Winter Mercato

I would have edited my previous post but this is completely different...... :

Guys, what happened to Barusso from Rimini ? I mean what happened so he didn't end up in Milan but in Roma. I thought he was a done deal ?

I was reading Lippis comments about this year mercato and he said this for Roma :
“I’d say in terms of quality there is no change. They also signed players like Ludovic Giuly, Mauro Esposito and Ahmed Barusso, who left me open mouthed when I saw him play for Rimini in Serie B.”

Usually Lippi has the nose for good players so i trust him on this that Barusso is a very good player. What happened so Milan didn't buy him ?

Thanx

Tony all I heard was we had first refual on him, but then god knows what happened. Then again Roma is a feeders club, when hes ready they'l let him go.

I believe we will perform usual performance by Milan standard this season despite our slow pre season starts. We all can see against Sevilla on August 26.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

I would have edited my previous post but this is completely different...... :

Guys, what happened to Barusso from Rimini ? I mean what happened so he didn't end up in Milan but in Roma. I thought he was a done deal ?

I was reading Lippis comments about this year mercato and he said this for Roma :
“I’d say in terms of quality there is no change. They also signed players like Ludovic Giuly, Mauro Esposito and Ahmed Barusso, who left me open mouthed when I saw him play for Rimini in Serie B.”

Usually Lippi has the nose for good players so i trust him on this that Barusso is a very good player. What happened so Milan didn't buy him ?

Thanx

Barusso had a very serious injury at the beginning of last season and after 8 games for Rimini, his season was practically over - he broke both the fibula and tibia of one of his legs, I believe - and despite the assertions by doctors that the bones had healed well, it proved to be enough for Milan to pull out of a virtually done deal - as mentioned, Milan had first refusal on him, in the words of Rimini's president, who said that Milan's interest in the player had gradually diminished after the injury.

Still, Roma bought only half of Barusso - although Rimini wanted to sell the whole 100% of the player's rights - and it seems even they had doubts about him.
Should he turn out to be something really special, I would expect Milan to be first in line for the other half of Barusso's playing rights given the close relations with Rimini.

Originally Posted by Mehdi

And? I told you Milan got exactly what they deserved, -8 points. Unlike you I accept our punishment for our part in this scandal. Meani was a nobody at the club, he was already gone before the Calciopoli scandal broke.

There is nothing called Milan got exactly what they deserved, -8 poits,they cheated like Juve, Firontena, Lazio and Regena,so they must be heavily punished not because of there role but because of sending some weaker Seria A sides to second division, and for destroying the league reputation.
I am a Milan fan though I am in the opinion that Milan get away with what they did, I was againest sending Juve to Seria B unless other convicted teams are also send with it, otherwise only make them all start with Minus.
I know I may get killed for that, but again its the truth, may be you cant see it because you really love Milan and really hate Juve while, I in the contrary love both teams and just prefer one team(Milan) on another.
So take it easy and please dont kill me .

Originally Posted by zlatanov

Barusso had a very serious injury at the beginning of last season and after 8 games for Rimini, his season was practically over - he broke both the fibula and tibia of one of his legs, I believe - and despite the assertions by doctors that the bones had healed well, it proved to be enough for Milan to pull out of a virtually done deal - as mentioned, Milan had first refusal on him, in the words of Rimini's president, who said that Milan's interest in the player had gradually diminished after the injury.

Still, Roma bought only half of Barusso - although Rimini wanted to sell the whole 100% of the player's rights - and it seems even they had doubts about him.
Should he turn out to be something really special, I would expect Milan to be first in line for the other half of Barusso's playing rights given the close relations with Rimini.

Aha, this explains everything.
Milan decided to play secure even if they may pay 5 times more than they would have. Then again, maybe you saved few million E.

Dunno how smart was that. Given the fact that you have a world class starting XI you were in position to experiment and take the risk.
But like i always say - Galliani knows better than we do. I guess everything was well calculated when you decided to let him go somewhere else.

ok2 . . .
anyone here ever watched Digao at Rimini ? how many times did he play ? was he in the first team ? how was he ? actually, he has good physical & maybe good in aerial ability . . .
about ibrahim Ba ( iBou ) where did he play last season ? is he still 'good' now ? maybe he can cover brocchi`s position . . .

Today's Gazzetta:

- Due to the unconvincing displays of Gourcuff in particular and Milan generally, Milan are looking for some more additions. And the name...? Ronaldinho.

- On Milan channel Galliani was asked if more reinforcements would arrive, and he responded with "I prefer not to comment on that" rather than a categorical "no".

- Baptista is a name being thrown around again.

- The players who looked very good in pre-season are Brocchi, Bonera, and Kaladze.

i watchd the lyon match yesterday against auxere...........reallyy good young player they have......ben harfa..he is only 20 yrs old...really good player but i dont know y our managment never really buys any players from france..

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Today's Gazzetta:

- Due to the unconvincing displays of Gourcuff in particular and Milan generally, Milan are looking for some more additions. And the name...? Ronaldinho.

- On Milan channel Galliani was asked if more reinforcements would arrive, and he responded with "I prefer not to comment on that" rather than a categorical "no".

- Baptista is a name being thrown around again.

- The players who looked very good in pre-season are Brocchi, Bonera, and Kaladze.

I REALLY doubt getting someone of Ronaldinho's calibre would depend on whether Gourcuff was playing well or not. Poor Gourcuff is played in a different position like every match..is probably confused as to his role on the field. I still think he'll come good though.

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Today's Gazzetta:


- On Milan channel Galliani was asked if more reinforcements would arrive, and he responded with "I prefer not to comment on that" rather than a categorical "no".

He can't say "no", because everyone knows it would be a lie. Common sense tells you we're not done with the transfer market. Before the transfer market even started, team management stated ad nauseum about how the team would get a player to solidify their attack. Who did they get? A (promising) 17 year old who can't even play until January. Meanwhile, they loan out RO making our attack even weaker than it already was and, coupled with the Inzaghi, R99 and Gila injuries, there's virtually nothing left. At the very least, you have to assume that we still haven't signed ROs replacement yet.


It very likely won't be a superstar like R10 or Eto'o, but Baptista certainly fits the bill.

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Today's Gazzetta:

- Due to the unconvincing displays of Gourcuff in particular and Milan generally, Milan are looking for some more additions. And the name...? Ronaldinho.

- On Milan channel Galliani was asked if more reinforcements would arrive, and he responded with "I prefer not to comment on that" rather than a categorical "no".

- Baptista is a name being thrown around again.

- The players who looked very good in pre-season are Brocchi, Bonera, and Kaladze.

Yay hopes of ronaldinho have been regained,hopefully we do infact get him finally and thankfully, him kaka and ronaldo is probly better then van basten gullit and rijkaard of our old milan!

Originally Posted by Russo-Neri

He can't say "no", because everyone knows it would be a lie. Common sense tells you we're not done with the transfer market. Before the transfer market even started, team management stated ad nauseum about how the team would get a player to solidify their attack. Who did they get? A (promising) 17 year old who can't even play until January. Meanwhile, they loan out RO making our attack even weaker than it already was and, coupled with the Inzaghi, R99 and Gila injuries, there's virtually nothing left. At the very least, you have to assume that we still haven't signed ROs replacement yet.


It very likely won't be a superstar like R10 or Eto'o, but Baptista certainly fits the bill.

Very good post, I agree though, if it is a superstar we should me over greatful, but more realisticly it would be someone like Baptista or an lb/midfielder, let's hope for ronaldinho though.

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Today's Gazzetta:

- Due to the unconvincing displays of Gourcuff in particular and Milan generally, Milan are looking for some more additions. And the name...? Ronaldinho.

- On Milan channel Galliani was asked if more reinforcements would arrive, and he responded with "I prefer not to comment on that" rather than a categorical "no".

- Baptista is a name being thrown around again.

- The players who looked very good in pre-season are Brocchi, Bonera, and Kaladze.

yeah, gazzetta is again making sense - our back-up midfielder is (supposedly) not convincing so let's go buy us the most sought-after and expensive player out there

I have to say I was quite pleased with what Gorky showed vs PSV - couldn't watch the Loko M game so I can't comment on that - but how is a young player like Gorky, who as Mystik said, is probably still confused about his role on the field, and who is given opportunities that can be counted on the fingers of one hand, settle in and show what he is capable of in 1 pre-season game and a couple of training sessions?

It's wuite obvious IMO that how Gorky performs or not is irrelevent to whether we go for reinforcements as we simply need them given that the squad currently has 23 players (not counting Digao and Ba and all the youngsters like Wily, Darmian etc)

P.S. thanls for the updates, Hasan ... I am sure they gave hope to many of MM's more impatient members

Yeah you can put the spotlight on me if you wana talk about impatient members, I was hoping for 4-5 great players to come in and so far only one, can't say I'm not disappointed but getting ronaldinho counts the same, so I'd be happy with that too, doubt we'll get him though, still, Barca is too packed with talents and they must be expecting to win all cups next year if they hope to keep them all. I hope one of either Zambrotta or Ronaldinho come to milan, if not, we're probly ending up with "The Beast" as a temporary forward (I hope) until January where Pato will be good to go. Then of course Baptista could be ideal for UCL since i don't think pato can play since hes starting in jan?