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Players that give me nostalgia even though most of them were kinda shit because that was the standard of the Serie A I grew up with 2010-2014

Starting with the one and only, a god amongst men, Djamel Mesbah

Il nuovo Seedorf, Rodney Strasser

I miss the times when I didn’t follow transfers and random dudes would just appear at clubs and then disappear again 6 months later never to be heard from again, for example, Houssine Kharja

The streets won’t forget 2010-2012 Udinese but instead of focusing on Alexis Sanchez or Antonio Di Natale lets take a moment to appreciate this tank, Gökhan Inler

And let’s not forget about this pace demon, Pablo Armero

Toni Kroos falls asleep at night wishing he was as good at football as this man, Alexander Merkel

I used to have an irrational love for this man mainly because of his amazing name, he also almost singlehandedly manages to make Siena relevant, Innocent Emeghara

Honest to god Serie A should’ve just been permanently cancelled when they allowed a team with Paolo fucking De Ceglie as a starter go invincible

Goran Pandev should’ve been on this list if it weren’t for the fact THAT THE FUCKER STILL SOMHOW GOING STRONG IN 2020

If Atalanta still had peak German Denis and Maxi Moralez under Gasperini they would genuinely score 150 goals and win the treble

But off topic but remember that time Diego Simeone was manager of Catania?

The budget Pirlo, his free kicks were out of this world, Francesco Lodi

Football has only gone downhill since Samba Lecce and no team in sports has yet to reach that level of sauce

If Daniele Bonera was chaotic evil, Mario Yepes was chaotic good

A genuine gunman, Mauricio Pinilla, Piatek could never

Federico Balzaretti was 100% a massive stoner, just look at him

If Sebastiano Giovinco didn’t have Stockholm syndrome and didn’t go back to Juve I’m sure he’d have had an amazing career, he still became a hipsters wet dream in MLS so I guess he did okay

Feel like pure shit just want the 10/11 season back x

I miss this Juventus

It really ain’t no coincidence that Chievo finally got relegated when Sergio Pellissier and his weird ass beard retired

The streets won’t forget when Antonio Nocerino turned from midtable mediocrity into prime Lampard for 1 season and 1 season only, he must’ve wished to a monkey’s paw to become a world class footballer.

Urby Emanuelson was a special talent because he could play in every position on the pitch and he was equally shit in all of them

If Marko Livaja didn’t randomly pop up in my scout report on Football Manager yesterday I would’ve never remembered his existence

De Ligt under Sarri, Fredrik Sørensen

It still feels like a fever dream that Nicolas Anelka and Nicklas Bendtner played together at Juventus

Anyone who mentions Victor Ibarbo’s FIFA card gets blocked, I still believed he would’ve become world class if the clout he got from that video game didn’t give him hubris

Libor Kozak is still only 30 btw that genuinely shocked me I could’ve sworn he was 27 in 2010

I miss Stevan Jovetic’s perm man, no one in football nowadays has curls as good

The ginger BTEC Gattuso, Davide Biondini

Bringing this thread back for the Johnny Depp of football, Dani Osvaldo