Summer Mercato

i thought Belusconi was the sole owner of the club, why would there be shareholders?

Also i for one would prefer having Flamini to Brocchi and Emerson. Ambrosini was better last year when he was rotated with Gattuso. Its also a case that its better us having him, than us playing against him at Juve.

Originally Posted by _Ace

Dida isnt a GK's scale, no GK should be compared to him, for what he has done in the past 2 years, he doesnt even deserve being in Milan.

I am in complete agreement. After all, it's not every day that someone wins the Champions League (his second, no less), the Super Cup, and the CWC within less than six months of each other. He's definitely not of Milan quality.

The part that really bugs me about this whole thing is that Galliani never takes any responsibility for anything. I think I read it somewhere that he actually said something like "we have signed a lot of good players, but people just remember the busts better and therefore accuse us for being under achieving in the market." Looking back at the last three years, Pato had been the only good signing we made and yet Galliani can blame this whole thing on people simply "remember the bad signings better". He also makes it sounds like it was the investors' fault that he resigned all those 35 year olds for our team only to pay them to watch the game from the sidelines most of the season.

The point is, if we don't realize the mistakes we made in the past, we will never learn from it. If we never learn from our mistakes, we will never take the correct actions the next time around. What this management doing right now is burying their heads in the sand and never admitting any mistakes they have made. And because of that, we keep making the same mistakes over and over and over. If Galliani keep refusing to take on any responsibilities, we will never get back to running this team the right way.

After everything Gattuso... stops and breaths... has done for Milan

You purposely want to ship him off?

I've seen him play for Milan with a high fever, I've seen him play for Milan when 99% of all footballers world wide would have stayed in with popcorn for the match. He is the soul of what a footballer is.

He has played 261 games for the club. And he has scored 7 goals.

He is the best ball chaser the world has.

He has not lost pace.

He is a pitbull on the pitch. Some players when they get on the pitch and look him in the eyes... They play a bad game.

I've seen everything there is to see in this game. And I know with perfect clarity what Gennaro is. He is one hell of a man!!!!

FORZA RINO!!!

RESTA CON NOI PER SEMPRE

I'm surprised people would actually question the signing of Flamini. For free we could be signing what is currently one of the top DM's in the world at this point in time. At 24, he has at least 5 years at the top and would naturally succeed Rino and Ambro, both of who are 30+. I say succeed, but I wouldn't be in the slightest surprised if he was to come and take one of their spots.

Another interesting comment from Carlo in his pre-match interview yesterday. To quote:

Originally Posted by Carlo Ancelotti

However, Gattuso is not for sale, full stop: he will remain at Milan, willingly or unwillingly. No one has the soul which Gattuso puts in the game, he’s unchangeable , but Diarra has characteristics to play in any big team.

Not sure what to make of it, but it appears he's a fan of Diarra, another alternative for DM. I'm surprised there's been no mention of it anywhere.

As for the usual rumours, the ever reliable goal.com is in overdrive with this list of targets:

Alex of San Paolo
Sidney Rachel of Internacional Porto Alegre
Hernanes of San Paolo
Fernandinho of Shakhtar Donetsk
Eduardo of Gremio
Lloris of Nice
Benzema of Lyon

Originally Posted by Graeme C

i thought Belusconi was the sole owner of the club, why would there be shareholders?

I believe Berlu owns majority shares of the club, but not all.

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

I am in complete agreement. After all, it's not every day that someone wins the Champions League (his second, no less), the Super Cup, and the CWC within less than six months of each other. He's definitely not of Milan quality.

Brocchi won it too. Ba won the CWC.Cesar form inter won Scudetto last year, and probably will this year. Javier Balboa is winning his secont Primera title in a row. So?

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

I am in complete agreement. After all, it's not every day that someone wins the Champions League (his second, no less), the Super Cup, and the CWC within less than six months of each other. He's definitely not of Milan quality.

We won them despite Dida. After two minutes we were 1-0 down at Old Trafford. If Kakà wasn't at his best, we would have blown that cup.

He made us get 2 goals against Bayern in Milan after totally dominating a match. The team played a perfect match in the second leg and once again Dida's howlers didn't cost us the title.

Against Siviglia we were 1-0 down after Dida's howler and if the team weren't on fire, we would have lost that cup.

In Yokohama Gattuso publicly shouted at him cause of his dodgy catches. Once again, lucky Dida was saved by Fortune.

Now, we must thank Dida for all this. If it weren't for him, how dull our campaing would have been... No heart attacks on every corner. No strokes on every shot.

either we get flamini or diarra or both ( never none of them ) .... we must look for the remaining 3 positions which needs strenthening ... i think that if maldini continues next season + bonera + darmian as benchers we will not have problems in the CB ... now let's look a little bit at our full backs ... since it is quite agreeable that dida sucks and that he is leaving we will get a new GK starter .. possible candidates are : lloris pele frey amelia ... i urge cafu favalli serginho to leave and so we are left with oddo ( always drunk and unstable ) and jankulovski ( recently injury-prone) so we must get 2 new starters ... reasonable candidates are : zammbrotta desilvestry serna adriano(sevilla) and pasqual .... then if we get any two it costs about 15-20 mils only ... then the front man issue cancelotti has insisted that we need a powerfully strong and tall striker like toni due to the faliure of gila and inzaghi to do that role ... posibble candidates are : gomez huntelaar berbatov adriano kuranyi llorente and favergue ... these are all names linked to us this year and past years + some players i propose. then finally
a cobination of ( frey zammbrotta adriano huntelaar ) will be great for 40 mils and through selling dida brocci gila we get 10 mils and so galliani will be happy and so will i

Almost unbelievable turn of events, if reports from Spain are to be believed!! (Channel4.com)

We decide not to pay a cent more than 10M pounds for R10....

If true.....it cause serious repercussions throughout European football....if it goes as far as it seems it might....with the threat of article 17 in the air...

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Almost unbelievable turn of events, if reports from Spain are to be believed!! (Channel4.com)

We decide not to pay a cent more than 10M pounds for R10....

If true.....it cause serious repercussions throughout European football....if it goes as far as it seems it might....with the threat of article 17 in the air...

It's not going to happen. 100% sure. Milan has some class and relationships with Barca are more than amicable. We're not going to use the art. 17 rule and we are the least likely club to use that clause, as our heritage and class confirm. You can be sure about that.

gattusso WILL stay everybody .... congratulations

I dunno Gio...by halving our original offer, it seems we are invoking the article in all but name.....fine line there....

Let's see...

Actually, if Dinho does come for 10 million pounds or 12.5 million euros and Oliveira gets sold for 10 million euros, Dinho real price would be 17.5 million euros and Johan Vogel or ~20 million euros. It is still a big amount for a has-been.

Either way, I am pro-Dinho because he will at least bring fans back to the stadium and will sell numerous shirts.

Why does everyone assume the new figures printed are true? This is all speculation.