Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to LiquidFootball. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Top 10 crazy swap deals
Topic Started: Jul 28 2009, 01:59 PM (187 Views)
Homer
Member Avatar
I am the King
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
10) Christian Vieri to Inter from Lazio for €33m + Diego Simeone – 1999
Vieri more than paid back his transfer fee, scoring over 100 goals in his six years at San Siro. Unfortunately he failed to win a major trophy, whereas Simeone won the Scudetto at Lazio in his first season.

9) Adriano to Inter from Flamengo for €3.5m + Vampeta - 2001


Adriano was an unknown 19-year-old when he arrived from Flamengo for what can now be considered a paltry sum. The Emperor has had his personal troubles along the way and has since moved back to Flamengo, but for a while in the middle of the decade he was probably the best striker in the world. Midfielder Vampeta, on the other hand, is still made fun of in Italy eight years after leaving the peninsula.

8) Gianluca Pagliuca to Inter from Sampdoria for €4.1m + Walter Zenga & Riccardo Ferri – 1994

Two Italia ‘90 stars in exchange for a goalkeeper may seem peculiar at first, but in truth Zenga and Ferri were both ageing and past their best, while Pagliuca was at his peak and would enjoy five fine years in Nerazzurro, winning one UEFA Cup.

7) Zlatan Ibrahimovic to Barcelona from Inter for €43.25 million + Samuel Eto’o – 2009

Time will tell if this is a success or not. Ibrahimovic has been Inter’s main man for three years, their matchwinner and lifesaver. Economically the Nerazzurri have done well, but the results will be shown on the pitch.

6) Diego Milito & Thiago Motta to Inter from Genoa for €16m plus Robert Acquafresca, Francesco Bolzoni and a number of Primavera players.

The two stars of Genoa’s 2008-09 season arrived at Inter this summer in a massive exchange – will the South Americans boost the club’s chances of winning the Champions League?

5) Ricardo Quaresma to Inter from Porto for €18.6m + Pele


The undoubted flop of the 2008-09 season. The Italian press predicted before Quaresma even kicked a ball that he would be a disaster, and they were not wrong. Did the inclusion of a certain ‘Pele’ in the swap jinx the Portuguese winger?

4) Ivan Zamorano to Inter from Real Madrid for €1m + Roberto Carlos – 1996

Zamorano scored goals galore during his time at the Santiago Bernabeu, but he was almost 30 when he joined Inter. Despite largely doing well for the Beneamata, what was Massimo Moratti thinking when he agreed to pay Madrid €1m, as well as release the best young left back in the world? The Brazilian would become a La Liga legend.

3) Francesco Coco to Inter from Milan in a straight swap for Clarence Seedorf – 2002

Brace yourselves for the next three swap deals. The first involves the decision to swap Hollywood wannabe Coco for Champions League Dutch master Clarence Seedorf. The former would spend the next five years either injured, on-loan, on reality shows or being stitched-up (and crying like a little baby) on Italian television. The latter would form part of the best midfield in Europe this decade.

2) Andrés Guglielminpietro to Inter from Milan for €2.8m + Andrea Pirlo – 2001

Another member of that brilliant Milan midfield was Pirlo, who a year before Seedorf also moved across the fashion capital in a trade involving the average Argentine everyone lazily called ‘Guly’. Pirlo would soon develop into the best deep-lying playmaker in the world, Guly would become even more of a nobody.

1) Fabian Carini to Inter from Juventus in a straight swap for Fabio Cannavaro - 2004

At No.1 – it could only be Italy captain Fabio Cannavaro. The Neapolitan had had a few injury troubles during his two-year spell at Inter, but there was no doubting that he was still a world class defender. As for goalkeeper Fabian Carini, he had barely played a game for Juventus during his four years there. Luciano Moggi used his famous trick-tactic of telling the press how good Carini was in order to increase his price and fool those naive enough to believe him, and then promptly straight-swapped him for Cannavaro. Arguably the most hilarious transfer in football history, Canna would be the world’s best defender between 2004 and 2006, while Carini would play four games for Inter in three years before disappearing off to Spanish minnows Real Murcia.
Edited by Homer, Jul 28 2009, 02:00 PM.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
elcule
Member Avatar
Kolo
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
:hysterics: LMFAO THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE INVOLVES INTER!!!!
Posted Image

Winner.

"If I go to Anfield and someone puts the ball into the box and Carragher hammers it out of play the fans applaud. At Camp Nou you would never be applauded for that." - Xavi
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Homer
Member Avatar
I am the King
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Oh ye didn't realise that :hysterics: :hysterics:
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Scholes
Member Avatar
Nothing's as it seems
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Hahaa
Scholes
 

Seriously, Frank Lampard is an absolute legend of the game. He needs to be recognised in some way eg. Frank Lampard OBE, Sir Frank Lampard or some kind of lifetime achievement award.

AntMcfc
 
Greatest ownage machine: Scholes. Absolute animal when he was a regular poster, I always knew I was in the right when he was backing me up, and I couldn't wait to read a topic that he was posting in because I knew he'd be tearing someone apart
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
AntMcfc
Member Avatar
POTY
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Lmao, jees Inter are such a small time club :hysterics:

Cannvaro one is the worst though, I still remember it well, what a shambles...
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Phil
Member Avatar
YNWA
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
How can Michael Owen for Antonio Nunez not be in there
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ManYou
Member Avatar
Thierry Henry
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I always thought it was Madrid who bought Roberto Carlos and threw in Zamorano, not Inter buying Zamorano and offering Carlos as part of the deal. That's sheer lunacy.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
AntMcfc
Member Avatar
POTY
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Zamorano was a God though, heroic footballer...
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ManYou
Member Avatar
Thierry Henry
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
I thought he was like Tevez with goals in him though. He was a good player.

Do you remember when Ronaldo joined Inter and took his no.9 shirt, Zamorano showed up the next season with '1+8' on the back of his shirt! I thought that was quite funny, he just had to have 9.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ManYou
Member Avatar
Thierry Henry
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Posted Image
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
jmortega
No Avatar
Andriy Voronin
[ *  *  *  * ]
Some really stupid ones in there. :lol:
Edited by jmortega, Jul 28 2009, 10:54 PM.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
elcule
Member Avatar
Kolo
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
ManYou
Jul 28 2009, 09:53 PM
I thought he was like Tevez with goals in him though. He was a good player.

Do you remember when Ronaldo joined Inter and took his no.9 shirt, Zamorano showed up the next season with '1+8' on the back of his shirt! I thought that was quite funny, he just had to have 9.
Yep I remember that, amazing! Officially he was number 18 lol, just amazing the lengths he will go to to save his pride!!!

He was a great player for Madrid though, him and Laudrup helped them win the title back off us after four years in a row of Dream Team successes. Far, far better than Tevez.
Posted Image

Winner.

"If I go to Anfield and someone puts the ball into the box and Carragher hammers it out of play the fans applaud. At Camp Nou you would never be applauded for that." - Xavi
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
ManYou
Member Avatar
Thierry Henry
[ *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * ]
Ah yeah for sure. Just that he'd be a real thorn in the defenders backside like Tevez but he scored plenty of goals too and was generally a better footballer, better brain, really good movement aswell.
Posted Image
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · General Football · Next Topic »
Add Reply