Summer Mercato
(03-15-2014, 05:59 PM)honsano Wrote:
(03-14-2014, 09:25 PM)honsano Wrote: At least a bit of good news: http://www.football-italia.net/46445/mil...fer-report

Maybe all this losing is making a difference with management Smile

The stadium is appearing more real with an article in GDS: http://www.rossoneriblog.com/2014/03/15/...t-stadium/?

Exciting Sagrin

btw, you might be interested in seeing the discussion on this at http://www.milanmania.com/forum/showthre...587&page=3

Exciting indeed Smile
(03-15-2014, 02:56 PM)millinarios Wrote: Berlusconi soon will come out, promise one big player for the summer, and the Curva Sud shuts it up again for good. At least until september 1.

Are Milan these days too poor to bribe the Curva Sud? Rolleyes
I hope Seedorf knows a lot more than we do about our club's ambitions. He says he will make Milan rise again and that we need to sign the right players. How is that even possible with the budgets we've had lately?

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/201...ID=HP_BN_2
I hope it be one real revolution in summer, that the Milan return has be one of the club more importants of the world.
Real revolution costs money. First, when you want to let go fodders, you will have to pay up. Fodders won't be getting another job as highly paid, so naturally they don't want to move on. Look no further at Traore, who probably gets paid three times too high for his value at Milan, and as a result, we are still struggling to get rid of him. Second, to get good quality players, you also need to pay high transfer fees and high salary. There is no exception, but at least that way you get guaranteed quality.

I don't think Milan can afford too many super stars (and that won't be sustainable anyway), but getting rid of fodders ruthlessly should be a must. Milan can gamble with our own youngsters with no transfer fee, low salary, high loyalty, and flexibility with the roster.

Another big issue is that we need to stop bringing in more fodders, such as Essien, and of course the problem is Galliani. We need to cut off the source of all mismanagement, and yes, that means Galliani should be fired.
I thnk by having Niang back and SES healthy, wont extend the loan of Kaka and Trabbalt. Wont resign Urby and those with expiring contacts. Milan will be a better team. As Niang and SES both pressed up front. And by not having Urby as LB is will allow Milan to have ONE less goal concede per game.
I have changed my mind on Niang. I don't think I want him back anymore. He just proves that he is immature and will become a liability for this team. I will trust El Shaarawy, Pazzini, and Balotelli (if he stays), and maybe Paloschi (if we have him back). I am not too hot on Petagna either.

Again, the focus should be getting rid of fodders, and No. 1 fodder in the club is now Galliani.
by the way, Kaka is not here on loan. He has 1 year remaining on his contract after this season ends. The same situation applies to Essien's too. Facepalm
I don't understand why anyone in the press, from Sacchi or other people say Galliani's the right man to start a new project focused on young talents and developing players. Regardless of Galliani's recent performance, his history shows he is absolutely not the right man for this task.

I say this because when he first came into Milan when Berlu took over we had a number of youth players coming through. However, none of those youth players were developed under Berlu's management, instead being developed before. The side that Sacchi's Milan was built on had the foundations of these youth players. Berlu's approach to complement these guys was to bring in established stars entering their prime, preparing to outspend opponents as necessary. Capello's Milan was built on the foundations of Sacchi's squad. By this point the club was at it's peak and we were going out to not just buy established stars, but we were going out to buy the best around and those proven in Italy and/or Europe at the highest level.

The first time we tried to rebuild with younger players we saw the disaster towards the end of the 90s, where by most of the young players being brought in failed to live up to expectations (we're talking about guys like Giunti, Andreas Andersson and Dugarry, as well as the Ajax youngsters none of which settled at Milan). This carried on for years, until we started spending big again for established stars, like Sheva, Seedorf, Rivaldo, Inzaghi, Rui Costa and Nesta etc. Again, Galliani's and the management's success came from building the squad on foundations of established stars.

Now that generation has ended, we're again trying to build again apparently with young upcoming talents and again we're failing to do this smoothly or with any real success. Ultimately, this is my point, we've had possibly the best management in the history of football, as Chelsea, Man City, PSG etc will tell you even with money it's hard to develop consistent success and a strong club. That said, until now this management has never succeeded with developing young players into a successful squad and only have failures in this regard. The closest we've come to actually successfully having a youth player/child transition into the first team side was De Sciglio. For that reason, having Galliani in charge to oversee our new direction makes no sense. Barbara was totally right about using Ajax as the model of developing young talents, as they've been the ones to have found the right methodology to do it. Barca's success with La Masia is founded by Johan Cruyff, again leading back to Ajax. Thing is, we're changing as a club and how we build the side is also changing. As a result, we need someone who can oversee the development in the right way, not someone who has a track record of failures in doing this.
(03-17-2014, 01:41 AM)xudong Wrote: Another big issue is that we need to stop bringing in more fodders, such as Essien, and of course the problem is Galliani. We need to cut off the source of all mismanagement, and yes, that means Galliani should be fired.

Essien was our coach's request!
MILAN! MILAN! SOLO CON TE!
MILAN! MILAN! SEMPRE PER TE!
Essien wasn't Seedorf's request, it makes no sense if he was. Galliani has said that he had been trying to agree the Essien move months before Seedorf came in, so how could Seedorf be requesting a player before Allegri's position is even in doubt. Seedorf spoke to Essien before he came, but that's not the same as requesting he be signed.