Official : PSG sign Pastore

Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini has confirmed about Pastore's transfer to PSG.

French side will pay €43M for Argentinian star.

Argentinian talent had been linked with Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City,Inter, Milan, Roma and Napoli. But PSG won the battle.

Paris Saint-Germain also signed goalkeeper Salvatore Sirigu from Palermo and Roma midfielder Jeremy Menez.

Roma Losing Blood

Roma have sold Jeremy Menez to PSG, 24 years old attacking midfielder has signed three years contract with PSG. French international had a problematic season with Roma last year.

Roma gained €8M from Menez's transfer.

After Menez's departure now Vucinic's name linked with Manchester United, as known Vucinic doesn't want to stay at Roma anymore. Vucinic's agent has confirmed that Montenegrin star very close to Manchester United. Vucinic is expecting to sign for Manchester United in next few days.

Roma have already brought Lamela and Bojan from Barcelona but question is Totti , Bojan and Lamela will be enough after Menez and Vucinic's departures?

Two New Midfielders for The Sea Horses

Cesena have officially signed with Palermo's midfielder Roberto Guana, Guana has signed two years contract.

Italian international midfielder Antonio Candreva has joined to Cesena on loan. Candreva had played for Livorno,Juventus and last season on loan at Parma. After 2011-2012 season Cesena will have an option to buy half of Candreva's contract.

Official : Roma sign Heinze

AS Roma have signed with 33 years old Argentinian defender Gabriel Heinze.

Heinze has a good career who had played for such clubs as Manchester United,Real Madrid, PSG and Marseille.

Heinze has signed one year contract with Roma.

After Riise and Mexes' departures Roma have signed with two defenders.

Roma bought Angel from Sporting Gijon for left-back position , most likely Luis Enrique will give chance to Heinze for centre-back position.

Official: Fiorentina sign Lazzari

Fiorentina have officially signed Cagliari's 27 years old midfielder Andrea Lazzari on a co-ownership deal.Fiorentina bought %50 of his contract.

Lazzari have played five times for Italian National team.

Official, ROMA signed Bojan Krkic

Bojan Krikic
28.08.1990 (20)
1.70
Nationality: Spain, Serbia
Position: Striker
Foot: Right

Who is Bojan Krkic:
Bojan Krkic is a Spanish player, who came from Barcelona to Roma after long and long discussions. He is a right-strikers that prefer to shoot with right foot. His best season at Barcelona was 2007-2008, when he played 31 games, scoring 10 goals and 3 assist.

In season last season he played only 26 games (mostly used as regular striker ) and scored 6 goals and 2 assist.

Strong points:
Bojan is a young, talented and fast striker. He has proved to create many problems to opponent defenders, with his speed. Bojan has a good creativity. As he is a right footed player, he prefers to move inside channels and to find empty spaces. He needs to improve his technical.

Weak points:
His main weak point is that he doesn’t offer defensive coverage. As a striker, he was trained only to attack well, but when his team need a big help in defense, Bojan proved to fail doing this. Also Bojan do lack physical condition. He is ( ) years old and he has to train more and more to earn a stable physical condition. Due to his fast movements, he often get muscular problems or when he is in duel with strong body defenders, he get injured too. Also Bojan is 1.70 cm tall. This means that he can’t shoot the ball with his head and in most of Barcelona games he proved to be very weak in aerial attacking style.

Positions:
Bojan Krkic's main position is striker. He is a right footed striker, but at same time he can use his left too. In my analysis I have watched 10 games of Barcelona I rated his right foot (9) and left foot (6.5).
Bojan, as said above prefer to play as striker, but he can be used as attacking midfielder left, right, or centre. As a fast striker he prefers to move into channels and place the shot. Sometimes he dribble too much the other defenders and he is criticized in most of times for this.

At ROMA, in 4-3-3 formation he can be used as right-striker:

-----------------Bojan-----X--------X

If ROMA uses 4-3-2-1 tactic (very rare) he can be used as:

-----------------Bojan------------X-----------------
--------------------------X-------------------------

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Juventus sign Vidal

Bayer Leverkusen have agreed Juventus' €12M offer plus in exchange Mohamed Sissoko offer for Chilean midfielder Vidal.

Felipe Melo out of the squad and Juventus trying to sell Felipe Melo. Arturo Vidal will replace Melo in Juventus.

Chilean International will sign for 5 years contract with The Old Lady and will get €3M for each season.

Acquafresca joins Bologna

Genoa's striker Robert Acquafresca has completed his transfer to Bologna on loan with an option to buy %50 of his contract.

Acquafresca played last season on loan at Cagliari and scored 8 goals.

Roma sign Jose Angel Valdes

Roma have signed with Sporting Gijon's left-back Jose Angel. 21 years old Spaniard has signed contract with Roma until 2016.

Roma have spent €4.5M for his transfer.

Roma replaced Riise's place with this move.

Also Barcelona have showed interest for Jose Angel but they didn't make any offer.

Pastore's future

Palermo's Argentinian star likely to leave Palermo.

Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini is stubborn about 50M euros price and he is sad that Pastore is ready to leave but Zamparini thinks thats the right moment for his transfer because next season Pastore may not worth for 50M Euros or more.

But Pastore mentioned that if he leaves , he leaves Palermo only for a big club.

Real Madrid, Chelsea, Manchester City, Roma, Juventus, Milan and Malaga are showing interest for young Argentinian but price is too high.

Pastore has mentioned that he doesn't want to play for Malaga.

Spanish football is suited to Pastore's style, especially on the midfield zone but Pastore wants to stay in Italy. He had praised AC Milan several times but Milan have no luxury to spend 50M euros for next season.

Yet Pastore's future is a big question mark and probably he will make his decision after Copa America.

Novara reinforcing their squad for Serie A

The newly promoted Novara preparing for Serie A. Novara have signed with Chievo's striker Pablo Granoche and Japanese striker Morimoto from Catania.

Napoli sign Santana and Fernandez

Napoli have started to transfers so fast than all other Serie A teams. Napoli's purpose to win Serie A at 2011-2012 season. They are likely to keep Hamsik - Lavezzi and Cavani trio.

After successful midfielder Gokhan Inler's transfer , Napoli have signed with Argentinian winger Santana from Fiorentina and defender Federico Fernandez from Estudiantes La Plata.

Napoli sign Inler

Napoli have signed with Swiss International midfielder from Udinese. Inler had a great season last year with Udinese.

Roma sign Lamela

Roma have signed River Plate's 19 years old midfielder Erik Lamela. Argentinian players has signed 5 years contract with Roma, and Roma paid 12m Euros to River Plate.

River Plate President Daniel Passarella has confirmed Lamela's transfer to Roma.

Inter sign Alvarez

Inter have signed with Velez's 23 years old playmaker Alvarez. Inter will pay to Velez 12M euros. Argentinean midfielder dealed for 5 years contract and 1.8M euros for a season.

Alvarez played his first professional game with Velez Sarsfield in 2008.During the first semester of 2011, Alvarez got significant fan and media praise for his league and Copa Libertadores games. He also showed versatility by playing all the positions of the midfield.

Serie A rule changed for non-EU players

The FIGC (Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio) will allow Serie A teams to buy two new non-EU players per season rather than one.

Italian Football Federation put a limit for non-EU players after World Cup 2010 and Italy's disappointed performance to let clubs to focus on young talents and give new stars to Italian football.

The Clubs were pushing to change this rule back and Italian Football Federation has announced that Serie A teams will be able to buy new two non-EU players from this season again.

So Italian Teams might show better performances on European Cups (main target is Uefa Champions League) with new non-EU players (especially with the transfers from South American countries)

First to start...Palermo

After 25 days the first team to start will be Palermo, who will play in Europa League. Palermo got new manager, he is Stefano Pioli (ex-Chievo). Lets present now how can play the new Palermo of Stefano Pioli in season 2011-2012.

Most probable lineup will be:

__________________Sirigu___________________

Milanovic__________Bovo____________Mantovani

Cassani__Migliaccio______Nocerino__Balzaretti

______Pastore__________________Ilicic_______

_________________Hernandes__________________

In his first press conference he said that teh tactic of the team will be 3-4-2-1, or 3-5-2, or even 4-3-2-1. Liverani, Kasami and Garcia left the team. Liverani was used mostly as playmaker in cetre of midfield, so after he left, Palermo is searching for a playmaker, similar to him. For the moment Palermo lack in centre of midfield, when they need to buy 2 more central midfielders. Nocerino can't play all the games, while Migliaccio sometimes get booked, or injured and so far there is no real substitute for these 2 players.

As said above Pioli like to play with 3 defenders, so in this case they will use potential defensive players in midfield, so Cassani and Balzaretti as moving one step forward from their original positions.

Palermo signed with Mantovani and Milanovic, who are going to play respectively as Left Back (Mantovani) and Right Back (Milanovic). In midfield as said above will not me any big change appart the fact that RB Balzaterri is moving as Right Back Winger and LB Cassani is moving as Left Back Winger.

Pioli like to play with 2 attacking midfielders, so Ilicic and Pastore will play behind the lonely striker which will be Hernandez. Miccoli seems to start from bench, but most probably he will leave the team to another club.

The objective of Palermo are:
Beric (Maribor striker)
Parolo (Cesena, midfielder)
Alvarez (Velez, midfielder)
Carrasco (Audax Italiano, midfielder)

Cagliari signed El Kabir

Moestafa El Kabir is the new striker of Cagliari. He is from Netherlands and last season he played at Mjallby ( Sweden ). His preferred foot is right, but can shoot with left foot too.

In season 2010 he scored 10 goals and 2 asist in 24 games, while in season 2011 he played only 9 games, scoring 5 goals.

The positions El Kabir can play at Cagliari:


Video of El Kabir:

Atalanta, Siena and Novara

Atalanta, Siena and Novara are the new promoted teams in Serie A for the season 2011-2012. The big question is, how these all three "unknown" teams will play? Let's see this showing with pictures:

ATALANTA (4-4-2)



SIENA (4-4-2)


NOVARA (4-3-1-2)

Djibril Cissè confirms Lazio deal

Panathanaikos's striker Cissé has confirmed his Lazio move. 30 years old French striker is ready to be partner with Miroslav Klose for Lazio's front line on the new season.

Cissé started to his career in Auxerre and played for Liverpool, Marseille and Sunderland. He had scored 9 goals for French National team on 37 games.

Napoli sign Dzemaili

Napoli have signed Parma's and Swiss international team's midfielder Džemaili in exchange of Santacroce and Blasi.

Džemaili started his career at Swiss side FC Zürich. Played for Bolton,Torino,Parma.

Fiorentina sign with Brazilian full-back Romulo

Fiorentina have officialy signed with Cruzeiro's right back Romulo Souza. Romulo joined Atlético Paranaense on loan from Cruzeiro and he was playing for Atlético Paranaense since April.

24 years old player is a hot prospect and reminds Inter's Maicon with his style.