Summer Mercato 2011

[WCmilan]

i agree that lucas kid is prety talented but that wont solve our midfield problems, maybe our cam problems but hes still young as well lets not forget.. balotelli, we wont know where his crazyness will lead us or him.. id prefer a versatile player like schweinsteiger or fabregas, just one of those two over both balotelli and lucas.

[will4li]

We can not meet pastore's 42 million,so I think we can forget fabregas,maybe with 40 million,we can get balotelli and lucas both.

Despite all the crazyness, balotelli is still the No.1 choice for manchini,I think he is already an adequate pro.

Here chinese media today says we are planning cassano swap for marchisio,great deal if it's true.

[WCmilan]

i like that guy silva on man city

[Siregar]

We don't need striker, why should we buy another striker? We have Ibrahimovic, Cassano, Pato and Inzaghi (Paloschi could be loaned out) and now we want to sign Balotelli? What for? We are not as rich as before in term of money for transfer and even we are, it is not a wise decision to have 5 strikers in a team disregard the behavior of Balotelli.

We have to buy what we really need, a creative midfielder. CAM we still have Boateng (even not great), Shaarawy (still very young tough but has played well in Serie B according to his stats) and Valoti (totally inexperienced and very young). Cassano and Robinho can also play there although not as effective as Boateng but as long as we have quality CM, they both could be useful in CAM position.

For left CM however we have only Seedorf who is 35 years old IIRC and we shouldn't rely on such old player for left CM position where the player needs go up and down very often. We need a fresh CM, a quality one and we don't have such player right now.

[fLame]

i like that guy silva on man city

Oh yeas man! I have watched Merda's game vs ManCity, and Silva was absolutely outstanding.

He would be an excellent replacement for Pirlo in the playmaker role, except now Silva is much faster. We should have tried to snap him up before ManCity. Now he won't come cheap at all.

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Since gallinai said it's not players already on their peaks.if we can sign that brazil kid lucas and balotelli,it will still be a great market.

I would sign Balotelli only if Cassano leaves, we are packed up front already.

[will4li]

If you can strike a bargain like 20 million for a talent like balotelli now,would you do it? I won't hesitate a second.

We can somehow manage a cassano swap for montolivo to address our LCM problem.and get lucas to be future ACM.

[fLame]

If you can strike a bargain like 20 million for a talent like balotelli now,would you do it? I won't hesitate a second.

We can somehow manage a cassano swap for montolivo to address our LCM problem.and get lucas to be future ACM.

Cassano was as big of a talent as Balotelli, yet many had doubt even though we signed him for free. Having said that, I wouldn't sign Balotelli for more than 15 mil.

He might screw up with his attitude, he might not fit in very well, etc.

[ACMILAN1983]

Call me a hopeless romantic, but a little part of me still believes in Fabregas...

Yeah, me too mate.

Many things related us in signing Fabregas although like Jay said, it will be extremely hard to get him.

I read on other forum that Ganso can play in LCM according to Galliani (or I understand it that Milan would use him in that position). There are also information posted that Milan would hope much from Shaarawy and Valotti as CAM.

I am not sure about the last part, both players are so young and only Shaarawy is the player who have real games (in Serie B) but still he is unproven in Serie A. That's why probably there is idea to get Kaka so that will leave Shaarawy and Valotti developing until they are raedy?

If so called market experts are supposed to be believed, then Mr X is going to be Fabregas. Roberto La Florio, a FIFA agent, has been the latest to say this (article on milannews). However, Guardiola has also suggested he wants Cesc in his latest press conference.

About Ganso, Galliani suggested he can play LCM, but this is not his natural role. I think it's worth noting that Galliani is making a point that the mezzala isn't necessarily a natural mezzala. As for the youngsters, I think they will be expected to provide depth to the squad without putting too much pressure on them, something like Merkel and Strasser last year. El Shaarawy may be expected to do a little more though.

Personally, as exciting it is to see all the work being done in our attack and midfield recently, I hope management have plans for the long term security for defence, seeing as Yepes and Nesta are not exactly young and Mexes is not only injury prone, but not really starter material. Personally, I'd love us to look at the Dortmund CB's, particularly Hummels whose a superb player.

it can go either way with Juve, but they have adressed their issues seriously this time

I think your right on the mark with this. Juve aren't a team to underestimate this season, as although they're probably not champions, they should really fight for a top 3 finish. If they get someone for the left wing, then they will be a team to keep an eye.

[Siregar]

If I remember it correctly, I also read that Allegri mentioned about the possibility of Ganso playing as left-central midfielder CMIIW. I don't use this as sign that Milan will sign him, I only think that Ganso could play in the position if Milan do get him.

[Jay Crisp]

News here in the papers and on tele text that we are going to sign Mario on loan for the season with an option to but for 15 million with another 4 on add on's.
And Aqualani for a 1 million loan with the option to buy at 8 million.

That would be 1 million in transfer fees , that would mean we spent about well less than 10 million.
Not bad IMO and they are not obligations to buy but an option , where if we pay the money the player is guaranteed for us.
We clearly have not a big budget if any , so if they work out great.
But I still don't think we need Mario now and I have doubts over Aqualanis ability to improve our midfield greatly.

It's cost effective low risk except that we may do nothing in CL but it's better than nothing, still not better than Cesc and Ganso..but I still think Cesc is Barca bound if not this summer then next.