THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi II

[AS Collie]

Edzo, did you say you had english subtitles for 11 Metri? I know this is a long time ago but I want to give it to a mate and he doesn't speak Italian.

[RomaShield27]

[DavidP]

try this link, collie: http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documen ... 2/11-Metri

[AS Collie]

[maro]

In Italia non scherzano neppure i ministri, da Alfano all’ex Calderoli, tutt’e due accusati di razzismo: l’attuale responsabile dell’Interno ha chiamato vù cumprà i venditori ambulanti e il dirigente leghista definì un orango il ministro Kyenge. Che cosa pensa del razzismo negli stadi?
«Razzismo significa odiare qualcuno. A me sembra che in Italia siate troppo sensibili su questo punto, nel senso che se si fischia un ragazzo africano ci si scandalizza più che se si fischia un italiano. Sapeste che cosa mi hanno urlato a Torino quando sono andato a giocare contro la Juve! Altro che razzismo!>>

[Italiamia]

I had to post this here. It's one of the funniest things I've read in a long time:

Going-Out-Of-Business Sign Thanks Neighborhood For 3 Months Of No Support Whatsoever


INDIANAPOLIS—Shuttering its doors after an unprofitable 12 weeks in business, local coffee shop Crossroads Café offered a heartfelt goodbye to the community this week with a large going-out-of-business sign thanking residents for their total lack of support. “Although we’re sad to be leaving, the whole team at Crossroads Café owes a huge debt of gratitude to our customers for only peeking in, ignoring our daily fresh baked goods, not showing up to any of our live events, and just generally being uncaring pricks,” read the emphatic, hand-lettered poster prominently displayed in the window of the now-defunct storefront. “Having to make rent and payroll with barely $100 in sales is an experience we’ll never forget. We feel so fortunate that even for three short months we had the chance to serve such a cheap, disloyal community who clearly could give a shit about supporting local commerce. And we truly mean this from the bottom of our hearts: Thanks for nothing, assholes.” The poster is considered to be the local business community’s sincerest farewell to the public since the Fox Road Blockbuster Video hung its famous “Enjoy Your Fucking Netflix” banner in 2011.

[DavidP]

[AS Collie]

Almost forgot to get my Champions League ticket sorted. That would have been a nightmare.

Anyone who's looking for tickets in the future, I'd suggest contacting the club's ticket office directly. The customer service is really good. I almost forgot I was in Italy for a second. I did the season ticket for the UCL over the phone with a credit card. It was like being transported into the future.

They have a phone number, +39 0689386000, and according to them they speak English as well. Remarkable.
+39 0689386000

[RomaShield27]

I rang that ticket office last game I went. They were helpful but yer one's English wasn't great, but then again it was for the Inter game when half the stadio was closed so there was lots of confusion etc over what areas were open. I didn't buy tickets then cos of the mess, just waited until I got over there and went into one of the stores. I'd recommend still doing that if you're there a few days before a game, just easier to pick your seat and see prices etc.

Good stuff on Saba by Horncastle: http://www.espnfc.com/club/as-roma/104/ ... of-as-roma

Lots of good things about this Carlos Carbonero player we've supposedly signed – "a Gattuso with better feet":

http://asroma.co.uk/news/transfer-talk/ ... -carbonero

[Italiamia]

[Italiamia]

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[DCGweez]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/ ... ic-4057220

[maro]

Stampa inglese scatenata: la Roma su Jovetic, Destro al Tottenham
I quotidiani inglesi danno risalto alle trattative che coinvolgono la società giallorossa. Per Destro gli Spurs disposti ad offrire 25 milioni di euro.

Calciomercato AS Roma

di Mirko Porcari 16 agosto 2014 | 08.53 |

Si parla molto di mercato in Inghilterra, dove tutti attendono questo week end per l’inizio ufficiale della Premier: tra notizie verosimili e rumors poco attendibili, la stampa d’oltremanica continua a monitorare le mosse della Roma ed il feeling giallorosso con i club inglesi.



Sul Daily Mirror si legge come Walter Sabatini voglia strappare Stevan Jovetic al Manchester City: il talento 24enne potrebbe partire per una cifra vicina ai 20 milioni di sterline (circa 33 mln di euro) ma il tecnico dei Citizens, Manuel Pellegrini, preferirebbe non privarsi dell’ex calciatore della Fiorentina, considerato un ottimo elemento con ampi margini di miglioramento.



Sul fronte Mattia Destro, è addirittura The Times a parlare di un possibile approdo in Premier: “Su Destro lavora forte il Tottenham” si legge dalle colonne dell’eminente giornale, a conferma di un’indiscrezione che prende corpo sul futuro dell’ex senese.

Ieri Destro non è stato schierato contro il Wiener per un problema muscolare (motivo ufficiale) ma in molti hanno visto l’esclusione come un segnale importante in vista di una probabile cessione. L’offerta? Si parla di 18 milioni di sterline ( quasi 25 milioni di euro) che Franco Baldini sarebbe pronto a mettere sul piatto per convincere la Roma a privarsi del bomber ascolano.

[maro]

forzaroma's been full of the Jovetic stuff all week. It strikes me as improbable - because Jovetic seems to have been playing very well and a lot in the pre-season for Shitty; because taking the offshoots of a club like Shitty is likely to mean a commitment to wages that we're unlikely to manage.

[DavidP]

ultimately pre-season doesn't count for much. pellegrini is clearly fond of him but if he can't carry his form over to the league i don't think it's a rumor that should be dismissed outright (3 games left before the end of the window). destro reportedly wants north of 3m anyway so how long can we keep avoiding handing out a big contract? according to goal.com jovetic makes a little over 5m and if we want to win the scudetto we should come close to offering that to Totti's heir. it would be nice to have a more like-for-like replacement for him at CF.

[maro]

Yes, it's that difficult one, isn't it. It's impossible for the side not to be Totti-dependent because he's such an incomparably brilliant player. And so you need something more like a like-for-like replacement within the squad. On the other hand, Jovetic-for-Destro would surely leave the squad very short of a true striker, someone who runs in behind, stretches the line, causes damage in the box. It'd leave the side very short of a kind of option, precisely because of the similarities between Jovetic and Totti. Perhaps Garcia thinks he can get all the runs in behind from the wide players, but you'd think Jovetic-for-Destro would imbalance the mix of alternatives within the squad.

[DavidP]

yes, i initially added something similar at the end but edited it out when i realized we did just fine without a true out-and-out striker in the beginning. whether or not totti was hiding the deficiency of that system because of his quality and whether that's too much to ask of jovetic is an interesting question. clearly it would be nice to have more room for flexibility when we need it but perhaps borriello can provide that.

[maro]

What are the chances that Borriello's still at the club come the end of August? Pre-season doesn't count for much, of course; I meant, though, that it looks as though Jovetic has finally settled. He never did last season because he arrived injured and never had a chance quite to find his feet. I'm not quite sure why he'd leave ManShitty to come to Roma, unless he misses the weather and the food, I suppose. If he's going to be an important part of that Shitty side - and there are some signs that he might be - then I'd have thought he might fancy staying where he is. He could be forgiven for thinking he might win more there and earn more there than in Rome. There have been whispers that Shitty have to do some selling to keep onside with the fair-play regulations, which seem to be biting rather more than the biggest clubs seem to have expected.

[DavidP]

he's featured a lot in pre-season but that probably has more to do with aguero's and negredo's fitness levels rather than pellegrini's faith in him. my point was that a good pre-season doesn't always mean a player is settling in well (e.g. bojan at every club since barca), although jovetic may well be. yes, i heard that about FFP too. mostly though i guess it depends on whether or not they see him as an important part of the team, it's his second season so it's now or never. i doubt they want to keep paying a bench player 5m+ a year and if they can get destro in exchange they might even throw a couple mill towards his salary like they did with maicon. i can't say i have a good handle on jovetic's character but it's hard to see a player of his potential wasting his mid-20s on the bench and rejecting a move to roma if he's told that he isn't needed. plus we have the weather and the food. if things stay the way they are in the attacking department i think the chances of borriello staying are pretty low. i can't stand the cunt but if that swap does happen he could be useful, especially considering totti's and jovetic's injury history.

[maro]

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/2483/94261 ... nited-move

That site isn't especially reliable, but it's also slow to move, which means that if it reports something like this, there's likely to be something of some sort of substance behind it.