Roberto Gotta in Italy

There was a time, back in the summer of 1991, when Massimiliano Allegri was "the other guy" in a deal that took Frederic Massara from Pavia to Serie B Pescara. As then-Pescara sporting director Pierpaolo Marino wrote last March in a column for Italian website Tuttomercatoweb, the Pavia owners had already promised Massara to Venezia (then owned by Maurizio Zamparini, the current Palermo chairman), but adding another player and valuing him at nearly half a million lira would increase the total value of the transfer and thus allow Pavia a good excuse to back away from the verbal agreement with Venezia.

Read the full article at Sanford's Soccer Net.

Sanford's Soccer Net @ May 19, 2011 1:16 PM EDT | Blog Profile