This is the diary of my “thoughts”, starting from July 2024, until today, in reverse order. To consult the archive of previous seasons, type https://www.tuttomercatoweb.com/la-scheda-di-carlo-nesti.
-25-7-2024
Carlo Nesti: “The foreignophilia of the market”
Let’s take a look at the market table, paying particular attention to foreign purchases. Inter: Martinez, Taremi, Zielinski. Juventus: Cabal, Douglas Luiz, Thuram. Milan: Jimenez, Morata. Napoli: Marin. Roma: Dahl, Le Fèe. 90% of the deals, extending the percentage to other teams, are represented by foreign players. After the elimination from the European championships, it was easy to highlight the defects of Italian athletes. But when you discover that 61% of Serie A is represented by foreign players, while in Spain it is 38%, you cannot ignore our recruitment problems. Buying Italian players is not easy, while abroad the prices are more convenient. However, until a limit is placed on the use of foreign players, at least in youth teams, exclusion from the World Cup will always be around the corner.
-15-7-2024
Carlo Nesti: “The news of a great Spain”
Four European titles, with 7 wins out of 7. The supremacy of Spain could not have been clearer, a national team that has proposed 2 novelties in the history of the evolution of football. The first novelty: the type of growth. Instead of spending on a coach with a bombastic name, a federal coach like De la Fuente was chosen. Starting from the most adolescent Under, he raised the individual players, who, following the same philosophy, reached the first team. The second novelty: the variation of the game. On the starting point of tiki taka, verticalizations were grafted, which exalted the dribbling of wingers like Yamal and Williams (editor’s note – Previously, by mistake, it was written Wilkins). The high recovery of the ball, with pressing, doubling up and freeing up, made the short counterattack deadly. Carvajal, Cucurella, Rodri, Pedri, Fabian Ruiz and Olmo deserve the highest step of the podium, but it was the entire team that appeared like a fascinating video game.
-9-7-2024
Carlo Nesti: “The Lady Who Will Come”
Can this Juventus seem like that of Boniperti and Allodi in 1970, under the banner of reconstruction and rejuvenation? At the time, there was talk of Capello, Spinosi, Landini and Bettega. But it was a club with superior purchasing power. Now we start, in defense, with a achieved objective, Di Gregorio, a two-legged player of the low game, and a missed one, Calafiori. I am sure that Cambiaso will find a place on the left. It is in midfield that sparks of revolution can be seen. Two out of three places assigned: Douglas and Thuram second, in the sign of a more muscular tendency. I think it is very problematic to go down to 40 million for Koopmeiners, as well as working on the 7.5 million of Rabiot. In the end, the playmaker could be Fagioli. In attack, with Vlahovic, the Yildiz-Soulè gamble should find a place, subtracted from any counterpart. Depending on the other expenses, Sancho would have its reason to exist.