@JJuventus1897@t42222 The plan for alajbegovic is to also be a starter, maybe not right away though, and Vicario is a starter. Your standards are too high if you think they were going to sign half a new 11 in 1 window
@massimo1009 Como needed to play foreigners to become relevant. They would be terrible if they played Italians. Now that they have that base, they can start implementing Italians in the coming seasons.
Italy needs more investments like Como.
People hate but they’ll be a big player in the years to come and hopefully start a trend of foreign investment in the league whether people like it or not.
There’s no way Serie A makes a comeback without it.
Fàbregas on Mancini returning as Italy coach:
“I’ve always liked Mancini. He’s a winner and has a good style of football. He proved at the EUROs that he knows how to get it done.
I’m saying this honestly: I feel like one of you (an Italian). We’re going to try to help the national team.”
The amount of disrespect Pirlo has taken throughout his managerial career so far is insane.
- Scapegoated by Juventus although he had a better season then every manager that followed
- No solid job offer post-Juve
- Dropped by the Azzurri for no valid reason after just days
🚨BREAKING: Paolo Maldini & Leonardo LEAVE their respective roles with FIGC following the Andrea Pirlo case. Story is DONE❌
Roberto Mancini is in POLE for the CT role with Giorgio Chiellini who can become the NEW Direttore Tecnico👀
Antonio Conte remains in the back
@DiMarzio
There is no conclusive proof. But the circumstantial evidence that there is pro-Argentina bias in FIFA affecting the World Cup:
1) In the group stage opener against Algeria, Messi caught Aïssa Mandi with a studs-up challenge on the Achilles and escaped any card. FIFA later admitted the VAR officials got it wrong and sanctioned them.
2) The inconsistency became undeniable when the United States' Folarin Balogun was sent off in the Round of 32 for a near-identical foot-on-ankle challenge on Bosnia's Tarik Muharemović. Pundits directly compared the red card to Messi's uncarded foul on Mandi.
3) In the 2026 Round of 32 against Cape Verde, referee Drew Fischer did not enforce the tournament's new rule requiring an injured player to remain off the pitch after treatment. He waited for Argentina's Nicolás Tagliafico to return before allowing a Cape Verde corner. Several uncalled fouls in that game also went Argentina's way.
4) Today against Egypt, with Egypt leading 1-0, Mostafa Ziko finished off a long breakaway to make it 2-0. VAR sent Letexier to the monitor and the goal was disallowed for a Marwan Attia shirt-pull on Lisandro Martínez that occurred roughly 20 seconds earlier and nearly the full length of the pitch from goal.
5) Neutral officiating experts, not just Egyptian fans, called the decision wrong. Former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg said he did not believe it was a foul and did not believe VAR should have intervened at all, adding that the call was inconsistent with the physical contact referees had allowed all tournament.
6) The winning sequence produced a second grievance. In the buildup to Enzo Fernández's stoppage-time winner, Egypt appealed for a penalty on a Salah challenge and for an Alexis Mac Allister shirt-pull, and VAR checked neither. Hassan cited the unreviewed Mac Allister pull directly in his post-match remarks.
7) The 2026 grievances land on top of a 2022 record In Qatar, Argentina were awarded five penalties, the most ever by a team in a single World Cup edition, with Messi taking all five. That same tournament, Messi handled the ball against the Netherlands in the quarterfinal and escaped a yellow card.
8) FIFA has appointed an all-Argentine crew, led by Facundo Tello, for Thursday's France–Morocco quarterfinal, the tournament's first all-same-country panel.
9) Comments attributed to Infantino after an Argentina match were widely discussed as suggesting bias toward Argentina before he later clarified them, and a deep Messi run drives far more global viewership and revenue than one without him. This establishes incentive.
FIFA cannot be trusted. Egypt was robbed. Argentina are coasting to another title under FIFA protection.
🚨Thierry Henry on Portugal’s elimination from the FIFA World Cup:
🗣️ “I’m going to say something that a lot of Portuguese supporters probably don’t want to hear.
This Portugal team has massively underperformed.
Not because they lacked talent, but because too many of their biggest players never reached the level everyone expected.
Bruno Fernandes has been dreadful by his own standards throughout this World Cup. The creativity, the leadership, the decisive moments we’ve seen for years simply weren’t there. Then you look at Vitinha and João Neves—fresh from winning the Champions League with PSG. Two midfielders who dominated Europe. Yet in this tournament, they’ve been almost invisible. Missing in action when Portugal needed control, composure and personality.
And then there is Cristiano Ronaldo.
People will blame him because that’s the easy thing to do.
I won’t.
Because if you decide to start Cristiano, then you have to build situations that suit him. Instead, Portugal kept circulating possession without purpose. They had one of the greatest penalty-box finishers football has ever seen, yet they hardly gave him the service he lives on. That’s not on Ronaldo. That’s on the team around him.
Spain deserve enormous credit.
They played with a clear identity from the first minute until the last. Every player knew his role. Every movement had purpose. Portugal, on the other hand, looked like eleven talented footballers trying to solve the game individually rather than collectively.
That’s why Spain are still in this World Cup.
And that’s why Portugal are going home.
Not because they had worse players…
But because they never played like a better team.”
@t42222 Something about the Portuguese attitude, it feels like they never gel but I always put them super high before every tournament because they should be better
If I were him, Juventus would still be my top choice. Let’s be real, he’s old, he’s not going to a team that’s going to win the UCL. He may as well strive for a Scudetto before he retires.
🚨 Atlético Madrid are now pushing to hijack Juventus’ move for Bernardo Silva after the Portuguese midfielder was left hugely impressed by their proposal. 🇵🇹
The Man City legend is now seriously considering a move to Spain despite talks with Juventus already advancing. 👀
(Source: @TEAMtalk)