David "Deadline Day" Pizarro

[PeterParker]

IS he willing to shoot at goal?

Didn't you see the video above? He is an expert on back passing and side passing. I might say the very best.

[Biamp]

Officially joined according to SSN.

[Blue Blood]

On the OS now.

http://www.mcfc.co.uk/News/Team-news/20 ... Jan31-2012?

[bluej]

So do we reckon this geezer is going to start for us at all? Has he not played regularly for Roma for a while?

[Hazy2]

If we have any more posession we will be dragged by the FA for loitering with intenet to supply !

[Goaters 103]

Has he got any pace?
Does he play up front?
Can he cross a ball pretty decently and early from a wide position?

If the answer to these three questions is no, no and very rarely then one can only wonder why he was selected to join, unless its for a pair of eyes and ears in the changing room that Mancini trusts.

[Hazy2]

Has he got any pace?
Does he play up front?
Can he cross a ball pretty decently and early from a wide position?

If the answer to these three questions is no, no and very rarely then one can only wonder why he was selected to join, unless its for a pair of eyes and ears in the changing room that Mancini trusts.

Hope this is wrong but might answer your Q's
From a Serie A reporter, despite his many talents, one can understand the cynics who feel he is not one who could survive the rigours of the Premier League long-term. At 32, he is considered both slow and injury prone.

[bigblue]

From a Serie A reporter, despite his many talents, one can understand the cynics who feel he is not one who could survive the rigours of the Premier League long-term. At 32, he is considered both slow and injury prone.

Well that reporter can go fuck themselves. Pizarro will save us from this run of bad form by twisting and turning opponents inside out, leaving the easy task for our strikers to put the ball in the net. Pizarro!

[Hazy2]

From a Serie A reporter, despite his many talents, one can understand the cynics who feel he is not one who could survive the rigours of the Premier League long-term. At 32, he is considered both slow and injury prone.

Well that reporter can go fuck themselves. Pizarro will save us from this run of bad form by twisting and turning opponents inside out, leaving the easy task for our strikers to put the ball in the net. Pizarro!

[Hazy2]

From a Serie A reporter, despite his many talents, one can understand the cynics who feel he is not one who could survive the rigours of the Premier League long-term. At 32, he is considered both slow and injury prone.

Well that reporter can go fuck themselves. Pizarro will save us from this run of bad form by twisting and turning opponents inside out, leaving the easy task for our strikers to put the ball in the net. Pizarro!

woah relax.

[bigblue]

From a Serie A reporter, despite his many talents, one can understand the cynics who feel he is not one who could survive the rigours of the Premier League long-term. At 32, he is considered both slow and injury prone.

Well that reporter can go fuck themselves. Pizarro will save us from this run of bad form by twisting and turning opponents inside out, leaving the easy task for our strikers to put the ball in the net. Pizarro!

woah relax.

I'm as mellow and confused as Pizarro in his welcome interview on the OS. I can't figure out if your telling yourself or me to relax. You quoted your own quote

[Hazy2]

From a Serie A reporter, despite his many talents, one can understand the cynics who feel he is not one who could survive the rigours of the Premier League long-term. At 32, he is considered both slow and injury prone.

Well that reporter can go fuck themselves. Pizarro will save us from this run of bad form by twisting and turning opponents inside out, leaving the easy task for our strikers to put the ball in the net. Pizarro!

woah relax.

I'm as mellow and confused as Pizarro in his welcome interview on the OS. I can't figure out if your telling yourself or me to relax. You quoted your own quote

I am asking you to relax. I was posting a report from the transfer pages on our new signing. Heyho onwards we go....

[twosips]

http://www.lifesapitch.co.uk/opinions/d ... itle-race/

There was something fitting about the low-key way in which the David Pizarro transfer to Manchester City calmly slid its way into the public consciousness on transfer deadline day.

Much like his playing style, it arrived in a tidy, complete and unassuming fashion, spared of the insalubrious months of speculation that we associate with the January window in particular.

While on the face of it the deal may seem baffling – after all, Premier League leaders Man City are hardly lacking in central-midfield quality – the Chilean playmaker could well be the missing piece in the sky blue jigsaw.

On the occasions City have struggled this season, it has often been put down to them lacking the know-how of winning the Premier League, in comparison to their great across-town rivals who boast a squad full of players that have won England’s top prize. In reality, it has frequently been due to an inability to break down rigid opposition that set out to frustrate Roberto Mancini’s men and prevent them from playing.

What better example than their trip to the Stadium of Light where, despite 69% possession, City failed to find their way through an organised Sunderland outfit that repeatedly looked to get 10 or 11 men behind the ball.

While Samir Nasri, David Silva and Sergio Aguero all have the ability to unlock defences, this is something that gets stifled when the gap between the defence and midfield is reduced. Instead Manchester City were left with a lot of the ball slightly further from goal, and needing to thread the eye of a needle.

In this game, Nigel De Jong – a player occupying the same position as Pizarro would – completed 98% of his passes but offered no penetration going forward, and Sunderland’s game plan was vindicated by their smash-and-grab late winner.

Pizarro’s signing shows something very important in Roberto Mancini: an awareness of his side’s deficiencies, something Arsène Wenger has once more failed to do down at the Emirates Stadium.

By loaning the Chilean maestro, the Sky Blues now have a creative option to operate from deeper when sides are limiting their opportunities in the attacking third, thus addressing what was arguably the only remaining doubt over their personnel.

He will by no means be solely an emergency ‘go-to’ player. The way that Pizarro keeps the ball moving and orchestrates play is metronomic, affecting the rhythm of the entire match and ensuring his side maintain control of the game, but his killer ball is always in the armoury – nobody in Serie A provided more assists during the three seasons of 2007/08 to 2009/10.

Like a conductor of an orchestra, he chooses the pace at which a game will be played and makes it so, although passing is not all there is to his game. A far better tackler than Serie A’s other great ‘regista’ of recent years, Andrea Pirlo, his ability to win back and then hold on to the ball makes him possibly a more complete player than the World Cup winning midfielder.

The only question mark over the deal is the relationship between Pizarro and his manager. Mancini purchased the midfielder in his time at Inter Milan but he was then largely a substitute, and when he did get game time it seemed he [Mancini] was unsure where to use the player that had been so impressive at Udinese.

Pizarro would only recapture his old form under his old Udinese boss, Luciano Spalletti, at Roma, where he once more flourished as a deep-lying playmaker in a 4-2-3-1.

Fortunately for City, circumstances are very different to when these two were last together, and Mancini now knows just where to play him, as well as boasting an established system that is strikingly similar to the one Pizarro thrived in at the Olimpico.

If he can settle into English football quickly, David Pizarro promises to be a great asset for Manchester City, and one that could well prove key in a first ever Premier League win.

[twosips]

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/ ... ichael-cox

An even better piece ^^^^

[Douglas Higginbottom]

So do we reckon this geezer is going to start for us at all? Has he not played regularly for Roma for a while?

He will be in the squad for Saturday.

[Sideshow Bob]

sounds like plan B after failing to sign de rossi.

[zuricity]

Even Pete and Dud are confused about Pizarro !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejNjdPndLI

[Balotelli]

Someone on BlueDoom posted this article from ESPN?:

Throughout January, Manchester City were linked with a stream of midfielders as Roberto Mancini searched for an evolution to the centre of his team.

David Pizarro has completed his loan switch from Roma to Manchester City
The coach has made a conscious effort to move away from always playing three defensive players, as the marginalisation of Nigel de Jong proves, but it has always seemed as though something was missing. The undoubted ability - as well as difficult contractual situation - of Daniele De Rossi meant his was a name that constantly came to the fore of these discussions, the Roma man seemingly a perfect fit in every regard.

As the dust settles on what has been, at least from a Premier League perspective, a relatively quiet transfer window, a midfielder from the Italian capital has answered the call. Indeed, in true morning-after-the-night-before fashion, City fans have woken up to someone highly unexpected but, as much of a surprise as it is to see David Pizarro decked out in sky blue, it may be the start of a perfect relationship.

The Chilean is plagued by knee problems which may hamper his impact but, should he remain healthy, could prove to be the last piece of a title-winning jigsaw. Make no mistake, his name may not be as widely lauded as his contemporaries but at his best he belongs in a class of midfielder perhaps only inhabited by Barcelona's Xavi and Andrea Pirlo of Juventus. His vision and exquisite touch is on par with those two World Cup winners and, while statistically he may not appear their equal, it must be remembered many of his passes are intended for the likes of Rodrigo Taddei and Simone Perotta and not Andres Iniesta or Kaka.

In modern football parlance he is described as a deep-lying playmaker or often labelled with the Italian regista, a conductor of the orchestra if you will. While those phrases may work for some players, Pizarro is perhaps best summed up by a term from his native South America; volante. It translates literally from Portuguese as 'steering wheel' and describes the style of the 32-year-old perfectly. Whether with the Scudetto-winning Inter under Roberto Mancini or at the heart of Luciano Spalletti's exciting Roma sides, he has provided direction to his teams and been a vital component in their success.

Questions may be asked about his ability to cope with the pace and physicality of English football, but he is one of those players who always find the time and space, even in the most heated of games. Pizarro will provide a perfect foil for David Silva, although - given that he stands just 5'6" - Yaya Toure may feel he has landed in Lilliput when his involvement in the African Nations Cup comes to an end.

Indeed his nickname 'Pek' is a shorten version of El Pequeno (The little one) meaning he can't even get the full word for small.

Much like his new Spanish team-mate, expect City fans and neutrals alike to quickly fall in love with his way of playing, his feints and enlightening passes, for here is a truly enchanting player, a favourite among many of the games most informed observers. This season he has played just seven times (making a mere five starts) but his passing has been typically immaculate, comfortably completing over 90% of attempts and, while the last eighteen months have seen injuries limit his impact, it is well worth noting that between the 2007-08 season and 2009-10, no Serie A player provided more assists.

While clearly no De Rossi, he does offer more in terms of tackling than Pirlo for example and, like many players of his ilk, uses his intelligent reading of the game to intercept opposition passes and break up play. He is only on loan until the end of the season but, in those six short months David Pizarro  if he can have the kind of impact as in Rome and Milan - may just make the difference in the title race and Manchester City might just have woken up to Mr Right.

[lets all have a disco]

Sounds like a hero,were saved.

[Lee_R]

I have a good feeling about this signing.