Marco Branca

Hm I'd rather not have Igli here... Also I don't know why Zanetti is being mentioned for this position.
I read a couple weeks ago that Oriali said he's ready to be back.

Zanetti shouldn't be in a position as sporting director / mercato man. He's not the kind of "manager" we need.players

thatdude said:

Branca's last contribution will be this past winter Mercato.

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Thanks Branca for the cool stuff you did, we`ll never forget them.



Time to move on now though, I hope we finally get an upgrade for this department, someone like this:

i'm sooooooooooooo happy lol

Im sure you've all seen this shit wich is circulating on Facebook these days, called your Facebook movie.
Well, here is the one of Marco Branca

northx57 said:

Hopefully this is true and Ausilio's and Fassone's firings are next. They are as much of a problem as Branca.

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Hasn't Ausilio been doing well with the youth side though?

Fapuccino said:

If they bring Tare that would be fucking awesome. I am not saying that on a biased opinion, but Lazio for the last few years has been operating on a budget of peanuts. Theyre literally one of few Italian teams actually making a profit.

The players hes brought to Lazio include Klose, Biglia, Hernanes, Lulic, Candreva, Marchetti, etc..

People give too much credit to directors who spend freely, but not ones who work with very little.

Him or Sabatini will do.

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the Tare law, your argument to hire a FO(front office) member can't be taken serious if you suggest someone of you r own nationality

Armes said:

I read a couple weeks ago that Oriali said he's ready to be back.

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What!? Source? I read something a few weeks ago where an reporter asked Lele if he could return to Inter following the change in management and ownership and his response was something along the lines of 'don't be ridiculous'.

Fapuccino said:

If they bring Tare that would be fucking awesome. I am not saying that on a biased opinion, but Lazio for the last few years has been operating on a budget of peanuts. Theyre literally one of few Italian teams actually making a profit.

The players hes brought to Lazio include Klose, Biglia, Hernanes, Lulic, Candreva, Marchetti, etc..

People give too much credit to directors who spend freely, but not ones who work with very little.

Him or Sabatini will do.

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Clearly you know practically nothing about Roma or Lazio.

Tare is universally hated by Lazio fans. He has ZERO testicular fortitude in the face of Lotito, simply carrying out his orders (especially in the mercato), so he's precisely what we DON'T need atm.

If I recall correctly, Lotito made him Lazio's sporting director because he constantly communicated to the President what was going on in the dressing room, and the requests of the squad to the administration. He's simply inept, to the point that Lazio fans have been calling for his head for 2-3 years now.

Sabatini, on the other hand, is incapable of fulfilling a directorial role (choosing to solely focus on scouting and negotiations in the mercato). In fact, at Palermo, one of the biggest problems with the squad was the irregular balance between older and younger players, to the point it was obvious that the club's unhealthy dependency on youngsters for results would inevitably result in failure.

He is undoubtedly EXTREMELY one dimensional as a sporting director, and can only offer anything worth noting in the mercato, but he's EXCELLENT at what he does (in this regard). The most stunning examples of where he sold a player he purchased for peanuts at a fantastically high price are Marquinhos, Pastore, and Kjaer. Other cheap players that he brought to Lazio, Palermo, and Roma (during his respective tenures at all three clubs) are Abel Hernandez, Ilicic, Radu, Muslera, Kolarov (who was later sold to Manchester City for 20 million), Pjanic, and Castan - to name a few

Brilliance in scouting aside, he's quite incapable of plugging particular holes in the team, always opting to go for a cheap talented young player, neglecting positional prioritization in terms of spending in the mercato. He also manages older players in the squad VERY badly

Here's an analogy (albeit something of a hyperbole) that can explain Sabatini's mindset:

If he can buy 3 EXTREMELY talented young CFs for the same price as 3 average quality defensive players (that have been requested by the coach), he'll do it.

Well pencilpal has spoken and he knows everything.

With Tare or Sabatini I just want them for the signings. I don't know what role you consider them to play.
As I said before look at who he's brought there in the last 3-4 years, from Klose, Hernanes, to Marchetti and Candreva. Not to mention other really good players on their budget, like Radu, Biglia, Lulic, and more recently Keita, etc...Lazio fans aren't the smartest of the bunch. They just blame the people upstairs overall, indiscriminately.

Lazio's problem is they have no money. Put any director there and they won't even do 1/4th of the shit Tare does. But they're not 80 fucking million dollars in the hole like us every year. They're ending up at 0 every year. Lazio fans might not give a shit, but in the long term it won't bite them in the ass. They just want results, but without Lotito spending no director in the world can bring them to former glory.

Lazio's financial position has nothing to do with Tare; rather, it has everything to do with Lotito, who has all the power in the club, from the mercato to the bureaucracy

It's well known that Tare has practically zero power, and that Lotito manages the mercato himself.

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And Keita was purchased for the Primavera; Tare had no role to play in his transfer from Barcelona.

Pencil bro, i know you don't agree and all, but you really don't have to put the on every post you dont agree with

How the fuck does Lotito manage the mercato? Klose came to Lazio for example because Tare played with him at Kaiserslautern earlier in their career, and he personally convinced him. Wtf does Lotito have to do with that? Or Biglia came to Lazio, because Anderlecht's vice-manager played in the same NT as him.

He can get shit done, he's a good negotiator.

My point about the finance was that given their really small budget, he's brought in quite a lot of good signings.

That's what I want in a director. A guy who can do a lot with very little resources. You might have different definition, but that's what I want a SD for.

Also, you fail to consider all the poor transfer dealings Lazio has made over the years

Konko for 7 million, Cisse for 6 million, Alfaro for 3 million, Sergio fucking Floccari for 9 million (!), ZARATE for 20 FUCKING MILLION, Matuzalem for 7 million

All horrendous flops in the mercato that you have idiotically neglected in your analysis.

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And now Tare is a good negotiator?

That's why he was originally pursuing Felipe Anderson for 3 million, and his loitering led to Santos eventually demanding 8?

Or how he fucked up Burak Yilmaz's transfer as well?

Apart for Zarate, you're throwing shit around like 3 million, 2 million. I think we can manage that, if we can get the players I mentioned above.

And there's MUCH more to being a sporting director than the mercato.

Thanks for these memories Branca

pencilpal said:

Or how he fucked up Burak Yilmaz's transfer as well?

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The Yilmaz transfer was actually done, but his agent demanded a fee for himself (something like 1-2 mill) personally last minute, and Lotito pulled the plug.

I'm not gonna convince you, because you don't want to be convinced there is no point in arguing.

My final argument is Lazio, in my eyes, has done amazingly for a team that is breaking even every year, with not even its own stadium. If they had a better coach they could have gotten even greater results.

Fapuccino said:

Apart for Zarate, you're throwing shit around like 3 million, 2 million. I think we can manage that, if we can get the players I mentioned above.

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Considering Lazio's budget, even a 2 million euro player flopping out is a massive disappointment.

And I'm throwing shit around like 6 and 7 million, as well as Zarate's 20 million euro transfer.

A lot of Lazio's transfer dealings have been VERY poor, and only a select few have been truly impressive tbh (Candreva, Lulic, Marchetti, Klose - that's IT). Also, Radu came to Lazio under Sabatini

Hernanes was also bound to come to Inter, but we didn't have a non-EU spot ready for him.