Paid Members I Bent My Wookie Posted December 24, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 That's preparation for a relegation battle like never before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 24, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 Relegation battle? They're three points off of the play-off places! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members SpursRiot2012 Posted December 24, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 Think he means the eventual relegation battle after promotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted December 24, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 Ah right, that's a fair point in that case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted December 24, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 24, 2017 Karanka must be a shoe in for the Wednesday job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Merry Xmas Brighton fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted December 25, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 25, 2017 Probably as high as they were going to get. You knew all this £30 million stuff in the summer was bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoUseforaUsername Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 When I think of famous Italian footballers from the glory days, pre-oil baron money, I can list lots of goalkeepers (Peruzzi, Pagliuca, Toldo, Buffon), defenders (Baresi, Maldini, Nesta, Costacurta) and attacking players (Del Piero, Totti, Vieri, Inzaghi, R. Baggio) but it's a lot harder to come up with midfield names. Until Pirlo, De Rossi and Gattuso come along - my brother always maintained the latter two were overrated - who would've been the archetypal midfielders between say 94 and 04? Albertini, Di Biagio... Donadoni? D. Baggio? I could list off 30 strikers or attacking players off the top of my head but barely any central midfielders in the Scholes, Keane, Davids mould. And isn't it funny, how again, virtually all the Italian exports to the PL were strikers - Zola, Di Canio, Ravanelli, Casiraghi, Carbone, Silenzi. Think it'd be the excess defensive players they had being exported seeing as it's the country that preached Catenaccio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted December 25, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 25, 2017 Conte and Tardelli for a simple start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoUseforaUsername Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 6 minutes ago, Teedy Kay said: Conte and Tardelli for a simple start. Sorry I should've made it clear that I was referring to 90's and early 00's when I was growing up. Forgot about Conte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted December 25, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 25, 2017 Gianluigi Lentini was decent until he had his car accident. Don't know if I'd count him as an out and out central midfielder though. Went for the World Record fee one time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Curious Orange Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Di Matteo, Eranio and Lombardo are the only other ones that come to mind straight away from the 90s. Possibly there's not too many as the Italian clubs in the 90s had a load of awesome foreign midfielder's as Series was the big league at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted December 25, 2017 Paid Members Share Posted December 25, 2017 (Lombardo) People always took the piss out of looking about 45 when he was 25 with his balding head, but he was actually some player during the Sampdoria Gullit, Platt days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MungoChutney Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 1 hour ago, TildeGuy~! said: Merry Xmas Brighton fans. Chris McLaughlin from BBC Scotland had already called bullshit quoting a Celtic 'source'. He's usually more likely to have the correct info than Sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Bifkin Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 That's how far into the gutter Scottish football has fallen when a renowned non footballing province like Brighton are snapping up the best player to ever play up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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