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Lads, I waited to long to make a thread and as is fitting this year in our lives, the op is going to be poo poo and made haphazardly and on my phone. Here are your squads in order of last years finish: Juventus FC Internazionale Milano FC Atalanta BC SS Lazio AS Roma AC Milan SSC Napoli US Sassuolo Calcio Hellas Verona FC AFC Fiorentina Parma Calcio 1913 Bologna FC 1909 Udinese Calcio Cagliari Calcio UC Sampdoria Torino FC Genoa CFC Benevento Calcio FC Crotone Spezia Calcio Spezia are making their serie A debuts after winning the promotion playoff. Benevento, led by Pippo Inzaghi, destroyed Serie B last year and I think had the title nearly wrapped up before the lockdown. They’ve also had the best market by far of the promoted teams. It’ll be good to see the Inzaghi brothers manage against each other. Other big news is that Andrea Pirlo is the head coach of Juventus after Sarri was sacked and Parma were bought by an American conglomerate man who owns a chain of gas stations called, hand to god, Kum and Go. Let’s all hope that sponsor shows up soon to ruin an otherwise great kit. Let’s seee uuuhhh, De Laurentiis exposed the entire group of club presidents to COVID-19 by attending a conference while knowingly infected, that happened. There will be some fans in stadiums where the regional government has allowed it. So far, Emilia Romagna (Parma, Sassuolo, Bologna) and Veneto (Hellas). I think this is insane. This could theoretically be a good season since Juve are looking their worst in years meaning they could leave the title decider to maybe two or three game days before the last day, making Ronald mad. Antonio Conte will be mad until his average squad age is over 35 and the Napoli coffee man will have a lol with Mertens and Insigne for being bigger than them combined. Sorry for the shite thread!!!! First match is today!!!!
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Can’t wait for my main man Weston McKennie to setup Big Ron for 69 goals
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Sep 19, 2020 13:39
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Oh yeah, he’s the first American to ever play for Juve. I guess that is pretty big news!
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Sep 19, 2020 13:42
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Forza Palermo I don't loving care where they are rn
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Sep 19, 2020 13:59
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Gigi Galli posted:Oh yeah, he’s the first American to ever play for Juve. I guess that is pretty big news! As if he serves any purpose other than to trick more Americans into following Juve
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Sep 19, 2020 15:26
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Waiting for americans to watch calcio is like waiting for the Cygames deal to lead to a Juve anime girl V-tuber. It could happen, I guess. Fatty G is gone, I don't even know what to think of the market, Pirlo is probably a mistake but one I'm willing to be wrong on, but whatever. Hopefully Hellas all infect themselves and that's that many less nazis in the world.
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Sep 19, 2020 16:14
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I've basically talked myself into the Pirlo thing at this point. All the PR pieces that Juve have planted in the media worked on me, I guess. Ultimately I agree with what he's doing to try to address last season's shaky defense - if you don't have legit defending fullbacks in the squad, don't do what Sarri did last year. Just play with wingbacks and a back 3. Can't figure out what to expect from the midfield tbh. A lot rides on Arthur being a legit improvement over recent Pjanic, and Rabiot being closer to the player he was after the shutdown instead of the one he was before. Also maybe Pirlo can salvage Ramsey, Sarri didn't get much from him.
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Sep 19, 2020 16:39
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trem_two posted:I've basically talked myself into the Pirlo thing at this point. All the PR pieces that Juve have planted in the media worked on me, I guess. Ultimately I agree with what he's doing to try to address last season's shaky defense - if you don't have legit defending fullbacks in the squad, don't do what Sarri did last year. Just play with wingbacks and a back 3. Unfortunately the hype around Piro reminds me a lot of the hype around Giampaolo and we saw how that worked. I don’t think it’ll work out as bad but it’s very similar.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:00
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Gigi Galli posted:Unfortunately the hype around Piro reminds me a lot of the hype around Giampaolo and we saw how that worked. I don’t think it’ll work out as bad but it’s very similar. Yeah, I fully get that I'm drinking the kool aid. Ultimately with Juve's squad I think it'll be difficult for him to gently caress it up to the point where they won't be in the scudetto race. I could be wrong though, maybe he'll pull a Rafa/Gasperini-at-Inter debacle.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:24
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I think that they'll clearly be in the picture for a scudetto but that really shouldn't be the bar that we're aiming for. Unless Pirlo works some kind of wonder, that midfield looks like a liability anywhere outside of Italy and some places in Italy as well. I'd like to see them in a CL final but I don't know if that will happen this year. At least I can hope that Benevento put something together to stay up a year so that maybe I can catch a game year after next.
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Sep 19, 2020 17:29
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I think Pirlo is not ready which makes me happy.
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Sep 19, 2020 18:31
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Does the Inter Miami ownership group have a relationship with Juve or are the Matuidi and Higuain moves just coincidence. The Montreal owner has some Serie A connections iirc.
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Sep 19, 2020 20:25
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Seltzer posted:I think Pirlo is not ready which makes me happy. He probably understands enough about the game and the squad to take what is still probably the best squad in Italy (debatable I know) to win another year.
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Sep 19, 2020 20:57
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Seltzer posted:Does the Inter Miami ownership group have a relationship with Juve or are the Matuidi and Higuain moves just coincidence. The Montreal owner has some Serie A connections iirc. Just a coincidence
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Sep 19, 2020 21:03
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Gigi Galli posted:De Laurentiis exposed the entire group of club presidents to COVID-19 by attending a conference while knowingly infected, that happened. Natale In Ospedale
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Sep 19, 2020 21:44
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Simone Poodoin posted:Natale In Ospedale Lmao Seltzer posted:The Montreal owner has some Serie A connections iirc. Does Joe Saputo own Montreal? He owns Bologna.
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Sep 19, 2020 23:28
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Gigi Galli posted:Lmao Yeah they're the same ownership group. That's why there were deals like Taider and Dzemaili going to Montreal, plus there were 3 other Bologna players on loan at Montreal in the past year (I don't recognize any of the names though).
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Sep 19, 2020 23:35
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lol, just lol, at Parma going from Calisto Tanzi embezzling millions to buy Hernan Crespo to being owned by Iowans in the span of 20 years (i will say that the Krauses have shoveled money into an amateur team in Des Moines and done so because they enjoy soccer)
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Sep 20, 2020 05:18
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https://twitter.com/ADeLaurentiis/status/1307597252664463360?s=19 nbd, just the owner of a football team pledging his team's vote to today's election candidate.
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Sep 20, 2020 10:18
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Zappacosta is playing for Genoa now and he has scored a good goal. I had no idea that’s where Chelsea had sent him after Roma. Milan should’ve been after him ffs.
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Sep 20, 2020 15:06
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Kulusevski being a ginger slav is really something. Great goal though.
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Gigi Galli posted:Kulusevski being a ginger slav is really something. Great goal though. isn't he Swedish too?
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Sep 20, 2020 21:38
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Alexeythegreat posted:As if he serves any purpose other than to trick more Americans into following Juve He played the full 90 minutes. I didn’t watch the match, was he any good?
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Sep 20, 2020 21:43
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Shrapnig posted:He played the full 90 minutes. I didn’t watch the match, was he any good? He was very good op.
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Sep 20, 2020 21:50
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Jason Sextro posted:isn't he Swedish too? Yeah Shrapnig posted:He played the full 90 minutes. I didn’t watch the match, was he any good? Very
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Sep 20, 2020 22:38
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I'm gonna be real happy to be wrong about Pirlo. I liked what I saw this match and yeah it was Samp but I like that they didn't seem to ease up with the 1 goal lead.
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Sep 20, 2020 22:56
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https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1308070217747136512?s=19 And we're off to the first lol of the season
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Sep 21, 2020 17:09
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Here’s another lol: the guardia di finanza are investigating “irregularities” in Suarez’s language test for his Italian passport. loving lol if he gets done for cheating on a test he didn’t need to take.
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Gigi Galli posted:Here’s another lol: the guardia di finanza are investigating “irregularities” in Suarez’s language test for his Italian passport. loving lol if he gets done for cheating on a test he didn’t need to take. He's joining Atletico Madrid anyway.
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Sep 22, 2020 13:40
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Shrapnig posted:He's joining Atletico Madrid anyway. I know that's what makes it even better
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canepazzo posted:https://twitter.com/tancredipalmeri/status/1308070217747136512?s=19 The lols keep coming. The Roma exec that hosed up the player list, causing the 0-3 loss against Hellas, resigned, and is now signing for... Hellas
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canepazzo posted:The lols keep coming. lmao I'd be a lot more pleased with this if it gave anyone other than Hellas (or Inter I guess) 3 free points.
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Another excuse to post my favorite Roman documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxwXMweboi0
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Is Calhanoglu one of the best midfielders in the league? Dare I say yes. Amazing what a pandemic will do to a man. That assist for Colombo's goal tonight was  and his first goal was great. I mean the second one was too but less cool.
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Sep 24, 2020 21:42
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Dilkington posted:Another excuse to post my favorite Roman documentary: I will never not watch this whole thing lol
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Gigi Galli posted:Is Calhanoglu one of the best midfielders in the league? Dare I say yes. Amazing what a pandemic will do to a man. That assist for Colombo's goal tonight was We should've won last night. What an amazing second half. Best experience we've had in decades, just a shame we couldn't travel there with the team.
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euroboy posted:We should've won last night. What an amazing second half. Best experience we've had in decades, just a shame we couldn't travel there with the team. We should’ve killed it off in the first half but the second half was yours, agreed. Also hi!
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Sep 25, 2020 13:19
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That massive Conte bullshit at the end of the Inter game. Only his teams manage to do this consistently. For fucks sake Fiorentina!!!!!
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Sep 26, 2020 22:29
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he's gonna buy the most celebratory wig you ever saw
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Gigi Galli posted:Is Calhanoglu one of the best midfielders in the league? Dare I say yes. Amazing what a pandemic will do to a man. That assist for Colombo's goal tonight was Idk who took over the mind of Hakan but the guy is playing so well I'm afraid he might get picked up by someone else.
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