Hallo Everybody. :-)
This is a new Citizen fellow since monday 21st, from Genoa, Italy.
My new friend 10.Goater_Legend asked me ovenight my expectation from january market under Mancini managent, according of my knowledge of A.C. Sampdoria support felt in love with Roberto since his early arrival to Genoa when in 1982:
Hopfully a couple of solid backfilders for january.
Maicon will be great, but inspite of his devotion to Mancini I do not see Inter will give him a bye easily.
For the centerback, I won't be so positive because there are very fews of the currently available and the teams that has theme use to keep them strongly: Chiellini is not a fake, is pretty improved pretty good along last 2 yrs. but he's not that good (I mean far away for a John Terry f.i.). Maybe the Palermo's young guy from Denmark could be brought with some money, but again is just a promise that did a good half season under a good coach, and I'm not so sure he could meet with Mancio target.
In my opinion this is the chanche Robrto has wandered since he decided to run the coaching carreer: a club of high tradition backed by a hugely wealty ownership within the best environment for football: England's Premiership. So that he will hardly try to setup a dream team of players fitted with both talent and personality (like Gerrard, Lampard, Xavi Alonso just for ex. because unavailable). The man is one who like pretty much spending money, but not wasting in fakes: he like to purchase aston martin, ferrari or bentley - not alfa romeo or volvo just to say.
Thence I expext not a sprakling january campain, just enough to strenght the very non corrigible weakness of the squad. Much more improvent I expect from on field work in order to correct weakness with tactics and playing style. The club is already fit with good players and with proper assessment weaknesses may recovered enough to get the fourth which is the real target to get the owner's trust.
He will certainly re assess the team to play a massive ball possession to open up the game either widely sometimes and sometime to move to the center by asking rubi to play among the lines.
On defence phase he will probaly try to impost kompany like pirlo use to play for ac milan (don't koow how to say the role in english...lol) in front the defensive line in order to strenght it and I expect him to stress enormously the defender to memorize and customize diagonal closures and the likes.
The main concern is that this kind of work does not match up with netx 30 days full of fixtures..... However i'm pretty sure he will deliver because:
a) he's living the occasion of his life - he's a very greedy sportman with a actual obsession for winning the CL that his the only and forever regret of his playing carreer
b) you citizens are first class fan embodied with the colture of backing the club against all odds, for what I smelled over the forums, and this is all roberto needs providing that he has a good pack in the hands
c) the club top managent over being wealty, it appears to run the business very professionally (a part from the difficulties in achieving fair threatment over the media, mainly due to the envy arised in competitors by the arrival of unmatchable tycoons): I don't know many owner that keep a non chosen key manager a allow him to develop a 18 months plan supported by £ 250m.
It will be Mancini's duty to gain such kind of trust than will really enjoy a very sparkling purchase and selling campain by next summer.
Happy Xmas everybody and very much looking forwaed to saturday 2 p.m. GMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcW-A1uVp4&NR=1
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