It’s pretty much who we’ve bought. We haven’t bought Totti, Baggio or Del Piero have we. We bought two with injury issues, one who had an attitude issue and Dossena.
I joke every time it crops up, fact people treat it with seriousness. The Italians at Chelsea never had issues.
That’s because of the haute couture.
We’ve also been fleeced on the price. Taken together, there is an understandable wariness from fans about Made in Italy
Our issue for buying a crock.
I totally understand about selling to them.
And also wariness about fans made in Italy.
Basically anything Made in Italy - except if it is one of @Bekloppt ‘fashion’ man bags?
I haven’t seen 10 games and I wouldn’t believe anyone who claimed they had! Still, when his name was first linked a few weeks ago, I looked at Parma clips, and the main thing that impressed me was Leoni’s strength. In one sequence he bumped Lukaku off the ball and held his ground really well, which is remarkable for an 18 year old.
The other thing that caught my eye was that he looked to have a turn of pace, which you don’t usually associate with such a big lad.
Obviously our recruitment team will know everything there is to know to make an informed judgement, but based on the limited action I’ve seen, I’d be happy if we signed him.
He looks like Florian Wirtz just with more hair 
Usain Bolt 6’5 and 14.7 stone was a big lad with a turn of pace.
We’ve been trying to buy similar players over multiple transfer windows, so definitely part of a continuous strategy not a panic measure (the lad at Bournmouth this summer and the lad at Chelsea spring to mind for example)
Especially from Rome or Napoli.
My one concern would be that for some reason Italians just don’t seem to do well at Liverpool. I don’t know if it’s homesickness or something else.
I think its down to what we’ve bought as I said.
Its more likely we have bought shit ones in the first place.
I used to work with an Italian lad that was over in the UK for a few years to dodge the military draft, he didn’t settle well over here either. From the discussions we had it was basically down to their lifestyle back home being all about big family groups living together and the women doing everything for their boys so they didn’t have the life skills or emotional maturity to live outside that - maybe we need to sign a nonna or two for the backroom team.
Like this?
Very unreliable source. Apparently we want Barcola.
https://x.com/sachatavolieri/status/1953149981403075053
Sky Switzerland on it as well
Is it our plan B perhaps?
Good player (though Doue’s uprise and Kvara’s arrival pushed him a bit behind), but don’t like the idea.
Would much prefer Rodrygo, but who knows if that one is realistic for different reasons.