Biggest Mistake In The Transfer Market??

Good point Xudong, I had forgotten about Desailly. That was truely a bizarre transfer, we really needed good defenders at that point in time too.

davids was a mistake. he was not givin' playing time, and the coache(s) at the time did not give him any confidence either.......result? sold to juve, where he played, and was respected, thus become great.
bogard, kluivert, ziege, javi moreno, reizinger (sorry guys for my spelling) coloccini, roque jr. and among others were all flops, and have not heard of them since, except roque, and colo who are both young, and with national teams. viera, coco, ayala and davids, were all good prospects but were let go to premature, and were somewhat "mistakes". and all of them we still hear of, and are playing very well (except coco, injured).

Viera,Collocini,Dawids,Kluivert,Coco

I think we may be overlooking something that should be considered. No matter what success they have shown after the fact, is it fair to suggest that maybe these guys just were not right to play the "Milan" way??? I think two factors Milan looks in a player is one if they stand out clearly amongst other players. And two while being "standout" players, do they have the right mentality and even keeled ego to put the team above anything else. Having these two is a Milan must. While some players you folks here have mentioned clearly stood out above the rest of the pack, I think their ego was too big and troublesome for Milan to want. And for those who were willing to be team players, they really didnt stand out above our expectations i.e. Roque Jr and Brocchi and such.

Coloccini is a butcher Ayala left milan and became the best defender in Spain , Colo goes to spain and becomes another defender

collocini was soooo crap... but i agree we shouldve sold him when his price tag was higher

Originally Posted by zlatanov

what happened to Redondo was something that couldn't be forseen and had nothing to do with him failing to make in the Serie A - both club and player were simply unlucky in Redondo's case. I honestly don't see how this could be considered a mistake in our transfer market.

Actually Jean-Pierre Meerseman head of the medical department claimed he could have foreseen Redondo's injury. But back then they didn't test so thoroughly
in fact that particulary injury resulted that milanlab has been given the last and decesive word in any future transfer of milan and because of this the mistake won't be made again.

mistakes happen it's only a shame when you keep making the same mistake (for example inter)

colo was crap
soooooooooooooooo crap
he is not milan class.
he is one of best defenders in spain but italy he is the worst defender

Originally Posted by meazza

selling Patrick Veira looks like a bit of a mistake in hindsight.

I agree with meazza, Viera turned out a good player and leader for when king paolo was out but he wasn't that good at the time that was just Wengers skill of developing players (look at Henry)


Why you call yourself Meazza by the way? Didn't he play for Inter for the best part of his carrer??? he only played for milan in a few games because of injury.

In the last ten years I think Patrick Kluivert ranks up there as the biggest disappointment or 'mistake' if you like...however, mistake may not be the right word because based on his Ajax performances there was nothing to indiciate he would not shine with Milan...he was young, hungry, captivating and Dutch (Milan's experience with the Dutch players was not exactly shabby). I would say that bringing in that trio: Kluivert, Reizeger and Bogarde had to be the biggest disappointment in a long time: Bogarde made a horrible back pass to the keeper in one of his first games only to cause a goal...Reizeger never got the hang of "Italian defending" and Kluivert...most of us know what he did..or didn't do.
Javi Moreno was another disappointment given his goal scoring record in Spain however, we learned long ago that scoring in la Liga and scoring in Italy is NIGHT AND DAY. Kluivert came off of a CL Title ... he had proven himself on a 'grand scale'.
Keeper Lehman was another major blunder in 1998.

taibi
viera
ngotty
j.garcia
j.cesar
chamot
jose mari
ayala
bogarde
reizeger
kluivert
rui costa
inzaghi
kutuzov
javi moreno
contra
coluccini
stam(we lost champions and scudetto because of him)
kaladze
laursen
tonetto
giunti
de ascentis
graffiedi
lehmann
redondo
donati
dalla bona
davids

Originally Posted by shevaandkaka'

chamot
inzaghi
coluccini
stam(we lost champions and scudetto because of him)
kaladze
laursen

adding these guys in the list is ridiculous. infact many of those in your lists are mistakes but not the biggest mistake by us, Rui is worthy of a mention because he cost us so much, otherwise the list is borderline insanity.

keeping your list in mind, where is Umit Davala, another miserable player who played for us.

Originally Posted by shevaandkaka'

taibi
viera
ngotty
j.garcia
j.cesar
chamot
jose mari
ayala
bogarde
reizeger
kluivert
rui costa
inzaghi
kutuzov
javi moreno
contra
coluccini
stam(we lost champions and scudetto because of him)
kaladze
laursen
tonetto
giunti
de ascentis
graffiedi
lehmann
redondo
donati
dalla bona
davids

Isn't that a bit too harsh to put in this list this golden pair who brought us our No. 6?

That doesn't mean that I agree with the rest of your list, although most of them are indeed no-brainer.

What's more, this list of yours is more like a "list of players I (you) don't like", not exactly a "list of transfer mistake". For example, if we let go somebody who played really well, like Desailly, Rijkaard, that should definitely go into the list, but they obviously won't qualify yours.

Recent transfer blunders that come to mind are:

- Javi Moreno
- Redondo
- Jose Mari -- although I wish he was given more of a chance
- Lehman
- Laursen