The sample size is really too small. It's hard to make a definitive judgement on it especially when only a handful have come over young. I'd have absolutely no worries picking up the most promising Italian starlets.
Nicolo Zaniolo | Heading to Bournemouth?
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Yeah I suppose my point is that the small amount who did very well in England (Zola,vialli,Ravanelli,DiMatteo) were already top class. I don’t think younger ones have settled very well
Yeah, I can't think of a single young Italian that has actually developed in the prem.
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that a much smaller proportion of Italian players ever come to England in the first place, compared to those from many other countries.
Seems that way
Yeah, you get paid quite well even in the lower leagues and it's a good quality of life over there. Also, the squads are absolutely massive so it's far less cut throat.
Why would you think that? I'm perfectly happy to say I don't have the knowledge to come to an informed decision, and I express that on this very forum. I don't get upset because a rival is signing a player I've never even mentioned here up until this point, just because it happens to fit the narrative I want it follow.
He won’t go to Spurs. Juventus will get him eventually.
You keep making assumptions about where I watch football which leads me to believe you only think I watch the PL.
I don't think its hard to see why I would think that
Sure, OK.
I think they've got 3 squads worth of midfielders already.
Didn't he have some pretty bad injuries? Otherwise he looked a talented player.
Roma seem quite eager to get rid.... Must be some issues with him. Or money issues for roma
Missed the whole 20-21 season but still very talented.
That's going to be a bargain for Bournemouth if he can get his body fit and play consistently. He's such a talent.
Unbelievable. Never thought I’d see the day Bournemouth beat AC Milan to a signing
Good player as well if he stays fit.
Imagine choosing to live in Bournemouth over Milan. I suppose Bournemouth has the sea...Unbelievable. Never thought I’d see the day Bournemouth beat AC Milan to a signing
Good player as well if he stays fit.
Mental. One major injury can change ones fortunes.
From being linked to Europes major clubs a year and a half back to potentially moving to the cherries.
From being linked to Europes major clubs a year and a half back to potentially moving to the cherries.
Hey, we've got the sea !......oh you said that.
Sandbanks (just up the road in Poole) has some very high end houses off the beach.
Sandbanks is sh*te.
Maybe he just hates Milan?
And ‘Arry and Saaarndra Redknapp as neighbours! What’s not to love?!!
In before UEFA outrage that even the smallest club in the league can financially outmuscle a European giant….Unbelievable. Never thought I’d see the day Bournemouth beat AC Milan to a signing
Good player as well if he stays fit.
Also in before European clubs begin to protest and draw up plans for a super league two.. that requires the financial muscle of English teams to get off the ground
Think his agent's probably getting a big chunk of the fee...."Yes Nicolo, you'll be playing for the team in black and red...
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"Also having Graeme Souness as a neighbour?
Run away!!! (Monty Python style)I fecking love that. They actually argue with a straight face that big clubs in Europe have a Devine right to sign the big players and if that changes then the sport needs to change
I wonder will he be more successful than that time they signed Iturbe on loan from Roma.
Bloody hell that's a shocker. What a player he looked before the injuries. I haven't seen him at all since, but for 30m these days it's not a bad roll of the dice.
He doesn't... He wants Milan, but Roma -forced to sell given his contract situation- would rather see him go abroad. They will be fighting Milan for a top 4 spot...
It's better than anything Bournemouth can offer.
He's a really good player to watch but his output unfortunately is awful. He'll need to improve this if he wants to reach the next level.
Haven't watched much of him since his return from that devastating injury.
The Super league can get off the ground without the financial muscle of English teams... But the Super league is definitely the wrong solution...
They don't have a Devine right to anything... But that's not what's happening. The PL is slowly doing to the other top 4 leagues what the 5 of them did to the rest Europe after Bosman (some more than others, but they all participated)...
European football needs real FFP rules to be implemented with hard salary cap.
Why? Bournemouth aren’t spending above their means?
I hope not. He will get lost in a shite team. Talented player but I don’t think he will ever reach the heights he should.
The Premier League is leaving above its means. And it has been for many years. Sugar daddies, in the form of big Media groups, have been throwing insane money at it for years (Some them hoping to ).. But that's their right. I don't bleieve FFP should be about "spending above one's means"... I think it would be fair for Moshiri to invest his own money into strengthening his club. But it should be done within some reasonable boundaries. Like the amerciacn sports where some sort of fair competition is guaranteed. A real salary cap.
The only meaningful FFP is the one Ceferin promised and ended up not doing... A real hard salary cap.
Apart from City and Chelsea who does this apply to? Even City now don’t really qualify