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metalhead wrote:

Sabre wrote:According to the Spanish press, a deal is almost done with Napoli, for about 3M (4.5M €)and the agreement between clubs is total.

Not a good signing despite his improvement over the season. How much did he cost?

I guess it's the time to cross fingers on Aurelio, who's the best RB of the lot, and the time for Insua to step up.

7m or 8m quid.

so 4m -5m loss?

bigmick wrote:Lets be honest he was absolute garbage from day one and if we can persuade someone to pay his wages, and to pay us a fee as well it's a tremendous piece of work. He was an absolute mile away from being good enough, the promised surging runs never materialised, the crosses verged between brilliant and abysmal, his vision was largely non existent, and his defending was absolutely awful. He was as paceless as he was cluelsss, aerially he was in the close your eyes and jump at the ball bracket, while his awareness in terms of tracking runs and appreciating the play developing around him was astoundingly bad.

Quite honestly, how on Earth we ever agreed to sign him in ther first place has been a constant mystery to me, and how on Earth anybody is agreeing to take him off our hands is the same. I can only assume that with the sun on his back and playinging in an inferior and much slower paced league, he looks OK.

Every manager makes bad signings, and every manager if they stick around long enough makes the occasional howler. Dossena was a howler, an absolutely terrible buy. Like Keane, we lost not just the money on the transactions in and out, but we lost a whole lot of time proving conclusively that they weren't good enough. Keane may have been better if handled better, but Dossena not.

All managers make awful signings from time to time, but no manager can afford too many. Two in one Summer (three if you include Degan but we won't as he was free) was too many.

Igor Zidane wrote:

bigmick wrote:Lets be honest he was absolute garbage from day one and if we can persuade someone to pay his wages, and to pay us a fee as well it's a tremendous piece of work. He was an absolute mile away from being good enough, the promised surging runs never materialised, the crosses verged between brilliant and abysmal, his vision was largely non existent, and his defending was absolutely awful. He was as paceless as he was cluelsss, aerially he was in the close your eyes and jump at the ball bracket, while his awareness in terms of tracking runs and appreciating the play developing around him was astoundingly bad.

Quite honestly, how on Earth we ever agreed to sign him in ther first place has been a constant mystery to me, and how on Earth anybody is agreeing to take him off our hands is the same. I can only assume that with the sun on his back and playinging in an inferior and much slower paced league, he looks OK.

Every manager makes bad signings, and every manager if they stick around long enough makes the occasional howler. Dossena was a howler, an absolutely terrible buy. Like Keane, we lost not just the money on the transactions in and out, but we lost a whole lot of time proving conclusively that they weren't good enough. Keane may have been better if handled better, but Dossena not.

All managers make awful signings from time to time, but no manager can afford too many. Two in one Summer (three if you include Degan but we won't as he was free) was too many.

Yeh but he did score against the mancs mick.

Your right though mate ,not good enough . Suprising thing is ,he is the number one Italian left back .How ,i do not know but there you go. It's a fanny old game sain---err mick.

Funny indeed mate, I can't understand it but there you go. Obviously I'm being overly harsh on him Igor because if he was quite as bad as I'm making out he'd be playing for the Doggeto and Duckutti in his local Italian league. Clearly I'm going OTT for effect, but I just don't rate the bloke at all, not even slightly.

bigmick wrote:

Igor Zidane wrote:

bigmick wrote:Lets be honest he was absolute garbage from day one and if we can persuade someone to pay his wages, and to pay us a fee as well it's a tremendous piece of work. He was an absolute mile away from being good enough, the promised surging runs never materialised, the crosses verged between brilliant and abysmal, his vision was largely non existent, and his defending was absolutely awful. He was as paceless as he was cluelsss, aerially he was in the close your eyes and jump at the ball bracket, while his awareness in terms of tracking runs and appreciating the play developing around him was astoundingly bad.

Quite honestly, how on Earth we ever agreed to sign him in ther first place has been a constant mystery to me, and how on Earth anybody is agreeing to take him off our hands is the same. I can only assume that with the sun on his back and playinging in an inferior and much slower paced league, he looks OK.

Every manager makes bad signings, and every manager if they stick around long enough makes the occasional howler. Dossena was a howler, an absolutely terrible buy. Like Keane, we lost not just the money on the transactions in and out, but we lost a whole lot of time proving conclusively that they weren't good enough. Keane may have been better if handled better, but Dossena not.

All managers make awful signings from time to time, but no manager can afford too many. Two in one Summer (three if you include Degan but we won't as he was free) was too many.

Yeh but he did score against the mancs mick.

Your right though mate ,not good enough . Suprising thing is ,he is the number one Italian left back .How ,i do not know but there you go. It's a fanny old game sain---err mick.

Funny indeed mate, I can't understand it but there you go. Obviously I'm being overly harsh on him Igor because if he was quite as bad as I'm making out he'd be playing for the Doggeto and Duckutti in his local Italian league. Clearly I'm going OTT for effect, but I just don't rate the bloke at all, not even slightly.