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[Totally FRANK]

Just when we thought the chivu and cordoba partnership was doing so well.We got to turn to burdisso again.
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Chivu has knee ligament lesion
Sunday 2 November, 2008
Cristian Chivu’s knee injury is worse than previously thought, as the Inter defender has torn the ligament.

The Romanian limped off during Saturday’s 3-2 victory away to Reggina and there were fears he had sprained the left knee with a strain to the ligament, requiring a three-week lay-off.

However today the official club website announced that tests performed at the San Matteo clinic in Pavia discovered “a lesion of the interior collateral ligament in the left knee.â€

[Totally FRANK]

Lomba, i don't think ibra is going to get a rest anytime soon.While at chelsea, mou always played the likes of lampard,essien and drogba.

Lampard played almost every game that was there to play.Mou never rests his core players.

So ibra,cordoba,chivu(if not injured),zanetti and cambiasso will always play i guess.

Dejan,i don't think we will lose against Udinese.Draw is the most likely result.

[Dejan-Stankovic]

[quote="Totally FRANK"]Just when we thought the chivu and cordoba partnership was doing so well.We got to turn to burdisso again.
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Chivu has knee ligament lesion
Sunday 2 November, 2008
Cristian Chivu’s knee injury is worse than previously thought, as the Inter defender has torn the ligament.

The Romanian limped off during Saturday’s 3-2 victory away to Reggina and there were fears he had sprained the left knee with a strain to the ligament, requiring a three-week lay-off.

However today the official club website announced that tests performed at the San Matteo clinic in Pavia discovered “a lesion of the interior collateral ligament in the left knee.â€

[Marco Materazzi]

lol good point. think he is made out of paper of gyps ffs:(

about the game, we didnt do much tbh. their 2 goals were BIG mistakes from us, letting them shoot from that distance.
and is it me, or does this tea dont have an 'identity' yet. Everyone is playing for himself. mancini played bad, balotelli played worst IMHO!

[Totally FRANK]

Mourinho forgives Cruz
Sunday 2 November, 2008
Jose Mourinho has 'forgiven' Julio Cruz, but Adriano is still frozen out of Inter's squad to face Anorthosis.

Both players were removed from the side after a row with the Coach, as Cruz was guilty of failing to follow orders on the pitch while Adri turned up late to training following a night on the town.

Il Jardinero has seemingly been forgiven, as his name is back in the list for Tuesday's Champions League clash with Anorthosis Famagusta.

Adriano is still nowhere to be seen and has reportedly threatened to return to Brazil if the situation does not change.

Absent for the Champions League tie are the injured Cristian Chivu, Luis Figo, Luis Jimenez and Nelson Rivas.

[Totally FRANK]

MM, mourinho was actually pleased with balotelli's work yesterday. Talking after yesterday's game he said mario did exactly what he had told him to do.

[Messinterista]

Chivu Injury Worse Than Expected

Inter Milan's Romanian defender Cristian Chivu has received bad news after the defender discovered that he has torn a knee ligament.

The Romanian limped off during yesterday's last minute 3-2 victory away to Reggina and there were fears that he had sprained his left knee with a strain to the ligament, requiring a three-week recovery.

Unfortunately the reality is that his injury is a great deal more serious, as the official club website announced that tests performed at the San Matteo clinic in Pavia discovered “a lesion of the interior collateral ligament in the left knee.â€

[Messinterista]

Mourinho – Adriano Stalemate Continues

Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho continues to punish Brazilian striker Adriano by leaving him out of his Champions League squad for Tuesday's game against Anorthosis Famagusta.

Italian Champions Inter Milan travel to Cypriot side Anorthosis Famagusta on Tuesday after a the first leg of the encounter favoured the San Siro side 1-0.

Inter coach Jose Mourinho is keen for his side to win Group B and move onto the knockout stages. Mourinho has reason to be cautious because Anorthosis, the first Cypriot club to reach the group stage, have adapted well to the competition with a victory and a draw in their other two matches, and are far from the whipping boys they were made out to be at the beginning of the season.

The Cypriot team had done well to hold off the Nerazzurri and defend their goal at the San Siro, but just before the half time break Adriano headed into the net, earning the Italians a narrow win as the Nerazzurri secured all three points.

Adriano has since become a casualty of Mourinho's disciplinary policy which has seen the striker lose his place in the team during the last two Serie A games.

The player came late for a training session last week after he spent a long night out in the discos of Milan, and has been punished for his conduct. Latest reports now indicate that the Brazilian has also been dropped for this week's Champions League game with the Cypriots, which will be a major blow to the 'Emperor'. Mourinho seems determined to make the striker remorseful before allowing him any further game time.

Source: http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=944967

[Marco Materazzi]

[zafferano]

[Messinterista]

[Lombardiamia]

[Dejan-Stankovic]

[zafferano]

[Lombardiamia]

[Messinterista]

seriously i dont understand how the club (ac) dont win the title year in year out. seriously they have the bloody prime minister or president, whatever the bastard is known as, backing the club. and he controls the media for gods sake.

[RomaShield27]

James Lawton: Italians quick to see through Mourinho's threadbare clothes
Mourinho might be a master of pressure football, but his game did not exactly thrill

www.independent.co.uk/sport/football – Tuesday, 4 November 2008

Jose Mourinho is feeling heat in Italy, more certainly, than at any point in his long and frequently orgiastic relationship with the English media. Perhaps not to the total surprise of some of us, though, there are a few shrewd judges who believe that quite a bit of the pressure and anger has been generated, with delicious irony, by the Special One himself.

He did it partly in a speech that even those who growl that he is a self-obsessed opportunist who will, sooner or later, be exposed for tactical limitations which become obvious when he has to do more than marshal his advantages in power and personnel, will admit was rather brilliant.

He declared that he had been mistaken in his belief that Italy had a deep love of football. The truth was, said Mourinho, Italy did not love football but the contorno.

In other words, Italy likes everything about the game except the playing of it. It loves all that goes around football – the controversy, the rows, the corruption, the shame, the scandal, the outrageous statements of embattled coaches and smug players. It loves to scream and whistle at the villains and, sooner or later, pick holes in the heroes. But the nuances of the game, the ebb and flow of it, the way one team can overwhelm with its discipline and intelligence another, the distinguishing marks of greatness in individual players, well, it is not really of any great importance.

Coming from someone who might be described, especially by Anders Frisk, a former top-line international referee, and certain members of the Berkshire Ambulance Service, as the Grand Wizard of contorno, this is a bracing statement. But even those Italians less than overwhelmed by his early work with Internazionale concede that he has a point.

The trouble is that he made it at a time when the first signs that his Italian honeymoon was beginning to fray were emerging. Now it seems that almost anything that happens in Milan, or his old stronghold of London, or Barcelona, where he seemed to be heading last summer, is seized upon for its anti-Mourinho possibilities: Luiz Felipe Scolari's Chelsea are scoring goals with both freedom and precision and playing the kind of football which always seemed beyond Mourinho; Barcelona's decision to prefer the unheralded coach in their system, Pep Guardiola, to Mourinho is being greeted as a masterstroke along Las Ramblas and, now for the benefit of the Mourinho-baiting, in Milan. It leaves Mourinho, the man who announced early in his Chelsea reign that he was a star of his own movie, drawing reviews that might even bring a wince to the face of Guy Ritchie.

In the early going in Italy every utterance of Mourinho was lovingly recorded and blazed across the front page of the leading sports paper, Gazzetta dello Sport. Reinforced by the approval of such Italian football icons as Marcello Lippi and Arrigo Saachi, Mourinho's move was being watched by a spellbound audience.

Then, something that took several years to dawn on Mourinho's most generous paymaster, Roman Abramovich, was detected rather earlier in San Siro. Mourinho might be a master of pressure football, a superb motivator of committed, hugely rewarded players, but his game did not exactly thrill the senses.

Now the knives are glistening with menace again as Internazionale's rivals Milan, a club widely considered to be in deep crisis at the start of the season, take over the lead of the league that was dominated so comfortably by the team shaped by Mourinho's predecessor, Roberto Mancini. Nor does it help that Ronaldinho and Kaka are finding some authentic Brazilian rhythm in the Milan revival.

The first wave of criticism of Mourinho followed desperate goalless draws with Genoa at home and then in Florence. One front page carried a picture of Mourinho beautifully dressed and coiffed on the day of his appointment and another of him in the dugout with a desperate expression, shorn hair and his usual match-day stubble. Ludicrously, the banner said, "What's happening to you, Mou?" But the underlying point was a dagger in the coach's ribs. He was now a marked man.

Another blow, delivered by one of Italy's most influential football writers, Alberto Cerruti, occupied the entire front page of Gazzeta dello Sport. It was a four-point castigation.

Point one: "No fun. On 3 June, Mourinho promised entertaining football. It was the day he said he wasn't a plonker. The summer's gone and the only entertaining thing we have had so far from Mourinho is that phrase."

Point two: "Inter is not a team but a group of individuals. And it's not true that the coach protects his players if after the first tactical errors he drops them."

Point three: "Only Ibrahimovic [the striker] has proved a key player. You only have to look at the statistics to see his importance. He's the classic tip of the iceberg that hides the limitations of the Nerazurri."

Point four: "The most worrying thing about Mourinho's tactics is the enduring difficulty of the team to shoot and therefore score goals."

There have been a few other problems for Mourinho, notably the fact that he has had to abandon any faith in Adriano, the Brazilian who last season was packed off home to Brazil for a period of reflection on behaviour which was adjudged to be much less than professional. Adriano announced that he was a new man but Mourinho has told him that recent misadventures, including drinking sprees and absence from training, have brought him to the end of the road with Internazionale.

Mourinho is, of course, a long way from facing such a judgement. Sacchi, a revolutionary winning coach with Milan, has declared his faith, pointing out the record with Porto and Chelsea and declares that all that is needed is a little patience. Lippi says that Mourinho is still bedding down and that, at such a formative stage, being one point off the pace is not exactly disaster.

However, as far as the Italian press is concerned the wise men might as well be bellowing a discordant version of "Santa Lucia". The love affair is over and the contorno has never been so laden with rich pickings. You may say this is a dreadful way to treat the Special One, but then it is hard to deny a kind of poetic justice. In England no one played the contorno game more adroitly, or unscrupulously or, at times, more dishonestly than Jose Mourinho. He played it so well it took several years for anyone to take a serious look at his football.

This cannot be said to be happening in Italy. Maybe they have heeded Mourinho's words. Maybe they are beginning to take a peek at what's happening on the field.

[RomaShield27]

[zafferano]

whatcing the fucking game
and to think that the cipriot lost to a local team 4-0 and half time draw with as 2-2

[Dejan-Stankovic]