Excellent signing. Probably won't play all the games but will really help Hodson and Thompson with their development.
Was expecting him to sign on a free... the obvious benefit on loan is cash I presume. Strange though. If he plays anything like Galli did for us, i'll take everything back about my misgivings.
At the age of 38 Galli was the classiest defender I have ever seen in a Watford shirt If Cassetti is half as good he will be a terrific signing
For make it clear... For five AS Roma years, Cassetti has been used at centre back just in emergency situations... In the last season, instead, it was Luis Enrique that viewed him only as central defender... and in the last season Cassetti has played just few matches (but he would have been very useful to us in his original position, but this is an old story now)... Cassetti is a right-back who can play potentially everywhere... but he's a essentially a right-back... And, I repeat, he was born as midfielder... I don't know in which part of the pitch Zola will use him, but I'm so happy for you Hornets :sign15:
I don't like this one bit. Cassetti has proven himself at the highest level for Roma and the Azzurri, but how's he going to cope with a proper English winger dribbling at him, or a high ball swung in towards a proper, old-fashioned number nine on the far post. Nudge in the back, ball in the mixer, Cassetti spooled. How will he perform on a chilly Tuesday evening when the temperature is just above freezing and there's little cloud cover, but some low lying mist and potential overnight groundfrost up in Blackburn? Bad signing.
P.S. Cassetti is not a player with injury problem, his only problem in the last season was the coach...
Interesting...adds some experience and quality to the squad. What does this mean for the likes of Hdoson and Doyley though?
exactly according to FIFA rankings engerland is above Italy, so all Brit players is betta than foreignas. we need sign English, you listening Zola!
I dont get why he has signed Via Udinese... what benefit does this have? He is 35 (not a youngster), ofc he will add to the squad and develope the younger players within the squad with his knowledge and pedegree..... but i dont get why on loan. Its not like we could off offered the same money and given him a contract as a Watford player instead of being yet again anouther loan player. Or is this purely down to tax brackets.. if so why was hall not signed as a Udinese player and loaned to us?? Great siging... just dam weird that he is not on Watfords books.....:whoosh:
I consider myself being an internationalist, a globalist. I've never cared about borders and I'm an international (foreign) supporter, following WFC from Sweden. But I'm getting more and more concerned about WFC being a "Mediterranean Foreign Legion" in Hertfordshire. The downgrading of the academy and all the new signings... my gut feeling.... I'm beginning to worry about this. One of the reasons I support WFC is because it's a local club... I may be completely wrong but I'm concerned....
Agreed Its one thing to be fronting up against Totti and Del Piero, but how do you cope with McNamee dropping the shoulder or Kayode Odejayi using his elbows? its a whole different ball game
fully understand that he has been a class player, but there's nothing wrong with the two right backs we have. If anything this is just hampering young players development. If we aren't going to develop our own players any more then I would much rather we bought in an Italian U21 international who we could help develop. I don't get it
How many of our loanees come from the mediterranean only Cassetti and at a push Beleck, one of your fellow countrymen refused to join us Ekstrand. There is no need for concern before the Pozzo's look at the quality of our signings last year? the players that we are getting in the main are young and hungry and trying to progress in the game unlike hasbeen loanees from the Prem
You've obviously never experienced a cold, wet, Tuesday night in Burnley. It's a fact that nobody other than hardened and technically inept English cloggers can perform in such conditions.
No, but I have experienced a cold wet Wednesday night in Bolton!! Does that count or is it too far south
Blimey, I'd have had the factor 30 on in Bolton. Burnley on the other hand - no swarthy Carlos Kickaball could survive it.
Not the same, fancy new Premier League stadium with heated seats and warm water in the changing rooms. Might as well be at the tanning salon.
Lucky then we're playing Burnley on a saturday afternoon (albeit in December) and not a tuesday evening.
If a Swede refused to play for WFC, I couldn't care less... I just tried to say that I'm worried about WFC not being a local club anymore, rooted in the local community, developing young players from the region. But I'll be more than happy to be proven wrong!
They're all used to being in Dubai on their winter break that time of year. Not a chance. We need more like Carl Fletcher, Paul Jones and Wayne Brown. Proper old fashioned loan players, kick and run, 110%, play to the death after running through brick walls. Not the likes of Abdi and Vydra, who'll be wearing gloves and leggings by the end of September. What I wouldn't give for a Neil Ruddock and Dele Adebola. Maybe even a Clive Platt.
Vydra was born in Czech Republic and Abdi is Swiss of Albanian decent and was born in Yugoslavia, trust me they'll cope with the weather. Plenty of English players were gloves; Ronney, Young etc. Just because they are european doesn't mean they can't hack the winter. Now if they were south american that might be different :naughty:
Do you really think that, in almost 200 matches with AS Roma among Serie A and other various competitions around Italy and Europe, he does not ever faced a player who used his elbows or performed on a chilly evening? P.S. Marco Cassetti is from Brescia, I think that he knows by his nature something about foggy and chilly evenings :smile:
The thing is that we are producing quantity not necessarily quality, how many of them have gone on to play in the prem, only Ashley Young is a regular, Mapps is warming the bench at Reading and Sordel and Bouazza didn't come through our academy we are not producing players like Vydra and Beleck
There is, as you say, nothing wrong with the current right backs it's just this guy has played this kind of system at the very top level and as I said earlier will help develop players like Hodson and Thompson
Seemed like a pleasant change to me, after 3 pages of people complaining he's too old and doesn't offer anything that Doyley can't. Except hundreds of appearances in Serie A and International caps.
