Summer Mercato 2011

[russo-neri]

Soho is also In London..And there is a Club here called Soho.
If Fabregas comes I will paypal everyone here 4 euro for a beer.

Hahahaha! I like your style Crisp!

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Hitman, Mago - I'm at 34th and Park. Where you at?

[Jay Crisp]

It's me tempting faith hoping it screws me ..hahaha

[Gabriel426]

Don't know why some of you want Cesc, since he has his hearts seton Barca, it is only a mater of 3 yrs max that he will go to Barca. On top of at, I am already annoyed about how Barca and Spain players kept saying Cesc wants to go to Barca........ And I am not an Arsenal fan.

[Aficio]

Juventus have bought Vidal for only 10.5M (+2M performance). Now they only need a LM/winger to complete the squad.

I want this player. However, we have too many DMs.

Both Inter & Juve are on the right track.

[Lebanese]

Soho is also In London..And there is a Club here called Soho.
If Fabregas comes I will paypal everyone here 4 euro for a beer.

One beer is not enough

[WCmilan]

Juventus did very well, i disagree that inter is on the right track because many of there players had huge performance drops and plus alot of there important players like cambiasso lucio maicon cesar are not even close to the year they won the treble.. so i think its safe to say inter are out of this i guarentee they'll qualify for cl and even give a shot at it next season, but i think our real competition is going to be napoli and juve, possibly roma.. I think galliani and berlu will suprise us with two big name players especially after they see everything juve and inter have been doing and other big teams like real and barca.. if they really want to win CL i think theyll invest, schweinsteiger and pastore would make a huge difference

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gX2ze6eYeI

[Hitman]

even if we don't get Cesc (who is the ultimate dream), Pastore is not that bad of a Plan B... I dont know why I really like Pastore so much even though he is not very consistent some times, but something about his style and attitude I really like (reminiscent of Kaka I guess).

I'd really like both here but thats just asking for the moon...... <--- that sentence I remember myself saying the saaaame thing when we were linked with both Robinho and Ibra end of July..... I was like theres no way we'll sign one of them let alone both!

however in that case, they were both bargain deals... Ibra for 24 on 3 installments, and Robinho 18 on 4 installments.... pretty damn good..... Cesc we will have to dish out 37m (+ wages of 14m (before tax) and Pastore prolly 28m sounds reasonable plus wages of 7m before tax (which is like 6 times his current wage).. I dont think Milan can sign both of them this time. I think Ganso and one of the two is probable.

[ACMILAN1983]

Cesc has allready signed for us. 5 years, 7 millions per year. He allready set yes to us back in april... Kaka is virtually a Milan player too, but his wages will drop. He will earn around 5 millions per year. Kaka is a strong desire of Galliani and Berlusconi, not so much of Allegri. Montolivo will arrive, he will be useful next year, when some of the contracts of our senior players run out. Maybe we will even get Drogba.

Don't ask me how I know these things. I heard these from a source, that is very very close to Milan management. We will talk again at the end of august, when you will see, that I was right.

FORZA MILAN!

Please don't take offence if I take your post with a pinch of salt. Although I don't think Fabregas was ever well beyond our reach, so while I'm not expecting him this summer, I wouldn't be shocked if he turns out the infamous Mr X.

Actually, what really got me thinking was that Galliani literally said we have our Mr X identified around the time Barca officially announced the Sanchez deal. I can't imagine they'd spend another 40m on Cesc too, who I think it's fair to say is ready to leave Arsenal.

Then of course there are the rumours of Raiola working on a deal for us London earlier this year etc. If Fabregas is our Mr X, then we've made the biggest transfer coup this summer, and have signed quite possibly the best midfielder we could have signed. However, one questionmark remains, as Galliani came out to say our Mr X is physically strong, not something I think of with Fabregas, although I do know better than to trust Galliani's words.

Montolivo is still a player I wouldn't mind coming. He's never likely to be our Mr X and as you said, he's a player that'll be useful in the coming year when Flamini's, Seedorf's, Rino's, Ambro's and Van Bommel's contracts all run out.

As for Kaka and Drogba, well I hope not. Kaka I don't think will return in all honesty, he's part of the past and isn't the same player as when he left. I do think he'll stay at Real this season anyway, as he's finally back to fitness and doing a proper pre-season. Drogba is over 30 and unnecessary, as he's really nothing like he was a few years ago. I understand the desire for a vice Ibra, but for me Drogba's not the right choice.

It is official!!!

Fiorentina signed LAZZARI.

I thought signing Lazzari paved the way for Montolivo too. However, it could well be also Vargas that's leaving as Juve have been rumoured for him a lot lately.

Juventus have bought Vidal for only 10.5M (+2M performance). Now they only need a LM/winger to complete the squad.

I want this player. However, we have too many DMs.

Both Inter & Juve are on the right track.

Inter i'm not sure about. They're getting older, not really signing anyone (there's still plenty of time for this to change) and are currently struggling to hold onto their key players. Gasperini was a decent choice, but otherwise they've yet to do anything of note on the market other than signing Ricky Alvarez.

Juve on the other hand are moving well. They've improved their fullback problems with solid if not great players. Their midfield is getting a massive upgrade. In Pirlo they've already got a key distributor to dominate play, which they seriously lacked in the second half of last year. They've gotten Vidal, who imo is a good upgrade to Melo, and as I mentioned above they're after Vargas for the left too. Add to this that they could get Rossi (or Aguero) and they're building a pretty strong team, especially when you consider Quagriarella is also back next season.

[ElMago99]

Cesc has allready signed for us. 5 years, 7 millions per year. He allready set yes to us back in april... Kaka is virtually a Milan player too, but his wages will drop. He will earn around 5 millions per year. Kaka is a strong desire of Galliani and Berlusconi, not so much of Allegri. Montolivo will arrive, he will be useful next year, when some of the contracts of our senior players run out. Maybe we will even get Drogba.

Don't ask me how I know these things. I heard these from a source, that is very very close to Milan management. We will talk again at the end of august, when you will see, that I was right.

FORZA MILAN!

If Milan's 'Mr. X' is Cesc Fabregas, Hitman will buy opening day tickets for everyone @ MilanMania...

All jokes aside, I think Fabregas would be the most ideal player for us as he works hard, and can do so many things Allegri's type of midfielder needs to do. I don't need to explain further.

I would not want Kaka back, but if we have the €€€, then we should buy Hamsik or Ganso to put at ACM. Along with Boateng, V Bommel, Gattuso, Ambro, El Shaarawy, we will boast one of the most dynamic Midfields the world has ever seen.

Let's pray for 2 signings: Fabregas + Hamsik/Ganso

Big NO to Montolivo.

I am already pre-cumming all over the place just reading greg's post. It is that time of the summer transfer season where this phase begins for me.

It's not true though I don't believe it. I love Kaka, I truly did. He was my idol...but he's not the one for us. We should get Ganso, I think if we brought Kaka then he will take the non-EU spot.. I do remember him getting the Italian passport...but I also knew Robinho had the Spanish passport but he still took our Non-EU spot last year. I really hope we use our non-eu spots wisely and not waste them like we have been in recent years... For the record, I am not happy we spent it on Taiwo. I don't think he's a good enough player for Milan. He's better than Antonini - but not worth taking the Non-EU spot from someone like Ganso, Lucas etc. I wish we could inquire about Marcelo.....

I also agree about Montolivio, he will be useful next year when 5 of our midfielders contracts expire.

off-topic:

El mago, I went to Adidas at Soho last night and guess what??? They have the new Milan jerseys!!! They arrived yesterday morning. Go get yourself one, everyone is buying them even non-Milan fans because that jersey is so cool. But the Soho branch only has long-sleeves, still very nice though.

oh and just for the record, even of Serafini is right, he doesn't know what he's talking about... he's always speculated about the market for other teams and hasn't been correct most of the time. Pedula, Pelegatti, all of them are BS.

Thanks bro, I live about 20 minutes from Soho (in Queens, NY) and sometimes go out at night around there. I'll def hit the store up. I like the new jerseys and would love one with 'Fabregas' on the back, however, he'll have to find a new number as #4 is already taken

[abbeyleemania]

i read Dunga's interview on GDS. he makes some good points.

-Ganso is slow but he makes run the ball. Ganso in italia cant play numer 10 because he is not rapid enogh to play that zone. But he could play at regista and can be the heir of Pirlo.

-Pato needs to improve.

-Lucas can be the real heir of Kaka...