Fine by me
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Fine by me
I'll send ours in couple of hours nearly done.Enigma_87/The Red Viper vs. MJJ/Šjor Bepo => Wednesday
Lord SInister vs. idmanager => Wednesday
Awaiting writeups from @Enigma_87 @The Red Viper @MJJ @Šjor Bepo @Lord SInister for todays games.
I think we can start now if both the write ups are in.@idmanager @Lord SInister when would you like your game to start?
Not this time. Just a neutralAye, that's fine by us but we'd need to okay it with the draft overlords as there's already to games scheduled that day.
@green_smiley @2mufc0
Lets do it on Sunday then -Can do tomorrow but it looks quite busy. Failing that can do Sunday/Monday.
Yeah, I think we can start now since both of us are already hereI have his writeup. I was waiting until closer to midday (GMT) to put the thread up. If you and @Oaencha don't mind i can put it up asap.
Aye they have our stuff now too. We're good to start any time.@Moby @Pat_Mustard we have also sent our write up to @green_smiley and @2mufc0. We can start whenever
Lovely read.@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.
In a Milan-esque 4-3-2-1, I think they'll work.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.