Igor POROSHIN | LIVORNO 0% |  |
Tangible acquisitions: Ramzan Rezaei (Messina), Samuel Kuffur (Roma).
Tangible Losses: Jorge Vargas (Salzburg, Austria).
Place last season: 9th.
Ambitions: “Scudetto for the poor” and equalizing with “Steaua” - the unexpected semi-finalist of the UEFA Cup last season. The budget of “Livorno” to match the “Steaua”, and maybe even higher.
Summary : The “failure” of the summer is the disruption of the deal between Livorno and St. Petersburg Zenit regarding Cristiano Lucarelli. The owner of Livorno, Aldo Spinelli, has already agreed on everything with the new East European colossus on gas legs - both on the amount of transfer and the salary of the striker. Zenit was ready to transfer 10 million euros to Livorno’s accounts and pay Lucarelli 3 million euros per year. However, Spinelli forgot to inform the player himself about what had happened. The mistake is understandable and excusable - well, is it really possible to protest against tripling your salary at the age of 31? Can. If it's Cristiano Lucarelli. A person with a heroic modeling face, a convinced Marxist who published an autobiography with the headline “Try me to buy!”, An idol and, in a sense, even the leader of the ultra-left typhosis “Livorno” (once Lucarelli, alone, by the power of words and charisma, drove fans to the stands who ran out to the stands field) vetoed his own transition. And in fact, what is a tripling of salaries in comparison with eternal glory? Lucarelli remained with his million, but his grandchildren would definitely walk along the street named after his grandfather.
That, in fact, is all that can be said today in connection with Livorno. The most interesting thing has already happened. Then there will be a boring struggle - not only for the 7th, not for the 17th place.
 | "PALERMO" 0% | |
Tangible acquisitions: Marco Bresciano (Parma), Amauri (Chievo), Aimo Diana (Sampdoria), Fabio Simplicio (Parma), Cesare Bovo (Roma).
Tangible losses: Fabio Grosso (Inter), Simone Barone (Torino), Mario Alberto Santana (Fiorentina), Christian Terlizzi (Sampdoria), Stephen Mackinva (Lazio), Mariano Gonzalez (Inter ").
Place last season: 9th.
Ambition: Champions League zone.
Summary: Palermo lost four key players in the summer, including World Cup hero Fabio Grosso. But at the same time he remained at his own strength, finding quite adequate replacements for the departed. To maintain its strength in the conditions of the crisis of Series A is already a victory and new horizons. In view of the heavy punishment of Fiorentina, Palermo receives pole position in the race for the fourth ticket to the Champions League. Sicilians will be led to this goal by Francesco Gvidolin - the man who raised Palermo to Serie A, and then immediately to the 6th position in the league of the strongest. Maurizio Zamparini, the owner of the team, admitted that he was very mistaken in dismissing Gvidolin a year ago, when he decided that the team should play more attractively. Attractive football with Luigi Del Neri did not work, and Palermo received a pass to the Euroarena only after the disqualifications of other teams. Gvidolin with a light heart forgave Dzamparini and accepted his offer, as life without Palermo did not work out. He was called up as a crisis coach at Monaco, from where he was fired last season. The decaying power of the princely team was so great that even Capello and Mourinho could hardly have stopped him. However, with “Palermo” Gvidolin will not be easy. After all, this team has never in its history pursued such high goals. And, moreover, in the current situation, it is simply obliged to achieve them.
 | UDINESE 0% | |
Tangible acquisitions: Asamoa Gyan (Modena), Gaetano D'Agostino (Messina).
Tangible losses: Valerio Bertotto (Siena), Fernando Tissone (Atalanta).
Place last season: 13th.
Ambition: raise young people for sale and simultaneously be the best among the poor.
Summary: “Udinese” is perhaps the most interesting “small project” in Serie A. Last year's participation in the Champions League (where he almost made it to the playoffs) has already been forgotten as a pleasant but optional dream. Udinese is wholly absorbed in the construction of today's main Italian star factory. Very significant main off-season acquisitions. Two players who managed to catch a star, but so far very far from stellar status, were taken up. Asamoa Gyan is the same smiling young man who became famous for his fiery and completely reckless game in the attack of Ghana at the World Cup in Germany. D'Agostino is an exceptionally talented man whom Capello tried to make a companion of Cassano and Totti in the attack of “Roma”. But the young man accepted the coaching experience as an edict of the Pope, equating D'Agostino with Totti, and can’t find himself in any way, since it turned out that the Vatican didn’t issue any edicts related to football, much less with Gaetano D'Agostino . In general, it will be extremely curious to see how the alpine coolness of Udine affects these hot heads.
You can expect a take-off from one of the other young newcomers, who, as always, are many in the team. For example, from the 18-year-old Roman Eremenko, the younger brother of Alexei Eremenko, who plays in Saturn. In the first round, Eremenko Jr. came out at the base and was one of the best.
In some ways, Udinese has already come close to the glory of Ajax: club scouts do not need to ask young people to sign a contract for a long time - everyone knows that football is well taught in Udine. And even retrain. Perhaps it is in the research centers of this small city in northeast Italy that the concept of the “new Italian style” will be formulated. More likely here than in Inter, too keen on the pursuit of prizes, or Milan, cultivating a kind of global elegance. Today, Italy really needs a theoretical concept for the development of football. What is the Italian style is not entirely clear. If you follow some old definitions, then authentic Italian football is played in France today.
 | SIENA -5 % |  |
Tangible acquisitions: Valerio Bertotto (Udinese), Mario Frik (Ternana).
Tangible losses: Nikola Legrotalier (Juventus), Igor Tudor (Juventus), Marco Fortin (Cagliari), Thomas Guzman (Juventus).
Place last season: 17th.
Ambition: try to become, say, the 10th, but the main thing is not to be the 18th.
Summary: Another “veteran club” of series A, weakened by the urgent call in “Juva” of Tudor and Legrotal, on which the defense of the Sienz was held. Holes somehow patched. Apparently, the experience of the players gathered in the team will again suffice to extend the registration in Serie A. But to follow the tournament adventures of this elderly brigade led by 36-year-old Enrico Chiesa is best in compact television reviews. Nothing interesting outside of these squeezes, be calm, will not remain.
 | "CAGLIARI" -5 % | |
Tangible acquisitions : no.
Tangible losses : Nelson Abeyhon (“Atalanta”), Massimo Gobbi (“Fiorentina”).
Place last season: 16th.
Ambitions: the resort team, as they call "Cagliari", they wake up according to tradition near the end of the season, when the team will hang out in the relegation zone.
Summary: The most interesting thing that happened to Cagliari in the summer was that nothing happened. Annoyed by the greed of the Sardinians, the management of Milan annulled the deal on the Honduran striker David Suazo (21 goals last season), which had already taken place. Another forward striker, Vincenzo Esposito, was eager for Roma, but even there they considered the price too high for a player who was moping over the past season. Suazo and Esposito’s desire for another life is what the Cagliari lives on, something that should ensure its relatively quiet existence in Serie A. On the other side of the struggle for prizes and the struggle for survival.
 | KIEVO -5 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: Vincenzo Sichignano (Lecce), Camille Kosowski (Kaiserslautern, Germany).
Tangible losses: Amauri (Palermo), Daniele Franceschini (Sampdoria).
Place last season: 7th.
Ambition: to try, as in the last season, to win the “scudetto for the poor”, that is, to be in the table next to the rich.
Summary : The call to the Champions League in connection with the decisions of the Italian courts caught Chievo by surprise. In the qualifying match with the Bulgarian Levski, the Verona team looked completely bewildered, as if absorbed in the feeling: “Are we playing for a place in the Champions League?” No, there is no place for Chievo. The element of this club is a struggle with its own kind, in which it discovers truly predatory instincts, and, of course, trade in players. Immediately after the defeat from Levski, a victory came - an extremely successful sale of the Brazilian striker Amauri in Palermo. The miracle "Chievo" lives. His quiet and zealous life is an example. In any case, while Chievo plays in series A.
 | SAMPDORIA -5 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: Gennaro Del Vecchio (Lecce), Christian Terlizzi (Palermo), Ruben Oliveira (Juventus).
Tangible losses: Aimo Diana (Palermo), Francesco Antonioli (Bologna), Marcello Castellini (Bologna).
Place last season: 14th.
Ambition: “a scudetto for the poor,” to which the once well-to-do Sampdoria is now fully justifiable.
Summary: Three years ago, Sampdoria returned to Serie A with fanfare, hoping to regain the position of the giant's thunderstorm. The first season after returning in Serie A was brisk. The next one, with the same composition, was sluggish and boring to match the team’s game. No thunderous rumbles from Genoa reached relatives of Turin and Milan. It is not clear even now who will throw thunder and lightning in Sampdoria. If only Roberto Flaki. But one thunderbolt at Milan, Inter or even Roma will not be enough.
 | LAZIO -10 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: Christian Ledesma (Lecce), Stephen Mackinwa (Palermo), Pasquale Foggia (Ascoli).
Tangible losses: Fabio Liverani (Fiorentina), Osman Dabo (Manchester City), Paolo Di Canio (Chisco).
Place last season: 6th.
Ambition: with a penalty of -8 points, Lazio can only dream of a place in the UEFA Cup. From the Italian Cup, a victory in which gives him the right, the team has already flown.
Summary: Lazio begins the season without Liverani and Dabo. The smooth move of the team last season was provided in many ways by this pair of central midfielders. The 23-year-old Argentinean Ledesma is an excellent substitute for Dabo (the summer before last he had long been considered by Juve as a candidate for his partner Emerson until he had matured a contract with Vieira). But it is very difficult to find a replacement for Liverani. This man knew how to turn the course of the game with one brilliant pass. Nevertheless, the midfield of the team (Berami, Ledesma, Mutarelli, Foggia - the average age of 24 years) looks promising. No matter how loud the Lazio fans boo crisis manager Claudio Lotito for not bringing new Veronov and Nedvedov in chariots, this man manages to draw a new line under the most severe financial limit. It is based on a complete and irrevocable rejection of yesterday’s universal ambitions, as well as unspoken racial attitudes in personnel policy, which indulged in the ideas of the Lazio glory and honor. But people love to dream and worship old standards. The result of the "real" policy and the emergence of African immigrants was an actual boycott by the fans of the campaign for the sale of subscriptions - by the beginning of the championship only 8 thousand were sold (the figure of 4 years ago was 37 thousand). Lazio will have to fight not only for points, but also for a new spectator. The task is not hopeless. Today's staffing of the Roman club promises, if not stunning results, then at least football, which will distinguish it from the gray, identical teams that have flooded Serie A.
 | MESSINA -10 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: Christian Rigano (Empoli).
Tangible losses: Gaetano D'Agostino (Udinese), Rahman Rezaei (Livorno).
Place last season: 18th.
Ambitions: to avoid departure on their own - after all, a new “calciopoli” may not take place.
According to the results of the last season, Messina should have deservedly left Serie A. But she was asked to stay - to take the place vacated by Juventus. Judging by how the Sicilians behaved in the transfer market this summer, such luck did not please them - no attempts to strengthen the team. An obvious contender for a departure from Serie A. With what Messinians themselves absolutely agree - the number of seasonal season ticket holders has dropped seven times compared to last season.
 | REGINA -20 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: no.
Tangible losses: Carlos Paredes (Sporting, Lisbon), Ivan Franceschini (Torino), Gaetano De Rosa (Genoa).
Place last season: 15th.
Ambition : no.
Summary: The prosecution of “Regina” began already in the midst of the scandal surrounding the grandees of Serie A, but the club from Reggio Calabria received an almost fatal punishment. If Fiorentina has such a composition that even with a 19-point penalty it may well make it to the UEFA Cup, then Regina’s 15-point deficit is a sentence of departure. So this season for “Regina” will be meaningless and merciless. What could be curious in the long journey to the scaffold? Perhaps only the goals of Rolando Bianchi - a gifted young striker who missed a year due to injury. Bianchi opened the season with a hat-trick in Palermo. At the same time, Regina lost.
 | EMPOLI -30 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: Lynno Mardzaratti (Milan), Daniele Adani (Ascoli).
Tangible losses: Francesco Tavano (Valencia), Maxwell (Inter), Pasquale Rigano (Messina).
Place last season: 11th.
Ambition: you can not hear!
Summary : The transition of Tavano to Valencia is perhaps the most impressive illustration of the decline of Series A. Tavano was not interesting to Inter and Milan. And other Italian clubs were simply not able to pull the amount set by Empoli for a player who truly revealed a remarkable gift only to 27 years old. 1 million euros of the proceeds for Tavano went to pay for small purchases. The remaining 9 million form the budget for the year that the team representing the 40,000th Tuscan town will spend in a desperate struggle for a place in Serie A.
 | PARMA -70 % | |
Tangible acquisitions: Vitaly Kutuzov (Sampdoria).
Tangible losses: Marco Marchioni (Juventus), Daniele Bonera (Milan), Marco Bresciano (Palermo), Bernardo Corradi (Manchester City), Fabio Simplicio (Palermo), Paolo Cannavaro (Napoli) )
Place last season: 10th.
Ambition: reveal the miracle of regeneration to the world and stay in Serie A.
Summary: It seems that this was the last sale of the football treasures of the Tanzi family, who left Parma after the collapse of the Parmalat concern. The front rooms are empty for a long time. Now empty and pantries. All hiding places are opened. On the broken steps, sprouted with grass, of one of the most magnificent monuments of football feudalism in Italy, surrounded by a group of strangers, is Domenico Morfeo - the last treasure of Parma, Calcho's great loser, the same age as Totti, the man who was said to have given God equal talent with Totti . The expedition "Grandfather Morpheo and the Hares" seems doomed. But after the disaster of the Tanzi family, Parma discovered an amazing vitality in itself. This team over the past five seasons shows more than what is expected of it. Now you have to show a lot more. By the way, in the application of “Parma” for the season there is a 37-year-old Portuguese Fernando Coutu. Maybe he bequeathed to bury himself in Parma in memory of the years he spent in a team that rattled throughout Europe?
The announcement of the championship of Italy, part 1
Announcement of the 2nd round of the championship of Italy