Internazionale Main Thread III

[Totally FRANK]

After a year of chasing Lucas, making visits to Brazil and talking to his parents, PSG come in overnight with an offer of 45m and it's all done.

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[zafferano]

Lucas was overpriced allready for that amount they can have it.
so many question to be answered now ,starting with Platini and
his financial situation for clubs competing in europe,and then
theres IBRA ,we know what a primadonna likes to be and how
people like LUCAS, LAVEZZI ,PASTORE (45 million player also )
VERRATI,and the ex roma frenchman .Porcellotti have to be very
carefull ,just remember IBRA playng at barca ,what a hanfull
was for there .time wuill tell

[Messinterista]

[Totally FRANK]

[kros]

we need a mf and not lucas ... why not give alavarez and coutinho a chance in that position?

i'm hoping that psg get interested in Julio Cesar and Maicon. we can ask for 20m, and dumb as they are they'll give us 40m

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[zafferano]

Sahin get 5 million a year ,so theres no way we ever get him
and who is to say that Cou os not better then Lucas ?

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[Messinterista]

[Totally FRANK]

[Messinterista]

31 and a reject of PSG, exactly who'd we go for

Dzagoev did have a good Euro campaign but we would have to pay quite a bit to bring him here (he is also 22 and not Argentinean so doesn't fit into our plans)

I actually checked his wiki page to read up more about him and it states that his current club is Inter. Someone is quite optimistic.

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Inter scrape past Hajduk

Inter almost managed to throw away a 3-0 first leg lead, but the 2-0 home defeat to Hajduk Split was enough to keep them in the Europa League.

The first leg’s 3-0 victory in Croatia seemed to have put qualification for the Europa League play-off firmly within the Nerazzurri’s grasp. Philippe Coutinho was promoted to the starting XI after his great goal in Split, though Douglas Maicon, Julio Cesar and Giampaolo Pazzini were dropped from the UEFA squad list. Cristian Chivu dislocated his toe in the first leg.

This was the first ever match played on the new San Siro turf, which is a revolutionary hybrid between synthetic and natural elements.

Walter Samuel was booked within five minutes for a late tackle on Ivan Vukovic. There was also a nasty clash of heads between Diego Milito and Mario Maloca, the Croat getting the worst of it and needing to be replaced.

The 17-year-old Ibrahima Mbaye completed a give-and-go with Wesley Sneijder to burst to the by-line and pull back past the goalkeeper, but some desperate defending stopped Milito tapping in.

Javier Zanetti brought the house down with a sneaky nutmeg to burst into the box. Even at age 38, the captain remains a leader for Inter. Another great run from Zanetti pulled back for Coutinho, whose deflected finish came off the underside of the crossbar from six yards.

However Hajduk were awarded a clear penalty when Samuel completely mistimed his tackle to take down Vukovic’s ankle. The defender risked a second yellow card, but stayed on to watch Ante Vukusic sent Samir Handanovic the wrong way from the spot.

Inter were running a few too many risks on the back of their first leg cushion, as moments later Antonio Milic burst through between defenders and forced Handanovic to rush off his line to parry for a corner.

Coutinho should’ve equalised when he was sent clear through the centre by Sneijder, but drew out the goalkeeper and toe-poked it wide of the far post.

Fredy Guarin unleashed a right-foot screamer from distance that Goran Blazevic struggled to beat away with one hand. A scuffed Milito angled drive was off target, while just before the break a stunning Coutinho volley from the edge of the box skimmed the crossbar and another effort was well smothered.

In stoppages Milito sprung the offside trap and side-footed well wide of the far top corner. Straight after the restart, Coutinho drilled past the near post, but Handanovic had to rush off his line to charge down another Vukusic strike when Samuel mistimed the offside trap.

Vukusic again took the defence by surprise only to blast well wide, while Samuel risked giving away a penalty for a handling offence on the Vrsajevic cross-shot.

The Nerazzurri plunged into uncertainty when conceding a second on the counter-attack. Substitute Yuto Nagatomo wanted a free kick, but Hajduk burst down the other end and Vukovic scored a corker! He flicked up the ball from just inside the box and then hooked it into the far top corner past a stunned Handanovic.

This made it 3-2 on aggregate for Inter, so one more goal from the visitors would force extra time.

Coutinho squirmed between four players in the area, but Jonathan finished over. Samuele Longo replaced Coutinho, placing Esteban Cambiasso in front of the defence.

Sneijder won back possession and hit a missile just past the far post, then from a corner Andrea Ranocchia’s header was cleared before Longo could get the final touch.

Nagatomo’s angled drive was smothered at the near stick, though Zanetti showed great strength and pace to close down another Vukusic counter when Ranocchia was left behind.

Blazevic performed a fine double save on the Longo cross and Sneijder’s follow-up. There was a massive risk on 78 minutes, as Zanetti’s first error lost the ball in midfield and Vukusic spun his daisy-cutter inches past the base of the upright with Handanovic rooted to the spot.

Longo sprung the offside trap on Guarin’s through ball, but Blazevic timed his run perfectly to close down the youngster. Defender Matias Silvestre replaced the tired Sneijder for the final seven minutes, as Inter clung to their slender 3-2 aggregate lead in front of mostly silent fans.

Inter 0-2 Hajduk Split (3-2 agg)

Scorers: Vukusic pen 22 (H), Vukovic 58 (H)

Inter:Handanovic; Jonathan, Ranocchia, Samuel, Mbaye (Nagatomo 55); Zanetti, Cambiasso, Guarin; Sneijder (Silvestre 83); Coutinho (Longo 63), Milito

Hajduk Split:Blazevic; Vrsajevic, Maloca (Jonjic 10), Milovic, Jozinovic; Oremus, Milic, Radosevic, Andrijasevic (Caktas 59); Vukusic, Vukovic (Lustica 83)

Ref: Turpin (Fra)

Source: http://www.football-italia.net/22812/in ... ast-hajduk

[zafferano]

the list of players wanted by as is getting bigger and bigger but i dont see a MID.F.yet

1.Mudingayi
2.Silvestre
3.Andreolli
4.Lazaro
5.Granqvist
6.Giovinco
7.Borini
8.M'Vila
9.De Jong
10.Kolarov
11.Ibarbo
12.Lucas
13.Destro
14.Paulinho
15.Oscar
16.Lavezzi
17.Asamoah
18.Ramirez
19.Papu Gomez
20.Acerbi
21.Isla
22.Şahin
23.Diarra
24.Fernando Reges
25.Bojan
26.Lichnovsky
27.Verratti
28.Vukčević
29.Schelotto
30.Dybala
31.Gaitan
32.Bradley
33.Ogbonna
34.Strootman
35.Martens
36.Damiao
37.Tymoščuk
38.Belhanda
39.Ntcham
40.Tiotè
41.Rolin
42.Capoue
43.Sissoko
44.Peluso
45.Muriel
46.Cuadrado
47.Rodriguez
48.Benatia
49.Kucka
50.Jurado
51.Velasquez
52.Rolando
53.Jovetić
54.Martin
55.Lisandro Lopez
56.Vertonghen
57.Adriano Correia
58.Dragović
59.Susaeta
60.Afellay
61.Adriano
62.Dedè
63.Schürrle
64.Ralf
65.Handanovič
66.Ivanović
67.Borja Valero
68.Paletta
69.Debuchy
70.Viatri
71.Gago
72.Müller
73.Bosingwa
74.Robben
75.Markovic
76.Abecasis
77.Ocampos
78.Musacchio
79.Rossi
80.Fernando Martins
81.Piszczek
82.Koscielny
83.Dossena
84.Dzagoev
85.Giaccherini
86.Maxi Lopez
87.Savic
88.Wallace
89.Diamanti
90.Caballero
91.Benat
92.Zuniga
93.Jung
94.Moutinho
95.Zarate
96.Veloso
97.Casemiro
98.Belluschi
99.Poli
100.Cavani
101.Behrami
102.Nilmar
103.Yanga-Mbiwa
104.Krasić
105.Błaszczykowski
106.Banega
107.Armero
108.Cissokho
109.Gabbiadini
110.Nainggolan
111.Gargano
112.Xabi Alonso
113.Gilardino
114.Quintero
115.Săpunaru
116.Hernández
117.Ayew
118.Denis
119.Quagliarella
120.Matri
121.Bernard
122.Michel Bastos
123.Mertens
124.Lacazette
125.Škrtel
126.Cassano
127.Felipe Melo
128.Bergessio
129.Osvaldo
130.Heitinga
131.Adebayor
132.Adryan
133.Agostinho Cà
134.Edgar Lè
135.Anderson
136.Arias
137.Balotelli
138.Balzaretti
139.Tabanou
140.Ben Arfa
141.Cirigliano
142.Cuadrado
143.Damiao
144.Dani Alves
145.De Luca
146.The Waterboy
147.Die
148.Flamini
149.Ganso
150.Goretzka
151.Higuain
152.Ibrahimovic
153.Iturraspe
154.Juan
155.Juanfran
156.Kaboul
157.Sakho
158.Kagawa
159.Kapino
160.Kuyt
161.Suarez
162.Lamanna
163.Lloris
164.Lovren
165.Lucas Martins
166.Machis
167.Maggio
168.Mokhtar
169.Torsiglieri
170.Maachi
171.Monzon
172.Nani
173.Nasri
174.Nastasić
175.Nenè
176.Neymar
177.Niang
178.Obiang
179.Otamendi
180.Pato
181.Pinilla
182.Ponce
183.Reyes
184.Romulo
185.Rooney
186.Schaars
187.Schweinsteiger
188.Tevez
189.Tiotè
190.Van Der Vaart
191.Van Der Wiel
192.Van Wolfswinkel
193.Yaya Touré
194.Weiss
195.Götze
196.Drenthe
197.Carroll
198.Van Persie
199.Diakité
200.Caceres
201.Godin
202.Miranda
203.Matuzalem
204.Dos Santos
205.Rodrigo
206.Defoe
207.Jenas
208.Walker
209.Lennon

[Lombardiamia]

lol

[Messinterista]

Inter, Lazio learn Europa fate

The Europa League Play-off round draw has taken place today and pits Inter against Vaslui and Lazio against Mura 05.

Inter qualified for this round after narrowly overcoming Hajduk Split in the third qualifying round last night. Lazio automatically enter the Play-off round after finishing fourth in last season’s Serie A campaign.

In a faster draw process, the 62 teams in the pot were already assigned into groups of five seeded or unseeded clubs. Seeded groups were then each paired with unseeded groups. Today’s draw determined which seeded and unseeded teams from each group would then face each other in this Play-off round.

Inter will face Romanian side Vaslui, with the first leg to be played at the Liga I runners-up’s home, whilst Lazio are up against Slovenian outfit Mura 05, with the first leg to be played in Rome.

The Nerazzurri’s opponents Vaslui faced Lazio in last season’s Europa League and held them to two draws in the group stages. Mura 05, meanwhile, have already played three qualifying rounds to get to this stage.

That run includes defeating CSKA Sofia in the Second qualifying round and beating Arsenal Kyiv in the Third qualifying round thanks in part to a 3-0 win awarded in the first leg by UEFA, after the Ukrainians were deemed to have fielded an ineligible player.

The ties will be played on August 23 and August 30. The 31 winners will then enter the group stage draw of the competition, alongside 10 losers from the Champions League Play-off round and seven automatically qualified clubs. This latter group includes last season’s competitions winners Atletico Madrid and Italian representatives Napoli.

Source: http://www.football-italia.net/22827/in ... uropa-fate

[Messinterista]

You can add Walcott to that list Briz.

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