Summer Mercato

Varga, Amauri & Zapata would be ok asthey already play in Italy, besides soon Amauri gets Italian passport, but then I don't want him for Milan. Its a good chance Silva has Portugese passport as his brother plays for Benfica - Luazio.

Originally Posted by drucurl

rejuvenate our squad?? since when were we copying Juve

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Originally Posted by Tony75

Varga, Amauri & Zapata would be ok asthey already play in Italy, besides soon Amauri gets Italian passport, but then I don't want him for Milan. Its a good chance Silva has Portugese passport as his brother plays for Benfica - Luazio.

Drogba also holds an eu-passport (French passport)

As someone said we have 3 strikers that are valued at least 10m euro - they are Borriello, Oliveira, Gilardino.. Pozzi should also be worth 6m at least after some good performances.

However, none of these 4 are Milan quality. At least not yet. Borriello will not make it at Milan, but seeing as he is the top scorer of Serie A right now, he must have caught attention around Europe, he could be used as a bargain chip to get the ever-so-talented Amauri. Now that, is a player I'd love to have - however not for a crazy amount. Boriello + 5m is the max I would trade for Amauri. Straight cash, I'd say 14-16m euro.

Pozzi, I dont know bout this guy. He's too young, I say leave him on loan for one more season.

Oliveira? He's been so impressive with Zaragoza. He also is 26 so he has some good years ahead of him and he is about to get into his prime. He should be worth 15m. I say we send in a sneaky offer to Villareal of a straight swap with Giuseppe Rossi (who is class). Worth a try right?

Gilardino? How much longer are you guys planning on giving him? enough is enough.. Really. For his sake, Milan's sake, Serie A's and Italy's sake he needs to leave Milan. Im sure he'll play great if he goes elsewhere but what fault do we have? We gave him three years and he didn't do what we expected him to do. He has the best midfield in the world behind him but he always complains of 'lack of service'. Tell u the truth, it is the lack of his movement that makes you all think its the lack of service. Look at Pippo, he always has the ball in his feet and is always involved! Gila could be swapped for Frey, however I wouldn't mind having Kalac here as a starter. We need to offload Dida, his wages are way too high to be on the bench.

Who else we got... Pippo - keep him, we need him. Pato - is improving his game but I dont think he will be lifting Milan game after game like Sheva did just yet, he needs a good partner (Amauri amauri amauri). 2 other strikers should come in. Amauri and Rossi are my favourites but you never know.

I'd also love to get someone to give Kaka a rest. Di Natale is great but I dont know if he'll be ok with being benched. But then there is Morfeo who is an outcast at Parma and is such a good player. He wouldnt mind being benched I'm sure.

Brocchi is the only change I'd make in midfield, I'd instead bring an attacking midfielder, someone in the calibre of Van der Vaart. However this is unrealistic so I wouldn't talk about it.

In defense we will say good bye to Cafu, Maldini, Favalli and Serginho probably. We will most likely get Zambrotta (the most important deal, such a great player), and I hope we go for Vargas. I was never a fan of Kaladze but it would be unrealistic to replace him so I wont talk about it. A defence of Vargas(Janku) - Nesta - Kaladze(Bonera) - Zambrotta (Oddo) isn't so bad right? And then we can get one more young CB like Silva (that is rumoured), or Zapata (my pick). Zapata could take over Kaladze's starting spot easily..Oh yeah and we will also sign Ferrari I'm sure.


So in summary:
So the deals that will most likely happen as of today:
Ferrari, Zambrotta in
Ronaldo, Maldini, Cafu, Serginho, Favalli out

Realistically, we can go for these players:
Amauri, Vargas, Frey.

Would be nice to go for players like:
Zapata, Perez (Ajax) (can replace Kaka), Rossi, Hamsik, Lavezzi.

I was never confident of Milan buying any new players in the previous two seasons, but this summer I have a different feeling.

Don't compare Gila to Pippo, it's two kinds of strikers totally different ... Pippo creates (created) spaces whereas spaces have to been created for Gila.

I just watched Gila's goals when he was in Parma ... and he's right, almost all his goals were scored with at least 2 partners around him in the area and more behind him (so each time, he had more space). When you look the way Milan usually attacks, Gila is often alone in the area with 2-3 defensers around him and no partner. Like he's not a guy able to eliminate his opponents with his technical skills, he scores really less.

So, if Milan was attacking, not just with Pirlo-Seedorf-Kaka-Pato (he's often outside the area too) behind the area and Gila inside but with for example Pirlo-Seedorf behind Kaka-Pato-Gila, and more often Oddo or Janku running forward and putting good balls, I'm sure that Gila and Milan more generally would score many and many goals.

So all depends of what we want next year: a more offensive team so Gila must stay or the same kind of play we have this year and some of the last years and Gila must unfortunately leave for another club, hopefully in Italy.

Originally Posted by slicknick

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I can't believe I caught you with that joke Of course I know what "rejuvenate" means

Originally Posted by GeoTav

So all depends of what we want next year: a more offensive team so Gila must stay or the same kind of play we have this year and some of the last years and Gila must unfortunately leave for another club, hopefully in Italy.

I will say hopefully NOT in Italy so that he won't come back to haunt us like Borriello almost does -.-!

Milan: a defender arriving from Brazil


28.02.2008, 09:30
Milan moves in the market to renew their defence for next season: in addition to the increasingly likely return to Italy of Zambrotta, the club would have given a pre-contract to Alex Silva, the 22 year old central defender who has an expiring contract with San Paolo. The player, returned from a knee injury is 192 cm high, he is the younger brother of Luisao del Benfica. In Brazil the agreement is done.
(Tuttosport)

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If that's true and the move follows through, I can honestly say it's a pretty good signing. He has two caps for the brazilian national team and is not only a huge prospect but also one of the best brazilian CBs in activity. But isn't having Nesta, Kaladze, Bonera, Ferrari and Alex a bit too much?

Originally Posted by Kulspruta

But isn't having Nesta, Kaladze, Bonera, Ferrari and Alex a bit too much?

Kaladze can be moved to the left in janku position, while I don't regard ferrari in the same level with nesta, even with bonera. If Alex is that good, then it will be Nesta - Alex as our DC.

Originally Posted by drucurl

I can't believe I caught you with that joke Of course I know what "rejuvenate" means

Yeah, what can I say? You had me there...

Originally Posted by Jeff

I will say hopefully NOT in Italy so that he won't come back to haunt us like Borriello almost does -.-!

I explain you why i say that i hope he would leave, if he leaves (what i don't hope lol), in an Italian club: Serie A is still a good championship, if good players like him start to go abroad, to play (like Zambrotta-Cannavaro-Bianchi-Rossi-Grosso-Toni-Lucarelli do or did), it will reduce Serie A level ...

I just don't want to see a Serie A championship similar to the poor Ligue 1 with all the best players leaving France each year to go principally in England or Spain.
And excepted some guys, almost all the last Italian playing in other countries are bad: Cannavaro probably did 2-3 good matches since he is in Madrid (and he plays like in Madrid with national squad), Zambrotta made a mistake, Bianchi ... lol, Grosso plays because Lyon don't have very good players on the left but he doesn't play very well.

But wouldn't you prefer to see these guys playing in Italy ? G.Rossi or Toni too ?

So if Gila goes, I'd prefer him to go back in Parma, or in Napoli, this kind of club, why not Palermo, Fiorentina or Udinese, UEFA Cup clubs trying to qualify in CL.

My argument simply stems from the hope that he won't come back to haunt us. Or the majority of the people here will think that he doesn't have that capability anyway .

I wish him all the best. I read that he is leaving for Juventus in the summer (from goal.com); well not sure how willing the management is willing to let Gilardino go (because he is young), but I suppose that if Gilardino wants to leave, they can't stop him.

the issue is these transfers(zambrotta,alex silva,ferrari) are not official yet, so anything can happen. we dont even know if cafu,serginho,favalli are definitely leaving.

i have never seen amauri plays, but he does not score a lot of goals(the most he scored is 11 goals per season). so i dont know why we should buy him.

I couldn't be less excited by the prospect of signing a Roma reject for free and a Brazilian no one has heard of or has any idea about. Not quite the heights we should be aiming for.