Since there is a mid-week round this Wednesday, I'll get a super Weekend Round-up post up on Thursday. If you look at the Serie A table right now, you'll see that leading the top of the table is Sampdoria (tied with Juventus, but ahead of goals scored). Sampdoria have never won their first 4 games ever in their history.

Tuttosport of Italy has been publishing a list of U-21 players for its Golden Boy Awards since 2003. The award went to Raffael Van der Vaart in 2003, Wayne Rooney in 2004, Lionel Messi in 2005, Cesc Fabregas in 2006, Sergio Aguero in 2007 and to Anderson last year. 2008 witnessed the tightest competition as Manchester United's Anderson just got three more votes compared to Arsenal's Theo Walcott.

One of Sampdoria's protagonists in the early part of 2009-10 has been midfielder Andrea Poli, who has revealed he draws inspiration from Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard.
"I know I'm young and still need to improve," he explained to La Gazzetta dello Sport.
"I'm also sure that Samp is the best club to help me achieve this goal.

The Italy U-21's continued their very disappointing qualifying campaign with another loss, this time away to Hungary. The Azzurrini needed a win to get back on track, but now qualification is getting more and more difficult. The Hungarians won 2-0, with goals coming from Nemeth and Koman (both players played on the Hungarian side that knocked the Italy U-20's out of the U-20 World Cup last month).

According to Italian newspaper reports, Chelsea are the latest addition to Andrea Poli's growing list of admirers. The young midfielder, who celebrated his 20th birthday last month, has also attracted the attention of scouts from Juventus and Inter Milan after some eye catching performances for Sampdoria at the start of the 2009-10 Serie A season.

According to news reports, Liverpool are the latest team to join Victor Moses' growing list of admirers. The 19 year old, who currently plies his trade in the Championship with Crystal Palace, has been strongly linked with a move away from Selhurst Park in January. Moses was born in Nigeria, but has already represented England at [.