The new season of Offside Trap focuses predictably enough on the winter transfer speculation. With Bayern looking the strongest I've seen probably since 2000-01, especially since I'm not one of those clowns who thought their 2009-10 UCL Final campaign was anything special. But this year, they're so strong they even managed to beat India 4-0!! (remember the time Barcelona came to the cauldron that is Kolkata and lost 0-3??? coz if you do, you might need to be institutionalized...). Which is why Berbatov (because he plays at ManU...) or Shaqiri (who had 2 assists against ManU) replacing Gomes or Muller sounds even more ridiculous.
Contrast with poor Carlitos who was my favorite player of the 2004 Copa America so many years ago (which obviously sounds a lot cooler than just letting you calculate how many years ago 2004 was and weighting it against my overall age to realize said time lapse qualifies for "so many", which obviously sounds less cooler than if I'd said it without an explanation), who clubs and managers are passing around like a South African woman walking alone in a dark alley. It is Cassano '07 all over again, and my hope with this story was the same as my hope for that story... Come to Roma!
Meanwhile in Roma, it is Cassano 05-06 all over again, with De Rossi's contract talks. Roma doing what they do best. NOTHING! Everyone has come out to say they'll push hard to keep De Rossi, but knowing Roma they'll probably just spend their energy pushing hard to keep other clubs from wanting to touch him instead. A paltry 5Million saw Cassano leave for RM despite Roma's outrageous tactics of stopping negotiation and instead starting a smear campaign that made Cassano as a player less palatable to top clubs, ironic given self-smearing is something Cassano never really needs help with. It hasn't come to that yet with De Rossi so I'm still hopeful I wont wake one day to the headline "Sabatini criticizes mercenary De Rossi and his reliability, warns others of his fickle nature.."
Contrast with poor Carlitos who was my favorite player of the 2004 Copa America so many years ago (which obviously sounds a lot cooler than just letting you calculate how many years ago 2004 was and weighting it against my overall age to realize said time lapse qualifies for "so many", which obviously sounds less cooler than if I'd said it without an explanation), who clubs and managers are passing around like a South African woman walking alone in a dark alley. It is Cassano '07 all over again, and my hope with this story was the same as my hope for that story... Come to Roma!
Meanwhile in Roma, it is Cassano 05-06 all over again, with De Rossi's contract talks. Roma doing what they do best. NOTHING! Everyone has come out to say they'll push hard to keep De Rossi, but knowing Roma they'll probably just spend their energy pushing hard to keep other clubs from wanting to touch him instead. A paltry 5Million saw Cassano leave for RM despite Roma's outrageous tactics of stopping negotiation and instead starting a smear campaign that made Cassano as a player less palatable to top clubs, ironic given self-smearing is something Cassano never really needs help with. It hasn't come to that yet with De Rossi so I'm still hopeful I wont wake one day to the headline "Sabatini criticizes mercenary De Rossi and his reliability, warns others of his fickle nature.."
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