Serie A 90's draft

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Gio said:
Can do tomorrow but it looks quite busy. Failing that can do Sunday/Monday.
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Lets do it on Sunday then -

Edgar Allan Pillow vs. antohan => Monday
Gio/Theon vs. Tuppet => Sunday
Enigma_87/The Red Viper vs. MJJ/Šjor Bepo => Wednesday
oneniltothearsenal vs. Cal? => Thursday
2mufc0/Invictus vs. Raees => Friday
Moby/Pat_Mustard vs. prath92/crappycraperson => Friday
Lord SInister vs. idmanager => Wednesday
Oaencha vs. harms => Thursday
 

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Sorry mate just slammed with work ATM will do my best to submit something before 12 gmt
 

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Harsh draw this, two of the strongest teams. I wonder what will happen?
 

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Edgar Allan Pillow vs. antohan
Gio/Theon vs. Tuppet match ongoing
Enigma_87/The Red Viper vs. MJJ/Šjor Bepo
oneniltothearsenal vs. Cal?
2mufc0/Invictus vs. Raees
Moby/Pat_Mustard vs. prath92/crappycraperson
Lord SInister vs. idmanager
Oaencha vs. harms

Reinforment will begin tomorrow after the current game ends, it will be reverse order snake and we will continue to record pick times.
 

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@Theon

I don't want to distract your match thread on a tangent about a player not playing (Bergkamp) but this is a revealing account of why Bergkamp didn't work with the tactical system (which incidentally did work well for Sosa)


"In early 1993 Pellegrini flew to Holland to meet with Bergkamp to convince him to join Inter. Bergkamp, also eager to hear the plans for the team before putting pen to paper, was promised the philosophy of the team would change. Inter would play a pressing game he was told by the president.

On February 16, 1993, Pellegrini announced that he had bought both Bergkamp and Ajax teammate Wim Jonk for a combined fee of £10.4 million. It was seen as a major coup for Inter. They would join following the conclusion of the current season. Before Bergkamp had even kicked a ball for his club, Pellegrini heaped the pressure on his new signing by declaring that Bergkamp was ‘the best no.10 in the world’.

Under Bagnoli Inter had finished in a highly unexpected second place in 1992-93, falling four points short of Fabio Capello’s Milan. With the purchases of Bergkamp and Jonk, coupled with Milan’s Dutch trio now consigned to the history books following the departures of Gullit to Sampdoria, Rijkaard to Ajax and Van Basten’s tragic battle with injuries. Pellegrini felt a little sprinkling of Dutch magic could deliver Inter their first title since 1989.

Bagnoli, the architect of Verona’s famous Scudetto in 1985, had achieved second place with what was the common tactical template in Italy at the time; sit deep and hit on the counter. He used the lightening pace of Ruben Sosa to great effect; the Uruguayan scored 20 goals in 1992-93.

The seeds of Inter’s abysmal 1993-94 season were sown as early as pre-season. Bagnoli makes the claim that Pellegrini never relayed any message about changing the system, and the new season commenced with a style of play that was unchanged from the previous campaign. Bergkamp became immediately isolated on the pitch with little support from Inter’s midfielders. “I’d be up there with (Ruben) Sosa and every game we’re up against five defenders.”

http://www.worldsoccer.com/blogs/wh...caught-in-a-clash-of-cultures-in-italy-360943

There are more details in his book Stillness and Speed that really show the problems with Inter being in this weird state where the President wanted to play attacking football like Milan but the squad wasn't suited to it. Really interesting era at Inter as well as other Italian clubs because of the influence of Sacchi on the traditional defensive Italian mindset.
 

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That’s a cracking read @oneniltothearsenal

Bergkamp wasn’t even that slow back then but yeah, that’s definitely not a style that would suit him. Waste of his talents.

One of the most interesting parts of that was that he almost linked up with Baggio at Juve. That would have been extremely interesting, part of me thinks it would work brilliantly but the other part isn’t sure. Kinda has some similarities to Laudrups move to Juve when Platini was in his pomp.
 

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oneniltothearsenal said:
@Theon

I don't want to distract your match thread on a tangent about a player not playing (Bergkamp) but this is a revealing account of why Bergkamp didn't work with the tactical system (which incidentally did work well for Sosa)


"In early 1993 Pellegrini flew to Holland to meet with Bergkamp to convince him to join Inter. Bergkamp, also eager to hear the plans for the team before putting pen to paper, was promised the philosophy of the team would change. Inter would play a pressing game he was told by the president.

On February 16, 1993, Pellegrini announced that he had bought both Bergkamp and Ajax teammate Wim Jonk for a combined fee of £10.4 million. It was seen as a major coup for Inter. They would join following the conclusion of the current season. Before Bergkamp had even kicked a ball for his club, Pellegrini heaped the pressure on his new signing by declaring that Bergkamp was ‘the best no.10 in the world’.

Under Bagnoli Inter had finished in a highly unexpected second place in 1992-93, falling four points short of Fabio Capello’s Milan. With the purchases of Bergkamp and Jonk, coupled with Milan’s Dutch trio now consigned to the history books following the departures of Gullit to Sampdoria, Rijkaard to Ajax and Van Basten’s tragic battle with injuries. Pellegrini felt a little sprinkling of Dutch magic could deliver Inter their first title since 1989.

Bagnoli, the architect of Verona’s famous Scudetto in 1985, had achieved second place with what was the common tactical template in Italy at the time; sit deep and hit on the counter. He used the lightening pace of Ruben Sosa to great effect; the Uruguayan scored 20 goals in 1992-93.

The seeds of Inter’s abysmal 1993-94 season were sown as early as pre-season. Bagnoli makes the claim that Pellegrini never relayed any message about changing the system, and the new season commenced with a style of play that was unchanged from the previous campaign. Bergkamp became immediately isolated on the pitch with little support from Inter’s midfielders. “I’d be up there with (Ruben) Sosa and every game we’re up against five defenders.”

http://www.worldsoccer.com/blogs/wh...caught-in-a-clash-of-cultures-in-italy-360943

There are more details in his book Stillness and Speed that really show the problems with Inter being in this weird state where the President wanted to play attacking football like Milan but the squad wasn't suited to it. Really interesting era at Inter as well as other Italian clubs because of the influence of Sacchi on the traditional defensive Italian mindset.
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Lovely read.

Theon said:
That’s a cracking read @oneniltothearsenal

Bergkamp wasn’t even that slow back then but yeah, that’s definitely not a style that would suit him. Waste of his talents.

One of the most interesting parts of that was that he almost linked up with Baggio at Juve. That would have been extremely interesting, part of me thinks it would work brilliantly but the other part isn’t sure. Kinda has some similarities to Laudrups move to Juve when Platini was in his pomp.
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In a Milan-esque 4-3-2-1, I think they'll work.
 
Round 1 reinforcement pool

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Reinforcment pool + any unpicked player
  • MJJ/Sjor 1. A. Del Piero 2. J. Veron 3. Aldair 4. A. Conte 5. S. Katanec 6. L. Di Biagio 7. T. Helveg 8. F. Toldo 9. D. Fonseca 10. A. Carlos Zago 11. J. Heinrich 12. S. Inzaghi 13. M. Delvecchio(1500)
  • Lord Sinister 1. P. Maldini 2. G. Signori 3. A. Winter 4. V. Montella 5. M. Torricelli 6. Leonardo 7. M. Carrera 8. R. Di Matteo 9. M. Ielpo 10. S. Conceição 11. N'Gotty 12. D. Carnasciali (1181) DONE
  • antohan 1. M. Rui Costa 2. J. Kohler 3. A. Benarrivo 4. S. Mihajlovic 5. R. Sensini 6. C. Caniggia 7. Alemão 8. A. Peruzzi 9. M. Crippa 10. K. Andersson 11. A. Cruz 12. T. Skuhravy 13. C. Aguilera 14. J. Herrera (19) DONE
  • prath92/Crappy 1. P. Nedved 2. C. Vieri 3. D. Albertini 4. D. Savicevic 5. M. Iuliano 6. P. Ince 7. A. Fortunato 8. P. Negro 9. L.Bucci 10. S. Schwarz 11. L. Amoruso 12. S. Eranio 13. L. Sartor 14. E. Di Francesco (43) DONE
  • Tuppet 1. R. Gullit 2. A. Brehme 3. L. Blanc 4. T. Hassler 5. R. Voller 6. N. Berti 7. D. Petrescu 8. E. Scifo 9. L. Apolloni 10. M. Konsel 11. M. Simone 12. D. Tommasi 13. D. Adani (560) 14. J. P. Papin (750) DONE
  • Cal? 1. M. Desailly 2. F. Totti 3. J. Klinsmann 4. C. Panucci 5. G Zambrotta 6. A Pirlo 7. G Lentini 8. G. Gattuso 9. F Galli 10. P Gascoigne 11. C. Abbiati 12. P. Di Canio 13. M. Jörgensen (441) DONE
  • Oaencha 1. A. Nesta 2. J. Zanetti 3. G. Zola 4. F. Inzaghi 5. V. Candela 6. A. Tacchinardi 7. G. Pagliuca 8. H. Nakata 9. I. Zamorano 10. A. Boghossian 11. F. Baldini 12. T. Doll 13. A. Bianchi 14. D. Fontolan (473) DONE
  • Raees 1. Cafu 2. L. Thuram 3. D. Simeone 4. V. Jugovic 5. F. Couto 6. A. Möller 7. G. Buffon 8. E. Francescoli 9. M. Amoroso 10. A. Boksic 11. S. Nela 12. S. Porrini (101) DONE
 

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  • EAP - 1. M. van Basten 2. R. Donadoni 3. M. Tassotti 4. D. Stankovic 5. G. Pessotto 6. T. Brolin 7. M. Ambrosini 8. G. Pancaro 9. G. Signorini 10. A. Evani 11. G. Galli 12. F Pecchia 13. S. Battistini (540) D

  • Onenil - 1. R. Baggio 2. A. Costacurta 3. D. Baggio 4. L. Minotti 5. Careca 6. J. Chamot 7. R. Mussi 8. F. Asprilla 9. G. Marocchi 10. Taglialatela 11. S. Cois 12. F. Moriero 13. W. Casagrande (62) 14. Schillaci
  • harms 1. Ronaldo 2. C. Ferrara 3. P. Montero 4. Y. Djorkaeff 5. C. Seedorf 6. A. Carboni 7. D. Fuser 8. W. Jonk 9. C. Taffarel 10. D. Massaro 11. G. Grün 12. A. Paganin (62)
  • Moby/Pat Mustard 1. G. Batistuta 2. F. Cannavaro 3. R. Mancini 4. M. Almeyda 5. E. Chiesa 6. Júlio César 7. D. Platt 8. L. Marchegiani 9. A. Di Chiara 10. A. Birindelli 11. L. Fusi 12. A. Pele (28) 13) M. Stanic 14. M. Branca
  • 2mufc0/Invictus 1. Z. Zidane 2. P. Vierchowod 3. Z. Boban 4. O. Bierhoff 5. J. Angloma 6. R. Jarni 7. F. Ravanelli 8. I. Tudor 9. C. Karembeu 10. F. De Napoli 11. S. Tacconi 12. R. Galia 13. G. Ruotolo (110)
  • Gio/Theon 1. F. Baresi 2. G. Weah 3. D. Deschamps 4. P. Sousa 5. R. Sosa 6. G. Giannini 7. L. De Agostini 8. W. Zenga 9. Zé Maria 10. J. Thern 11. R. Cravero 12. P. Bruno 13. Mazinho 14. B. Laudrup (59)
  • Enigma/The Red Viper 1. L. Matthäus 2. G. Bergomi 3. G. Vialli 4. R. Ferri 5. Dunga 6. Branco 7. A. Balbo 8. A. Lombardo 9. S. Rossi 10. M. Mannini 11. Paulo Sergio 12. S. Fiore 13. I. Shalimov (55) 14. T. Řepka (20) DONE
  • idmanager 1. F. Rijkaard 2. E. Davids 3. H. Crespo 4. A. Di Livio 5. R. Ayala 6. M. Salas 7. G. Favalli 8. A. Recoba 9. A. Ortega 10. F. Collovati 11. T. West 12. G. Cervone (60)

@idmanager it's your pick and continue to record pick times.
 
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