Soccer: Cavani or Fabio Junior, January hits and flops

(ANSA) - Rome, December 30 - Alessio Cerci is the first deal of the next venture market, the January window that gave Milan joy and pain over the last two seasons with Balotelli and Honda.
    The reparations market can cure or sink teams, especially those who have done little or badly in the summer. Last year Sampdoria enjoyed this with Okaka and Roma with Nainggolan, while Hernanes and Jorginho made little impact as Matri woke up only after the summer by hitching up with Genoa.
    January acquisitions are a gamble that will make the fans dream or despair from January 5 to February 2. Milan scored a major hit in October 1993 when the supplementary transfer market was in the autumn, by acquiring Desailly. The Frenchman, paid 10 billion, scored a double win in the national championship and the Champions Cup. Fiorentina did less well spending 13 billion for Edmundo in 1998.
    Dejan Stankovic had a different trajectory, joining Inter and taking everything with Mancini and Mourinho.
    In one of his 1000 soccer lives Ronaldo joined Milan from Real Madrid for 7.5 million and in 2007 stunned everyone with seven goals in 14 games.
    Two Brazilians both happened to start adventures in Milan in January. AC Milan snared Pato for 22 million in 2007 but was prevented by FIFA from transferring until he was able to debut in January 2008 at age 18.
    The following December Galliani captured Thiago Silva for 10 million but due to a full deck of foreigners he was unable to debut till September 2009.
    In 2012 it went well for Inter with Guarin, for Lazio with Candreva, but badly for Milan with Maxi Lopez, for Genoa with Gila, for Juve with Borriello and for Napoli with Vargas.
    Two big deals in 2013 in the long run didn't pay for different reasons: Mario Balotelli from City to Milan for 20 million and Giuseppe Rossi from Villarreal to Fiorentina for 16 million.
    Serie A is still licking its wounds from many fliers - the Braziliann Gilberto who went to Inter in January 1999 while Juve has on its conscience the Argentine striker Esnaider for 16 million. That was they year of the bummer because Roma spent 30 million for Fabio Junior, the supposed heir of Romario and Ronaldo.
    Fabietto is still wandering all the second division stages of the planet with the judgement of Zeman who said "he doesn't know how to do anything and hasn't the least wish to learn".