Banter 2009/2010

Originally Posted by Milano84

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For the German press rafinha has an agreement with Milan

rimbalzava this morning a voice insistent by Germany, rafinha has signed with Milan. At the moment there are findings official, but the player doesn't want know nothing more of Schalke, In the House to each lot shall be attracted booed just touches ball, the player to be at least three months has given a mandate to its prosecutor to find him a team as soon as possible, want to change air already from January magath and also now knows and does nothing to keep secret. The Milan has in hand this strong back Brazilian, be curious meanwhile see if the coach German tonight in big match Schalke-Wolfsburg it will employ the beginning.

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It's no secret he wont be w/ schalke next year. After the olympic fine, he's basically let it be known he'll article 17 next summer. So schalke may sell him in january just to recoup anything


Edit: Does anyone know if he has an EU passport, i heard he does, nonreliable though. If he does we can sign hernanes too which goal.com and TMW are claiming we r gonna

According to footballdatabase.com, Rafinha doesn't have an EU-pass.

I for one, wouldn't have a problem with us signing Rafinha. He's obviously not a superstar just yet, and he might not ever become one, but I think that Maicon and Cafu has proved that scouting a full back is tricky buisness, so he might just become one.

Also about Robinho, he's a great player no doubt, and he'd be a bit of a dream in Milan. But I think you'd have to look for a LONG time if you wanted to find a player who's made worse choices in his carrier than Robinho. First he goes to Real Madrid, which is obviously a nightmare for any up and coming player (Higuain???), and also seems like it's run by total amatuers (I know everyone hates Galliani, but give him the budget Real Madrid has used the last couple off years and we'd defending champions in the CL). After that he chose Manchester City, which for one is in England, where his type of offensive player don't really have a huge history off succes. Also since he's arrived they've bought 4(!!!) additional attackers, which seems to be a bit much since Robinho prefers to play the second striker in a two man attack. Which seems dumb, and honostly, they might be doing good now, but they seriously seem to lack a plan like we did back in 1987(?), since they just seem to purchase everyone they can get their hands on.

Also about the big contracts. There are some really dumb ones, but then again, it's easy to say that in retrospective. Who here thinks that Barcelona would be stupid to renew with Xavi or Puyol? Or perhaps Henry? Who knows, perhaps Puyol would go and play like Seedorf did last season, or Dida did two seasons ago for Barcelona next season if he renewed. It's only natural for older players to get bigger contrascts than youngers ones. It's like that in every club. And since our transfer budget has been close to zero since 2003 or something, it's only natural that our older players would require more wages. It's fair to critize this approach ofcourse, but don't forget that we've had some good cases in Jaap Stam and Cafu for eksampel.

edit: This is turning out to be a bit of a long post, but I just had to ask. Brasileiro I'm just really curious how Adriano (The striker) is doing in Brazil? Not that I think that we should sign him or anything, I just remember reading that he was doing quite good, and I'm curious about how he's actually doing.