Milan-Catania 30/09/2007

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Juve did get rid of the "old wood" as you call them, but imo, Moggi would have already got rid of at least 2 of Canna, Thuram and Emerson and he would have replaced them with much better players than Almiron, Criscito or Andrade are.
But what about losing the other players ?

A pearl such as Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Goal machine and top assist man of last year - Adrian Mutu

These two were big losses.

Imo still the best full back - Gianluca Zambrotta

Maicon, Oddo, Jankulovski and Alves are all better.

Imo still the best DM - Patrick Vieira

Gattuso is the best DM in the World and Vieira has been plagued by injuries.

If you get relegated it won't be the best thing that happened to Milan. Yeah, you'll get rid of Cafu, Favalli, Serginho, Simic and few more but you can count on losing Kaka, Ronaldo, Nesta and maybe even Pirlo and Gattuso.
You think your youth players Pozzi, Marzoratti, Di Genarro and Aubameyang can replace them ?
You think Milan fans can live 2/3/4 years without CL ?

You want a wake-up call for Berlu but it can be done without a shock called relegation, even without missing out on CL. 4th place in serie A and early CL elimination would be enough.

I said maybe we need this sort of crisis to force the board into action i.e. relegation in Juve's case or as in the case of Bayern missing out on a Champions League place. Obviously I'm not calling for relegation!