Here’s a bunch of unorganized,misspelled, mercato ramblings

Francesco Ceravolo leaves Livorno a winner and New DS is Nelso Ricci and he’s been working overtime already…

Spoke to Milan :

Ricci: Yo Galliani ! I’ll give you a cool Million and 50% of Cesena mid Diniz for all of Romano Perticone ?
Galliani : Ok
Ricci : Sweet! Thanks Uncle Fester

Then spoke with Juve :

Went something like this : Yo Secco ! You know how Rizza and Volpe are in comproprietà…well how about you keep Volpe and we keep Rizza ? (covering the phone while he’s laughing) Secco : Let me get back to you on this one. And please charge Dario Knezevic’s return to YOUR purolator account !
We’ll see what we do with him once he gets here. Rizza was won at le buste by Livorno with a 100 000 $ bid.

Met with Parma :

Ricci : How about that Cristiano Lucarelli fellow ? We’re looking at a 2 year loan and we’ll pitch in Massimo Loviso, Guidolin likes him no? How about Dario Knezevic…? Ghirardi\Leonardo : We’ll call you back. Spinelli now saying 99% sure Lucarelli will be back

Meanwhile Spinelli is calling Walter Mazzari, Mario Beretta and just got Antoni Conte’s number…

Then they met Udinese. Seeing how they don’t own all of Giovanni Pasquale, and they kind of like him, we should try and trade him for Antonio Candreva no ? Didn’t work out…Pasquale becomes a full on Udinese player for 1.8 M Andrea Migliorini and Candreva on loan for another year.( I kind of understand Udinese not wanting to let Antonio go, even 50% of him)

Ricci also brought back a bunch of Primavera kids from Lega Pro ; Di Bella of Potenza, Dionisi of Celano and Scognamiglio of Crotone…

Who’s coming ? :

Lucarelli…?…!…?…!

Word on the street is that Livorno are interested in Catania castaway ‘Zo Stovini, Ex-Leccese Stendardo and Caserta as well as Bologna’s Belleri for central defense

Grosseto Midfielder Valeri has been mentionned somewhere

28 year old Cristian Raimondi’s contract with Vicenza has ended

Allegretti and Agliardi from Triestina have been mentionned

Someone said something about Roberto Guana for free

I’d irrationnaly’d like to see Fabio Zambrella, Marco Andreolli, Stefano Okaka Chuka, Torino keeper Sereni and David Santon (screw Bonetto)

Who’s going ? :

There’s talks of Spinelli getting decent offers from West Ham and Inter. West Ham is offering good old cash and Inter has put 4M + Nelson Rivas on the table…(How about 50% of Santon inserted somewhere)

Seems as if Nico Pulzetti will be sold. Atalanta, Bologna and Palermo are all interested. Pulzetti is said to be worth anywhere between 2.5-3 M$ and when i mean $ i mean Euros

Fausto Rossini’s contract probably won’t be renewed

Paulinho who ?

Seems like Tommy Danilevicius will be the 4th striker…

I get the feeling Diamanti is staying nonetheless

I wanna see Volpe, Grandoni, Galante, Mazzoni, The twins, Pulzetti and Danilevicius gone

Today’s Line Up :
4-3-2-1 : De Lucia, Perticone,Miglionico,Knezevic,Rizza ; Candreva,Loviso,Bergvold; Diamanti,Tavano; Danilevicius

Acquisti :
Antonio Candreva (Udinese;1 year Loan), Andrea Magliorini (Udinese ;Full ownership(FO) Leo Martin Miglionico (Samp;FO) Romano Perticone (AC Milan : FO) Rizza (Juventus,FO)

Gone:
Riccardo Bonetto (d,Lazio(puked my mouth), End Loan ), Antonio Filippini (c,svincolato), Emanuele Filippini (c,svincolato), Fausto Rossini (a,svincolato), Emanuele Terranova (d,Palermo, EL), Aleandro Rosi (d,Roma, EL)Giovanni Pasquale(Udinese, FO 4M$)

What we’re working on :

IN :
Cristiano Lucarelli (a,Parma), Cristian Raimondi (c,Vicenza), Lorenzo Stovini (d,svincolato), Luigi Sala (d,svincolato), Simone Bentivoglio (c,Chievo), Aleandro Rosi (c,Roma) Bonnetto(Lazio) Zambrella(Brescia)

OUT :
Diamanti (Inter,West Ham, Samp…) Pulzetti (atalanta, Palermo,Lazio(more puke) Loviso(Parma) Danilevicius & Knezevic (Who ever)

Not the happiest of times in Leghorn for the moment, the unemployement rate is still disastrous, Silvio Berlusconi gets back in to office (which must make the citizens of the PCI birthplace very proud)(what is this like the 64th Government post WW2?) and Livorno is the worst team in Serie A with very little time left to correct that.

GC Camolese has seen his job security go from none to zero (i don’t know how that’s possible but Aldo Spinelli has a very peculiar way of dealing with coaches, not Zamparini peculiar but you get what i’m trying to say right ?)

So here’s a little Livorno news that won’t lift your morale livornese but it’ll maybe take your mind off of Relegation for 76 seconds….

Aldo Spinelli is Out of it for sure now. The Fiery President has all but confirmed (again) that this is his last year as Livorno’s president. He’s getting all nostalgic on us

Massimo Oddo’s Dad, Francesco has been sayin’ that Old man Spinelli has told him to be ready just in case GC Camolese doesn’t get through the month of May. Yeah Oddo’s dad and all the other unemployed coaches not called Fernando Orsi.

Cristiano Lucarelli feels sorry for Livorno but doesn’t think that he could have changed the Burgundy Boys destiny. It’s not like he wants us to be relegated or anything

Ale Grandoni looks like he’s drawing interest form Fiorentina. The 31 year old defender is on the last miles of his contract and is looking at all the options just in case Livorno take that B drop.

Erjon Bogdani is nostalgic about his Flying Donkey days and is considering returning to Romeo and Juliet’s City.

Tottenham still wants Marco Amelia between it’s sticks next seasons

No one’s interested in Fausto Rossini

Why’s everybody talking like this season’s over ?

Avanti Amaranto !

*Livorno – Juve review here

One of my favourite Soccer Subjects is crazy owners/presidents, Serie A is a a fertile ground for the eccentric President. Being a fan of a team owned by none other than the King of Bullshit himself, Aldo Spinelli, i can understand other fans in the same crazy president situation.

After calling the Napoli tifosi ; Bastardi! on Sunday,Miami Pimp Extraordinaire and Cagliari Owner/president Massimo Cellino has stolen a page right out of the Aldo Spinelli – How to be a Crazy ass Serie A president – for dummies book. Not to be mistaken with various other Dummies books, right Mr. Beckham!?

The President of the Sardinian Rossoblu squad is claiming that he will sell the Club at the end of the season; in the meantime he’ll be doing all that is physically possible to save the club from the dungeons of Serie B. I say that this whole saga is probably due to the recent e-mails Jeremy has been sending to the Cagliari Prez himself.

Speaking of doing all they can to guarantee another Serie A season next season, Aldo Spinelli has reiterated his reluctance to get rid of Marco Amelia this January. So tell me why did GL Curci’s agents meet with GC Camolese last week? Crazy Zamparini seemingly wants Marco Amelia now and Roma have already ‘’secured’’ a deal for Siena ‘s Arthur. Italian paper,Il Messagero is saying that Curci to Livorno is an almost done deal, so Let’s see what happens in the next 3 days.

Rumour has it that Brescia Midfielder Fabrizio Zambrella is drawing interest in Livorno. The 21 year old swiss has played 45 games for Brescia in the last 3 seasons, and that’s everything I know about the kid,it seems like he has the characteristics Livorno are looking for that and the fact that he has played under Serse Cosmi (this post is like a reunion of crazies! Consequently, it deserves no less than a Francesco CoCo sighting)

Meanwhile on the Mercato front ; Bari is still flrting with Massimo Loviso. Brazilian acquisition Sidny is coming back from his homeland with the right documents and should not pull a Juan Pabo Carizzo.

Who/What Pissed Davide Balleri off during the Terzo Tempo against Juve?

2 words ; Pavel Nedved. La Repubblica.it claims that Davide Balleri lost his mind when the Czech wished him a happy season in Serie B next year… Low Blow, Mr. Nedved, low blow. We all know how annoying a season of Bus riding in Serie B can be,nobody would ever wish that. Especially someone who witnessed it first hand just recently, Right Pavel ?

Who made the Livorno coach Livorno Cry ?

After a 2-1 loss to Sangiovannese earlier this month, someone slashed the tires of Franco Bagagli, Coach of Livorno’s giovanissimi (13-14 year olds) . Poor 60 year old Bagagli was inconsolable and crying in the arms of an outraged Livorno offcial. ”In 32 years of coaching such a horrible thing has never happened to me” said the sobbing coach.

Bagagli most probably has some hardcore repressed psychological baggage in relation with tire slashing.

Go Away Coco!

Speaking of nutjobs, Francesco Coco isn’t coming back to Livorno. The Italian pretty boy’s name has been popping around all season since he and Inter parted ways. After Red Bull NY, QPR, isola dei famosi FC it was now Livorno’s turn. I’m happy Coco isn’t coming back, the guy is better known for his 2002 South Korean bleeding and his WAG(B)S than for his actual football. ( Anyways, how do you manage to go from Manuela Arcuri to guys???)

Francesco let it go, just move on to making nightclub and Reality TV appearances. Then State Fairs, then drugs, then…