T100 Investigates

An impartial undercover report has just been unleashed onto the T100 community, one which will stun everyone and show clearly how some managers have absolute no regard for local talent, zero interest in promoting national success and absolutely no relationship with their own fans who will stunned by the findings!

Yes, tonight Mr Gino Kinnearo goes undercover across Italy - finding which clubs have young fans who have no heroes - not one local name which the young bambine and raggazine can aspire to be whilst planning football in the park, no one to put on the back of their replica shirts and no panini stickers which they crave to have in their collection!

Beware Mr Kinnearo will uncover a horrific tale of neglect, abuse of fans by Italian based managers and teams with no heart!

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Good evening everyone I am Gino Kinnearo and in tonight's special edition of Breaking News I am scouring the clubs of Italy - discovering how much they all dedicate to local talent - I begin by giving you the bare facts to digest - the truth.

How many Italian players does each Italian club have? 

AC Milan

I will begin our journey in Milan with the greatest manager in T100, Mr Stephen Beddows who has an Italian backbone at the club and has recently bought two great friends together.

Two of the greatest friends in all of football - together at Milan

"At Milan part of our philosophy is to develop home grown talent for the team and for the national side - in fact of our 16 Italian players at Milan 10 of them are full internationals and won the World Cup, including rookies such as Calabria and Barreca. This creates a great feeling of togetherness within the side." 

"Our fans love it - when you walk around Piazza Duomo, of Corso Buenos Aries or Via Padova you see fans young and old wearing the replica Milan shirts, names like Balotelli, Benassi, Bonadventura, Soriano adorn them - there are also many with Beddows, Benassi and Petagna."

Gino Kinnearo then questioned as to how much of a role Beddows has in the recruitment of players or is it down to the Chinese orders. 

"100% me!" he said. "It brings a tear to my eye to see the youngsters in Parco Sempione pretending to be their heroes and it is always the Italian players they want to be - youngsters pretending to be Balotelli or Calabria or even being Beddows on the sidelines - marvelous to see!" 

In addition a core of Italian players is key to local community Beddows explained. "We do lots of work - coaching in local schools, volunteering at food banks or litter picking with the criminals - with all of this crucial community work the ability to relate to the people of Milan in their native Italian or Albanian is so important. 

Our philosophy is part of our core identity - one city one club - the club for the people! 

AS Roma

Next Mr Kinnearo travelled down to Roma to meet with new Roma boss Marco de Angelis.

Marco is very Italian, at Sampdoria he was evidently one of the most patriotic Italians where he had a huge core of Italian players and his charity work in the old port of Genoa and on the streets and the along the Ligurian coast will be forever remembered.

"Io credo che e molto importante che uno allentore deve avere un cuore di giocatori Italiani!"

He then broke into English - "at Roma we will a try to a make same - we want very much Italy players!"

Roma have 10 Italian players in their side presently but under Marco this is only set to increase.

Napoli

Mr Kinnearo then flew down to Napoli - the heart of southern culture in Italy, the home of spazzatura and a team that has just 2 Italian players! 2!

Rob Ryan refused to speak to Mr Kinnearo - claiming that his report was biased against everyone but the managers who were not a threat to AC Milan!

Mr Kinnearo though decided to do some more snooping setting an extra secret candidate to watch Napoli training and he was amused to see 12 overweight men on the training field, clearly not footballers upon investigating further it was discovered that Rob Ryan has to employ 12 different translators in the team - absurd.

So absurd that, the Czech translator has to translate the instruction into French-Malian as Rob Ryan refuses to spend the millions on a further translator due to Napoli considering 13 an unlucky number.

There is no community interaction at Napoli - Mr Rob Ryan does not allow his players to interact with the public - as such, Napoli - once a one club city - has become awash with AC Milan, Roma and Hellas Verona shirts - the people of Napoli want familiarity!

Hellas Verona and Chievo Verona

Next stop Verona the two Verona teams - first Hellas - Mr Kinnearo was overjoyed to find the official club language being Italian - 20 Italian players, plenty of talent, lots of joy amongst the fans that some Hellas players will one day play for Beddows' national team.

Gino said: "Andre has built a great ethos at this club - an amazing identity. This is how to build a football team."

As for Chievo Mr Kinnearo was stunned to find 1 Italian player - the player who didnt want to be named for fear of losing his place in the team spoke exclusively to BREAKING NEWS...

"Io non sono capace a parlare inglese per cui non capisco nulla! Gav Harmer parla solo inglese e io sono Italiano - vivo in mio paese - ma non capisco nulla!"

This horrendous situation for this poor Italian player bought tears to the eyes of Mr Kinnearo - how could a poor Italian player, playing his T100 football in his native country have to try to understand English to communicate with his teammates! Another example of absurdity.

Torino and Juventus

Torino's falls down the divisions has been well documented - led by a bouncing kangaroo who has finally said he will leave if he fails again. Is there any connection between the lack of Italian identity and their failure? Perhaps so?

3 Italian players in the Torino team - such stars like Barreca left Torino to join Beddows in part due to the Aussie's inability to relate to the fans and the city!

Barreca: "He lived in Piedmont - in Barbera - the place where they make win. Every day he would turn up to training late - his translator having arrived 2 hours prior... always, I think you say 'drunk' becuase of the red wine"

This report of foreign managers not making it in Italy clearly has a pattern - but what of Mr DP - a manager who Gino Kinnearo has not always seen eye to eye with in the past.

"DP has 7 Italian players and he is not as short sighted as the others - I have a certain level of respect for him!"

Kinnearo described DP as a sort of chameleon - a creature who adapts to his surroundings to make friends and to fit in.

"He is quite effective as an individual. He is almost successful as a T100 manager and keeping that core of Italian players has been key - Buffon, Bonucci and Rugani has been key to the DP PR machine - he knows how to manage the media."

Very often the front pages of the Torino newspapers feature images of DP eating gelato alongside Torino natives, or eating gnocchi con sugo in the favourite haunts of the Turin elite - he is a man who likes to be seen with his people - very shrewd!

Genoa

Mr Hirst loves Genoa and it is true he is loved by his fans - Mr Hirst plays on his Genovese origins in truth he has done a good job of having 8 local players in his squad.

Perhaps his weakness is his love of Perin - Frank and Perin are like Mulder and Sculley, Batman and Robin or David Senior and Tom Parfitt - a combination that is yet to bring any real success - promotion is one thing but the real glory is in silverware and despite his domination of the mafia Hirst has - as yet - be able to achieve this.

In addition many of the Italian media have been critical of keeping players like Federico DiMarco against his wishes - Di Marco - a native of Milan is said to want to return to Milan as soon as he is allowed.

Frank tries at Italian and the Genoa natives appreciate this - but compared to Beddows he is a complete amateur and this reflects on his relationship with the fans - they like Hirst - but they don't love him like the Milanese do Beddows!

Inter

Finally Mr Kinnearo returned to Milan, where his journey began - expecting to find a similar story to AC Milan at Inter - as he arrived at il stazione he was greeted by many Milan shirts, a 4 year old boy with Soriano on his back, a 12/13 year old girl with a Balotelli shirt, an 18 year old man with a half and half Milan - home and away shirt with Bonadventura and Barzagli - but no Inter shirts at all - how could this be?

And then it hit Kinnearo - Inter Milan have 0 Italian players in their ENTIRE squad!

What is their philosophy? How can this be? How can a small club like Inter accept such a state of affairs we asked some famous Inter Milan fans.

Andrea Bocelli:

"Every weekend I sing my heart out for the team - I sing them songs like Nessun Dorma but I do not think they understand - there is not one Italian in the team - I feel lost - I cannot relate to this team - success may come but I will not celebrate with them - in fact if Beddows keeps Milan against all odds in Division One I will sing with him"

Valentino Rossi: 

"I think the wheels have come off the hierarchy at Inter - how can they allow this man - this beast to rip the heart out of our team!"

Upon further investigation there is no community projects at Inter - no work to promote unity across the city - apparently Mclean has authorized the setting up of an Inter community project in Glasgow though. 

What hope is there in this world for clubs like Inter with managers whose approach is so set in stone that they can not see the wood from the trees and the fact that the fans need heroes they can relate to!

Alex Mclean did comment but unfortunately due to a combination of poor language and an inability of Gino to understand his accent it was not recorded in the documentary.  

This is Gino Kinnearo for Top 100 news in Italy!