Official: Gilardino to Fiorentina

And also ...
I know i shouldn't care if someone's attacking a Milan player, and normally i wouldn't care at all, but injustice is bothering me, a lot, and i know i have good arguments to defend Alberto Gilardino, so i'll give it a one last try to do so

1. People accuse him he was scoring most of his goals at Parma from penalty kicks.
- I think the stats above prove he wasn't. 51 goals on 69 matches in 3 seasons, and only 7 of those were from penalty kick.

2. Drucurl says Gila scored 17 goals in serie A last year mostly because opponents were concentrated on covering Shevchenko.
-What ?????
Ok, Ok ....even if that was the reason for his 17 goals ( only 1 of them from PK, btw) , i wanna ask why didn't Oliver Bierhoff, Jose Mari, Gianni Comandini , Filippo Inzaghi, John Dal Tomasson, Hernan Crespo or Christian Vieri score 17 goals in one season while playing at Milan ???????
They also had Sheva as their partner in attack.

3. Gila is no good this season. He hardly scored 8 goals on 24 matches.
- Fine, lets forget for a sec. that he's Milan's leading scorer this season.
In Roma-Milan topic i gave you some statistics.
There you can see Gila had 52 shots on/off target this year in serie A.
He needed 52 shots to score 8 goals.
It's not perfect, i agree. It means he needs 6.5 shots to score 1 goal.

Lets compare it with the other top guns.
Kaka needed 103 shots to score 5 goals ( 20.6 per goal)
Totti needed 149 shots to score 18 goals (8.27 per goal)
Toni needed 108 shots to score 15 goals (7.20 per goal)
Mutu needed 107 shots to score 13 goals (8.23 per goal)
Suazo needed 94 shots to score 9 goals (10.44 per goal)
Oliveira needed 58 shots to score 2 goals ( 29 per goal )
Ibra needed 90 shots to score 15 goals (6.00 per goal)

Only Ibra slightly better than Gila !
And now, of course You'll blame Gila again for not opening well enough so Kaka and co. will give him useful ball.
But how come he was opening good enough last year or the years before ?
Don't you think the problem maybe isn't with Gila but with the guys who need to provide him with chances ? Pirlo anyone ? Kaka with his 3 assists this year and missed shots from 30 metres, anyone ? Oliveira who'd prefer to shot on goal from 60 metres than assist Gila ?

Gilardino is just like Trezeguet or RVN. He depends on the midfield guys or the support striker.
If those guys do their job then Gila will score just like he did in previous years.
He got the ball 52 times and he scored 8 times. It's still a better average than Totti's and Toni's. If Gila had the chance to shot 108 times on goal, like Toni did, maybe Gila would have been leagues top scorer right now ? But he didn't had that chance because some teammates of his decided it's better if they try to score by themselves instead of giving the ball to the player who's responsibile for scoring the goals !

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