Italian Serie A 2015/2016

[The enemy]

Only saw little bits of Inter's game tonight (was mainly watching the Juve and Napoli games), but it seemed like you guys played pretty well tonight.

Not brilliantly, but from what I saw Chievo didn't really threaten.

Juve were poor tonight. Got the win, which is good, but not a good performance.

Napoli looked very good in the first half, then took their foot off the gas. Still think the top three will be Juve, Napoli and Inter in some order. I think you guys could take advantage when Juve and Napoli start back in Europe again.

Maybe this comes from not watching Inter in-depth every single week though, because you guys seem quite pessimistic!

 

[Ronin]

Only saw little bits of Inter's game tonight (was mainly watching the Juve and Napoli games), but it seemed like you guys played pretty well tonight.

Not brilliantly, but from what I saw Chievo didn't really threaten.

Juve were poor tonight. Got the win, which is good, but not a good performance.

Napoli looked very good in the first half, then took their foot off the gas. Still think the top three will be Juve, Napoli and Inter in some order. I think you guys could take advantage when Juve and Napoli start back in Europe again.

Maybe this comes from not watching Inter in-depth every single week though, because you guys seem quite pessimistic!

Why was Juve poor tonight? Didn't watch the match.

 

[Universe]

Spalletti is back at Roma? When the fuck did this happen

 

[Shaun]

Juve have a mounting injury toll. Looked like Caceres injured himself badly tonight. Not to mention that Dybala looks to be losing a bit of his form.

Stuaro, Mandzukic, Khedira, Chiellini, and Caceres all injured currently. Evra had to leave the field tonight because he had diarrhea

 

[Aqla_Gahraf]

about two week's ago he came back to Roma i think

 

[The enemy]

Why was Juve poor tonight? Didn't watch the match.

Struggled to maintain possession (Simone Padoin problems), struggled to create and looked tired.

It was a very poor game, Genoa weren't very good either, but needed Buffon to bail us out a couple of times. Evra and Caceres went off with injuries too (though Evra may be illness!), so add them to Mandzukic, Sturaro and Khedira.

I really like Allegri, but he does seem to have a problem with players picking up muscular injuries!

 

[.h.]

Juve have a mounting injury toll. Looked like Caceres injured himself badly tonight.

Not sure what season this is from.

 

[Shaun]

Not sure what season this is from.

Apparently he torn his achilles tendon.

 

[Kakaroto]

He's definitely signing with Inter then. That injury kills careers.

 

[Rimpel]

Bbilan have found their stride thanks to us, fantastic.

 

[Shaun]

I don't think so.

 

[RMancini10]

Lol at some bastard graffiti in Florence:

 

[CoolMan44]

I don't think so.

You don't think they've found their stride? Or you don't think it's due to us?

 

[.h.]

He's definitely signing with Inter then. That injury kills careers.

you mean the injury of signing for inter?

 

[Kazaan]

Lol at some bastard graffiti in Florence:

What is also funny for me in this pic is their presumptuousness regarding football in people's everyday lives.

 

[.h.]

 

[Kakaroto]

you mean the injury of signing for inter?

If the Achilles injury some how doesn't kill it, signing with Inter surely will.

 

[thatdude]

Just another day in Serie A...

Ferrero could be forced to step-down as Sampdoria President, after accepting a 22-month jail sentence.

The Blucerchiati President accepted a plea bargain for his role in the bankruptcy of the former airline Livingston which went under in 2010 with a €40m hole in its budget, resulting in the loss of 500 jobs.

Ferrero was accused of taking money out of the company for his own interests, with VareseNews alleging that €350,000 was diverted to another of Ferrero’s companies for two films which were never produced.

In addition, it’s alleged that €2m went to a real estate company controlled by his wife, while €9.5m went to the Ellemme Group, also owned by Ferrero.

In 2014, the Samp patron submitted a plea bargain to the court in Busto Arsizio, with a sentence of 22 months for fraudulent bankruptcy.

The court has now accepted his plea, and he will also have to pay €800,000 in damages to the ministry of economic development.

Following the Parma debacle of last year, the FIGC introduced a fit-and-proper person’s test, article 22a of which bars anyone who has received a sentence of more than one year in prison for several offences, including fraudulent bankruptcy.

The procedure to comply with the FIGC rule is for a director to inform the governing body of their conviction, but as Ferrero’s is public knowledge, that would simply be a formality.

However, Gazzetta dello Sport believes that Ferrero may argue that his conviction is not in fact a violation of Article 22a, citing an argument from his lawyer.

“He hasn’t been given any additional penalties, nor are there any kind of restrictions on his business activities,” Luca Ponti noted.

“His plea bargain request was received favourably by the court in Busto Arsizio, which felt that - given the extenuating circumstances - Ferrero played a marginal role in the Livingston operation.

“So much so, in fact, that he has been given the lightest sentence of everyone, and is the only one where mitigating circumstances were acknowledged.”

It’s unlikely Ferrero will actually have to do any time behind bars, with his sentence likely to be commuted to community service and a restriction placed on his movements.

 

[Shaun]

Cool injury breakdown:

Napoli clearly benefiting from good fortune this season. Juventus on the other hand are doing well despite clearly having a lot of injuries. I think it goes to show just how strong their squad is. By far the best in Serie A. We're somewhere in the middle

 

[Javier'sSon]

Is it really down to fortune though? The way players train as instructed by the coaching staff, how good the medical department is and the physical work players go through has to have a major effect.

Allegri is known for having injuries within his teams. Did Sarri encounter many injuries with his time at Empoli? If not, he seems quite efficient in the way he handles his players.