Football Thread | January 20 | Flare players

By batong Go To PostLikes his fusili too much

By Hixx Go To Post
wtf is the point of this. Sunderland fans on the right and on the left but not allowed behind the goal.

By BlindCom Go To PostLooked very clumsy from Stones, despite Zaha looking for it.

'fuck var' , sung by the City fans – despite it going in their favour. A popular choice.

By Scum Go To PostThat's straight out of inky's FM Book, that.

By batong Go To PostSomeone score more goals pls

By bud Go To Postare arsenal playing well?

By bud Go To Postare arsenal playing well?

By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostWhats the record for managers in a season?

I’m sure Palermo holds it.

Hard as it is to believe now, things began well enough for the Sicilian club. With Giuseppe Iachini, their manager since 2013, at the helm, Palermo took seven points in their first three games. Then the Rosanero lost six of their next eight and club president Maurizio Zamparini decided that he had seen enough. He gave Iachini one chance, a home match against a mediocre Chievo team, to save his job. Palermo delivered, winning 1-0 with a 71st minute header; the manager's position seemed secure for another week.

It wasn't. Two days later, on November 10, Iachini was sacked and replaced by Davide Ballardini because, according to Zamparini, "there was no more chemistry." The carousel was in motion.

Ballardini, who had managed Palermo to a relatively successful season in 2008-2009 but was dismissed by Zamparini, began his tenure with a 1-1 draw against an out-of-form Lazio team. Palermo then lost three of their next four. The club's only success came in a 4-1 victory against fellow relegation-battlers Frosinone, which gave Ballardini enough cache with Zamparini to last through Christmas. But only just.

After a January 10 victory against Verona, Palermo's captain, goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino, announced to the press that Ballardini was no longer speaking with his players and that he, as captain, had given the pre-match, half-time and post-match team talks. The next day Zamparini announced that Guillermo Barros Schelotto would take over and things went, as you can guess, poorly.

While Schelotto had coached in his native Argentina, he had yet to acquire the proper European coaching license. So Palermo named Fabio Vivani, one of Iachini assistants, as interim head coach while Schelotto sorted out his paperwork.

Vivani only lasted one game in the position, a 4-0 loss to Genoa, before he was replaced as interim manager by Palermo's academy coach, Giovanni Bosi, who momentarily turned things around to beat Udinese 4-1. Bosi's success was left unrewarded, though, and he was replaced by Giovanni Tedesco, a Palermo native and former player who said the appointment was "like scoring a goal in the derby."

Then, less than a month after he was hired, Schelotto was denied his coaching license by UEFA, and resigned his position with Palermo. With this, and because things weren't complicated enough already, Zamparini decided to name Bosi, whom he had already discarded as interim coach, as the team's head coach, while retaining Tedesco as an assistant. This arrangement lasted a total of one game.

On Valentine's Day, the Rosanero lost 3-1 to Torino and the next day Bosi was again removed and replaced by, I shit you not, Giuseppe Iachini.

Iachini's return was, unsurprisingly, less than ideal. Palermo lost 5-0 to erstwhile title-challengers Roma before drawing 0-0 draw with Bologna. On March 6, they lost 3-1 to Inter Milan. On March 8, Zamparini said the team had a "defeatist and loser attitude" and that Iachini "should change tactics." The same day, the two met; afterwards, the coach expressed his desire to resign after a rumor surfaced that he would soon be fired. The man rumored to replace him was familiar. It was the same man who did last time: Davide Ballardini.

Later that evening, Zamparini went on a radio show and called his coach "an idiot who has gone mad." The next day, Iachini did not show up for training and resigned shortly thereafter. Within hours, Walter Novellino, formerly manager of Napoli, Sampdoria, and a dozen others went on the radio expressed his interest in the job. He was hired immediately. As you read this, he is still on the job.

If you were keeping score, that is eight coaching changes. Given that there are still two months to go in the Serie A season, we could be looking at double digits by the time this is all over.

By batong Go To PostSomeone score more goals pls

By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostThat Italian DNA.

By Milchmonster Go To PostFucking fire Favre already. It's been forever and we still can't defend for shit. And it's not like we score so much that it doesn't matter.

By Wahabipapangus Go To Posthttps://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nzxvpq/round-and-round-we-go-how-palermo-have-changed-managers-eight-times-this-season



Hard as it is to believe now, things began well enough for the Sicilian club. With Giuseppe Iachini, their manager since 2013, at the helm, Palermo took seven points in their first three games. Then the Rosanero lost six of their next eight and club president Maurizio Zamparini decided that he had seen enough. He gave Iachini one chance, a home match against a mediocre Chievo team, to save his job. Palermo delivered, winning 1-0 with a 71st minute header; the manager's position seemed secure for another week.

It wasn't. Two days later, on November 10, Iachini was sacked and replaced by Davide Ballardini because, according to Zamparini, "there was no more chemistry." The carousel was in motion.

Ballardini, who had managed Palermo to a relatively successful season in 2008-2009 but was dismissed by Zamparini, began his tenure with a 1-1 draw against an out-of-form Lazio team. Palermo then lost three of their next four. The club's only success came in a 4-1 victory against fellow relegation-battlers Frosinone, which gave Ballardini enough cache with Zamparini to last through Christmas. But only just.

After a January 10 victory against Verona, Palermo's captain, goalkeeper Stefano Sorrentino, announced to the press that Ballardini was no longer speaking with his players and that he, as captain, had given the pre-match, half-time and post-match team talks. The next day Zamparini announced that Guillermo Barros Schelotto would take over and things went, as you can guess, poorly.

While Schelotto had coached in his native Argentina, he had yet to acquire the proper European coaching license. So Palermo named Fabio Vivani, one of Iachini assistants, as interim head coach while Schelotto sorted out his paperwork.

Vivani only lasted one game in the position, a 4-0 loss to Genoa, before he was replaced as interim manager by Palermo's academy coach, Giovanni Bosi, who momentarily turned things around to beat Udinese 4-1. Bosi's success was left unrewarded, though, and he was replaced by Giovanni Tedesco, a Palermo native and former player who said the appointment was "like scoring a goal in the derby."

Then, less than a month after he was hired, Schelotto was denied his coaching license by UEFA, and resigned his position with Palermo. With this, and because things weren't complicated enough already, Zamparini decided to name Bosi, whom he had already discarded as interim coach, as the team's head coach, while retaining Tedesco as an assistant. This arrangement lasted a total of one game.

On Valentine's Day, the Rosanero lost 3-1 to Torino and the next day Bosi was again removed and replaced by, I shit you not, Giuseppe Iachini.

Iachini's return was, unsurprisingly, less than ideal. Palermo lost 5-0 to erstwhile title-challengers Roma before drawing 0-0 draw with Bologna. On March 6, they lost 3-1 to Inter Milan. On March 8, Zamparini said the team had a "defeatist and loser attitude" and that Iachini "should change tactics." The same day, the two met; afterwards, the coach expressed his desire to resign after a rumor surfaced that he would soon be fired. The man rumored to replace him was familiar. It was the same man who did last time: Davide Ballardini.

Later that evening, Zamparini went on a radio show and called his coach "an idiot who has gone mad." The next day, Iachini did not show up for training and resigned shortly thereafter. Within hours, Walter Novellino, formerly manager of Napoli, Sampdoria, and a dozen others went on the radio expressed his interest in the job. He was hired immediately. As you read this, he is still on the job.

If you were keeping score, that is eight coaching changes. Given that there are still two months to go in the Serie A season, we could be looking at double digits by the time this is all over.






and that is missing Guillermo Barros Schelotto in 2016, who turned out not to have a manager license after being signed on as a manager…

By Pennywise Go To PostGood thing we've got Haaland now.

By inky Go To PostImmobile was so key for my Nazio run on FM. The funny part is that he might be the first player ever in my saves that was rated poorly match after match, the press was all up his ass asking me to drop him, stopped being called by the national team for a while, yet I never for a second considered dropping.

He was beyond essential to my tactics. He recovered the ball, moved defenders out of the way so my double pivot of Almiron and Andre Gomes could score banger after banger from outside the box, required very few touches to make an impact, and when he scored it was always winners in tight matches. Other players always dropped their issues when I sent him to talk to them as well. Probably the only time a captain chat ever worked.

My second season he scored like 28 goals in the league alone and suddenly Chelsea wanted him for 60m. I laughed at them and won the CL next season.

By Daz Go To PostI keep hearing about Inter these days.
Are Juve no longer walking it?

By inky Go To PostImmobile was so key for my Nazio run on FM. The funny part is that he might be the first player ever in my saves that was rated poorly match after match, the press was all up his ass asking me to drop him, stopped being called by the national team for a while, yet I never for a second considered dropping.

He was beyond essential to my tactics. He recovered the ball, moved defenders out of the way so my double pivot of Almiron and Andre Gomes could score banger after banger from outside the box, required very few touches to make an impact, and when he scored it was always winners in tight matches. Other players always dropped their issues when I sent him to talk to them as well. Probably the only time a captain chat ever worked.

My second season he scored like 28 goals in the league alone and suddenly Chelsea wanted him for 60m. I laughed at them and won the CL next season.

By Daz Go To PostI keep hearing about Inter these days.
Are Juve no longer walking it?

By Milchmonster Go To Postlol

This shit's gonna end 4-4 or something and we'll talk a lot of nothing and nothing really changes until the next few games when the same thing happens.

By Daz Go To PostI keep hearing about Inter these days.
Are Juve no longer walking it?

By Pennywise Go To PostYe. You never know with Akanji still being on the field.
Haaland looking good though.

Honestly, I'm not that suprised. As much as it pains me to say that, but Piszcek is just past it. Should retire in summer and not destroy his legend status.
Akanji continues to be absolutely abysmal. Favre should have started with Balerdi. On top of our defenders being absolute crap apart from Hummels, Reus and Hazard are also fucking shit.

Time to bring Reyna for Hazard, do it Favre.

By DerZuhälter Go To PostBeen saying it for ages that Pischu is done. It's refreshing to see a striker behind the backline once again. Just a matter of time until Favre teaches him otherwise.

Dafuq was that Marco?!

By Pennywise Go To PostHaaland IN !