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Originally Posted by LebRN
hehe, right stitch!!!
but someone also asked if whether having Pandev's contract rescinded means that he is still considered as transferring from an Italian side...
anyway, i am reading around and i haven't read anywhere that Pandev at Inter is a done deal...so let's keep hoping...
and i totally agree with Saliwonczyk: if Pato or Dinho are out i am sure we can try Abate on the right, or play Borriello on the left or maybe change the formation with Beckham available ....but if we lost one of Nesta or Silva, we all know we end up praying that whoever replaces them (Kaladze or Favalli) won't cost us the match
Regarding players' prices & salaries:
Leo is obviously not the biggest fan of rotation, sometimes because he probably doesn't trust the players he has on the bench, others for some reason we cannot understand...
so this is a list of players that have been useless for us so far and we can certainly do without...i don't know how much money we can get for them or what their salaries are but i am sure if we get rid of them we can get at least a couple of Milan-level players:
Abbiati, Roma, Bonera, Kaladze, Favalli, Onyewu, Jankulovski
Personally i would throw in Oddo & Inzaghi as well
and for whatever we can get / save from all of those, we could replace them all with:
- one of Ranocchia / Kjaer + Zhirkov on loan
- Pandev
and use our youth as the ultimate back-up (3rd choice GK, Albertazzi, Verdi, Zigoni...)
Zhirkov & Pandev will cost us nothing and only the CB will cost us probably around 12Mio whiich i think we can make out of the sales of the guys listed above, as for the salaries, i think we will be actually saving money...
i know most people will call this fantasy football but seriously, how tough is it to do and how much better will we be???
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I think it isn't fair to list Abbiati, Bonera and Jankulovski among those because they were injured. Abbiati and Jankulovski are not 100% still.
But, that doesn't mean we shouldn't sold some of them.
Bonera was injured for the better part of last season, he missed half of this season too. The only season when he made impact here is 2006/07 when he actually was our best and most consistent defender. I still think that he's a great talent, and when fit, he's a perfect backup. If he had any luck with injuries so far he would be first team material until now, I'm sure. So, he should get his chance to see if he's past his injury.
Abbiati is a big NO, he's a very good keeper, good enough for us. We do NOT have the money to replace the players who are actually "good". I even doubt we will have money for CF and LB in the summer and let alone backups.
Roma and Kaladze should go. I would keep Kaladze with lower salary because we owe him, but there's no way he can play first team football and that's what he wants.
For the "possible" transfers, we need a CB backup, but I'm sure Zhirkov will be no good for us. He's not much better in defense than Jankulovski. Ancelotti doesn't even use him as a SB. Great player, but we need some with better defensive qualities, especially on the left side.