Serie A Weekly club previews continue with Palermo, written by our resident Rosanero master, Lorenzo Vicini. 2010-2011 Recap A roller coaster ride that truly defined the Palermo colors of rosa and nero summed up the previous season for the Sicilian side. Palermo stayed in the race for Champions League football up until February when things came crashing down.

It seems the bidding war has come down to its final hours, with both CFC and PSG in frame to secure the young Argentine's signature. More after the jump:

Kicking into gear shortly?

Welp, color me surprised. This isn't exactly coming out of left-field mind you, but it does somewhat surprise me that we're actually in line to sign a legitimate budding superstar, and an Argentine at that.

As August approaches the excitement and anticipation grows as the time when Mr. X will be finally revealed edges closer. Milan's transfer campaign, once it comes to an end, will be remembered for the club's ever elusive hunt for this Mr. and maybe we could remember it as ‘The Summer Hunt for Mr. X'.

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The Vancouver Whitecaps have finally admitted it. They want to sign Owen Hargreaves.

Prior to a friendly versus Manchester City on Monday night, Whitecaps co-owner Jeff Mallett confirmed rumors of interest in Hargeaves, saying that the oft-injured midfielder knows of the club's desire to sign him.

This is another news type article, just wanted to ask you guys how often you would like to see them. Maybe daily, or every two or three days, let me know.

• La Gazzetta dello Sport are reporting that Chelsea's Andre Villas-Boas is interested in Roma midfielder Daniele De Rossi.

"You can't have my goolies, Zamparini, you hear me"

Can Arsenal have a straight transfer story for once? Football's groundhog day is surely the inevitable summer ritual of Cesc Fabregas's "will he won't he this time around." Now, we have the story of Velez Sarsfield winger Ricardo Alvarez suiting up in Arsenal kit.

Some exciting news out of Italy today points to Ricardo Alvarez becoming Arsenal's first major signing of the summer. Tuttosport (in English courtesy of Google Translate) has reported that Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini revealed in ...

Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini claims Arsenal have beaten him to the signature of Ricardo Alvarez.

Late May the news hit the internet and other media outlets that Arsenal had signed Velez Sarsfield winger Ricardo Alvarez. The story soon became muddied by talks of other clubs interested in the player; the story continued that Arsenal executive Richard Laws had visited Argentina but broke off talks once the figure of £12M was mentioned.

Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has told an Italian radio station that Velez Sarsfield...
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Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has warned clubs interested in Javier Pastore that he is worth more than €50 million-rated Alexis Sanchez.

"I prefer to close out the season, remembering that, according to what we've said to the president, I will surely remain at Palermo next year as well." These were the words spoken by Palermo starlet Javier Pastore towards the end of last season. Naturally, the talented trequartista was continually asked throughout the entire season whether or not he would be moving on, and each time he.

Once the final whistle blew in the Coppa Italia final loss on May 29th, Palermo have set out to answer many of the question marks surrounding the team this offseason. Despite leading the Rosanero to success in the past two seasons, Delio Rossi and Maurizio Zamparini mutually agreed to go their separate ways.

According to the Telegraph, Tottenham made a bid for Palermo striker Abel Hernandez that was rejected. The bid is rumored to be around £8.9million. Hernandez's agent Vincenzo D'Ippolito told calciomercato.it:

"It's true .

Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini thinks that the in-demand Javier Pastore would be best suited to Real Madrid if he finally decides to leave Palermo to some other big club in Europe. The reasons he has cited are: Real Madrid need him more than any of the other Elite Clubs Jose Mourinho likes Pastore a lot [.

According to the Telegraph, Chelsea made a bid for Palermo midfielder Javier Pastore that was rejected. Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini told the Spanish press,

"Chelsea was a club that we had a major offer from .

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.

Over the past month and a half, Palermo have gone through a coaching carousel. The club president, Maurizio Zamparini, sacked Delio Rossi and appointed Serse Cosmi in his place only to fire Cosmi four games later and put Rossi back in charge. Yet, recent allegations made by Serse Cosmi involving Zamparini have perhaps revealed a crisis beyond coaching.

On February 27th, Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini told the press that only if he saw the Madonna appear to him in a dream would be spared from a sacking after the team's 7-0 loss at home to Udinese. Unfortunately, there was no vision and the following day Delio was sent home. The fiery patron brought in the famous caretaker and motivator Serse Cosmi to shake up the squad.

On February 27th, Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini told the press that only if he saw the Madonna appear to him in a dream would be spared from a sacking after the team's 7-0 loss at home to Udinese. Unfortunately, there was no vision and the following day Delio was sent home. The fiery patron brought in the famous caretaker and motivator Serse Cosmi to shake up the squad.

The Scudetto Race? It's on. Fourth Place? No one cares about it. Stereotypes? Demolished... and possibly upheld. Giornata 31 in Serie A taught fans quite a few things, perhaps none as prominent as the following six as Julian De Martinis explains. Napoli can bounce back, in more ways than one, and are genuine contenders.

Palermo have suggested they are expecting bids from a number of English clubs including Liverpool, Manchester United, and Chelsea for midfielder Javier Pastore in the summer, according to reports.
Sources close to the Sicilian club have been quoted in the Italian press, suggesting the three Premier League giants are set to go head to head to sign Pastore, 21.

Non è tanto comico Serse Cosmi, al quale, malgrado questo cognome che ben si abbina al libro di Italo Calvino "Le cosmicomiche", auguriamo di vivere serenamente questa sua nuova avventura ma, la comicit ed il ridicolo sono stati raggiunti da Maurizio Zamparini quando ha esonerato Delio Rossi dalla guida tecnica del Palermo in Serie A.

Some people are just never happy. Take Jose Mourinho, for instance. He's hired solely by the richest clubs in the world, has a ton of money to spend every transfer window, and still complains incessantly about the refs, about how Italy hates him, about how he's handcuffed. You think a man with that many trophies would be above it all.

What's bugging Zamparini about Palermo now? is a post from: Just Football

And is it really all Delio Rossi's fault? David Swan reports:

Things are never easy at Palermo, even in a season where they are performing well. Much of that is down to President Maurizio Zamparini and the countless number of his eccentric outbursts many a coach has had to endure.

Palermo President Maurizio Zamparini is a superstitious old soul. Before Wednesday night's game at the Stadio Renzo Barbera against Juventus, he did what he always does when his nerves get the better of him jumped straight in his car and drove around the city unable to face watching his team in action.