AC Milan
In: Mathieu Flamini (free, Arsenal), Gianluca Zambrotta (€8.5 million, Barcelona), Marco Borriello (€10 + Davide Di Gennaro, Genoa), Christian Abbiati (loan return, Atletico Madrid), Ronaldinho (€25m, Barcelona), Andriy Shevchenko (loan, Chelsea), Philippe Senderos (loan, Arsenal)
Out: Alberto Gilardino (€13 million, Fiorentina), Yoann Gourcuff (loan, Bordeaux), Ricardo Oliveira (€10 mil, Real Zaragoza), Luca Antonelli (co-ownership, Parma), Davide Di Gennaro (part of Marco Borriello deal, Genoa), Cafu (released), Serginho (retired), Ibrahim Ba (retired), Valerio Flori (retired), Ignazio Abate (co-ownership, Torino), Dario Simic (undisclosed, Monaco), Alberto Paloschi (loan, Parma), Cristian Brocchi (undisclosed, Lazio), Massimo Oddo (loan, Bayern Munich)
Atalanta
In: Jaime Valdes (undisclosed, Lecce), Christian Vieri (free, Fiorentina), Luca Cigarini (co-ownership, Parma), Alessio Cerci (loan, Roma)
Out: Antonio Langella (undisclosed, Udinese), Fernando Tissone (undisclosed, Udinese), Andrea Lazzari (co-ownership, Cagliari), Zlatan Muslimovic (undisclosed, PAOK), George Forsyth (loan, Alianza Lima)
Bologna
In: Sergio Volpi (free, Sampdoria), Marco Bernacci (undisclosed, Ascoli), Christian Zenoni (undisclosed, Sampdoria), Diego Manuel Rodriguez (loan, Penarol), Coelho (loan, Corinthians), Gabi Mudingayi (€6m, Lazio), Davide Marchini (loan, Triestina)
Out: Riccardo Bonetto (loan, Livorno)
Cagliari
In: Federico Marchetti (undisclosed, Albinoleffe), Andrea Lazzari (co-ownership, Atalanta), Carlos Matheu (undisclosed, Independiente)
Out: Cristian Del Grosso (undisclosed, Siena)
Catania
In: Tomas Kosicky (undisclosed, Inter Bratislava), Julian Di Cosmo (undisclosed, Igea Virtus), Ezequiel Alejo Carboni (undisclosed, Red Bull Salzburg), Pablo Ledesma (undisclosed, Boca Juniors), Nicolae Dica (€2m, Steaua), Giuseppe Colucci (undisclosed, Verona)
Out: Juan Manuel Vargas (undisclosed, Fiorentina), Adriano Mezavilla (loan, Perugia), Mauro Minelli (loan, Triestina), Gianluca Pegolo (loan, Parma)
Chievo
In: Stefano Sorrentino (free, AEK Athens), Mauro Esposito (loan, Roma), Kerlon (undisclosed, Cruzeiro)
Out: Matteo Alberti (undisclosed, QPR), Giovanni Marchese (loan, Salernitana), Victor Obinna (undisclosed, Inter), Pablo Granoche (loan, Triestina), Mirco Gasparetto (loan, Pisa)
Fiorentina
In: Alberto Gilardino (€13 million, AC Milan), Stevan Jovetic (€8 million, Partizan Belgrade), Felipe Melo (€13m, Almeria), Gianluca Comotto (undisclosed, Torino), Juan Manuel Vargas (undisclosed, Catania), Jefferson (free, Parana), Luciano Zauri (loan, Lazio), Sergio Almiron (loan, Juventus)
Out: Tomas Ujfalusi (free, Atletico Madrid), Fabio Liverani (undisclosed, Palermo), Christian Vieri (released), Daniele Cacia (undisclosed, Piacenza)
Genoa
In: Abdelkader Ghezzal (undisclosed, Crotone), Davide Di Gennaro (part of Marco Borriello deal, AC Milan), Francesco Modesto (Reggina), Andrea Gasbarroni (undisclosed, Parma), Salvatore Bocchetti (co-ownership, Frosinone), Giuseppe Biava (undisclosed, Palermo), Steve Pinau (undisclosed, Monaco), Sokratis Papastathopoloulos (€4m, AEK Athens), Diego Milito (undisclosed, Real Zaragoza), Davide Brivio (loan, Vicenza)
Out: Marco Borriello (€10 million + Davide Di Gennaro, AC Milan), Abdoulay Konko (undisclosed, Sevilla), Leon (undisclosed, Parma), Alessandro Lucarelli (undisclosed, Parma), Fabiano (loan, Reggina), Silvano Garibaldi (loan, Pisa), Danilo (undisclosed, Celta Vigo), Steve Pinau (loan, Hibs)
Inter
In: Stefano Giacomelli (loan, Foligno), Luis Antonio Jimenez (permanent deal, Ternana), Mancini (€13m, Roma), Sulley Muntari (€16m, Portsmouth), Victor Obinna (undisclosed, Chievo), Ricardo Quaresma (€18.

Serie B (which I still consider to be Europe's top second division) has made some changes for next season regarding squad size. Even though they play 42 games in Serie B, lots of squads have very big rosters and most coaches don't tinker with the line-up often, which culminates in lots of players sitting on the bench all year.

Beppe was born on February 17, 1968 in Alzano Lombardo, Bergamo. As did most Italian boys, he loved to play and watch soccer. His own career started as a youth team player in a club connected to Inter, however he was found too small & light by the Inter youth team trainers. So at the age of 17 he moved to a non-league team called AlbinoLeffe (now in Serie B).

So as you can see from the title, 2 things happened in the calcio world this weekend. We had the SuperCoppa, and we had the third round of the Coppa Italia. Let's go backwards and begin with the SuperCoppa. Inter won the first trophy of the season, triumphing over Roma on penalties 8-7 after drawing 2-2 in regulation.

We know several facts already, Chievo will be one of the two team automatically promoted, the second team should be known within the next 90 minutes and there will be a third place playoff qualification. By end of day the second team promoted will either be Lecce or Bologna FC as the miracle squad of Albinoleffe who've held second place for most of the year have dropped to fourth in the last

Coppa Italia - 2° turno
Barletta-Sassuolo 1-3
Piacenza-Padova 0-1
Brescia-Foligno 2-1
Empoli-Ancona 2-0
Grosseto-Cavese 4-2
Mantova-Gallipoli 1-0
Pisa-Cittadella 1-2
Pro Sesto-Modena 0-1
Treviso-Benevento 2-2 (6-7 ai rigori)
Ascoli-Perugia 3-1
Frosinone-Crotone 0-2
Livorno-Novara 3-0
Rimini-Ravenna 3-3 (2-4 ai rigori)
Triestina-Sorrento 2-1
Vicenza-Monza 3-0
Salernitana-Cesena 3-1
Giocate sabato:
Albinoleffe-Pescara (6-5 ai rigori)
Parma-Portogruaro 3-2 (dopo i supplementari)
Bari-Bassano 2-0
Da Calciomercato.