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To be honest, I'm mostly making a post in order to share this hilarious picture. There are few other things going on, though.

•Both Gambit and Gila are expected to start for Italy against Cyprus tomorrow and, barring a huge surprise, LDS and Seculin will do the same for the U21s today. Jojo and Mutu are already back in Florence and are training ( Read more... )

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As you may have heard, Gila came off the bench to get a last-gasp 2-2 draw in Ireland and qualify Italy for WC2012, while Gambit watched from the stands. Gila was, needless to say, delighted. Elsewhere, Jojo played all of Montenegro's 2-1 win over Georgia, Vargas played all of Peru's 1-2 loss to Argentina -- during which he had a PK denied and hit ( Read more... )

The CL list has been submitted to UEFA. Babacar, Di Tacchio, and newboy Savio have all been left out.
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Apologies for the lack of a formal news update, but there's really nothing particularly convincing going on -- right now, it's mostly the same stories either being rehashed or in holding patterns.

So the Munoz story is still around -- though now it's understood to be not a loan but a co-ownership deal (for €5-6 million) from the start, if it ( Read more... )

•In Wednesday's internationals, all three Viola boys started. Gila played a half, Jorgy went about an hour, and Jojo played the whole match, scoring from a PK, hitting the post, and reportedly being generally spectacular. (Natali, btw, is currently Jojo's biggest fanboy.) Seculin, meanwhile, played the second half for the Auzzurrini and had a ( Read more... )

•Zanetti hasn't been presented yet, but he's not only already training, but also has decided where he's going to live. Impressively efficient, this guy. Juve fans are pissed that he's gone, which seems encouraging, and Donadel, who used to idolize Zanetti and called to welcome him as soon as the deal was official, must be over the moon, even if he ( Read more... )

•The Italian lottery is over €100 million right now, and some Viola fans have decided they're going to win it and a)pay Mutu's fine, which he's condemned as "profoundly unjust," and b)give the Della Valles the remaining cash to buy players. &hearts

•In the wake of the tournament in Sicily, one of the fan sites has done an evaluation of the ( Read more... )

•There's been a reassuring lack of panic (outside of the Romanian press, I mean) about the Mutu decision. Adi had an informal meeting with ADV and Cesare the day he found out, but has been training mostly as usual, and is also called up and expected to start in the tournament today. His lawyers sound like they're planning an appeal in civil court ( Read more... )

•The big friendly against PSG is tonight, and will be preceded by the kit presentation, something that was pushed back an hour because it's been so damn hot in Florence this week. Here's the probable lineup for the match -- no Monty cos he's not fit, and no Nacho even if he was fit, because he's broken already, had surgery this morning, and will be ( Read more... )