Are Emery and Monchi on good terms?
I’d imagine so but more so than their relationship, Roma have to sell before they buy and Pellegrini is definitely somebody they’d sell.
I reckon giving Cech #1 excludes us from buying a starting goalkeeper. Leno seems to fit that mold rather than being a #2. Unless he gets promises.
It’s that time of year where I start to get randy over baseless transfer rumours.
Bring it
There’s no point getting excited about transfers unless the mole reports it
the track record of italian players gettin success in the prem is abysmal. Praet it is then.
How many top Italian players have come to play in England? Because outside of Zola and perhaps Balotelli (who was a hot prospect) the answer is pretty much nobody.
People used to pedal the line that Spaniards struggled in England and then top Spanish players started coming here and putting to bed that myth. The two above examples were both successful in England (Balo eventual decline was his own fault and Zola is one of the greatest imports) and shows that if a player is good enough he can be successful in England too.
Italy
Mario Balotelli won the Premier league with Manchester City in 2012.
Gabriele Ambrosetti – Chelsea – 1999–2000
Marco Ambrosio – Chelsea – 2003–04
Lorenzo Amoruso – Blackburn Rovers – 2003–05
Alberto Aquilani – Liverpool – 2009–10
Dino Baggio – Blackburn Rovers – 2003–04
Francesco Baiano – Derby County – 1997–2000
Mario Balotelli – Manchester City, Liverpool – 2010–13, 2014–15
Nicola Berti – Tottenham Hotspur – 1997–99
Rolando Bianchi – Manchester City – 2007–08
Patrizio Billio – Crystal Palace – 1997–98
Ivano Bonetti – Crystal Palace – 1997–98
Fabio Borini – Chelsea, Liverpool, Sunderland – 2009–10, 2012–17
Marco Borriello – West Ham United – 2013–14
Marco Branca – Middlesbrough – 1998–99
Benito Carbone – Sheffield Wednesday, Aston Villa, Bradford City, Derby County, Middlesbrough – 1996–2002
Pierluigi Casiraghi – Chelsea – 1998–99
Bernardo Corradi – Manchester City – 2006–07
Carlo Cudicini – Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur – 1999–2011
Daniele Daino – Derby County – 2001–02
Samuele Dalla Bona – Chelsea – 1999–2002
Matteo Darmian – Manchester United – 2015–
Paolo Di Canio – Sheffield Wednesday, West Ham United, Charlton Athletic – 1997–2004
Roberto Di Matteo – Chelsea – 1996–2001[b SUI]
David Di Michele – West Ham United – 2008–09
Alessandro Diamanti – West Ham United, Watford – 2008–10, 2015–16
Andrea Dossena – Liverpool, Sunderland – 2008–10, 2013–14
Emerson – Chelsea – 2017–[b BRA][c BRA U17]
Stefano Eranio – Derby County – 1997–2001
Matteo Ferrari – Everton – 2005–06[b ALG]
Gianluca Festa – Middlesbrough – 1996–97, 1998–2002
Manolo Gabbiadini – Southampton – 2016–
Emanuele Giaccherini – Sunderland – 2013–15
Stefano Gioacchini – Coventry City – 1998–99
Corrado Grabbi – Blackburn Rovers – 2001–04
Attilio Lombardo – Crystal Palace – 1997–98
Arturo Lupoli – Arsenal – 2005–06
Massimo Maccarone – Middlesbrough – 2002–04, 2005–07
Federico Macheda – Manchester United, Queens Park Rangers – 2008–12
Roberto Mancini – Leicester City – 2000–01
Vito Mannone – Arsenal, Sunderland – 2008–10, 2012–17
Dario Marcolin – Blackburn Rovers – 1998–99
Marco Materazzi – Everton – 1998–99
Vincenzo Montella – Fulham – 2006–07
Antonio Nocerino – West Ham United – 2013–14
Angelo Ogbonna – West Ham United – 2015–
Stefano Okaka – Fulham, Watford – 2009–10, 2016–
Dani Osvaldo – Southampton – 2013–15[b ARG]
Daniele Padelli – Liverpool – 2006–07
Michele Padovano – Crystal Palace – 1997–98
Gabriel Paletta – Liverpool – 2006–07[b ARG][c ARG U20]
Alberto Paloschi – Swansea City – 2015–16
Christian Panucci – Chelsea – 2000–01
Graziano Pellè – Southampton – 2014–16
Alessandro Pistone – Newcastle United, Everton – 1997–2006
Rodrigo Possebon – Manchester United – 2008–09[b BRA]
Andrea Ranocchia – Hull City – 2016–17
Fabrizio Ravanelli – Middlesbrough, Derby County – 1996–97, 2001–02
Giuseppe Rossi – Manchester United, Newcastle United – 2005–07[b USA]
Francesco Sanetti – Sheffield Wednesday – 1997–99
Davide Santon – Newcastle United – 2011–14
Ezequiel Schelotto – Brighton & Hove Albion – 2017–[b ARG]
Matteo Sereni – Ipswich Town – 2001–02
Andrea Silenzi – Nottingham Forest – 1995–97
Massimo Taibi – Manchester United – 1999–2000
Paolo Tramezzani – Tottenham Hotspur – 1998–99
Marcello Trotta – Fulham – 2011–12
Nicola Ventola – Crystal Palace – 2004–05
Gianluca Vialli – Chelsea – 1996–99
Davide Zappacosta – Chelsea – 2017–
Simone Zaza – West Ham United – 2016–17
Gianfranco Zola – Chelsea – 1996–2003
Most of those that were actually any good did alright here.
would rather he focused on the south american/spanish market tbh. But im curious to hear what @Luca_from_Italy thinks about him.
Why would any Italian player want to leave Serie A in the boom of the 90s anyway?
I’d argue that from 1985 until now, Serie A has been better than the top flight in England based on European Cup final appearances and head-to-heads.
Furthermore, Italy have won the World Cup in this time. Some may argue that this is irrelevant, but it’s because they’ve kept their core players in Italy.
The more salient question is why don’t players from the British Isles go to Italy as often? Quite simply because they aren’t rated highly enough and more often than not, they flop. It’s not a new thing either. Look as far back as Greavsie and Denis Law
money?
would argue that the prem has been more attractive in all departments since the 2006 scandal.
Pretty sure there was more money in that league than England in the nineties, or for most of it?
Didnt they have more money than us? Paul Ince and Gazza spring to mind.
Not a couple of guys who I feel would favour bettering their footballing talent over wages
Is it only Luca’s opinion you want or can anyone who watches Serie A answer? 
I quite like Pellegrini. He was good at Sassuolo – hence why Roma activated the buy back clause. The things I have noticed are he’scomfortable with both feet, good dribbler, good first touch. Though, his tackling can be embarrassing. Definitely doesn’t take advantage of his physique.
He isn’t one of the players I generally study though, so maybe someone else will have a more in depth answer.