Leeds close to acquiring Cacia and Silvestri

Leeds’ president Cellino is shopping in Italy. He’s looking to create a mix of youngsters and veterans. Leeds are close to completing two purchases: Hellas Verona’s striker Daniele Cacia and Cagliari’s young goalkeeper Marco Silvestri. They also target Roma’s midfilder Federico Viviani, who comes from a very positive stint at Latina. Leeds work in Italy to build a squad capable of being promoted.



http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/calc...to-acquiring-cacia-and-silvestri-the-updates/

 

Anyone know if these are any good or may we just wait and see ourselves?

 

The keeper Marco Silvestri is rated as a good prospect for a young keeper in Italy, Daniele Cacia scored the goals (24 in 39 games) to get Verona promoted from Serie B to Serie A but struggled behind Luca Toni in Serie A making 13 appearances and no goals.

 

Good that the Keeper is young then, he can only improve for us and Championship level may well suit Cacia, if he scored in Serie B, he should be capable of knocking a few in for us in the Champ.

 

Yes and Cellino knows the keeper as he brought him to Cagliari, played well in a couple of Serie A games.

 

Sounds good. But let's see how they cope with 30k screaming Yorkshiremen on a cold Tuesday night.

 

Sheff.Wed.signing them then

 

We better be signing some British players as well

 

Why? Where have they gotten us recently?

 

I'd like to see a few young lads enter the squad, surely some talented lads in Leeds like that are worth a go? I think it's important to the club to have some locals playing once they can compete well enough.

 

I suppose the point being if they're good enough, it doesn't matter where they're from. Ideally it would be better to have the bulk of the team come through the academy, but let's be brutally honest, that's highly unlikely. In recent years, real quality from that sector has been too thin on the ground

 

Cos bringing in 26 non British/Irish players is not good for the game. Granted we've signed a lot of crap English player in the last few years.

I do not want to see the same model that we see at Arsenal and Chelsea where we just bring in non-British players and bring up non-British players. It's not good for the English football and it's not good for the Leeds area.

 

But Cellino made the point very well that two similar players, one British and one European will have the European costing half his British counterpart. Scums signing of left back for 30m is proof of that. Price inflated cos he's British, not cos he's wonderful. Cant blame anyone, it's the daft system

 

Rumored to be around the 2m mark for Marco Silvestri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-aWsThfsK0

 

Not great. Fat paddy would have caught most of those

 

Some good stops amongst the spectacularly unnecessary show pony camera dives.

 

British Transfer prices are ridiculous I'll admit that. Lallana going to Liverpool for £25 million or Torres going to Chelski for £50 million but I want a core of British players at British clubs. We can bring in all these great players from Italy, Spain, France or Russia but at the end of the day they don't understand the history of the club or the Tradition.

 

he'll get on my nerves if he is making simple stops look that emphatic every week

Some of them are pretty decent though

 

I see your point but to be honest, I don't think a lot of British players care anymore about traditions at clubs. The money in the game has seen to that. I'd like to see football back where it was in the eighties but that's gone forever unfortunately

 

Sounds promising but the £2m price tag sounds unrealistic when the owner refused to spend £500k on securing his first choice coach?