Serie A Superthread

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

That Lazio dressing room is going to be rather awkward for de Vrij unless there's a final twist.

I wouldn't be going home later if I were him tbh.....

Great win for Inter.

You have to question the mentality of this Lazio side. They collapsed against Salzburg as well.

I guess De Vrij really wanted CL football next season! :eek: What a strange match, Inter did to Lazio what Juve did to Inter a few weeks back!

Minderbinder wrote: »

Just noticed that Inter's 3 most expensive signings have been out on loan this season, and those three players are in the top 5 of their most expensive ever signings. If there's been a club worse in transfer market in the last 8 years I haven't heard of them.

Gabigol, Joao Mario and remind me of the other disaster?

ERG89 wrote: »

Kondogbia???




Looking back at my top 4 predictions what was I thinking but I got Inter right, never doubted them

Oh yeah, thought Kondogbia was a great signing, but then again I thought Pancev, Bergkamp, Frey...

Deleted User wrote: »

BT have lost the rights to show Serie A. It will now be shown on "Eleven sports". The same company that also picked up La Liga from Sky.

I'm not even sure if they are online only or if they'll have a channel on Sky, Virgin etc that you can subscribe to.

That's very very disappointing

It's happening all over Europe. I use foreign provider and started with all major competition at one account. They lost Laliga and few other events to Eleven. Later on German league has been moved all over other channels with Eurosport getting some games (luckily had it included, but Eleven was 3 euro extra a month).

Now the platform lost all Champions League and Europa League to another provider and would have to install another box to get the channels. Not a chance as I would have to pay double the price to get it. Not to mention another set of cables.

That's free competition for customers in Europe. Disaster.

I would rather have a monopoly supplier at fair price (oxymoron, I know) or ppv for all events providing it's not extortionate price.

Preferred it when sky had the monopoly on nearly everything. Football spread across 3 or 4 paytv subscriptions is nonsense.

Deleted User wrote: »

Fixture for week one

Atalanta-Frosinone
Bologna-Spal
Chievo-Juventus
Empoli-Cagliari
Lazio-Napoli Best game for every else
Milan-Genoa
Parma-Udinese
Sampdoria-Fiorentina
Sassuolo-Inter
Torino-Roma Best game for me

Welcome back to Parma

I'm loving Parmas New Jersey.

Headshot wrote:

Is there any news on Serie A on UK tv this forthcoming season?

On the same service as La Liga. Eleven Sports or something it's called.

Headshot wrote: »

Yes I know but was hoping they'd be an update on if it's going to be on television in the UK/Ireland

As far as I know they are looking to sell the TV rights to a broadcaster and will have a streaming service themselves which they will release details of soon, I think that is the latest info anyway.

EDIT: They will be launching with the PGA Championship and have a free 7 day trial.

Deleted User wrote: »

Inter are building a super squad. I thought they were broke! If the can avoid the mid season crash of last year they should be in the running for Scudetto.

Every year in August they are running for the Scudetto, they will probably end up 15-20 points behind as usual when May comes.

Hard to base any non sky sports pack a success. You have had:
Setanta, then BT, now Eleven Sports and maybe we'll go back to BT again when Eleven goes kaput. Surprised BT gave up on UFC & European leagues this fast. Not like they don't have money.