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Ah, and by the way, Baptista is more and more a sack of potatoes, Spalletti is pissed off with the club because he finds himself with players out of position that he doesn’t know what to do with, the only thing that consoles me is Milan. Good job Lazie, well done Zarate, no bullshit, this is a player who knows how to handle himself. Everyone mocks him just because he chose the second team in Rome, but I would gladly trade Okaka Ciuccia for him.

It seems to me that the most shareable posts are undoubtedly those from C'è. In the end, it seems obvious that if you want to win something important consistently and remain competitive, you need to create a parallel power structure to the institutional one and invisible to the eyes of the common people. Larrok, you continue with this dichotomy Roma Inter; even Roma will have its skeletons in the closet (and I repeat that if they made Capello's giallorossi win the Scudetto, it wasn't simply because Roma was stronger, but because Sensi at that moment hadn't antagonized anyone in the Palazzo; otherwise, the refereeing grievances would have poured in). In short, to win you have to be part of the circle; it’s quite naive to believe that the championship is consumed solely on the field. Regarding the interceptions from Calciopoli, it seems obvious to me that they were brought to light by those who deemed it convenient for them to surface. Who do you think benefited from their emergence?

Perhaps among the three, Inter is the most unlucky (it's a matter of hierarchies), but you can clearly see that as soon as the comparison is made with other teams from the center-south, Inter turns out to be the most successful of them all.

Ah, I expected fewer goals from Natale, but Borriello scored 19, yet I would never want him at Roma. These are particular years/contexts, and I just don't like players like these.

"Is Roma the biggest team in the world?" But I've criticized the team and management up until three posts ago, so much that Blackdog called me a Lazio fan. Of course, if I were asked in a quiz, "What are the three most powerful and influential teams in the history of Italian football?" I wouldn't say Roma, Lazio, and Frosinone, but Inter, Milan, and Juve. You're too much of a fan to admit it, but you know perfectly well that's how it is.

Pixies, but when Zeman was coaching Roma and Sensi was railing against Galliani, where were you?? Did that period seem satisfying for Roma from a refereeing perspective? Of course, in recent years something has improved, and fortunately I would add. But you see that Rosellina doesn't talk badly about anyone... if she started promoting wars against the North like her father did, Roma wouldn't even reach the UEFA, or at least would be harmed in crucial matches. I want back the Totti from the Scudetto and the partnership with Cassano. He didn't score 20 goals a season because he wasn't playing as a center forward, but go back and watch the gazelle he was, he wouldn't miss a ball even if you blindfolded him. The ideal would be a mix of young talents (but already concretely strong) and a few (no more than a couple) 31-32 year-olds. Of course Roma wanted to sign him, and fortunately Di Natale didn't arrive, that for me is equivalent to a market hit. Thanks Udinese, who hate Spalletti, thanks.

Totti is part of the 31-year-olds, he can hardly stand due to the kicks he has taken; someone like Menez is indispensable in my opinion, even if not enough.

PIXIES, but shall we talk about Aldair's handball?? Roma has been MASSACRED in the past, no kidding, and was treated just like Chievo or Reggina, etc. 17 goals from Di Natale? When, last year? I would have taken him as a backup anyway, I don’t like him, he’s another inconsistent player. "It's with 31-year-olds that championships are won," so you wouldn’t want Messi on your team, right?

Larrok, let's not exaggerate to make a mess: the variable of political power exists, and it applies to Juve, Inter, and Milan, although certainly to different degrees. Head-to-head matches reveal little; they're just two simple games, we're not playing Street Fighter where losing one means game over. You can lose direct encounters with your rival and still win the championship. Shall we talk about the match at San Siro, the expulsion of Mexes? Come on, last year you cheated, it's obvious. You can't really say you earned it; you've become the most disliked team in Italy for this very reason, after all. I repeat, maybe you're stronger on paper, but the strongest team doesn’t always win. Even Moggi's Juve was said to be "the strongest," but clearly, it wasn't strong enough to rely solely on its own merit. That said, I don't mean to imply that Inter cheated consciously; let’s say they were indirectly favored by incompetent referees. And we can’t forget the points Roma squandered on their own, another important aspect. But making mistakes due to one's own shortcomings is legitimate; seeing your rival helped by pathetic penalties is not. And with all the goals Roma missed, if Inter hadn’t benefited from little assists, we would have won the championship anyway.

In Larrok this was known, the point is that other variables matter such as: political power and influence over referees, I understand that these are broken record topics, but that doesn't change the fact that they are still true. So much so that Sensi, the year of the championship, understood that certain people should not be made enemies. And indeed that year Roma won the league. Pixies, you talk about objectivity, and then besides taking the scudetto from Roma with the duce, see if you can take away the scudetto from Inter for the past year (just to stick to the recent past), on which the refereeing blunders influenced like never before. Ridiculous penalties awarded that allowed: either to unlock the score for the Nerazzurri, or to recover and win matches that Inter should have at most drawn. Ah, yesterday Ibra's goal was irregular, just to change things up. Di Natale is a decoy, a 32-year-old who plays 3 great matches at the beginning, and then disappears for the rest of the season. He did the same last year, too.