Articles tagged with "mancini"
The Monday Happenings
By chris | July 16th, 2007Update: Within the next few hours an accord will be reached that will send Ludovic Giuly to Roma for around €3m. It had begun to ...
Anfield Banter: God watch, Kewell pain, More Mancini, Hammill speaks, & Barbara Streisand
By Brian | July 14th, 2007* For a player that 'nobody wants', Robbie Fowler sure is getting a lot of attention. First off, St. Mirren aren't interested. Uh, okay. ...
Bobo, Bojinov & Disappointment Galore
By chris | July 10th, 2007After I wrote this Daniele Prade issued a statement saying they are not interested in Bojinov, which makes it all the more legitimate. Remember the ...
Rosinaldo & A Plethora Of Nothingness
By chris | July 7th, 2007Roosinallllldoooooooo: So, after everybody had written off any chance of acquiring Alessandro Rosina from Torino (myself included), the rumor mill has started back up again. Only ...
Anfield Banter: Ricardo Quaresma, Shunsuke Nakamura, Craig Bellamy, Peter Crouch, Robbie Fowler, Harry Kewell, Peter Beardsley, & Steve McManaman
By Brian | July 5th, 2007* Apparently a bid for FC Porto's wonder winger Ricardo Quaresma was rejected, but it was insinuated that a slight raise of the offer might ...
An Anfield Banter not-so-special: It's Spectacular Speculation Saturday!
By Brian | June 23rd, 2007For one day and one day only I will speculate over the speculations of others! Wait... since the season ended I pretty much do that ...
An Overwhelming Number of Little Odds and Ends
By Martha | June 21st, 2007•It would take weeks to cut and paste all of the co-ownership deals that were extended or resolved yesterday, but most of the big clubs ...
Roma reject Mancini bid
By Brian | June 21st, 2007And quite frankly, I'm happy about it. Why, you may ask? Well, why, if this story is to believed, would we spend £13m ...
A Preview Of @#$% Hitting The Fan
By Chris | June 21st, 2007Updates: Stop the presses. Juan is official! Holy crap this came out of nowhere. The official number is €6.3m, great deal considering his quality and ...
Spalletti & Afternoon Delight
By Chris | June 8th, 2007Luciano Spalletti (yeah, that's him) had a long interview on the tele today and il Romanista printed the dialogue. It wasn't exactly a sexy interview ...
Inter: New Graduates of the Juventus School of Valuation
By Chris | May 30th, 2007A few nuggets for today: 1. The front page of Il Romanista reports this morning of an offer from Internazionale. Nothing new, they have always coveted ...
Totti is King of Europe (For Now)
By Chris | May 27th, 2007Roma 4 - Messina 3 Totti (10, 73); Mancini (19); Rosi (83) - Rigano (9, 58); Cordova (76) It's hard to get excited with The Incredible Hulk, ...
Totti: Birth of a Dynasty
By Chris | May 19th, 2007“This trophy won’t be the last, but only the first of a long line that must follow.” As I read this quote I picture Totti standing ...
Roma v Lazio: Clean Sheets All Around
By Martha | April 29th, 2007Not much in this one, really. Sure, there was the odd moment of brilliance from Mancini (who is really on fire lately), but it was ...
The Last Post on Inter's Title, I Swear
By Martha | April 23rd, 2007After carefully going through all the photos at Getty and the Inter website of the team's endless celebration last night, I've come to the conclusion ...
Champions League: Mancini Loves Himself, Totti Channels Irene Cara
By Martha | April 2nd, 2007You gotta love the Champions League run-up. As the number of teams decreases, everyone gets more tense and starts saying even stupider things. On the Mancini ...
Champions League: Roma Step Over (Geddit?) Lyon
By Martha | March 7th, 2007While I only saw the first half, I feel comfortable describing the Lyon-Roma game as "awesome." In the first 30 minutes, possession was about 75%-25% ...
The Brawl, in Bullet Point Fashion
By Martha | March 7th, 2007•By all accounts, Valencia's David Navarro really did just walk up, slug Nicolas Burdisso (who had the nerve to be arguing -- or fighting -- ...
France in the Champs League: Lyon falls flat and goes out
By Sam | March 6th, 2007Favourite Barcelona loses to Liverpool, favourite Inter loses to Valencia, and, argh, favourite Lyon loses to AS Roma. Not in style, mind you. I was ...
18 Down, 1 to Go
By Michael | February 27th, 2007Internazionale get back after it on Wednesday in one of those midweek matchdays that, after its played, will seem like it never really happened. There’s ...
Slow news day?? Back to Old Reliable
By Michael | February 26th, 2007- Since the end of the World Cup, any day that there is an absence of Inter transfer rumors the press hits a familiar note: ...
Inter Want De Rossi and All of His Pretty Roma Friends
By Martha | February 16th, 2007You're not going to believe this: It's a big transfer rumor from Tuttosport that doesn't involved Juve! When you go out today, be on the ...
Odds and Ends from the Weekend
By Martha | January 29th, 2007•Now it's not just Juve who are supposedly tracking Frank Lampard, but Milan and Inter as well. All of this stems from Lampard's lack of ...
Mancini Positions Himself for a Move (or a Huge Contract)
By Martha | January 26th, 2007London's The Sun is absolutely loving the whole "Will They or Won't They?" thing with Robert Mancini and Jose Mourinho. Today's on-line version of the ...
Mancini and Mourinho: Musical Managerial Chairs?
By Martha | January 25th, 2007Under a fairly awesome headline reading "Mancini is Jose minus aggro," London's ever-reliable Sun reported today that Chelsea owner Roman Abromovich is totally over The ...
Messina v Roma: Handbags!
By Martha | January 14th, 2007This game -- a ragged, nasty 1-1 draw -- was so chaotic that I'm entirely incapable of writing about it coherently, so bullet points will ...
Newsie Bits: A Weekend of Conflict Resolution
By Martha | January 13th, 2007•Though I somehow missed that it was happening in the first place, the legal battle between Paolo Di Canio and Lazio is at an end. ...
Mancini Leaving Rome?
By Martha | January 12th, 2007According to The Gazzetta dello Sport (and, suspiciously, only The Gazzetta dello Sport), Mancini is miserable at Roma -- despite scoring one goal and creating ...
It's the New Year, and No One is Going Anywhere
By Martha | January 2nd, 2007In a very unsettling change of tone, the Italian press today is full of flowers and sunshine -- instead of transfer rumors, today's news is ...
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