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...

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

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...

After last nights performance in the finals of the Confed Cup...I retract my statement above completely! (well the part about Colo anyway)

While Roque Junior (against crappy Argentine forwards) looked impressive, and had the even more impressive Lucio in support, Coloccini was out of position, tackled poorly, conceded unnecessary freekicks, and was just plain and simple: AWFUL....wouldnt want him back in Milan at all.

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.

Originally Posted by zlatanov

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.

Actually Jean-Pierre Meerseman head of the medical department claimed he could have foreseen Redondo's injury. But back then they didn't test so thoroughly
in fact that particulary injury resulted that milanlab has been given the last and decesive word in any future transfer of milan and because of this the mistake won't be made again.

mistakes happen it's only a shame when you keep making the same mistake (for example inter)

colo was crap
soooooooooooooooo crap
he is not milan class.
he is one of best defenders in spain but italy he is the worst defender

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

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 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

Originally Posted by meazza

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

I agree with meazza, Viera turned out a good player and leader for when king paolo was out but he wasn't that good at the time that was just Wengers skill of developing players (look at Henry)


Why you call yourself Meazza by the way? Didn't he play for Inter for the best part of his carrer??? he only played for milan in a few games because of injury.

In the last ten years I think Patrick Kluivert ranks up there as the biggest disappointment or 'mistake' if you like...however, mistake may not be the right word because based on his Ajax performances there was nothing to indiciate he would not shine with Milan...he was young, hungry, captivating and Dutch (Milan's experience with the Dutch players was not exactly shabby). I would say that bringing in that trio: Kluivert, Reizeger and Bogarde had to be the biggest disappointment in a long time: Bogarde made a horrible back pass to the keeper in one of his first games only to cause a goal...Reizeger never got the hang of "Italian defending" and Kluivert...most of us know what he did..or didn't do.
Javi Moreno was another disappointment given his goal scoring record in Spain however, we learned long ago that scoring in la Liga and scoring in Italy is NIGHT AND DAY. Kluivert came off of a CL Title ... he had proven himself on a 'grand scale'.
Keeper Lehman was another major blunder in 1998.