Juventus are a club with plenty of history and trophies, and while the chairman Andrea Agnelli is trying to return to the golden days of winning, it will take some time.

The project of the bianconeri was beginning to take shape: Luigi Delneri as the coach along with Beppe Marotta as the sporting director, some smart signings and qualification into the Europa League.

Wow, that's all I can say seeing some of the transfers that have gone through in the past few days. While there aren't too many "big" names which moved around, there's are certainly some interesting, young and skilful players which are going to be wearing new jerseys this season. Let's see some of the signings that clubs have made, and how they'll affect the Serie A, and maybe European competitions.

Totti Will Provide The Attacking Threat For Roma Tonight.

Louis van Gaal's Bayern Munich reached the Champions League final last year which they unfortunately lost to Jose Mourinho's Inter side, but will be looking to kick off this season's European campaign with three points against a very strong Roma outfit.

Mentre l'Inter resta a guardare e non effettua nessuna operazione, chiusura col botto per Roma e Milan che, nelle ultime frenetiche ore di calciomercato (ieri si è chiusa ufficialmente la sessione estiva), all'Atahotel Executive di Milano, piazzano dei colpi importanti e legati tra loro.

Images via straight up serie a. Thx Liz!

We're suffering from a case of the "shoulds", Kickettes. We really should set aside a good few paragraphs here to advise you of the latest developments in the footballing career of Marco Borriello.

You see, Marco has just agreed a loan deal that takes him from AC Milan to rival Serie A side Roma.

There have been a recent prevalence of rumours in the French press, written with a sense of genuine conviction, that Karim Benzema was offered to Marseille on transfer deadline day on a seasons long loan deal. Despite Real Madrid coach Jose Mourinho continuously complaining all summer about his lack of options in the centre forward position – his options are limited to Gonzalo Higuain and Karim Benzema, perhaps Cristiano Ronaldo, traditionally a player who prefers attacking from a wide position, on occasion too the Spanish club were still prepared to let Benzema leave.

Claudio Rainieri's coaching is coming for some heated criticism. Today's dispiriting loss to Brescia which reduced Julio Sergio to tears will only give more ammunition to his critics. Perparim Hetemaj gave Brescia the lead and worse was to follow as Phillipe Mexes brought down Eder.

The replay shows Mexes's foul took place away from the box but the referee awarded the PK and ejected the French defender.

A set of matches were played this midweek, and there were few disappointments as we saw a great match between Inter Milan and Bari which ended 4-0 for the nerazzurri, along with an interesting loss for Juventus against Palermo. But the most interesting result was Roma's, which needed to get out of their bad run of form against Brescia, but the newly-promoted side won 2-1.

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It's a horror show situation, Kickettes.

Worse than catching your Outnet sale Louboutins in the cobblestones in Covent Garden, far more heart-breaking than an evil flat-mate leaving an empty, teasing box of Jaffa Cakes in the cupboard. And beyond the pain of forgetting your umbrella at home after spending far too much money on a pre-party salon blow out.

AS Roma must now certainly believe that they have turned a corner as Mirko Vucinic popped up in the dying embers of their Serie A clash with Internazionale on Saturday night and gave i Lupi their first league victory of the season following a catastrophic start to the campaign.

The Romans had been in dire straits prior to the clash with Rafael Benitez's men.

Yeah okay. So we could be accused of 'leading the witnesses'. But heaven preserve us, look at him! Look! Image via donadabola

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