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Originally Posted by Tony75
That squad already had Papin, Savicevic, Boban, Lentini, Gullit, Massaro, Simone... U get the idea??
That was a WC squad. What we have no is a borderline IC squad bar midfield.
Our only WC striker is 33 and injury prone. None of the other 3 have prove themselves on the very top level.
Comparing now & 1993 is ridiculous. We WERE the best team then. Now we are just holding onto a top 10 position IMO.
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The relative merits of the team in place is an entirely different matter from the transfer season itself. Using your reasoning, you would have to figure Milan had a better transfer season this summer than West Ham because Milan already has better players, right? Tevez and Masherano are not going to make West Ham a better team than Milan, just as they would not have made this Milan team better than the 93-94 team. Yet, if Milan had acquired Tevez and Mascherano, most of you would be hailing this as a tremendously successful transfer season.
In 1993, Milan lost one of its greatest players ever (and I mean that in the true sense of the word) in Marco van Basten. They replaced him from within before buying George Weah two years later. That summer they brought in Desailly, as Jim pointed out, but Desailly was far from being the star he would become at Milan. He was a very good player, but was only then ready to make his international debut in that same year. He was no more established at that time than Oliveira is now and nobody could have been certain without a doubt that he would become the player he ultimately became. So judging the 1993 class from the perspective of 1993, it doesn't seem that transfer season was as good as this one as, at least, Milan found a very capable player to fill Sheva's spot and also acquired one of the most promising young talents in France.