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after zero appearances for cesena, tachtsidis will spend the remainder of this season on loan at serie b side grosseto.

i remember his debut for genoa, he had a shocker. yet 2 years later AC milan decided to part with millions of euro's for him. remember form is temporary class is permanent, so i wouldn't write him off just yet

Sokratis vs. Juventus - 22/08/2010 (friendly) he's so comfortable on the ball, an abselutly gem

what a super move for him. he's been recalled to the national team as well :tup:

tachtsidis was officially unveiled today by cesena and has been given the number 9 shirt, seems like he'll get lots of playing time in serie a :tup:

no you didn't say that directly but are insinuating that its perfectly fine to boo him as he's ineffective and frustrating in your opinion. these morons booed him while he collected an award, its hardly gonna help his game when they vent thier frustration at him after he's been the best player on the park. my own opinion is their frustration stems from having a second rate team with a shaby defence thats finished 2nd to rangers 2 years in succession. 'to be fair to the fans.' how bout being fair to the player ? a player whose goal return you've questioned but fail to mention that he played half the season at left midfield.

you're probably right, he deserved to get booed when picking up his man of the match award vs braga.

i had a feeling you'd take that view, however last season he was in and out the side, managed by the clueless mowbray and was playing left midfield in a significant amount of matches, particularly when keane turned up as mowbray wanted all the strikers he signed to play to justify signing them. when he was given a run in the side up front he managed 8 goals in 9 games before keane kamara and rasmussen turned up and he was shifted out wide

seems he's signed for brescia, not sure how long he's signed for. another greek in serie a :tup: http://www.betinf.com/italy_transfer.htm

booed by his own fans when recieving the man of the match award vs braga. time to leave, celtic don't deserve him. http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/1637161-post17.html http://www.talkceltic.net/forum/1637298-post29.html

just signed a 5 year contract with genoa he will earn 400k per year. this is a great opportunity for him and a super contract for someone so young who's hardly played. according to reports he will spend his first season in serie a on loan to newly promoted cesena :gr: :tup:

so by that logic an anti mitroglou man can blame mitroglou for olympiakos having a poor season, could i then single out dirk kuyt for liverpool not having a good season ? the fact is he's scored more than fortune has had a better season so far than fortune, but fortune is still in the team. look at the love the celtic fans gave robbie keane when he signed, do you think he'd get booed by the celtic fans and dropped after scoring 8 in 9 ?

they've also signed morten rasmussen so they have 5 forwards in they're squad, and apart from samaras all the others were signed by the current manager, 8 goals in 9 games and as soon as he's had a couple of bad games(the whole team played badly) he's out. well celtic lost tonight against the mighty kilmarnock 1-0 with all their new strikers(rasmussen excluded) leaving them 10 points behind rangers so the league is as good as over.

he seems to perform well for greece when it matters especially when you consider he's not always played in his preferred position for the national side. just go back and look at the greece NT threads, almost all the matches greece have played recently he's performed well in. off the top of my head the 1-4 defeat against turkey he was the only player who had a decent game. the 1-0 win in istanbul got the assist for the goal. against israel in crete he came off the bench and scored. got the assist against ukraine. he has game intelligence, i like clever players, i'm baffled by the amount of criticism he gets. as an out and out goalscorer gekas is the best we have but samaras' all round game is better

give this player match time and he gets goals. simple :gr:

Pliatsikas ruled out of World Cup Young Greek star Vassilios Pliatsikas has been ruled out for the rest of the season by Schalke after tearing a knee ligament in training. The injury will also keep him out of Greece's squad for this summer's World Cup. Pliatsikas, 21, suffered the injury on Monday as Schalke trained in Spain during the Bundesliga's winter break. Team doctors confirmed the extent of the injury after further examination in Düsseldorf. http://uk.soccerway.com/news/2010/January/...t-of-world-cup/

came off the bench after 10 minutes in coventry's 0-0 draw vs west brom had a decent game too :tup: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/e...v_1/8316410.stm

seems celtic's new manager won't give him a fair chance this season. has played well this season whenever he's been given the chance and despite fortune been out injured for 2 months he's still on the bench this afternoon against dundee united :angry:

didn't manage to get himself a summer move so will spend his final season at coventry playing for the reserves. the only consolation is that he's on a pretty decent salary

was on the bench for both of bologna's opening 2 games, looks like he's lost his place :(

last weekend i was lucky enough to spend a few days in milan and experience the san siro i saw inter's opening match vs bari which finished 1-1 inter looked very average no width and a lack of creativity, so i'm really suprised they smashed ac milan 0-4 (i did not see the milan derby but i guess they played well judging by the score line) mourinho must have really layed into his players, what ever he said has certainly worked the man has that midas touch.

by far the best prospect we have in greece, he should be the first name on otto's team sheet

well fortune has been considered ineffective in every game he's played but he hasn't lost his place and responded by scoring twice against the mighty st johnstone. mcdonald hasn't been brilliant either, do you honestly think samaras is being treated fairly ? i said in an earlier post mcdonald and fortune will start regardless of form and samaras will play odd games and make appearances off the bench, people will then say he's inconsistent

samaras had the best pre season of all celtics strikers, fortune has been abysmal, i've just seen celtics starting line up v aberdeen and mcdonald and fortune are upfront. samaras is on the bench@euro2004: so yes managers do have favourites, and its impossible to have any consistency when you are not given the chance