THE WOLF'S DEN - Tana dei Lupi II

[maro]

If the Cointreau rumours turn out to have some substance to them, 'tec's going to be mightily pissed. He might even throw his mouldy duck at his computer in discussed.

[RomaShield27]

I may join him. I'm already seeing headlines and stories of 'Dzeko + Cointreau = scudetto'. Lordfrigginhelpus. Twitter is a bad, bad place in mercatomadness time.

[Italiamia]

Hey, Edzo, you need to lure that little weasel Julian Dirty Martini here so we can beat up on him a bit. Some little shit who's 3 y ears out of University thinks he knows something about Roma.

[RomaShield27]

He writes for ESPN.

I put Giovanni's great post up on twitter, it got quite the response.

https://twitter.com/RomaShield27/status ... 3984964608

[maro]

Wow. Some of those tweets are really dumb. That Forza27 guy seems a prize muppet. Why do you bother following him, thredz?

[RomaShield27]

He's not too bad, once you get to know him. Plus, he's a real handsome chap who's a killer with all the ladies.

[Italiamia]

He's a typical American pajama boy blogger who knows jack shit about Roma. He works for Kaplan preparing High School kids for the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Kaplan is a large company that provides theses services for standardized and other testing. Even the bar exam but they suck at it.

[maro]

I think you may be talking about different people. Either that or threadmund has had a career and nationality change. On Forza27, for the record, I've heard he kills those ladies who are into knitted stripey jumpers and roller-blades. In parts of Dublin he's known as the Widow-slayer. Anything to make ends meet, right?

Barcelona, incidentally, are a pack of cnuts and were Gervinho white he'd be getting all the sac-sapping that Messi gets. And Pjanic is so the sort of player Barca would love to have. Just saying.

[p_maldini_3]

[maro]

The really odd thing is that Romagnoli and Allhailmybitch seem to consider Bilan a step-up on Samp. That's weird. Did they check the table at the end of last season?

Romagnoli shouldn't be expecting a new bumper contract - he should be getting his head down at training, trying to establish himself as a starter in the face of sterner competition and new defensive structures. Nor is there anything that's suggested that that isn't exactly what he is doing.

[p_maldini_3]

His feet aren't in question. But where's his head at?

[Italiamia]

Milan ready to take advantage of Roma's spending on foreigners. Galliani will count on the fact that Roma will want to offset that money buy selling Romagnoli. It may all be over this weekend.

[DCGweez]

Ed, I looked but couldn't find it. I read it somewhere that he met with him to underline his importance to the squad but i don't remember where now.

All i found was this from earlier in the month and it's hardly reassuring by Garcia:

GARCIA GELA IL MILAN: "ROMAGNOLI PEDINA IMPORTANTE"
Il tecnico della Roma, Rudi Garcia, ha parlato del futuro di Romagnoli, giocatore da tempo inseguito dal Milan: "Tutti i giocatori che sono qua più i nazionali che arriveranno dopo, come Romagnoli, sono importanti. Anche i giovani, è sempre un momento in cui stiamo insieme tutto il giorno e possiamo valutare bene tutto dentro e fuori dal campo".

[DCGweez]

With Dzeko and Salah being announced and paraded about i'm quite sure that Romagnoli is to be sold. It's the only PR move they have to "justify" the sale.

[p_maldini_3]

Come on, be a little more generous. 25m is justification enough!

[maro]

Too right - feck off: http://www.forzaroma.info/2015/08/08/be ... gna/459967

[maro]

So perhaps the Romagnoli deal will be settled tomorrow, then Destro to Bologna on Monday - gio will be apoplectic. At least he can console himself with the rumours of Yanga-Mbiwa to Lyon. Gio gets enraged when there are only four Italians in the starting 11. At this rate there are going to be four in the squad of 25.

[Italiamia]

You know me well, Tomasso. As I assumed, the great meeting between that ass-hat Sabatini, Galliani, and Romagnoli's agent took place today. We should be seeing an announcement of the transfer on Sunday.

So, that will be all for me. There will be times this year when you will see a Roma starting 11 of all foreign players. The prospect is literally nauseating. I seem to recall over the years that many of you, and our former contributors here, ripped Inter routinely for having and all foreign team. Now, some of our fans appear to embrace it.

[p_maldini_3]

We all bleed the same blood.

[Italiamia]

The Romagnoli deal is done, and so am I.