Benvenuto Gio Leo

[dyl]

https://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/liverpool-fc-complete-signing-giovanni-leoni-parma

 

Edited August 15 by dyl

[Red2Core]

He's my favorite defender ever

[Gethin]

Next to Virgil

The mighty Virgil 

Leoni sweeps the right 

[Stevie]

My favourite Italian centre half we’ve ever had.

[McBain]

Dance, dance, dance, dance, dance to our Gio Leo

[Smith]

Yeah.

A generational talent. Believe it.

[RedBilledChough]

Speaking in English in his first interview is a good start. 

 

[Romario]

18 my a***. He looks about 28. Love him already. My favourite ever player. Play him tonight or I’m not watching. 
You’ve been warned Liverpool. 

[LFCNeil90]

Johnny Lions. That'll do

[Cam]

Gio Leoni.

God, she was fit in 'Bad Boys'.

[DanWM]

36 minutes ago, redjersey said:

Speaking in English in his first interview is a good start. 

 

Same as Ekitike, and Wirtz. Do kids just know English these days because of the internet? Learned it all off Mr Beast or whatever.

[smithdown]

Giovanni Leone 

Goodbye goodbye to Rome 

All of the Koppites are cheering 

Tackling heading and clearing 

Get the Italian beers in

This lads got the lot 

 

[TheLa]

Leone, when you're not strong etc 

This song practically writes itself.

[Cobs]

Only Leoni (dum dum dum dummy do-wah)

knows the way I feel tonight

Only Leoni 

Can play centre of a two with Van Dijk

 

 

one for Murph there

[guernseygareth]

Ciao, big boy!

[PhilM]

We've signed Gio Leoni

Nobody I'd rather see

We've signed Gio Leoni

To play alongside VVD

Edited August 15 by PhilM

[Tommok]

57 minutes ago, DanWM said:

Same as Ekitike, and Wirtz. Do kids just know English these days because of the internet? Learned it all off Mr Beast or whatever.

Ha! It's certainly not thanks to Duolingo - unless they're learning how to say useful stuff like "the horse is eating an apple"

They just start teaching kids English at an earlier age than English kids get taught foreign languages in the UK school system. 

[Romario]

New lad making Ali look the size of Frimpong. He’s huge!!

 

[Cam]

The Italian Dan Burn.

[Gethin]

3 hours ago, Cam said:

The Italian Dan Burn.

And £90m cheaper too 

[RedBilledChough]

Take a walk around our new centre half, as someone once said.

[DanWM]

Just discovered that he's ambipedal. Also just discovered the word ambipedal.

Good though, we must think he's got the physical attributes to be moulded into a superstar.

[Tommok]

34 minutes ago, redjersey said:

Take a walk around our new centre half, as someone once said.

Would be something of a hike if it was Ruddock

[whitewidow]

9 minutes ago, DanWM said:

Just discovered that he's ambipedal. Also just discovered the word ambipedal.

Good though, we must think he's got the physical attributes to be moulded into a superstar.

A big superstar

[Chewie]

went looking for this lad's thread and couldn't find one

listening in the car to talksport this morning and Martin Semmens, former CEO of Southampton who also was involved in the Krauss group running Parma, was talking about Gio Leo. 

I've no idea if this guy's view on footballers is worth diddly-squat.. BUT... 

he did say that 6 or 7 PL clubs all spoke to him about Leoni and he told them all he was great and gonna be as good as Virgil. 

The only club that didn't talk to him - us. 

His two observations are - we're very, very good at what we do, namely understanding of who players are and getting deals done (we had done our homework and didn't need to ask him); and - this lad is really, really good and could be - in his view - as good as Virgil. 

In the event that at some point in the future we're talking about one of our greatest ever centre-halfs, then there'll always be this little time capsule of a thread

Edited September 5 by Chewie