Re: Man U Italians to date...



higgs wrote:
On Jul 5, 11:46 pm, "Diabolik" <Diabo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Barca hardly won this years EC1 witha side comprised solely of Spanish
Nationals, did they?

Yeah the base ot the team is Spanish.
Depends what you mean by base.


Messi, Henry, E'oto, Touré and Sylvinho are all non-Spanairds.

As are Abidal, Alves, and Marquez, who would have played in the final if available, or at least 2 would. (Sylvinho would not have played, though).
I would guess Barca had more non-Spaniards than Spaniards in their starting lineup for most of the year.

Note that when Barca won in 2006, not all that long ago, only 3 starting players were Spanish (Oleguer, Puyol, valdes) and one sub.


Are you saying antything over 5 non-nationals is worthy of a ban, but
5 or less is acceptable?



Did Milan have any foereigners when they last won?

A few, but not as much % as English teams.

Only 4 in the starting lineup in 2007, which is excellent (Man United had 5 foreigners when they won in 2008). However, in 2005 in the final,
Milan had 7 foreigners on the pitch to start, and all three subs were foreign (still better than their opponents Liverpool, though).

In the last final played between Italian teams, 2003, when Serie A could still have pretensions to being the best league in Europe, and was still a magnet for big stars, Milan had 5 foreigners in starting lineup, plus 2 subs. Juve had six foreigners (five if you count Camoranesi as Italian, which I guess is legit as he was capped in 2003), plus one of 3 subs was Foreign. So 13-14 of the 28 players who appeared were not Italian. That is fairly substantial, though still not as high as for the top (and even mid-table) English clubs.






But that's not the point, they still had plenty of foreign nationals.

Dida, Kaka, Jankulovski, Seedorf.

It seems that as long as the team has less foereign nationals than a
corresponding EPL club, it's ok by you.


Is it so they are after Adebeyor?
Because of his Italian blood, right?

Yeah his mother is Italian, born in Palermo.




And Kaka is half Italian/ half Spanish, right?


I head Real are looking to strengthen their squad a bit this year.
What's the betting they sign some foreign nationals?

They are an exception.



No they aren't.

There's plenty of transfer activity at present. If you think Real and
the EPL clubs are the only ones bidding for foreign stars, you're
either misinformed or making things up


Fifa should also ban English National teams from hiring Italian coaches, I
mean they can't even develop their own coaches...lol-
If Englad do well, it wouldn';t surprise me if people then start
calling for all sorts of silly bans.

Of course, that's if they win without the help of referees, like they did in
66.



Ah, I see, a troll

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