Another great weekend.

Ah, that one is on Allegri.

It would have been even greater if we had won last Sunday.

Ah, that one is on Allegri.

Baggio: 'FIGC project a failure'
By Football Italia staff

Roberto Baggio has angrily terminated his job with the FIGC. “I am leaving because they haven’t allowed me to work.”

The Divine Ponytail was brought in after the 2010 World Cup as part of a renewal process and given the role of President of the Technical Sector.

He was meant to help revamp the youth team process to create more home-grown talent.

“I am leaving because they haven’t allowed me to work,” slammed Baggio on the TG1.

“I don’t care about keeping seats of power. I tried to perform the role that had been given to me, to renew the foundations of football training from children to teenagers in order to grow good players.

“I was not allowed to do this and am no longer prepared to carry on. I presented my project in December 2011. It was a 900-page plan and remained a dead letter.

“As President of the Technical Sector, I had no right to vote in the Federation meetings and there was no point going to meetings that had nothing to do with my work.

“For example, when I presented this plan I spent five hours waiting outside to then have a 15-minute presentation.

“The FIGC had set aside €10m for this project and I am grateful to President Giancarlo Abete for what he has done, but so far I have not received any funds to proceed. It all remained on paper.

“This is why I must sadly say goodbye. Is it definitive? I love football and my country, so I remain ready for any interesting proposal.”

Come on, it's a matter of time before Serie A loses it's 3rd CL spot as well.

Cavani > any partnership on that list combined. Hope he stays in Italy for a long time.

He'll most likely be out of there come this summer. He's too good to stay at Napoli while the big Italian clubs couldn't afford him

Come on, it's a matter of time before Serie A loses it's 3rd CL spot as well.

I think someone will have to pay the 63m buy-out to get him. Worth every penny though.

Seems like it is the inevitable .. Germany has a better football environment all-around, something that rivals the PL if you ask me. It is all tied down to FIGC's ability to improve the football environment in Italy, coupled with the Municipalities privitizing the stadiums. Not much holding the football in Italy back, except the Government itself which can not afford to let go of these income generating stadiums for its current fiscal state plus the bureaucracy. Inevitable.

And realistically speaking which teams could afford that?

Only City and PSG spring to mind, maybe Real, but I don't think he'll want to go to PSG. So either England or Spain. I think De Laurentis already said something along the lines of how it will be very difficuilt to hold onto him for another season.

Don't know why Juve are bringing Anelka of all people. He can barely score in the Chinese league these days.

But isn't teams leaving the stadiums and doing what Juve did ultimately worse than just selling them? At least if they're not getting the rent income from the clubs they'll make the money from the sales of the stadiums.

I know Juve built over the Delle Alpi, but I don't know how that got worked out with the city. Did they just pay for the land?

Juve denied a blatent penalty in the 93rd minute. Should've had another earlier in the game earlier too.

Are you nuts? That was totally involuntary. It'd have been the most idiotic penalty of the season. But yeah, there was another legit penalty on Pogba earlier.

He stopped the ball with his hand. He it not hit him, Vucinic is there for an easy goal. It's a penalty and red for me. Can't change the direction of a ball that much with your hands in the 6 yard box and get away with it.

If his hand was in the frame of his body, I agree. But it was way out of his body.

Either way, I'm happy for them to drop points. I want Napoli to get close.

I can't agree, he messed up his clearance and it was going towards the box still until it hit his hand. He's denied a goal scoring opportunity. Doesn't matter if it's an accident or not. You're telling me if someone accidently handballs it on the line it shouldn't be a penalty? Or someone genuinly makes an attempt to get the ball and is a split second late so he fouls someone that it shouldn't be a foul because he didn't mean to do it? No way.

As far as I'm concerned his arms were outside the frame of his body and it hit them = handball.

Yes, it matters, very much. It's down to the referee to determine the voluntariness of an action. There was a split second between Granqvist kicking the ball and it landing on his arm, even Flash couldn't have avoided it. The other scenarios you mentioned are different, especially the second one. The referee made the right decision.

Edit: Oh, and it wasn't a clear goal opportunity, since Granqvist cleared the ball, and if it wasn't for his arm, the ball would have went flying in the opposite direction. If anything, he granted Juve a corner in the last seconds.

Well, impossible is nothing [and with Allegri something ]

He flicked the ball towards the box. He stopped a goal scoring opportunity with his hand. I disagree completely, but we'll leave it at that.

Inter's lack of creativity is worse than ours! Gargano, Mudingayi and Guarin in midfield, good God!

They lack a creative mid. The only one they had they sold him for peanuts.

And Alvarez and Coutinho have seemingly fell off the face of the Earth. I know Alvarez isn't particularly creative, but surely he's a better option behind the forwards than Guarin.