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The Full Roma Transfers of Summer '09

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:22:29 -0500

there were a huge number of transfers that Roma had to deal with during this summer despite the whole world viewing them as made on a few signings:

OUT:

1. Alberto Aquilani: Liverpool

2. Christian Panucci: Parma

3. Edgar Alvarez: Bari

4. Vincenzo Montella: Retired

5. Simone Loria: Torino

6. Souleymane Diamoutene: Bari

7. Pietro Pipolo: Retired

8.Filipe Ribeiro: Siena

9. Aleandro Rosi: Siena

10. Gianluca Curci: Siena

11. Valerio Virga: Cosenza

12. Gianluca Galasso: Bari

13. Massimiliano Marsili: Cosenza

14. Riccardo Brosco: Triestina

15. Marco D'Alessandro: Grosetto

16. Alessandro Crescenzi: Grosetto

17. Simone Tovalieri: Aversa Normana

18. Guido Gianotta: Aversa Normana

19. Federico Erba: Cesena

20. Gianluca Maggliochetti: Cagliari

21. Lorenzo Bianchini: Isola Liri

22. Guiliani Falco: Isola Liriunkno

23. Andrea Giacomini: Rimini

24. Caludio Cafiero: San Marino

25. gianluca Zara: AC Aprilia

26. Cristian Palumbo: Pomezia

27. Manuel Mancini: Rieti

28. Keivan Zarineh: Paganese

29. Alessandro Ianniciello:unknown

30. Joao Maranagon: unknown

31. Ahmed Barusso: Brescia

32. Dario Polverini:Pro Patria

33. Mirko Zazza: Sanluri Calcio

34. Emiliano Massimo: Aversa Normana

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IN:

1. Stefano Guberti: Bari

2. Leonardo Greco: Pisa

3. Mauro Esposito: Chievo

4. Vitorino Antunes: Lecce

5. Ricardo Faty: Nantes

6. Stefano Okaka Chuka: Brescia

7. Marco Andreolli: Sassuolo

8. Claudio Della Penna: Pistoiese

9. Alessio Cerci: Atalanta

10. Dieme Louis Jerome: San Lorenzo

11. Fabio Zamblera: Newcastle

12. Bogdan Lobont: Dinamo Bucuresti

13. Alessandro Triola: ASD Sarzanese Calcio

The Spirit Is Back

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:59:37 -0500

The slow ever lasting death of a Roma fan has been stopped at least for a couple of days until Wednesday night, while the fans were busy predicting how far can the loss reach there was an old man thinking , teaching installing a new mentality in 11 romans (adopted or born), the Roman coach new how to make them fight like the gladiators never did, a coach that stood up in front of Totti for the sake of Totti, someone that made me relieved for once in long period of time, as adrenaline rushed through my body the Romans succeeded in dictating the game.

They are back and no way you can contradict this, even Pit could have done well on tonight, Faty was doing well, Okaka improved his technique finally he was a CB at the attack dispersing their defenders and stealing balls forcing Frey into hard work, I loved Okakamuthafucka today, Totti was all over the area just like any other player, De Rossi finally got back to his Roma days, Perrotta = an adopted Roman just like all tuscans we have, even Sergio did awesome and I'm starting to think that Brazilians do have great keepers besides Julio Cesar, and to end it all Ranieri had hushed and silenced every single wanker in the media, Palermo's KJ finally shuts up but on wednesday it'll be forever. now we sing.

Rosella Sensi bla bla bla Rosella Sensi bla bla bla Rosella Sensi Sensi Sensi bla bla blaa.

Talent scout: I come knocking on the doors of Roma, take a look at Michael Agazzi

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:41:59 -0500

I am watching Sassuolo - Triestina right now, i was hoping to find more answers about Serie B talent and i did, regardless that Brosco is a hot-prospect teenager in Serie B, its the sixth game in the season for Triestina and they are yet to concede a goal, I am watching their games its not down to their defense, the defense is great, but what attracted my attention unexplored goal keeper Michael Agazzi, he's Italian, has the years ahead of him and has plenty of passion and talent to insert into the game. Its not wonder that such a wondrous player is the product of Atalanta's youth club, but how could they have sold out on him that early? Its his second season running with Triestina after returning from a two-year out on loan stint at Sassuolo and Foggia respectively. I think I can say I have seen plenty of him and I can give my veiw, the keeper is nothing less than a serie a calibre. As I heard Cagliari now own the player, but due to Marchetti's presence he can enjoy being loaned out, what's interesting is that one of the six clean sheets was beating Cagliari in the Copa Italia.

For once, let us all hope that Daniele Prade thinks that Italian goal keepers do exist, taking a look at the roma roster in between the posts:

Doni, Curci, Lobont, Sergio, Artur, Frasca and Pena.

Doni is the starter but he spends too much time out that makes one think of getting a really decent enough sub. Curci has now sky-high pride and after playing two seasons at Siena he will not comeback unless he is a starter. Artur's display has always been poor, and now its become worse to a degree that we all now that he has played his last Roma game, Julio Sergio is 30 now, he is inexperienced and for him to gain experience it will take him till the age of 36 or so and he is not a first sub material. Lobont is here on loan, and I'm 100% positive that he won't stay for next season because of lack of playing time. frasca and Pena need to mature first. That leaves us with no decent sub-keeper, and my answer is just think of michael Agazzi and then maybe signing him and removing a couple of Brazilians (Sergio and Artur) and a Romanian (Lobont) would do fine for the wages. Doni, Agazzi, Frasca, Pena.

Europa League: I love Belgium

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 14:36:01 -0500

10 - 2 on aggregate the score speaks for itself, record breaking games for Roma in terms of aggregate score, Totti scored in two games more than he ever scored Euro goals in a whole season, five so far, more to come. Mark Spal's words on the game:

“Totti is that player. He has quality, those moments that can change a match from free kicks or open play. He is phenomenal. Clearly we were aided by the fact Gent had a man sent off before half-time, but this time the team went out on form and concentrated. I’m convinced that, regardless of lucky incidents, we still would’ve taken home the win.

“The important thing was to go through,” insisted the captain. “It was not an easy game and they were very motivated. Now we can go all the way in this competition, even if there is a long road ahead of us.”
Menez scores for Roma, yes it was hard to believe but I kept convincing hundreds of my Roma friends that he can score and he did, we all know last season he sucked and scored four goals, two of them were in the last two games, thus meaning his last three game he scored three goals and this is Menez we are talking about. Okaka broke out of his contract agreement with Roma and scored, though the agreement says: Okaka's shots are not to be converted in goals, he went legally and scored a header. De Rossi showed Vice-Captain displays and scored two. God only knows what happens now... Dani boy oh Dani boy, we have yet another easy game probably, Kosice, the Slovakian Cup Winners, ended fourth in their league last season, not a reason to worry us, they're team is full of natives except for four, the keeper a Croatian and three other Serbs, one of them is Matic, who could do the damage to big clubs like us, but infortunately "The Italian Job" was finished by Giovinco, when he tripped The Serbian U-21 international and broke his right foot that needed surgery. One big threat has been removed, another is that we have to think of resting our players three days after the first leg and the second we have to kick off the League with Genoa (away) and Juventus (home) respectively. Arghh I say cheer up people, we are on a good start

Forza Roma

Daje Roma Daje

A bit of transfer talkies

Sun, 2 Aug 2009 07:03:24 -0500

You complain and you complain, no signings and the only one came for free Stefano Guberti. so what? We need a goal keeper, centre-back and a striker.

Though I'm a fan of Artur Moraes yet he doesn't seem to be staying anywhere near us, things should be sorted out by Tuesday as he might join Livorno and either Flavio Roma or Stefano Sorrentino could be the solution. Alex Daniel Pena and Valerio Frasca have nothing to do here but to be loaned out because that useless training cone (Julio Sergio) seems staying.

At defence there is a slight update that Diego Lugano could make his way to Roma, but I was wondering if negotiations are stalling because of wages why can't we offer Marco Cassetti and Max Tonetto to some mid-tabled teams in Serie A, that would free some Wage capacity, wouldn't it? How about taking Ahmed Barusso, Valerio Virga, Adrian Pit, Claudio Della Penna, Kevain Zarineh, Andrea Giacomini, Massimiliano Marsili and Mauro Esposito out too, despite having low wages we could use the maximum help possible and we know they ain't gonna play at all.

Moving to our last missing spot, Alvaro Negredo, he is the utmost solution to our team, he is all that we need pretty low wages, high class, relatively young and the problem is that we want him on loan and Real Madrid are looking to sell him rather than that.

Why can't this be a solution to our problem, maybe after all, King Alberto can stay at Roma and we will not have to sacrifice a star.

July 2009 Roma Awards

Sat, 1 Aug 2009 05:20:36 -0500

The first month of the new season had ended and five games have been played, this is enough for me to start my monthly awards for the new season.

Goal Keeping: Artur. Arghhh! It can't be, yes it can he and Julio Sergio are the only two that featured so better get used to this until Gifts comes back.

Defence: 100 % not Mexes he played as a trequartista or let us say a pure striker. Riise played out of position didn't do well, Spaghetti didn't trust Andreolli at CB, Antunes played a bit, Tonetto and Cassetti pure suckiness, Cicinho and Juan are injured that leaves one and only one person: Marco Motta.

Midfield: A lot of names featured but it is hard not to pay your tribute to Play Station boy Stefano Guberti. De Rossi didn't feature in the start of the season because he was on international break. Greco was the top goal scorer before Totti scored the dubietta against KAA Gent.

Attack: Okaka has a contract that doesn't allow him to score, Baptista and Menez earned international injury, Vucinic featured less frequently, Cerci stunned but no goals, Zarineh and Della Penna nothing at all, Esposito a little fat bitch, anyway we all know our best Attacker is the legend Francesco Totti

Transfer: Stefano Guberti, he won it as he was the only.

Departure: Simone Loria, worthless player at Roma, debute-scorer at new club Torino, yet he did not win it, of the players that have left so far, Edgar Anthony Reyes Alvarez "Burritos" won it, he fetched a 1.5m Euros from his sale, despite not playing for Roma since 2006 or so.

Injury: Juan Silveira Dos Santos, a blessing in disguise, had he not been injured he would be playing for Real Madrid by now.

Game: The 9 - 0 win against Brunico.

Goal: Mirko Vucinic, the one against KAA Gent its for his sister.

When eternal life meets some Belgian malarkey

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:58:16 -0500

Tomorrow night will be the kicker day, to prove our critics wrong against, the only god knows who, Belgian side,I will not take a piece of talk about their team, I simply say, I don't know much about them except they have never won their own league and last season they finished fourth so this should be no cause of concern especially if they have lost their star player in this transfer mercato. Same stuff, same shit, Aquilani, Cicinho, Juan, Doni, Perrotta and Menez have been injured and are still well add Baptista to that.Can't say much can I? It seems awkward to see the called players Faty? I do like him but I mean that French oak tree? anyway all that matters mirkodona and the nerd made it, I mean Vucinic and Brighi.

Goal Keepers: Artur, Sergio, Pena

Defenders: Andreolli, Antunes, Cassetti, Mexes, Motta, Riise, Tonetto

Midfielders: Brighi, De Rossi, Faty, Guberti, Pizarro, Taddei

Attack: Cerci, Esposito, Okaka, Totti, Vucinic

Players in bold are highly likely to play. Players in italic do have the chance

The official view: I - We would start from goal keepers, why the hell ain't there no Italian? not even Frasca? I am not going to worry because soon enough Pena will be loaned out.

II - Youth, take a look at the defence for example: Itunes, Andreolli and Motta and in midfield Faty with the Roman duo Cerci and OKaka up front. Kinda liking it.

III - Tonetto or Itunes, there is a point for both but I'd prefer red-head to play than the old guy.

IV - Spalletti its 4-4-2 not 4-2-4 look at how many attackers are playing and how many midfielders are, so I think a tactician once learned how to count.

V - De Rossi and Totti are in so I'm happy

My prediction goes as follows it is in the olimpico so I doubt there would be any obstacles to hinder us

Roma 5 - 0 KAA Gent

Totti (12)

Guberti (38)

Totti (42)

Vucinic (63)

Okaka (87)

Daje Roma Daje

Youth Stars Loaned Out To Gain Experience

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:05:32 -0500

Things are starting to seem more visible and we are having a better view of our team for this season, as the extra players that are still teenagers have been offloaded temporarily of course we could not afford to play them or lose them for the future, each joined a minnow team during their way to seek stars. Leonardo Greco, the pre-season star, will most probably leave to join either Ascoli or Cosenza on loan, regardless if Cosenza landed Greco or not they will loan Valerio Virga too, a player I would much prefer to sell rather than loan out, as he has no future considering he is 23-years-old and has not shown any glimpses of talent. Moreover, Roma and Isola Liri (please don't ask who this club is because I have no idea) have reached an agreement over Romanian goal keeper Pena, and the two strikers Bianchini and Falco also on loan. D'Alessndro already joined Grosetto and Crotone reached an agreement for full-back Crescenzi. More talk has been made but the deal is not concrete Barusso could be loaned to Brescia but at the age of 25 I have no Idea why we haven't sold him yet. The captain of the Roma youth team Riccardo Brosco has reached an agreement with Triestina to join. However, Aleandro Rosi refused to leave for Livorno as he and Spalletti think that he will be vital for the club next season.

Excruzive: Rafa A Man of Honour

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:46:08 -0500

For a moment I thought I will not fall for the Mercato again, and claim one of my night posts to it but here I am, its bloody 1:00 AM, I'm still awake for no reason, maybe its because a promised my friend to finish the book he gave me to read, he wrote it and he's a great writer, back to romality I mean reality, Today is a significant day, no more worries about Aquilani, Mexes, Juan, Riise, Vucinic, Brighi, Baptista, Menez and De Rossi leaving, everything seems to have settled for now, and the players that are of no importance and represent dead weight might see a way out of Roma, a good thing most probably. Ahmed Barusso and Mauro Esposito players that have no future by staying at Roma are close to switching teams with Brescia and Bari respectively nearly signing them, all is needed is the icing on the cake.

Roma have also made another signing this mercato concerning the medical staff that we deeply need, last season we suffered many injury blows and the only players that didn't suffer injuries were unfortunately Simone Loria and Julio Sergio (players we all wish they never existed). Doctor Zepilli is a former national team member, he was on the Italy medical staff in the World Cup 2006. I hope he does us some good luck.

The most important part of this post is yet to be reached, Totti is a true leader in fact I can't say but this legend is a Roman god. He said that he had the chance to leave Roma and win the Balon D'or but his heart wanted to stay at Roma, and he has full respects to the current Roma owner Rosella Sensi and has extended his Roma contract up to 2019, yes no one would dare go so far, but he does, he would hang up his boots in any time he wants most probably 2014 and then enjoy the rest of the contract as a Roma staff member.

Now the transfer news here comes, I have had enough with the Andriy Voronin stuff about joining Roma and Aquilani going in the other direction as Liverpool boss, Rafa Benitez, blocked the chance of signing Aquilani stating that he will do everything possible to kep Xabi Alonso at the Reds. We have also moved quickly and a step further to the signature of Inter hitman Julio Cruz, I don't know what could a man at the age of 34 offer, but a guy like Julio definitely didn't die just yet, he has to offer a bit more and I am convinced that as much as he sucked, he'll do better than Esposito will do. Maybe this sounded somehow a good transfer rumour day.

Roma Squad List and the change in numbers

Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:53:49 -0500

The New Squad Numbers have been released and there is some changes, the ones in bold have changed numbers, the ones in italic are new and the normal ones, stayed the same:

Player Name	Number
Cicinho	2
Andreolli	3
Juan	4
Mexes	5
Pizarro	7
Aquilani	8
Vucinic	9
Totti	10
Taddei	11
Barusso	12
Motta	13
Faty	14
Antunes	15
De Rossi	16
Riise	17
Esposito	18
Baptista	19
Perrotta	20
Guberti	21
Tonetto	22
Greco	23
Cerci	24
Artur	25
Pit	26
Sergio	27
Rosi	28
Doni	32
Brighi	33
Pena	34
Bertolacci	35
Brsosco	36
Crescenzi	37
Frasca	38
Stoain	39
Malomo	40
Cassetti	77
Okaka	89
Menez	93