Official: Gilardino to Fiorentina

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Icculus, Gila isn't the type of striker who has great technique or the ability to blast past defenders, he's a pure target man. Basically, he's the type of player that will always be available as an option up front when the midfield moves forward. He has good ability to hold the ball up for others to join him in attack and lay it off for people running through from deep. This when he's played well this season he has done superbly much to the advantage of players like Kaka

What more can I say in this regard?? You have already said what I am complaining about. Not because you're a target man means that your techinque shouldn't be great... Look at RVN and Trezuget...they have amazing technique. Why should we settle for a target man with poor technique???

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Firstly, Pippo scored 17 in the season where most of the time he played alone up front, and after Sheva's return his form dropped. However, you could have pointed out Sheva developed his more supporting role after that season to validate your point about how Sheva worked well with Gila

I was responding to the claim that Gila and Sheva were the ONLY strikers to score 17...thanks for backing me up Inzaghi's form didn't drop after Sheva returned...he got injured and we were experimenting with Crespo after that

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

You can't say Kaka is allowed to miss easy chances. I'll be the first to say Kaka is argubly our most important player this season, but to say he's allowed to fail is ridiculous. Kaka has to deliver, and this season though he's excellent, he hasn't provided for forwards as much as he did before. I personally think this lies in other areas of the pitch, and the lack of options Kaka gets when moving forward. Gila when playing is often isolated and marked up front, so how is Kaka supposed to provide?

Of course Kaka is allowed to make mistakes, because as was pointed out earlier his bad is vastly outweighed by the good. Out of all his attempts of necessity most will fail however the good attempts more than compensate. In a similar way, if Maldini or Nesta make a mistake, I'd view it less seriously than if one of our young defenders like Bonera did....Simply because those two have been saving us ever since...and their shortcommings are made insignificant by their contribution.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Also, I don't see precisely what Gila said wrong after missing the penalty. To say he'd take it again takes a lot of courage and that time more than ever he needed to show some backbone, because otherwise he'd get eaten alive

I can't remember exactly the way he said it....but I got the impression that he said and meant that he would do it again exactly the same way. This is insensitive to the fans IMO, because if the shot was saved, surely if it was taken differently another result might have occurred. And this false confidence doesn't fool anyone either....Everyone knows Gila is low on it right now.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Gila may have had more chances to shoot this year and maybe should have, but that doesn't mean the service to him has been good. For a player who requires decent supply of the ball, he's had very little options as often he's been left up front to fight by himself. He's also good with scoring from crosses, which quite frankly on the whole have been atrocious this season.

Again I refuse to blame the whole team for ONE player. Milan have always been playing the ball through the center. If this doesn't suit Gila's game, why should we force the team to play differently from the style that got us a scudetto a CL and a CL final?????

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Seedorf is picked ahead of Gourcuff due to experience and strength he has, this to me seems pretty evident. Carlo plays those who are physically stronger alongside Pirlo to protect him, and aim to give him more freedom.

Playing one striker has a simple reason behind it, our strikers don't forge good partnerships together. Pippo-Gila was tried and completely failed, Gila-Oliveira showed a little promise, but Oliveira simply isn't a supporting forward, same with R99-Oli and Gila-R99 is a partnership between two forwards who play completely different games, it's a case of chalk and cheese.

Oh and just to add, I'm not saying Gila's performances have been good this season. Mostly, he's been poor by his standards, though when he shines he has done very well. He needs a lot more help up front to provide on a regular basis.

To say that Ronaldo Oli doesn't work is amazing since Ronaldo has just reached and though neither scored in the Atalanta game, Milan looked more dangerous than we ever did for a long time. Also don't forget the Ronaldo-Oli-Kaka game where all three scored.

I can't imagine why you would even bother to defend Carlo's tactics of late, when the president sometimes has to force him to change them, for the good of the team. I'm not saying that Seedofr is better than Gorcudd or the converse, just that certain changes appear necessary to our team in order to succeed