This is something I've been pondering for a long time-- "what if a 'new-'old' console came out"? And here is the GameTank! I wonder if his timing is sort of poor though, given the Commodore 64 Ultimate just came out? For me it'd be tough to swing another $300-odd purchase on top of the giant one I just made.

Things are really scary as a Lazio fan right now. Long-time readers-- those who read my previous blogs for decades-- will know that I supported Claudio Lotito for a long time. He saved the club from liquidation, refinanced the debt, and had us on a slow-but-steady growth, culminating with the Immobile-Albert-Milinkovic-Savic team which would probably have won the Scudetto that one infamous year has the season not gotten disrupted.

But then he was elected to the senate in Italy, and having an ego the size of Jupiter, has refused to delegate or hand over control to someone else, despite visibly having put on probably fifty pounds, and permanently looking like an owl due to a lack of sleep.

Now he's selling off all of our best players, and replacing them with gambles-- or not at all. A recent piece of analysis showed, where Lazio and Napoli diverged maybe ten years ago was because Napoli sold their best pieces and re-invested, while Lazio did not. So I'm all for selling players and making profits. I'm also in favor of buying young players who will bring capital gains.

I don't even disagree with the purchases of Petar Ratkov and Kenneth Taylor-- if I were perusing the market, those were two names I would have been interested in too.

My concerns have more to do with the culture of the club, and that we're reconstructing too fast. Romagnoli is about to leave, and now I hear that Gila is all-but-gone as well. Probably Provedel too-- and who knows who else? Clearly Lotito is forcing Sarri out. In the hands of the wrong coach, I could see us being relegation fodder ala Fiorentina.

I'm seeing names like George Ilenikhena (since we missed out on Rayan) as new incoming pieces. While I think names like that are exciting, many of them belong to teenagers: what will happen next season in Serie A if many of these gambles don't pay off?

And now the fans are threatening massive boycotts, to which Lotito's Lazio are threatening legal action? Rather than having gratitude to the fans, the club is threatening to sue them simply for not wanting to buy tickets?

This is by far the darkest period of Lazio during the Lotito decades.