He's scored 8 goals in Serie A. He destroyed Juventus yesterday. This guy deserves everything. He was consistently good in La Liga too. Your thoughts on him as a player?
How come he only played one match last season? Knee injury?
Very, very good player. Shame that we had to sell him, and he had a stutter during these last 2 years due to injury, having lost a lot of time. But still has a good 6 years now to become a terrific goalscorer.
Loved watching him in the reserves- probably my favourite reserve player I've seen. Beautiful player. Delighted he's back on track after the horrible run of injuries. Fingers crossed Will Keane can use him as inspiration on his working back to fitness/sharpness.
I was gutted when we sold him. I followed him a lot in the reserves and really wanted him to make it here. It's clear he's got a lot of talent, hopefully he gets some luck and can stay fit, as I'd love to see him leading the line for Italy in Brazil next summer.
Indeed. Another thing which comes to mind; we were all moaning about the length of Keane's recovery but Rossi was rushed back and immediately redid his knee.
I'm somewhat guesstimating here but I'd say the list of athletes who've come back from two ACL ops on the same knee to anywhere near their pre-injury level is quite short, which speaks volumes about Rossi's character.
Injured, mate.
This thread is way better than this one, or he one you just bumped and got locked...
Thanks for your valuable input.
Really like Rossi. Very good player who could form a great partnership with Balotelli at international level.
Top player it's a real shame about his injuries over the past few seasons else I think he'd be at one of the elite clubs scoring goals for fun.
Well really, what does this tell us:
That these don't?:
Sir A1ex, I couldn't find a thread for Rossi that was up to date. Obviously, I didn't search well. It's up the mods whether they want to close this or merge it with the other one, but it's pretty childish what you're currently doing. It's a thread.
Scored for Italy in his first game for them in years. Happy to see he's got through his injury hell
Getting outshone by Shola though.
Really happy about what has happened with him, & the Italy situation. Hope we see him at the World Cup being used as he should - starting every game up front.
I always thought Shola was an Englishman...up until last night
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fecking depressing. What shit luck for him
Actually, I reckon that's positive news. The rumor going around yesterday was that he'd done his ACL again, which surely would have been career threatening.
Yeh, in the grand scheme of things 3 months out isn't the end of the world. The initial injury hinted it might be career threatening.
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Not as bad as expected!
Still out till April at least. 
And still, he's got unstable knees which means he'll be a concern going forward, regardless
Supposed quotes by Prandelli. It'd be a real shame if he were to miss the WC.
Such bad luck but good news considering what it could have been.
Again.
He'll need to hope it is 3 months otherwise Prandelli will need to take an absolute massive risk if he takes him to the WC. Considering how the guy has come back from previous terrible injuries in the same area, I'm not writing him off, but it's a fecking massive uphill battle for him to make the World Cup now.
You have to wonder at what point his confidence will be damaged beyond repair. Rossi's game and movements were always sharp and zippy with lots of small turns and sudden bursts of acceleration. He's already lost a lot of pace and explosive speed and adapted his game, but there is surely going to be a point where he no longer has faith in his knees holding up.
Shame for him because he has always been an exceptional talent and would be one of the top strikers in the world if not for these constant injuries to his knees.
Shame for him because he has always been an exceptional talent and would be one of the top strikers in the world if not for these constant injuries to his knees.
His agent is saying it's not as bad as originally feared and could see him back within 7 weeks. He's off to get more tests done to give a bit of a better idea, possibly some good news.
Now talk of him missing another 18 bloody months... Fiorentina statement not giving too much away:
Giuseppe Rossi has been examined by prof. Richard Steadman at his clinic in Vail, Colorado. The examination confirmed a medial collateral ligament tear, with some damage to the anterior cruciate ligament previously operated on. The striker will follow a rehabilitation programme for two or three weeks before having another check-up.
Giuseppe Rossi has been examined by prof. Richard Steadman at his clinic in Vail, Colorado. The examination confirmed a medial collateral ligament tear, with some damage to the anterior cruciate ligament previously operated on. The striker will follow a rehabilitation programme for two or three weeks before having another check-up.
You gotta feel for Rossi. So much talent, so little luck..
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Poor fecker, he's done it again, apparently.
Poor guy has no luck.
Again? Damn...
We dodged a bullet by selling this guy...what a player and I was stunned when we sold him but his career is hanging by a thread now with his 3rd major knee injury
Can't believe this. He seems to have shit luck.
We got 6 mil for him, hardly a big bullet worth dodging. I genuinely feel for him, he seemed destined to be a top striker once he moved to Villareal.
6 Million at that time is like 12-15 Million now. It's actually a decent enough sum.
Poor guy. Such a talent.
True. Sad to see potential like that go to waste. He must be reaching the stage where he's close to calling it quits, poor guy.