•Squad list for tomorrow:Avramov, Castillo, Comotto, Dainelli, De Silvestri, Donadel, Frey, Gamberini, Gilardino, Gobbi, Jovetic, Marchionni, Montolivo, Mutu, Natali, Pasqual, Santana, Seculin, Vargas e Zanetti.
At the moment, it looks like Gobbi will start at left back, and Vargas, who just got back to Florence today, will start in his usual spot ( Read more... )

•Last week in New York, Mutu used Steve Nash's Showdown in Chinatown [There are pictures all over the interwebs of the event, including here and here.] to test out his surgically repaired knee and elbow. Because he's a good boy, he wore his elbow brace, but there was nothing on his knee and he scored two goals, talked to his old Inter homies, and ( Read more... )

•So, according to Sky Italia, who reported it both last night and this morning, and Corriere dello Sport, Mr. X is Hernan Crespo, not a central defender. Though Crespo's agent has denied the story this afternoon, everyone else appears pretty confident this is happening. According to the reports, Crespo -- who would arrive on a free -- has signed ( Read more... )

•The most important news of the week is that Monty might be dating a Playmate! Yes, that's right -- now that Pazzo's gone, he's moved on to the showgirl set, like a proper footballer. (Here are some properly tarty, NSFW, depressing pictures of her, for your research purposes.) They've been seen out and about together a lot and, while neither of ( Read more... )

•Internationals went slightly less well this round: Jorgy (who was captain again in Denmark's 3-0 win over Malta and was terribly modest about it), Jojo (Georgia 0-0 Montenegro) and Melo (who scored the third goal in Brazil's 3-0 win over Peru) all went the full 90 minutes for their teams. Gambit and Kuzi both made the bench for theirs, while Monty ( Read more... )

•DDV, of all people, was seriously pissed after Sunday's match, and he wasn't shy at all about expressing his disgust. He seems to have talked to every news outlet that came by with a microphone (some of the statements are collected here), but his main point was that the lack of heart the team showed in the game was totally unacceptable. Can he get ( Read more... )

•Captain Dainelli, rocking a black eye thanks to Osvi (He apologized right away, alright?!), was in the press room on Wednesday [video|audio]. He said positive things about the team's performance against Bologna, but also noted that people in Florence tend to get VERY EXCITED about a couple wins in a row (or VERY DEPRESSED after two losses), and ( Read more... )

•Corvino was in the press room yesterday [video|audio1|audio2], talking primarily about the transfer market. The full text of his statements is here; among other things, he said he'd decreased the size of the squad, which was his goal for the transfer period, confirmed the team's interest in both Palombo and Ivanovic but denied a deal has been ( Read more... )

Fiorentina announced that the striker Giampaolo Pazzini was hit overnight by viral gastroenteritis. Therefore it will not be available for the race today.
So, in a match that was supposed to be the chance for Pazzo and Osvi to show something, Cesare's not going to have either one of them? Fantastic ( Read more... )

•The big news is that Gobbi's officially out 10-15 days, which means he should be back for the return leg against Bayern, but will miss Palermo, Inter and possibly Siena as well. (With Vargas struggling and Pasqual so out of favor he may as well be dead, Gobbi's injury has at least one paper in a total panic.)

•Goal.com claim that Melo and Mutu ( Read more... )