Comments on: VotD: Coppa Coppa Coppa

By: Daniele

Daniele — Sat, 24 May 2008 14:48:20 +0000

Bashar enjoyed that eh?

By: Johnny (ASR)

Johnny (ASR) — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:17:04 +0000

Chris is right, the courts (TAS) decided it about the Webster ruling. Same happened with the Bosman arrest a few years earlier, also the courts decided that. I agree with Bashar tho about how much a team should get for a player who wants to leave but the FIFA/UEFA won’t let that happen I guess.

By: chris

chris — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:12:20 +0000

brad, given the massive change this is going to cause in football, I think Webster is at least partly to blame. I don’t know the legal particulars of the ruling, but at some point it should’ve become pretty clear how monumental this would become. At that point the best choice would’ve been to simply fall on his sword and wait to be shipped out in six months or so.

And Bashar, I think the courts decided the particulars, not FIFA – as idiotic as Sepp Blatter may be.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:00:19 +0000

The feeling coming from media reports and the Zampa site is overwhelmingly indicative of an imminent purchase of Roma by Soros. Obviosuly nothing is for sure until its a done deal and anything can happen but this is the first time that all signals are pointing to a takeover in the near future. Perhaps its almost time to change our mercato wishlists?

As much as I hope for some quality signings, I hope we don’t go crazy and just start buying up stars for the sake of buying stars and marketing them. 40-50 million euros on transfers in addition to the sales of Mancini/Espo/Giuly should give us what we need to be in great shape next year.

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:56:16 +0000

Awww

By: KJ

KJ — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:55:43 +0000

Daniele, truce it is!

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:18:11 +0000

Hah!
http://romanews.eu/public/upload/24052008_782822883744299.jpg

By: Bashar

Bashar — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:13:43 +0000

brad.. you are right.. FIFA are morons to have such a rule. There should be a ratio. If the contract has less than 2 years left you go off at your remaining salary, if you have 3 years left you can leave at 1.5 x your remaining salary, 5 years left then it’s 2.5 x salary. Something like that.

So say Kaka has 3 years left at a salary of say 6 mn per year then he goes for 3 x 6 mn = 18 (which is his remaining salary) x 1.5 (for the three years left) so he can go for 27 mn euros.

By: Daniele

Daniele — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:44:25 +0000

Kudos to Gli Azurrini.

Chivu playing tomorrow?

Lord I hope he does.

KJ, me and you, have no more beef.

Official. *handshake*

Predictions for tomorrow?

I see a 2-1 Roma, but in my heart I want 10-0. I hope Chivu gets it the entire match.

Either way SEMPRE FORZA ROMA CON TE

By: chris

chris — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:31:40 +0000

Jesus, I was flipping channels and I saw the exact same thing. That’s funny. Must be Coppa final time.

(Preview out soon.)