Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

Indeed. Beckham alone made Madrid something like £315 million in the time he was there and i suspect Ronaldo's figure was probably something equally mind blowing.

Yip....all the R9 Real Madrid Jerseys are sold out in Trinidad....Ronaldinho would be an equally massive cash cow...however therein lies a tale......Ronaldo has in effect inflicted massive blows to Nike by enriching their sponsor......could you imagine the backlash if Ronaldinho begins to sell Adidas jerseys...it would be scandalous....I doubt Nike would EVER consider letting their posterboy wear the brand of their biggest rival every week

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

Seeing as how my point was seemingly dismantled by your annoyance of having to 'dig' up old facts again Zlatanov. Lets see how well our squad copes if Kaka has a major injury. After all, he was the one main reason, if not THE reason, we got to the CL final. So Sant can sit there saying where was Lugano, Torres, etc, on the date of the final, but where would our players be if it wasn't for Kaka?

I still stand by my point that when compared to ours, Man Utd's squad is more capable of coping with losses to big name players. Which will be strengthened further if they secure Tevez.

What have we done to strengthen our squad? We signed Ba. A player who was hopeless at our club the first time around, so goodness knows what we can expect from him now. However, maybe he will surprise me and i will say good for him if he does.

The point though is while many here expressed their doubts over the form of Serginho & Cafu as they get older and come back from injury, as Inzaghi & Ambrosini carry on spending more time injured than playing football and with Ronaldo still being a bit of an unknown quantity, where the reinforcements that we need? This goes without mentioning the poor performances players offered last season, most notably Gilardino & Seedorf (and where the Dutchman's concerned, i'm sorry but a handful of decent games in an entire season should not justify his place in the starting 11).

I find it difficult to believe our squad is strong enough to compete successfully on multiple fronts. Not strengthening only wastes the peak years of the star players we do have.

Originally Posted by drucurl

Yip....all the R9 Real Madrid Jerseys are sold out in Trinidad....Ronaldinho would be an equally massive cash cow...however therein lies a tale......Ronaldo has in effect inflicted massive blows to Nike by enriching their sponsor......could you imagine the backlash if Ronaldinho begins to sell Adidas jerseys...it would be scandalous....I doubt Nike would EVER consider letting their posterboy wear the brand of their biggest rival every week

Well our deal does run out with Adidas next year - maybe they have come up with some sort of agreement with Nike. If Nike get to sponser Milan next year then R10 can be ours. After reading the R10 article on Channel 4 I have a feeling Laporta & Berlusconi might be working together - this way Laporta wont get terrorised by the Barca fans.

Originally Posted by Bosniaco

Gettting JB is like another RO Scenario. Avrage player for fricken 15 mil thats horse****. Get Rossi for 10 mil and he is only 20 yrs old.

I completely agree with you. £10 mill for rossi is better than spending £15 on Baptista. Another Brazilian who is unproven in Italy.

£84 million on Ronaldinho is such a waste. I could reinforce the squad for less than £40. £84 mill on 1 player doesnt guarantee us winnning anything.

Originally Posted by MedellínBandit®

Well our deal does run out with Adidas next year - maybe they have come up with some sort of agreement with Nike. If Nike get to sponser Milan next year then R10 can be ours. After reading the R10 article on Channel 4 I have a feeling Laporta & Berlusconi might be working together - this way Laporta wont get terrorised by the Barca fans.

i like our adidas sponcer stuff. Kaka is a adidas boy, cant see them being to happy if we get nike in a couple of years. So it works both ways.

I could be wrong, but I am pretty certain that Nike did a bunch of ads with Ronaldo in the build-up to the World Cup. Ronaldo wore Adidas at Real, and he wears Adidas now.

I know the Brazilian national team wears Nike, so maybe it's a different degree of rights at club level. I am honestly just speculating.

Milan have been with Adidas and will continue with Adidas. They will not change to Nike just to get Ronaldinho, it doesn't make sense. If they were crazy enough to do that, then by your guys' logic is that Kaka might be pushed out of Milan because he is sponsored by Adidas.

Ronaldinho's first comments in a long time were just saying he is happy with the new arrivals and wants to play with them next year. He mentioned nothing about Milan. Milan have a good relationship with Ronaldinho's agent, so if they were to go for the buy-out clause then they would probably know in advance that he is going to accept. The fact the Milan are still trying for Ronaldinho shows that Ronaldinho wants Milan (because his agent has probably told our management). What they are trying to work out is how to deal with Barca, and how to save face for Laporta and Ronaldinho if he leaves.

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

I could be wrong, but I am pretty certain that Nike did a bunch of ads with Ronaldo in the build-up to the World Cup. Ronaldo wore Adidas at Real, and he wears Adidas now.

I know the Brazilian national team wears Nike, so maybe it's a different degree of rights at club level. I am honestly just speculating.

I know this but the main jersey that fans buy are the club jerseys.... Adidas ws able to profit from this because Real is sponsored by Adidas however I think nike still collects a commission for their players and vice versa

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

I could be wrong, but I am pretty certain that Nike did a bunch of ads with Ronaldo in the build-up to the World Cup.

Yep, it was that idiotic "Joga Bonito" ad campaign, which soon had Nike wiping the egg off their faces after Brazil (and Ronaldo) crashed and burned in last year's WC.

lets keep to the fact:

-milan will always wear adidas. our golden boy will always wear adidas. (if not at milan perhaps in 3years at real)

-spending 84mil pounds on R10 is a waste, because berlu could buy 5 players that could REALLy strenghten our team up.

and BTW i like schweinsteiger more then R10, he fights, got amazing shot, dribbels, team player, he defence 2.
the new KAMPSCHWEIN (marc wilmots)

-and we won't sign major signings this year (like every year)

Originally Posted by prifess

lets keep to the fact:

-milan will always wear adidas. our golden boy will always wear adidas. (if not at milan perhaps in 3years at real)

-spending 84mil pounds on R10 is a waste, because berlu could buy 5 players that could REALLy strenghten our team up.

and BTW i like schweinsteiger more then R10, he fights, got amazing shot, dribbels, team player, he defence 2.
the new KAMPSCHWEIN (marc wilmots)

-and we won't sign major signings this year (like every year)

Great summary.
I agree with you on every point, except for Schweini.
But that's more a personal thing I guess.


Any news regarding any of our targets?

Originally Posted by prifess

lets keep to the fact:

-milan will always wear adidas. our golden boy will always wear adidas. (if not at milan perhaps in 3years at real)

-spending 84mil pounds on R10 is a waste, because berlu could buy 5 players that could REALLy strenghten our team up.

and BTW i like schweinsteiger more then R10, he fights, got amazing shot, dribbels, team player, he defence 2.
the new KAMPSCHWEIN (marc wilmots)

-and we won't sign major signings this year (like every year)

I disagree on every point except point two. And even the agreement there is not that strong.

no not really
baptista, r10, pato and Quagliarella

no defender is comming seems to me :|

and btw what has every1 against baptista? he is good for a rotation scheme IMHO.
what if ronaldo is injured? we only got inzaghi then because it will be rondalo +gila in attack. baptista can play AMC and STRIKER so what is problem. rossi won't come, he would like to go to parma.

Looks like the Ronaldinho rumors are back at full blast, hopefully this time a deal falls through and we finally sign him.

on this forum their are 2 kinds of persons

1) u like everything the board does, even when they aren't buying anything and therefore destroying and not securing the future of the club

2) players that want the best for milan. that disagree on a certain level. persons like me that want to stand up and tell berlu, galliani they doing the wrong things...
i don't want to say they are incomptetent because berluc has saved us many times. just perhaps a new fresh person in the board should rise and stand up to take some new discissions.