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Given all their recent defensive problems, i don't think i ever heard Mourinho talk about Alex. For me personally, i would have thought he might say something along the lines of "We have an ideal solution in Alex, but it's a pity we can't bring him in to solve our problems".

Because of Chelsea's power in the transfer market so many stories are made up, which makes it hard to tell fact from fiction. You might be right Tony, maybe Alex is a Chelsea player, but for some reason i don't believe it just yet. I guess we'll see this summer

Toni, I have also read those "rumours" about him being a Chelski player on loan to PSV ... in fact, we've discussed it here at MM many times already.
But as you diligently researched , Alex is more or less useless to Chelski as he doesn't have enough games for Brazil NT and this will make it impossible for him to get a work permit for England, unless he gets an English passport or a EU passport, I guess, which he doesn't have.

Furthermore, Dunga seems to have forgotten that he even exists because Alex is rarely if ever called up to the NT and with Lucio, Juan and the emerging Luisao (Benfica) and Adriano (Sevilla) before him in the pecking order, Alex is perfectly set to never get another game for brazil NT unless the coach is changed or he goes to a more prominent club and makes the CD role his own.

And as far as I know, the rules in England for a working permit say that that player has to have played in a certain percentage of games - it's a pretty high one, I think, like 70-80% or so - and he must have done so for the past 1-2 years ... not completely sure about these figures but the point is that even if Alex were to be called up to the NT now and he won a regular spot, he would still have to wait for quite some time before he'd be able to play for Chelski.

So, even if PSV don't get him and we have to deal with Chelski directly, a reasobale offer should be enough to land him as they don't really have much use of a player like Alex and it seems that won't change in the near future either.

That's why I see him as a very plausible alternative ...

Originally Posted by hishamilan

ii heard ninis has had several recent contacts from arsenal and he is close to sign pre contract

In Greece Ninis is called "the 42-days-life footballer ". How the hell he can have several contacts with Arsenal when he started playing professionally after New Year ?
Those are just false rumours you heard. Vardinoyannis ( PAO'S owner) even made him new contract 2 weeks ago,for 3 years.*

* , yes, i started following even Greek football !

Originally Posted by Tony29.

* , yes, i started following even Greek football !

you desperately wanna impress Moggi, don't ya?

Originally Posted by zlatanov

you desperately wanna impress Moggi, don't ya?

Looool !
Nah, i'm just trying to improve my Greek, and i'm doing much better than with Italian, thanx God.
It's not so hard, you may try to learn it also.
I bet the ladies in Bulgaria will like you even more when you'll say an "Agapo" to them
Papazlatanopulous

Originally Posted by zlatanov

Milan is about to say goodbye to Dida and the future belongs to the 21 yo Akinfeev from CSKA Moskow. Berlusconi could convince Buffon to leave Juve for Milan but at the same time he doesn;t want to spend too much money on a GK.

This rumor appeared on Calciomercato, which pretty much renders it meaningless. My favorite quote:

Originally Posted by zlatanov

Berlusconi could convince Buffon to leave Juve for Milan but at the same time he doesn't want to spend too much money on a GK.

Um, well, that kinda puts him in a pickle, doesn't it? You can't pay for a Ferrari with the financial equivalent of a Geo Metro. Methinks someone has short-arm-deep-pocket syndrome.

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

This rumor appeared on Calciomercato, which pretty much renders it meaningless.

Why does it render it meaningless if it appeared on Calciomercato?

They didn't invent this rumour, inventing rumours isn't what they do, all they do is collect rumours from other sources like radio, tv, newspapers, websites from across Europe and put them all in one place.

If it's meaningless on Calciomercato it must be meaningless on whichever source it came from originally (ControCompo i believe, whatever that is).

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Looool !
Nah, i'm just trying to improve my Greek, and i'm doing much better than with Italian, thanx God.
It's not so hard, you may try to learn it also.
I bet the ladies in Bulgaria will like you even more when you'll say an "Agapo" to them
Papazlatanopulous

HAHAHAHA! Nice try Tony!

Well that guy of Pao's is really good, but wait for a litle time because Olympiakos the bigest enemy of Pao(Panathinaikos) had also bought a young albanian player who as i read he is better than the guy of Pao's!
So better to wait and see.

And tony the phrase in greek to say "i love you" is "s'agapo",and to say "i love you very much" is "s'agapo poli".

BMWTaylor, please could you edit your custom title/message to Dida bashers under your username, as profanity is against forum rules.

Originally Posted by zlatanov

although even now he is left out in many games (same goes for his situation in Argentinian NT).

He isn't left out of any games, he would play almost all the time had he not been injuried.

But on Pato I agree, I would hope we could do something like we did with Kaka where we let him mature some years in Brazil. There is one other important factor, if we take him over early then it maybe that he loses his Brazilian identity as a player which may not be beneficial.

Originally Posted by rosoneri_11

And tony the phrase in greek to say "i love you" is "s'agapo",and to say "i love you very much" is "s'agapo poli".

hey, thanks for telling us the whole phrase
Good thing I didn't use Toni's 'cause that could have easily ruined a perfect evening

Originally Posted by zlatanov

hey, thanks for telling us the whole phrase
Good thing I didn't use Toni's 'cause that could have easily ruined a perfect evening

If you want to ask me more phrases, no problem to tell you.

Originally Posted by zlatanov

hey, thanks for telling us the whole phrase
Good thing I didn't use Toni's 'cause that could have easily ruined a perfect evening

It wouldn't have ruined anything
agapo is more of an international phrase and that's why i used it. Or agapw as it's said but no way a non-greek could have read it. I'm yet to hear an Englishman who says s'agapo...dunno why they find it so hard
And if you really wanna impress the girls in Plovdiv tell it in original σας αγαπώ, that will work

And lets get on topic for a change. Lets talk about the players Milan will buy in the summer. Everyone apart from Buffon can be discussed !!!
I'm using my mod powers and i'm forbidding Buffon to Milan discussions - period !

Originally Posted by Tony29.

I'm yet to hear an Englishman who says s'agapo...dunno why they find it so hard

I don't know why they'd want to say it, unless they were with a Greek partner and who says we'd find it so hard to say? What a stupid remark.

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

I don't know why they'd want to say it, unless they were with a Greek partner and who says we'd find it so hard to say? What a stupid remark.

I'm so sorry Jim.
I ment , i'm yet to hear some stranger in Greece who speaks English and says it like it is in the original. ( stranger who speaks english =foreigners who talk to greeks in english)
I spend at least 3 months of the year in Greece and all the foreigners there say agapo instead of s'agapo !
Sorry for the confussion i made :shameonme: