I'm not a fan of boriello. But I'm a fan of attaining quality players and even more so reality. I like the way you spun that stat above by dividing the number of times he's broken 10 goals in 11 years. Trying doing that stat with floccari and see what you get ?  You can say the same thing about almost any player bouncing around clubs .. such as floccari.

WHERE IN MY POST DID I SUGGEST TRADING ZARATE FOR BORIELLO ? MY Post is pretty clear that it demonstrates that boriello has value.

Your arguments have no value when you discredit a player based on personal taste rather than obvious stats. You choose to wave pom poms for almost anyone that puts on the lazio shirt.  You still wouldn't take him for free though ?

Could it be that this club is run by an idiot on a shoe string budget compared to most clubs and that is why we have become one of the weaker sides in Serie A.

I like to believe the season is fresh and we can hopefully turn things around but the loss to Sampdoria only adds to a trend that shows this club has lost all credibility when we can't even beat our "equals". I like to remain optimistic, buy my optimism is based stats and reason.

What dissapoints me is that I thought we had a better mercato than the merde at one point (especially with ranieri complaining about acquisitions), suddenly on the last day they close in on boriello, who whether you admit it or not is a BIG signing and we fail to close the necessary gaps or sign any more quality.

The formation issue is an interesting debate. For me one of issues with 3-5-2, or 3-4-1-2, is that we don't have the wide players for this model, or so it seems. Lichsteiner will give anyside a battling edge and quality in the defensive department, usually, but his ball in the final third does not seem to be up to scratch. Whether or not Garrido's is any better, or worse, I shall wait and see. Now it is true that the merda did play this way in their Scudetto win but in Cafu and Candela in the same roles they had superior players in the final third. Cafu was world class, probably the best attacking right back of the modern era. Maicon is getting there however.

For me, as Theo outlined, the 4-3-1-2 used at the start of last season would be more appropriate now especially as Hernanes is in tow, as it bridges attack and midfield with the treq and still allows a strong three in midfield, with the four at the back in their accustomed roles.


With regards the Boreillo debate, I don't care a player has an ego or not so long as he can deliver for the side. Ibrahimovic and Sneijder both have ego's, the formers is so big it is unbelievable, but they are amongst the best in the world and play for the team. I'm not the biggest Boriello fan in a the sense of his playing style, but he does what he is supposed to do. That is put the ball in the net. 14 times in 26 Serie A games last year, 19 times in 35 games for Genoa the year before that. In between he was injured. He is on the same level as a Gilardino, which is why Milan got rid of him because in Robinho and Ibra they have two vastly superior players. Its an ok signing for the merda, but it doesnt change how there season will go I feel.

Damn straight! I hope anyone we sign plays to their absolute best.


It could be and is. But we had a good mercato. Refusing to recognize that even Lotirchio didn't do to badly doesn't make you realistic. Not that it absolves him of past stupidities.



Sorry but that's pretty weak optimism if it's broken by one game. Sorry, but I saw some good things against Samp, not perfect by any stretch, but optimistic signs anyway.

As for the merde signing, you are making fatso Adriano and Boriello into superstars. It does nothing to take away from the fact that we signed Hernanes Garrido and resigned Ledesma and Floccari. If we get Lugano as well I shall be more than happy. But that's just being realistic.

For Lotito-mercato, I'm more then happy. Of course with little more effort we could end up having one more defender and striker, which would turn out to be perfect.

Borriello for free?!?!?! Mah, do you really believe that he would like to come here??? Despite we being fans we must understand the reality and its that Lazio haven't gone above 10th place in the last 3 seasons. I wonder how we can still be "attractive" for the most players.

Yes. Mediocre midtable team, that's just it. I don't know if lotito is aware of the other teams, but he expects a 4th spot after a single valuable addition to a team that was near relegation whole season long, pathetic. We cleared most of our garbage, still alot to be done, if we continue this way in januray and add Lugano it will be a progress but still not a Cl team for sure, but competitive with Samp, Palermo, Napoli, Fiorentina, Genoa and merda. Not to forget about the formation issues, it is a major headache too.

All this talk of CL football again. Humerous. I wonder what a world without Lotito is like, it's been ages since I knew how it felt. I can only hope it happens soon, when I am still young and full of energy. I don't want to wait until I'm 50 for Lotito to VATTENE.

We are so far from coming 4th in this league it's not even funny.


Speaking of Hayk's headaches. Roslagen, I'm afraid you are missing the point. Whether 3-5-2 is the best formation since ever bare sick I love it, or not, is not the issue. The issue is what's best for Lazio. 4-4-2 is in Lazio's DNA, sure, but that can all change if the time is right, sure. However, under Rossi, the time was NOT right. The players at our disposal were best suited to 4-4-2, and for me nothing has changed. We do not have 3 quality CB's therefore we are handicapping ourselves by playing this at the moment. We have full-backs who are not good attackers so they are playing poorly in that position. ETC ETC.

Ballardini came into this club, saw what we had, (and reports suggest even asked the players what they wanted) and they said 4-3-1-2, which is closer then 4-4-2 then not. Reja on the other hand came into this club and thought, I'm going to put my stamp on it by making us play 3-5-2. It's wrong and as I said before it's archaic.

revision to the squad. reja will be working with only 24-25 players   not 33 as said before. Correa, Artipoli, Manfredini, Quadri, Bonetto and Firmani(and I assume two or three others) will be training separately.would have like to just sell most of them but this will have to do for now.

Alvaro Gonzalez might see time in the next game against Bologna. as what? Its not clear. with the formation at play, I think he is more than likely going to be used as one of our floating wingers. being that he is said to be fast, and shouldn't displace anyone but DelNero.