Biggest Mistake In The Transfer Market??

the biggest mistake was selliing coloccini to deportivo.he was a future contender for the centre back position after good ol' paolo decides to hang up his boots also we should have bought chivu from ajax before roma.what do u say?

That is a big one k7r...but I dont know if its the biggest...let me think some more, and get back to you....

Usually we dont make mistakes....unless rivaldo (who came on a free) is included...but the players we sell, are usually not mistakes...lets see...Bierhoff, Helveg, Coco...yup, Colo seems the biggest that I can recall...

The biggest mistake concerning Coloccini (imo) was that Milan didn't sell him much earlier. Years ago I think we had a 15m dollar offer for him, now we got 4m...

Redondo was probably the biggest mistake given his injuries, but hindsight is 20/20. Kluivert, Bogarde, Reitziger, Andersson rank high in my books too.

Bigger than getting Redondo ?

what happened to Redondo was something that couldn't be forseen and had nothing to do with him failing to make in the Serie A - both club and player were simply unlucky in Redondo's case. I honestly don't see how this could be considered a mistake in our transfer market.
As for Colo, I also think he should have been given more of a chance. All in all, I saw him as a very good defender who could definitely be part of Milan but don't think he possessed the skill/potential/talent to, one day, become a player of the calibre of Nesta, Maldini, young Bily, Stam. Moving to another club was possibly the best that could happen to Colo's career as for Milan, there are many, and inexpensive, defenders out there who are at least as good as Colo is or will ever be.

selling Patrick Veira looks like a bit of a mistake in hindsight.

Selling Coloccini was hardly a mistake in my opinion. He had his chances (not too many I had to admit, but that's our style. We can't afford that.), and he couldn't shine. I don't complain that we let him go. Maybe we could have earned a bit more, but money doesn't seem to be the priority in Milan family.

Our biggest mistakes in my opinion is we let Rijkaard go. I wonder whether we could have anything to keep him. He is a true champion and one that can single-handed carry a team to trophy. He was more important than MVB and Gullit.

Originally Posted by meazza

selling Patrick Veira looks like a bit of a mistake in hindsight.

agree. and possibly Davids too.
For the rest we more or less got our money back when we sold them or when we paid big bucks for a player, he usually performed up to expectations - I am not counting cases like Redondo or Lentini, whose Milan careers were negatively affected by some very serious injuries.

Originally Posted by Xudong

Our biggest mistakes in my opinion is we let Rijkaard go. I wonder whether we could have anything to keep him.

If I remember correctly, Rijkaard sensed that the time for a change had come and it was him who wanted to leave, not long after Sacchi. There is no reason to try to keep a player, who, for one reason or another, isn't happy at the club any more. Plus, fulfilling his wish was the least we could do for someone who had given so much to the club.

Originally Posted by Xudong

He is a true champion and one that can single-handed carry a team to trophy. He was more important than MVB and Gullit.

Sacchi said something quite similar to that when asked who was the most valuable and important player in his Milan.

Collocini, terrible!

Originally Posted by Roger Nolli

Collocini, terrible!

uffffff, this boring Coloccini... tonight how has he played? : some bad fouls as usual (another Ayala, maybe worst) Adriano made 2 goals,
but Colo missed one goal face to face with Dida,
he shut to the sky.
No way: no personality, no sense of position (he lost the beast when Cicinho crossed), an average defender, no regret!

Originally Posted by meazza

selling Patrick Veira looks like a bit of a mistake in hindsight.

I agree with this, I still don't think selling Davids was a mistake, he was pure trouble when he was at Milanello

Originally Posted by meazza

selling Patrick Veira looks like a bit of a mistake in hindsight.

We had to Vieira go, the bosman ruling was'nt out and our quota of foreigners was full, so we had to let the 17 yr old go.

What about letting desaily leave leave so early? he could have given us a few more extra years, maybe they had to, if he wanted to leave. and yes Christophe Duggary, what a waste. Same with Guly and Zenoni, he did'nt even play for us. lol

what about giovanni elber?! hes in the squad photo at the start of the 93/94 season and we let him go to grasshopper zurich.

we could have used him seeing as we only had massaro and savicevic in those days...