Saturday,
December 29, 2007
Rolando Bianchi, #9m Striker: "Get me
out of
The
ANNOTICO Report
Rolando Bianchi, the #9m
Italian striker was scathing about English food and described team-mates
looking at him "as if I were an alien" when they found out he was teetotal.
Bianchi, a 24-year-old, who has scored only
four league goals since joining City in July, also has his doubts about English
refereeing. "In
Bianchi went on to say he should return to
I'm an Italian, Get Me Out
of Here Says City's Food Critic Bianchi
Daniel Taylor
Saturday December 29, 2007
Rolando Bianchi, the #9m Italian striker, has
admitted he has no long-term future in English football after six troubled
months at
Bianchi, whose
potential availability has alerted a number of Italian clubs as well as Atletico Madrid, is the most expensive of Sven-Goran Eriksson's foreign recruits, but his erratic
performances and complaints of feeling homesick have put him in danger of being
remembered alongside Corradi Grabbi,
Massimo Taibi and Andrea Silenzi
among the least successful Italians to play in the Premier League.
Eriksson has already made moves to
replace him by signing the Mexican international Nery
Castillo on loan from Shakhtar Donetsk and, in a
thinly veiled reference to Nicolas Anelka of
That places a
significant question over Bianchi's future, and the former Reggina
forward already seems to have made up his mind that he will not be at the club
any longer than the end of the season. "I hope to score at least 10
Premier League goals and I want to win a place in the Champions League,"
said Bianchi. "Then I'll pack my bags again and go in search of new
adventures. I'd like to wear the shirt of Atletico
Bianchi went on
to say he should return to
The 24-year-old,
who has scored only four league goals since joining City in July, said he had
found it difficult getting used to the food. "I have raised the white flag
with English food. I don't like it. And I think I must be the only teetotal
player in the Premier League. My team-mates were surprised when I refused a
beer. They looked at me as if I were an alien."
He also has his
doubts about English refereeing. "In
Andreas Isaksson was on his way out of City last night after
officials from the Turkish club Galatasaray visited
City take on
"I am not
sure how to stop Steven Gerrard," admitted
Eriksson. "We shall have to find a way but I do know,
if you give him space and time and the chance to run forward with or without
the ball, he is incredible."
Liverpool
struggled to beat
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