Comments on: Mancini: “You’re offering how much? Seriously?”

By: Len Pennant

Len Pennant — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:54:04 +0000

Il Romanista’s Daniele Lo Monaco, probably their best writer along with Ricky Luna, wrote a piece about this.

http://www.ilromanista.it/?section=news&id=10390

If you don’t speak Italian plug it into a translator and I’m sure you’ll get the gist.

The point of selling Mancini now for such a fund would really give Roma power NOW in buying someone in the coming weeks. Money makes impossible deals happen within 48-72 hours these days.

While I agree that Bianchi has so much potential, he is not a late bloomer. He’s been a hig profile player since he was spotted as a teen and has always shown great technical qualities. The boy is serious and works nonstop on his game, shooting, fitness. He would be a perfect addition for me, then get a wide player with the nice chunk of that City (thai blood laundered illegal) money.

Toni is the def of late bloomer, ay. No doubting that, Baggio joked that he couldn’t tie his own boots and chew gum at the same time when he was younger, like a Giraffe on stilts lol!!!

By: ilcapitano

ilcapitano — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:32:53 +0000

This deal should be done…after some questioning of course

Mancini’s been great to us, but this season just hasnt been up to par. all of the disruptions seem to be catching up to me at least, so it seems that him leaving and being replaced wont do much to team chemistry.

I dont think he has played a whole game yet. Most of these matches giuly or cicinho end up playing 10-20 minutes anyway, and I feel they are OK guys to play. Start, im not sure…

And Bianchi, thats one of the good parts. Kid has potential. Ive been dreaming the last few days of how he could be a late bloomer like Luca Toni…we all know how that worked out

By: UL

UL — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:14:19 +0000

Lorenzo and I seem to be on the exact same page. It’s exactly how I feel. We risk very little for large gains.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:00:42 +0000

I could be convinced otherwise, but I think at this point, we don’t catch Inter with our current squad and we don’t win CL with out current squad. If our best chance at improving our team is now (assuming the offer from Man C is real), it may be the best offer we will get for Mancini and we should do it. If we don’t you never know if Sven will fill that position with an equally valid player and we won’t be able to get nearly as much value for Mancini in the summer. Same arguement for Vargas. Now is the time before the big boys, who are already sniffing around, start dumping cash on Catania. We can offer them Antunes on loan in the package. So we disrupt chemistry a little bit. What will that cost us? I don’t think it will cost us that much to be honest. Maybe it will improve our chemistry? If we were in a serious schudetto race, I might think differently. If we had a team with a realistic chance of winning the CL, I would think differently. But in order to reach these lofty goals, this team needs to improve and if an opportunity arises to improve the team (i.e. get 21m euros to spend now or in the summer), I would take it. Just my $0.02.

By: goji-za

goji-za — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:12:09 +0000

you know it’s a slow mercato news day when you read this headline:

Roma, interesse per Bobo Vieri

By: UL

UL — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:55:01 +0000

It’s all talk in the end and we can only wait and see. Let’s just hope Roma get the best out of any which way this goes.

By: UL

UL — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:27:15 +0000

Vucinic: Great player. Potential? Correct. Does he have faith in Roma and want to bleed Roma? Yes it appears so. Do I want to sell him? No. Is he a good striker? He’s a capable striker, but often lacks in finishing. With that aside, we’re playing modern football here. Modern football requires a forward that has some size, can guard a ball and who can finish with all parts of their body, a Luca Toni type or Amauri type. Vucinic can score and has showed us he can be excellent, but he’s not that consistent. Can this change? yes it can. But we need OPTIONS. We have none. What if our formation changes? What if Vuci goes down? What if Totti goes down? Can a club with serious ambitions really rely on Vucinic as their only striker? Answer: HELL NO. We need options and we NEED a striker. We need a guy who can add a different dimention to our squad, who can be a capable substitute or full timer if need be. We need that Toni/Amauri style striker. A guy who can get physical, use his head and pull away defenders from guys like Totti and can take a beating. Vucinic is not that kinda guy.

We’re not saying Mancini isn’t a good player or doesn’t help the squad, but we have other areas that really need attention if we plan on winning, winning big games, and winning them often.

By: UL

UL — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:16:38 +0000

maro: It’s not the greatest deal in the history of transfers with 0 negative effects on the squad, but it’s quite incredible considering all the factors.

chris: I was just teasing about another post – I just like your articles.

LenPennant: we’re thinking along the same lines.

By: Caroe

Caroe — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:01:06 +0000

Chris: Will you make a post with the best goals of the season so far ?

By: Len Pennant

Len Pennant — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:52:14 +0000

ROTFLMAO! Roberto Pruzzo just said on teleradiostereo that he would swap Mancini for Bianchi even without money involved Roma need a striker so badly. Tells you about valued minds and valued pundits view of this team and how poor Mirko’s finishing has been for the last two months.

Let’s get it right, ay. Roma want to sell Mancio; and Roma will sell Mancio. The difference when dealing with Man City is they don’t muck about with payments, installations, bargaining … they buy everything high.

Those who said Roma don’t need a ST are living in a parallel universe as far as I’m concerned. Vucinic does not give a suitable gol return when he plays for this club up top, although he has had 3 great moments in quick succession. Quite the opposite. The word squander does spring to mind. He reminds me of that cracking Libertines tunes, “What a waster, what a f******G waster …!!!”