Note to Tommaso Rocchi: Please Stop Talking

By: Martha | July 3rd, 2007

Who advises footballers to go to the press with their childish whining — or, if you prefer, whinging — and wage demands? I mean, does that ever work? As far as I can recall, it mostly makes players looks like assholes who can’t live on whatever obscene amount of money they’re already getting. Or, on the few occasions when the public agrees the player is being mistreated, they still lack leverage and end up being sidelined as punishment for mouthing off. It’s one in a million who actually get what they want, and end up in a better situation. So … the positives are where, exactly?

Lazio’s Tommaso Rocchi apparently hasn’t been paying much attention to that track record, but because he’s spent some time in the last week or so bitching about being underpaid, and demanding a raise. According to the striker, his value has dramatically risen since he signed his current contract — which, much to his dismay, runs through 2009 — and he feels he’s worth at least triple his current salary. (When I was a teacher, I took this approach the first time I asked for a raise. Oddly, going to the press didn’t work for me, either.) If the club don’t agree with his assessment of his own genius, well, he can’t do anything about it. So he’ll pout. Take that!

Lazio, for their part, really can’t be bothered, and have serenely assuring the press that, barring a big offer from abroad, Mr. Rocchi will be scoring goals in pale blue for the next two years whether he likes it or not. Yeah, that went well.

Category: Lazio, Rumors & News, Serie A

Tags: Lazio, Rumors -amp; News, Serie A

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• Mike |  July 3rd, 2007 at 7:02 am

  
  
  

  This isn’t really Rocchi’s fault; as much as he sucks, the poor dude only makes like $300,000 per annum despite scoring exactly 16 gols in Serie A for the last two seasons.

  I’m sure everyone on his team makes more money than he, except for maybe Behrami, who for some reason or another somehow missed out on Chris’ Great Hair Debate… He’s got a lovely bleached faux-hawk-meets-rat-tail, I’m sure you’d love it:
  http://images-srv.leonardo.it/progettiweb/stefanocarina/blog/behrami.jpg

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• Martha |  July 3rd, 2007 at 7:56 am

  
  
  

  Behrami’s hair has actually grown out — it’s pretty boring now, though I’m sure that’s just because he was too busy to do anything impressive to it during the season. Early on last year, he had a pretty impressive leopard-style thing going on up there.

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• chris g |  July 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm

  
  
  

  Do you really think I’d put a current Laziale on that list?

  Puhhhleeeeeaasse.

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• Mike |  July 4th, 2007 at 12:17 am

  
  
  

  word. i forgot about your hate for the regional sistaz.

  ps: Transformers is the ILLEST. Shaia is hilarious, Megan Fox is HOT, and Optimus Prime has returned (unlike Adriano; we’re still waiting on the party boy to show his ex-parma-pre-hype style).

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• Martha |  July 4th, 2007 at 12:30 am

  
  
  

  Damn, Mike — first showing, huh? Was the crowd going crazy at the awesomeness? Glad to hear it’s good, I read a capsule review yesterday that said “Imagine two angry Hummers, running into one another. And then imagine it happening for two hours.”

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• Mike |  July 4th, 2007 at 9:17 am

  
  
  

  For an opening night, the crowd was surprisingly pleasant.

  And that quote sums up the movie nicely except, instead of reading it sarcastically, imagine that two hours of angry hummers is the perfect realization of a classic 80’s cartoon to the big screen with spectacular special effects and just the right amount of cheese.

  Did I just say “angry hummers”? Someone call up Bobo, Matrix, Veron, and let’s make a film.

  ps: I saw Cambiasso’s new shaved-alien-look, and I’ve never seen anything more frightening in my life. Does Esteban have a huge advantage over most midfielders because he’s now a telepath?

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• Martha |  July 4th, 2007 at 9:37 am

  
  
  

  I’m sorry, you’re going to have to give me some time to recover from that Bobo/Matrix/Veron mental image.

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• Martha |  July 4th, 2007 at 9:39 am

  
  
  

  Ok, I’ve mostly stopped trembling now (and I’m not going to think too hard if it was from horror or something else).

  I have to admit something very embarrassing right now: I think Cambiasso looks fantastic with his head shaved. There, I said it. Like, really good. He has great features, and now you can see them without being horrified by the combover. /girly mode

  Regarding Transformers: I’m not entirely convinced that Shia fellow can act — is he just conning us all? Does it matter?

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• Linda |  July 4th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

  
  
  

  Nah, it’s Transformers, who cares about the humans? (Other than the fact that as Mike pointed out, Megan Fox is very attractive and not at all convincing as a high school student.) The giant robots battling each other bits were awesome, and that’s all I cared about.

  Re: Cambiasso, I really have to agree with Martha. Thank God the combover is gone.

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• Martha |  July 5th, 2007 at 10:04 am

  
  
  

  Thank you, Linda! Now we just have to pray he keeps it short.

  (And I’ll add Transformers to my list of movies to see. I wonder how you say “Decepticon” in Portuguese.)

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• Mike |  July 5th, 2007 at 1:44 pm

  
  
  

  Dishhheptikhan.

  Is it me, or does DiCanio look a bit like Zizou in that photo?

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