Summer Mercato 2011

[Aficio]

Watch it guys. You risk getting banned by Reza if Van Bommel gets an extension

Banned from the old forum, no prob

[reza]

Ban button ready

Nothing really new I guess but Raiola predicts we will try for Balotelli in June (milannews)

[xudong]

Watch it guys. You risk getting banned by Reza if Van Bommel gets an extension

Ban button ready

Nothing really new I guess but Raiola predicts we will try for Balotelli in June (milannews)

Does Raiola have an office in our club? (No, I am not joking. I read it somewhere - an unreliable source by the way - that he is one of our unofficial managers.)

[GeoTav]

TMW: Neymar can't imagine not playing with Ganso as they are close friends ...
No problem, Milan will welcome you both !!

[Hitman]

no Reza, he only said "The player is fine in England", the rest of that article is speculating... Raiola didn't say anything like that yet

[xudong]

TMW: Neymar can't imagine not playing with Ganso as they are close friends ...
No problem, Milan will welcome you both !!

Aren't we a little too crowded in attack? Last season, we were screaming over Huntelaar and Borriello who couldn't score or dribble, now all of a sudden, after having Robinho, Ibrahivomic, Cassano and Pato (don't forget we still have Pippo Inzaghi), and we are still talking about Neymar and Ganso? What a quick change of fate that is.

If only we could get some nice upgrading of our midfield (besides Ganso, I mean). and decent fullbacks of course!

[LebRN]

yeah i don't think we should change anything in attack for next season.
a bit of stability will not kill us especially that if we get that CAM and a fullback the team will be more balanced & stronger and the attack will be able to produce even better than this year.

[reza]

no Reza, he only said "The player is fine in England", the rest of that article is speculating... Raiola didn't say anything like that yet

Thanks. Any way him coming means one of our forwards will have to leave, I doubt that will happen this summer. Summer 2012 who knows.

[ACMILAN1983]

I'd rather keep just one of Ambro and Van Bommel (Ambro really). Both are in their mid-30s and to me it makes sense to let one go to make room for a younger midfielder to be brought through in the position.

For a new midfielder, I think the top most priority is for Ganso (and Lucas). We should spend time on Strasser & Merkel than buy CM like Lazzari or even Montolivo.

Those youngsters & Flamini, Boateng could benefit a lot by playing alongside Rino, Ambro & Van Bommel. VB possesses vast knowledge of different football styles which is an edge over our old guards.

I prefer the young & old setup to new "quite good" CM. IMO, nowadays typical CM is the easiest to train. If we buy a super DM who can play 50 matches/season, that's another story, but I think there will be one more transition year.

Only Strasser is suited to playing in Ambro/Van Bommel's position (even then it's debatable, as he's more suited to Rino's role imo), and if we keep both then he'd struggle to find space in the side. It may seem a risk to have him as first backup, but we need to give youngsters room in the squad to grow.

[JuanShoe]

3 players I've heard mentioned through various rumours about Milan' s interest are Santacroce, de Silvestri and Cristicio. Now not watching may Italian games, other than Milan obviously, I don't know much about them, other than what they are like on FM 2011! What are they actually like? At least if I know I can choose appropriately for my FM 2011 MIlan team.