Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[dorsetvillian]

Glory Hunter...

[Percy McCarthy]

Glory Hunter...

I chose them on different criteria. I heard 200,000 people work for the Cammora in Naples/Campania - whether they like it or not! I’m mainly into the New York and American stuff though.

Are there any teams in Calabria? They’re the most powerful of the lot.

[Percy McCarthy]

Palermo are owned by City Group. So, twats. Capisce?

Booo!

[Percy McCarthy]

So who's your Italian team Percy, Palermo or Catania?

Napoli!

Any chance you can sweet talk McTominay into coming back to the UK and become a Villain?

Do we need him?

[olaftab]

Percy, can you rewrite that so a simple Brummie can understand😂

A stutter-step is a mafia hit technique where you walk alongside someone, seemingly with no ill intent, then take a step back to get behind them, facilitating shooting them in the back of the head, or maybe garrotting them.

Zips are Italians/Sicillians who are actually from those places, (like Mr Calvo for instance) as opposed to Italian-Americans.

Mr Calvo would be in the administration, like a consigliere (counsellor), third in command of a mafia family. A capodecine is in charge of ten soldiers in a mafia family, like a captain in a football team.

Wow...thank you.

[dorsetvillian]

AS Reggina from Calabria Percy. Must be Serie B or C.

[cdbearsfan]

Serie D, now. They were kicked down to that division in 2023 due to financial irregularities.

[Dave]

Crotone are from Calabria as well - lower leagues now, but played in Serie A within the last decade.

[eamonn]

Sampdoria have been handed a lifeline after being relegated to Serie C for the first time. Brescia have been docked points so may go down in their place. Samp would still need to negotiate a play-off to avoid relegation. Sad times, best Serie A shirt ever and of course their late 80s/early 90s side were absolute ballers.

[Bent Neilsens Screamer]

Sampdoria have been handed a lifeline after being relegated to Serie C for the first time. Brescia have been docked points so may go down in their place. Samp would still need to negotiate a play-off to avoid relegation. Sad times, best Serie A shirt ever and of course their late 80s/early 90s side were absolute ballers.

Some contenders for best shirt in that era, as well as Samp my other favourites were Parma and Fiorentina. Come to think of it most of the top clubs shirts were great. Maybe it’s the rose tinted glasses of Football Italia on Ch4.

[RamboandBruno]

Sampdoria have been handed a lifeline after being relegated to Serie C for the first time. Brescia have been docked points so may go down in their place. Samp would still need to negotiate a play-off to avoid relegation. Sad times, best Serie A shirt ever and of course their late 80s/early 90s side were absolute ballers.

Loved that team, Gianluca Vialli is one of my all time favourite players

[ADVILLAFAN]

Crotone are from Calabria as well - lower leagues now, but played in Serie A within the last decade.

Cosenza and Catanzaro decent sized clubs from there too.

If we are talking Calabria Mafia, they're the 'Ndrangheta.

[Steve67]

Bloody hell it’s quiet isn’t it? We’ve had films and mafia so far. 🥳

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Alex Remiro links to us seem to be building up, Steve. I imagine Emi doesn't want any transfer talk whilst he's away with Argentina.

[paul_e]

Sampdoria have been handed a lifeline after being relegated to Serie C for the first time. Brescia have been docked points so may go down in their place. Samp would still need to negotiate a play-off to avoid relegation. Sad times, best Serie A shirt ever and of course their late 80s/early 90s side were absolute ballers.

Some contenders for best shirt in that era, as well as Samp my other favourites were Parma and Fiorentina. Come to think of it most of the top clubs shirts were great. Maybe it’s the rose tinted glasses of Football Italia on Ch4.

I loved the Parma team, about 97 when Buffon broke through they had so much quality and played great football, the first time I'd ever really followed anyone but Villa because I just loved watching them play.