Stop Press: At Least One Serie A Player NOT Going to Man City
By: Martha | August 7th, 2007
In what is among the most shocking stories of the past two weeks, it’s being reported that Juve’s Giorgio Chiellini will not be moving to Manchester City the summer. I know the temptation is to assume this is a desperate lie cooked up by the FIGC to fight the impression that all of Serie A has been caught in Thaksin Shinawatra’s tractor beam of cash, but it actually seems to be true: Despite the major problems Chiellini got himself into with the gaffer earlier this summer, Claudio Ranieri says the defender is staying, and insists he knew it would turn out this way all along. Or, as only the Tinkerman could put it, “I would have been surprised had Chiellini decided to leave, but I am not surprised that he will stay.” Wax on, wax off.
In addition to apparently failing to land Chiellini, it looks as if things also might have just fallen apart in the Mark Bresciano deal, this despite the fact that the Australian press reported last night that it had been finalized. The deal was to be a four-year one worth about €45,000/week to the Australian, and would have brought Palermo about £5.4 million in transfer fees, but it seems to have collapsed due to Man City’s gradual payment plan.
Man, I be Bresciano wishes he’d have know that before he started telling the press that Serie A was just too easy for him. Ok, he didn’t use exactly those words, but his implication was clear: “I want this move to freshen me up a bit — I need a new challenge. I was beginning to lose a little bit of my edge in Italy. It was time for a change.” Ooops. And you could totally tell the league was beneath him by all those Man of the Match awards he was winning, and the way he helped stabilize the team when they were melting down last winter. Oh, wait. Yeah, I bet he’ll have no problems at all smoothing this one over.
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