Martedi Mercato Moves and Antonio Gramsci

By: Marco Stucazzo | January 22nd, 2008

Aldo Spinelli has said that he voluntarily didn’t try to sign Lucarelli. Livorno’s president said he was too expensive, that his transfer money was spent on Tavano and that his Livorno cycle had come to a definite end this summer. As of now, the Livorno winter window is made up of a Lucarelli non-signing and the signing of Sidny, who has yet to get all the proper paperwork done.

The king of bullshit himself has declared that the Mercato is now closed; Livorno won’t be signing or selling anybody during the break. I’m certain that GC Camolese thinks he’s joking, i sure hope he is. He has to be joking

The squad, as it is now, is already pretty thin. A couple of key injuries could throw everything into shambles extremely quickly. Just take a look at the midfield;

Livorno are in deep need of some midfield help. Nico Pulzetti has a distorted ankle, Giannichedda and Bergvold are out for 3 months each, add to that the fact that Vikash Dhorasoo didn’t see one minute in the Livorno shirt. The Labronici need to add at least 1 reliable midfielder for the rest of the season. Massimo Loviso isn’t exactly what you call quality depth. That’s why these Sam Dalla Bona to Livorno rumours are arousing my curiosity; they’re also making a lot of sense.

Sam Dalla Bona – Giovanni Pasquale swap?

Dalla Bona isn’t playing that much in Naples and would benefit from a move, albeit temporary, to our beautiful part of Tuscany. But here’s the twist, it seems that Giovanni Pasquale is making Napoli DS Marino drool, ok maybe not drool. The Napoli management has presumably singled out Pasquale as a main target for the vesuvian left flank.

The Venaria Reale left back is Italian, young, has Champions League experience and still has the potential to better with time. Giovanni Pasquale’s pheromones are getting to Napoli’s nose and they can’t resist. Corriere Dello Sport says that the Vesuvian team will be launching an assault on the youngster in about a week. Maybe that’s why we are hearing these Francesco Coco and Marc Pfertzel rumours floating around.

What does Aldo Spinelli think of this? :

Pasquale al Napoli? Nemmeno per 20 milioni di euro. Non cedo nessuno fino a giugno. Nemmeno Amelia, che e` richiestissimo. Pasquale e` incedibile ed il giocatore e` contento di restare al Livorno.

I’m guessing that if someone is crazy enough to offer 20M$ for Pasquale, Spinelli would turn on the part of his brain that makes him rational.

Crazy Goalie Swap:

Giovanni Pasquale isn’t the only Livornese on DS Marino’s list, Napoli are also strongly considering Marco Amelia as their #1, number one for next season. With his last eye opening performances, Napoli will surely want to close the deal fast, or at least get an option on the keeper. They’re aware of Lazio’s interest (even if Lotito couldn’t buy 5$ with a 10 dollar bill, or get paper work filled in correctly ) But it seems like Palermo will be the ones giving them a run for their money, trying to secure the young keepers services in January.

Corriere Dello Sport is talking about a crazy goalie swap, which would involve 4 goalies and 6 teams. These huge player swaps never work out but they’re so much fun to talk about. The move would go like this.

Amelia goes to Palermo and Agliardi goes to Chievo, Then Gianluca Curci would come to Livorno and Siena #2 Arthur something would go to Roma to back up. Here’s the kicker, Chievo keeper Squizzi would go to Palermo if Amelia goes somewhere other than Palermo.

Quite simple isn’t it ? There’s no way in hell that this move gets done in the winter window. Getting Zamparini, Spinelli and Rosella Sensi to make a deal would take at least 4 years to work out. This could make some more sense in the summer.

Gianluca Curci’s agents (Bonetto e Sclosa) have declared they’ll be meeting with GC Camolese to see what Livorno could bring to their young protégé. Me thinks that Gianluca Curci would rather play in Serie A, whatever his agents say, seeing how he’s in the National Squad. The kid is good but he isn’t exactly GiGi Buffon yet so a move to the cadetteria would maybe place him out of reach of the Roberto Donadoni/Azzurri radar.

Yesterday, Martha talked about another Marco Amelia to Palermo rumour , even if it’s less amusing than a 20 team goalie swap, it sounds a little bit more logical ;

Here’s a new one on Zampa’s team: He’s supposedly “only” a few million from an agreement with Livorno — the offer is €8 million, Livorno want €11 million — on Marco Amelia. If a deal were to be worked out, Livorno would get cash, as well as the loan of young midfielder Bosko Jankovic, and would supposedly bring Gianluca Pagliuca out of retirement to keep goal for them for the rest of the season. Which would be AWESOME.

There’s no way in hell that a Bosko Jankovic loan is worth 3M$ , maybe in Crazy-Zampa-Lalaland, but not in Aldo-i’m crazy to you know- Spinelli’s lalaland

*117 years ago, on January 22nd, Antonio Gramsci a great Italian was born in Sardinia