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Originally Posted by Tony29.
Some other news :
1. Swap Solari-Cassano may happen between Inter and Real (Marca)
Why would Inter need another attacker ?
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duhhh, since when does Inter need a good reason to add another player to the collection
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2. Zlat this is for you : Martin Petrov signed for Manchester City 
He's been my favorite since the time i watched him live in Sofia and then in Skopje.... why do my favorite players never finish in Juve ?
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rest assured, Tony, Petrov was never a player for a team like Milan, Juve etc ... he had the talent and the skill, probably, but not the character to make it into such teams. Man City is just the team he would be comfortable with - a midtable one
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3. Rothen renewed his contract with PSG
Another favorite of mine. I was seeing him as Nedved's successor, but he got lost in France after the marvelous season with Monaco
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I liked the player a lot but he made the unbelieveble mistake to tranfer to a struggling PSG side from a CL-final-playing Monaco team and all that at a tme when he was one of the hottest new faces on the european market
but I believe that things happen for a reason and everyone gets what he's worth in the end, so ...
As for Deco, I can't say I am fond of him as a character but as a player I can't deny his worth and importance to this Barca side ... something that Rijkaard is obviously not valuing much and is ready to possibly destabilize the team by playing the 4 superstars together or letting Deco go and replace him with a useless beanbag like Lampard - how I would love to see Rijkaard's face when he realizes that Lamps is all about shooting, shooting, and shooting from long range and his play making "skills" are limited to getting the ball to his teammates only for them to pass it back so that he can ... shoot from 35 meters out
Still, 25 mil for a 30 yo, player who his club sees as "surplus" are way too much and I wouldn't use Rui's transfer as a reference given that that one took place in a time when the transfer market was going crazy and money was the only way to convince the other team (La Viola) to sell ... here, in Deco's case, the player is more or less openly free to go, so that brings his price down a lot.
Also, if Milan are unwilling to break the bank for a 31 yo Sheva with all his ties to Milan and SIlvio, I don't see them doing it for a 30 yo Deco who might fit in Milan and Italy but might also fail to do so ... and that's the same player, who Barca bought as a 26 yo, fresh CL-winner for 20 mil. when he was the most wanted player in Europe ... now, he is a 30 yo player, who has left his best behind and is surplus to requirements, and I don't see how his price could be more than say 12-15 mil tops.
And I think Milan see in Deco a player who can take Pirlo's role and Seedorf's and kaka's role when needed - kind of what Rui Costa was after Kaka's arrival although he would be played more often, of course. All in all, I doubt Milan sees in a 30 yo Deco a player around whom they can or should build the team's future (which would have been the case with Ribery), so paying an amount as large as 25 mil for Deco is out of the question, IMO.