tactically, as well, though.

Bari mid/striker Erik Huseklepp has agreed terms with Celtic according to Italian media.

Thanks for that.

What are your thoughts on Palermo CB Dorin Goian? He's supposedly on trial with Rangers.

Algerian Hun who tried to kill Deuce on his way to some club in Qatar.