Pelle in line for Italy call up

[Bewildered]

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#SaintsFC striker Graziano Pelle is set to be named in the 30-man provisional #Italy squad to face #Oranje on 4th September (via @CorSport)

 

Good news if it happens, hopefully it will give him a confidence boost.

[shurlock]

Good news

 

Hope that c**t Osvaldo is nowhere near it.

[SNSUN]

One Italy international out, one in. Good business. Hope he bangs in one or more against WBA.

[Turkish]

Feyenoord fans must be furious that he never got a sniff of an international call up when he played for them but goes to a premier league club and he's straight in the Italy squad.

[davefizzy14]

Good news

[KelvinsRightGlove]

Wonder how long until Pirlo has tapped him up

[Whitey Grandad]

Hmm, he must be better than I thought.

[Lazlo78]

  KelvinsRightGlove said:

Wonder how long until Pirlo has tapped him up

 

just had to be Pirlo, didn't it - Gypsy Gerrard and all that...

[nta786]

  Turkish said:

Feyenoord fans must be furious that he never got a sniff of an international call up when he played for them but goes to a premier league club and he's straight in the Italy squad.

 

Probs how we will feel when Chambers eventually makes the England team...

[Lazlo78]

  nta786 said:

Probs how we will feel when Chambers eventually makes the England team...

 

It'll be like watching your ex finally getting her breakthrough in porn a few weeks after she dumped you. I think we all know that feeling...

[van Hanegem]

  Turkish said:

Feyenoord fans must be furious that he never got a sniff of an international call up when he played for them but goes to a premier league club and he's straight in the Italy squad.

 

Can't speak for all the Feyenoord fans but I don't think so. We're not that interested in national teams, it's all about Feyenoord... We know that the Eredivisie is much lower rated than the PL but I don't believe that this is the reason that Pelle wasn't invited thus far. I guess it's because Italy doesn't have much central attackers beside that clown Balotelli as we could see in the WC in Brazil so why not try Pelle just to see if he really got better after some bad years in Italy?

[cellone]

Nail on the head Hanegem.

[Turkish]

  van Hanegem said:

Can't speak for all the Feyenoord fans but I don't think so. We're not that interested in national teams, it's all about Feyenoord... We know that the Eredivisie is much lower rated than the PL but I don't believe that this is the reason that Pelle wasn't invited thus far. I guess it's because Italy doesn't have much central attackers beside that clown Balotelli as we could see in the WC in Brazil so why not try Pelle just to see if he really got better after some bad years in Italy?

 

Ah fair play then mate. You're a better lot than many of of our whinging saps who would be sulking and crying and going on about how the whole world hates us if our former 29 year old striker had not had a sniff of international football until one game after he left.

[farawaysaint]

This could be a bad thing for us, I wonder how much of the transfer fee was pegged on a call up to the Italian national team?

Edited 22 August, 2014 by farawaysaint

[scotty]

  farawaysaint said:

This could be a bad thing for us, I wonder how much of the transfer fee was pegged on call up to the Italian national team?

 

Careful. You'll have Pap working on a conspiracy theory.

[Danbert]

  Lazlo78 said:

It'll be like watching your ex finally getting her breakthrough in porn a few weeks after she dumped you. I think we all know that feeling...

 

Errr... no

[UpweySaint]

  Turkish said:

Feyenoord fans must be furious that he never got a sniff of an international call up when he played for them but goes to a premier league club and he's straight in the Italy squad.

 

Worth noting they have a new manager at the helm so probably, I would hope, more to do with it than his solitary appearance in the premier league.

[Miltonaggro]

Good news, and a big F*ck off tablet for Oswaldo...

[Noodles34]

  Turkish said:

Ah fair play then mate. You're a better lot than many of of our whinging saps who would be sulking and crying and going on about how the whole world hates us if our former 29 year old striker had not had a sniff of international football until one game after he left.

 

..... another positive..

[scotty]

  adriansfc said:

ive spent the morning working on a list of all the things Pirlo and Gerrard have in common:

 

1) footballers

 

 

Time well spent.

[Lazlo78]

  adriansfc said:

ive spent the morning working on a list of all the things Pirlo and Gerrard have in common:

 

1) footballers

 

Ahhh, you missed what was right in front of you.

 

http://www.saintsweb.co.uk/showthread.php?51470-Liverpool-post-match-chat-amp-MotM&p=2031412#post2031412

 

  shurlock said:

"Playing JWP in the hole allowed him to monitor Gerrard and his pîss poor pirlo parody."

 

He is a Pirlo imitator! Not a very good one, mind you...

[SO16_Saint]

  adriansfc said:

ive spent the morning working on a list of all the things Pirlo and Gerrard have in common:

 

1) footballers

 

that is an extensive and accurate list

[Matthew Le God]

The source article...

 

http://www.corrieredellosport.it/calcio/italia/2014/08/22-373702/Conte%2C+pre-convocazioni%3A+c%27è+anche+Pellè

[Bakovnetski]

Interesting article just sprang up for those quick to dismiss his potential in this league.

 

http://thepremierleagueowl.com/player-to-watch-this-weekend-southamptons-graziano-pelle/

[trousers]

  Bakovnetski said:

Interesting article just sprang up for those quick to dismiss his potential in this league.

 

http://thepremierleagueowl.com/player-to-watch-this-weekend-southamptons-graziano-pelle/

Good read. Cheers for posting

[Aziz Yebda]

He didn't score 3 goals in 1 game. Therefore he is rubbish, until he proves me wrong and then he is the best player ever.

[Whitey Grandad]

  Bakovnetski said:

Interesting article just sprang up for those quick to dismiss his potential in this league.

 

http://thepremierleagueowl.com/player-to-watch-this-weekend-southamptons-graziano-pelle/

 

Thanks, I'm looking forward to watching him tomorrow. A hat trick would be nice.

[Turkish]

  Bakovnetski said:

Interesting article just sprang up for those quick to dismiss his potential in this league.

 

http://thepremierleagueowl.com/player-to-watch-this-weekend-southamptons-graziano-pelle/

 

Hang on, did our master tacticians on here say he had a sh*t game and think he isn't up to it?

[shurlock]

  Bakovnetski said:

Interesting article just sprang up for those quick to dismiss his potential in this league.

 

http://thepremierleagueowl.com/player-to-watch-this-weekend-southamptons-graziano-pelle/

 

 

Actually, he had a v.decent chance in the first half -ball played in on the floor to the near post. Couldn't keep it down - perhaps should have done better with it.

Edited 22 August, 2014 by shurlock

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

I'd like to see him show some of the form that's got him an international call up. All I've seen is a player who doesn't look anything special at all.

[St Chalet]

  Turkish said:

Hang on, did our master tacticians on here say he had a sh*t game and think he isn't up to it?

 

He needs a small quick fella alongside him IMHO

[Patrick Bateman]

Get the f**k in, well done Pelle! Will be a very good player for us, I like his style (and his hair).

 

Graziano, oooo

Graziano, ooooo

He comes from Italy

He f***ing hat ............

 

 

No, don't do it.

[St_Tel49]

  shurlock said:

Actually, he had a v.decent chance in the first half -ball played in on the floor to the near post. Couldn't keep it down - perhaps should have done better with it.

 

You could say that about most strikers at least once a game.