Antonio Cassano

[Hasan]

Old schoole genius ... Good luck.

 

[northx57]

Wow he's gone just like that? How come outgoing deals get done so quickly but incoming deals take fucking forever?

 

[KevinB]

Fuck, sucks to not have him anymore, could still be very usefull...

 

[Batman]

Wow he's gone just like that? How come outgoing deals get done so quickly but incoming deals take fucking forever?

We've been linked to Belofodil before Parma even thought about Cassano and they get him first.

 

[Nyall]

Stats can be deceptive. He also gave up copious amounts of ball, slowed down play, and mostly stood in one spot.

None the more so than Guarin. Who gave away the ball even more, killed our attacks even more and didn't aid our defense at all in the second half of the season.

You cannot make a winning team with the current Cassano as a focal point. He could have made a useful sub, but his ego and his attitude would made sure that wouldn't have worked.

I agree, and neither am I saying we should. I'm against building a team from any single point, even if that player is Messi. I'm just more convinced, that Cassano would be capable of playing within a team, as he did at Milan than say Guarin who has always been a selfish prick.

 

[Fitzy]

Disappointed he's gone. For me, one of the best players of last season. The lack of creativity in this squad is very worrying.

 

[thatdude]

Happy to see him go. I never disliked him necessarily, more disliked what he stood for. If we want to progress we can't afford to build around a player like Cassano.

Still played really well for us in patches, good luck. Respect.

 

[Wallace]

Just because hes here doesnt mean we have to build a team around him.

Its two different thing.

Look at Cassano in Milan, Milan didnt form the attack around him.

The only reason why we would be tempted to is we lack another creator up front, so our players would always end up passing the ball to him whenever we are stuck.

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[Pimpin]

when we loan our youth its mazzari style, when we sell old players its still mazzari stylle


:chan:

 

[pencilpal]

when we loan our youth its mazzari style, when we sell old players its still mazzari style

When we loan our youth, it's more like "Moratti-wants-more-teams-interested" style.

 

[crepi]

The way I see it, Cassano is a luxury to have on your team as an option in an otherwise already functioning offense. But he cannot be the foundation of the offense. So if his leaving means we can build a more reliable and sustainable offense, then so be it. Grazie Antonio, in bocca al lupo

 

[junior55]

People getting worried about cassano leaving is a clear sign of how bad has Strama worked with this team last year.

We are talking about a player who never plays more than 3-4 months for season and even in those months he can't play more than 60 minutes. Of course , in those minutes he can show class touches but a team should NEVER be dependent on smn rare moments of brightness. Players like him should be the jolly , the one who can add the to the team that smth more but not in any case be completely out of team play and then be himself the "team play".

A good manager organizes team play on clear tactical duties , smth we haven't seen in here last year and smth that Mazzari is supposed to be good at. Hamsik is no where near the class , vision and passing level of Cassano and yet he was the mastermind of Napoli's so i wouldn't be worried at all about lack of creativiness in our team as long as players know what to do in the pitch.

 

[Nyall]

People getting worried about cassano leaving is a clear sign of how bad has Strama worked with this team last year.

We are talking about a player who never plays more than 3-4 months for season and even in those months he can't play more than 60 minutes. Of course , in those minutes he can show class touches but a team should NEVER be dependent on smn rare moments of brightness. Players like him should be the jolly , the one who can add the to the team that smth more but not in any case be completely out of team play and then be himself the "team play".

A good manager organizes team play on clear tactical duties , smth we haven't seen in here last year and smth that Mazzari is supposed to be good at. Hamsik is no where near the class , vision and passing level of Cassano and yet he was the mastermind of Napoli's so i wouldn't be worried at all about lack of creativiness in our team as long as players know what to do in the pitch.

Hamsik is no Cassano in terms of brilliance, but Hamsik is still fucking brilliant. More so than every single one of our midfielders and it's not even close. You should be very worried about our lack of creativity. Because unlike in the Mancini years we won't have Ibrahimovic or a Sneijder from the Mourinho years.. Knowing what to do on the pitch will mean fuck all if the players don't have the ability to do it..

 

[junior55]

Hamsik is no Cassano in terms of brilliance, but Hamsik is still fucking brilliant. More so than every single one of our midfielders and it's not even close. You should be very worried about our lack of creativity. Because unlike in the Mancini years we won't have Ibrahimovic or a Sneijder from the Mourinho years.. Knowing what to do on the pitch will mean fuck all if the players don't have the ability to do it..

Get me right on this.
I don't mean that we are going to be pretty to watch because the players will know what to do.
Hell , even if sneijder was here or cassano i still think we wouldn't be pretty to watch under mazzari , and this is one of the reasons i hate him the most.
What i think mazzari will do , is give a strong defending asset to this team and focus on simple counter attacking formulas. We will have a very vertical style of playing , focused on running to spaces of our strikers and way more crosses of our wingers (possible wingers) , hence the signings of belfodil and icardi. For such style of play (that i hate btw) a player like actual cassano is only an obstacle who would break down the rhythm and flow of our movements.

 

[Y&h]

Our only source of attacking creativity last season, wish him luck despite being a douche at times.

I don't think he has a future or a chance to be part of Italy's World Cup next year, since Prandelli's choice of dropping him. If he calls him now, then there is something really fucked up with Prandelli againts us.

 

[Nyall]

Get me right on this.
I don't mean that we are going to be pretty to watch because the players will know what to do.
Hell , even if sneijder was here or cassano i still think we wouldn't be pretty to watch under mazzari , and this is one of the reasons i hate him the most.
What i think mazzari will do , is give a strong defending asset to this team and focus on simple counter attacking formulas. We will have a very vertical style of playing , focused on running to spaces of our strikers and way more crosses of our wingers (possible wingers) , hence the signings of belfodil and icardi. For such style of play (that i hate btw) a player like actual cassano is only an obstacle who would break down the rhythm and flow of our movements.

As with every system, this one has it's flaws. And for us, it's going to be obvious. If Mazzari is going to play a certain way, the way we expect him to play, then the team needs a significant overhaul to suit that style. We have natural pacey wingers, Nagatomo is a full back, Alvarez is slow, Jonathan is , Schelotto is .... Our midfield is notorious for it's inability to ever deliver an end product. Kovacic has moments of brilliance no doubt, but none of that has led to a single goal for us, yet. We all know that he will deliver eventually, but we can't go in to the season hoping that it will be this season, especially when the person next to him is Guarin, who won't deliver, period and will almost certainly be benched soon by Mazzari.

If we don't want Gasperini 2.0 we need to actually spend to make our squad suitable for Mazzari, because right now it's not.

 

[Wallace]

especially when the person next to him is Guarin, who won't deliver, period and will almost certainly be benched soon by Mazzari.

That's only your opinion. Unless you are Mazzarri or his assistant, I wouldn't take it seriously.

Guarin is our best midfielder, even above Kovacic, period.

 

[pencilpal]

That's only your opinion. Unless you are Mazzarri or his assistant, I wouldn't take it seriously.

Guarin is our best midfielder, even above Kovacic, period.

Wallace, when you are trolling, you are probably one of the best posters on FIF.

The greatest and most effective form of criticism is definitely satire.

 

[Maslany]

Thank you for everything you did last year!!!!!!!!! Good luck!

 

[The Wall]

I wouldn't be suprised if it turns out that Cassano is head and shoulders a better player than anyone we bring in this summer.

Very sad to see him go just like that, enjoyed to watch him play last season.