Summer mercato 2012

[Jay Crisp]

Or the league , He was so coming into his own .Great player and not many better in the world.IMO

[ACMILAN1983]

I'll say what I basically said at the beginning of the Tevez Rumors. I would like to evaluate the situation in June. However, knowing what we know now, I would sell Pato, & Release Inzaghi + Maxi Lopez. I think 4 Strikers is good enough, and we could always use a Primavera Striker for Coppa Italia.

That would leave us Ibra, Robinho, El Shaaraway & Cassano. If Cassano cannot recover, I'd like to get Tevez.

Now, let's say hypothetically we release:
Flamini, Ambrosini, Zambrotta, Van Bommel, Seedorf, Zambrotta, Taiwo, Yepes, & Pato (If we sell him).
Everyone that wants these guys gone doesn't realize we need to replace all of them. If we replace them with solid/good players they will be expensive. Also, we will need to BUY these players. There are only a few players that are Free (Montolivo, Bosingwa, etc). Not even Keita is Free.

This will be very expensive and that's why I wouldn't count on us releasing as many players as you think. I could see even Seedorf being renewed. If Van Bommel decides to leave, we can't lose 2 anchors, so if he goes, Ambrosini must get re-signed. It's more complicated than we think.

If we sign Tevez for Pato, Tevez will want at minimum 6M Euros. Montolivo will want 4M+, and as I said lowering this wage bill will be more difficult than one may think.

The problem with Milan has more to do with players who can't play for the entire season. The squad itself is too big.
For starter, Milan has 5 CBs in Silva, Nesta, Mexes, Yepes and Bonera, while none of them is from their youth sqaud. Would it really hurt the team if the forth or fifth CB is actually a call up player from youth squad.
Then in midfield, there are Gattuso, Flamini, MVB, and Ambro as DMs, while Urby, Nocerino, Slowdorf, Merkel, Boateng and Aqualini as CM or ACM. There are a total of 10 midfielders fighting for 4 positions, on top of that guys like ELS and Robinho can also play as ACM if needed.
I think getting players who can stay healthy, usually younger players, will be the key to trimming down the wages.
If I am in Galli shoes, in defense, release, Yepes, Bonera and Zambro. Get Dilac back and promote one of the youth CB. In midfield, I would really let both Ambro, Flamini, Slowdorf and Gattuso go this summer, and resign MVB and promote Strausser. Thus, the midfield will have MVB, Strausser, Nocerino, Boateng, Urby and Aqua. Then groom ELS and Merkel into the modern type of ACM like Gotze and Ozeil. Keep the trio of Pato, Robinho, and Ibra, release Pippo and Maxi but recall Polashi and promote Berratta.

Two good posts, even if they both argue differing views.

[fLame]

Cost and wage of Milan squad that played vs Cesena



Cost and wage of Juve squad that played vs Catania




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hitman, ignore list and PMs work both ways. this is a public forum. if you post things publically, anyone can reply, including myself. feel free to start a "Pato haters thread" and I promise I will not read it, cause if you actually followed why people get irritated here - it's because of your posts. open your eyes please.

[DUCO]

breaking news : rubin kazan are interested in singnig of Daniela Bonera

[fLame]

breaking news : rubin kazan are interested in singnig of Daniela Bonera

Most exciting news for the Summer Mercato so far.
Sorry Daniele, your time has ran out.

[GeoTav]

If we sign Tevez for Pato, Tevez will want at minimum 6M Euros. Montolivo will want 4M+, and as I said lowering this wage bill will be more difficult than one may think.

Rumours are that Montolivo already signed a pre-contract with us and the salary would be around 2.5M a year for 4 seasons ...
It's just rumours, but the Italian players coming from "small teams" tend to get paid "reasonably" (compared to a midfielder with the same level coming from England or Spain for example) ...

ABout the problem of Ibra's wages, it's actually not a problem: he's the main player, he's one of the best players in the world, I don't think anyone in the team will think they deserve the same salary. And maybe some football players, when they get 4-5M a year, don't think they need more ?? Anyway, there is no problem with that right now, as long as we win titles and we're not near the end of the contract of the players.

[sylrus]

what is cartelino??

and finally bye2 bonera
muach

[GeoTav]

what is cartelino??

and finally bye2 bonera
muach

Cartelino is the price the player was bought ... Ingagio is the salary.

And don't party too early about Bonera leaving, the last time we did something similar (remember that there were rumours a club was interested by Bonera some times ago, same for Seedorf and some others), the guy stayed and we were all very disappointed !!

[GeoTav]

About the GK situation at the end of this season, I hope Roma will not be renewed, he's useless and not good enough anymore, even for a third GK ... I think we should call back Donnaruma who seems to be a very good GK given all the reports TMW does about our co-owned/on loan players !!

[WCmilan]

IMO we should've signed podolski instead of maxi lopez, and i wouldnt even worry about our attack at all, id let cassano take his sweet time to recover and thats that.. 8-12mln offer for podolski imo wouldve got him here.. then get hamsik or schweini for our midfield next year and were set