So I just found out some interesting stuff about Osvaldo. He has a life-size statue of Mick Jagger in his front room and has a Mini painted in the colours of Argentina with Maradona's face on the door.
I did find it strange that he chose to play for Italy. I understand switching allegiance if you escaped from a hell hole and are grateful or if you came over so young that you identify with your new country, but not changing to Italian when you arrive as an adult. Did he feel that he would never play for Argentina...like Fox discovering his inner Scot.
To be fair, look at the Argentina strikers at current... Messi Aguero Higuain Tevez Lavezzi Palacio I mean, he would probably have got in there but playing time would be fairly limited.
For the sake of comparison, here is Italy's current set of strikers: Balotelli Osvaldo Gilardino El Shaarawy Insigne
Somebody pinch me now! Did that week just happen? Rickie picked for England, then comes on to score the winner in the game against the Auld Enemy with his FIRST touch. Rickie then scores a 90th minute winner at West Brom in our first game of the season. Then right at the end of the week we sign Osvaldo! Somebody tell me I am not dreaming? Cortese wants people to sit up and take notice of our team. The last week has certainly gone a long way to doing that and showing the clubs intent. Well done Rickie AND Cortese!
same answer from me. The manager will make those decisions based on opposition, form of opposition, form of our players, etc. It also appears that right now we have a 12m impact sub in Gaston until he gets a chance and impresses .... not a bad position for little old Saints.
Italian football expert Paolo Bandini on Southampton's signing of Daniel Osvaldo: http://talksport.com/football/bandini-osvaldo-tremendous-signing-southampton-13081956209 Osvaldo talk starts at 1:53
As Bandini says making decisions about the relative positions of Lambert and Osvaldo is not a bad dilemma for a manager to have.
To be honest, every country's strike force is considerably weaker than Argentina's. Shame their midfield and defence is **** in comparison really.
League Cup fixture against Barnsley seems a great opportunity for Osvaldo to start a game and get to know team and player a bit. Now we have two great option up front. I don' think we will drop Lambert, i think MP will tweak our style a play a bit to accomodate these two brilliant strikers. I'm guessing there will be a lot of interchanging, switching positions. Basicaly, a solid back 6 with the tasks of defending and supporting... Clyne-Yoshida-Lovren-Shaw Wanyama-Schneiderlin .... and vastly interchangeable front four with Lambert, Osvaldo, Ramirez and Lallana ideally, and other also, it's a long season.
I was like most people thinking we should be pushing for a top 10 finish. Im getting the impression that cortese is thinking top 6!
Italy's strikers have potential to get a lot better. There's a few names not on there who will be by the World Cup.
Seeing the thread title has been changed made me wonder: I hope we haven't been fobbed off with Pablo's less talented twin brother or something...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...s-15million-striker-Pablo-Daniel-Osvaldo.html It's a decent article that sums it up neatly So Osvaldo punched Lamela, maybe he had it coming, i always thought Lamela was a twat
