Summer Mercato

"I have never hidden my desire to remain at Real Madrid, but if they negotiate something concrete, then I would have not problems in leaving," Robinho said.

Music to my ears

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

"I have never hidden my desire to remain at Real Madrid, but if they negotiate something concrete, then I would have not problems in leaving," Robinho said.

Music to my ears

Even if he is put on sale, can we possibly compete with the likes of Chelsea and Man Utd.?

Originally Posted by Jeff

Gosh, I really wish there are some scientific study that shows that age is not a correlate with soccer performance...

That would be nice.

If you are good enough you are old or young enough to play, this goes for both extremely young and old players. The problem with age is that you lose your physical ability, some players sooner than others. With our lack of quality depth in our squad this was highlighted all too easily when our players tired quickly for playing too many games. That and a lack of hunger for winning....

Flam and Zam are two quality signings so far by the bald one, now if he could get us Frey, Zapata, Vargas (he's not gone yet right?) and a quality striker he's easily done better than he's done in the past 5 years. Alas though I'm disappointed by his comments about not wanting to spend much due to not being in CL...

Maybe Milan will try to sign Robinho if they decide Barca will not lower the price for ronaldinho, its possible. But I REALLy hope that Roinaldinho will end up in Milan, we need to do everything we can to make that happen. You cant forget how to play football and its obvious Dinho only needs two months of preparations and he'll be playing well again. And when he plays well you can defend all you want, it wont help

Also my fear is that we will not sign another GK and that would be simply a huge mistake.

Originally Posted by MLM

like Galiani said we have Kalac, Dida, Fiori and would like to bring back Abiatti from his adventure.

Fiori is finally gone, praise the Lord above. Having Kalac and Abbiati on the roster, though, is a head-thumper in itself.

Please, no Robinho. He would not fit into this system.

Originally Posted by vivardo

Even if he is put on sale, can we possibly compete with the likes of Chelsea and Man Utd.?

Sure they have more money(or intention) to spend, but when the subject is brazilian players, I have no doubt about this, vivardo. One thing about Milan that we sometimes overlook, is the way we handle our internal situations and our relationship with players.

Robinho had his best season at R. Madrid this year, until the abdominal injure. He was playing at a golden Ball (candidate)level until that, and after he fail to recover fast, and had a drop of form, sundely all he did until the injure was forgotten. And what R. Madrid managment did to protect the player, nothing!! Remember when Kaká had his worst form as a Milan player in his second season? The press was all over him, and the first thing our managment(and veteran players) did was to go to the press and support our(at that time) future star. Also speaking of future contract extension...

Using spanish clubs as example, it is well know the Madrid(Barça also) managment(and some veteran players) intentionally filter histories of the locker room(some real, some false) and just put in the press creating a Real havoc. Curious is that in all dirty histories the players doing wrong are always the foreingers. You just don´t see this in our club...our veterans core consist of the like´s of Maldini, Nesta, Ambrosini, Cafu, Gatuso...real HIGH character persons, and our managment(liking our transfer politics or not) always act as gentlemen and real professionals. This "Milan is a Family" and "locker room code" thing isn´t B.S. and is well know here in Brazil. It´s not coincidence Ronaldinho said it is Milan or nothing, is Milan or he stays in Barcelona.

Look, we just finished 5º in Serie A, out of the CL and our club aren´t in a crise...unbelievble!!! Pato had proposals of R. Madrid and Chelsea, but chose us...and most of this can be explained by the way we treat Ronaldo(Pato´s idol) and our foreigners players. I remember several quotes of Ronaldo here in Brazil saying to Pato to come to our club, that here he would have a great and stabilized environment to grow as a player and person unlike other places...and this my MM friends, the way our Milan are seen in Brazil and around the world, makes me so proud as when we win the titles.

LOL, what a big post...all this to say: Yep, if Milan REALLY WANTS a brazilian player, no Club in the world can compet with us...and it´s not like we pay low wages also

Originally Posted by Jeff

I think fans will be happy once the management make sensible purchase. Big name, to me, is just a smokescreen .

I was think about this, Jeff...
Our managment were always know as the masters of smokescreen...I´m waiting for some surprise signs until the end of transfer window...

based on what Galliani said that carleto preffers Eto than Ronaldinho this mean we will not bring him here or thay cant sign him

Originally Posted by Brasileiro

Sure they have more money(or intention) to spend, but when the subject is brazilian players, I have no doubt about this, vivardo. One thing about Milan that we sometimes overlook, is the way we handle our internal situations and our relationship with players.

Robinho had his best season at R. Madrid this year, until the abdominal injure. He was playing at a golden Ball (candidate)level until that, and after he fail to recover fast, and had a drop of form, sundely all he did until the injure was forgotten. And what R. Madrid managment did to protect the player, nothing!! Remember when Kaká had his worst form as a Milan player in his second season? The press was all over him, and the first thing our managment(and veteran players) did was to go to the press and support our(at that time) future star. Also speaking of future contract extension...

Using spanish clubs as example, it is well know the Madrid(Barça also) managment(and some veteran players) intentionally filter histories of the locker room(some real, some false) and just put in the press creating a Real havoc. Curious is that in all dirty histories the players doing wrong are always the foreingers. You just don´t see this in our club...our veterans core consist of the like´s of Maldini, Nesta, Ambrosini, Cafu, Gatuso...real HIGH character persons, and our managment(liking our transfer politics or not) always act as gentlemen and real professionals. This "Milan is a Family" and "locker room code" thing isn´t B.S. and is well know here in Brazil. It´s not coincidence Ronaldinho said it is Milan or nothing, is Milan or he stays in Barcelona.

Look, we just finished 5º in Serie A, out of the CL and our club aren´t in a crise...unbelievble!!! Pato had proposals of R. Madrid and Chelsea, but chose us...and most of this can be explained by the way we treat Ronaldo(Pato´s idol) and our foreigners players. I remember several quotes of Ronaldo here in Brazil saying to Pato to come to our club, that here he would have a great and stabilized environment to grow as a player and person unlike other places...and this my MM friends, the way our Milan are seen in Brazil and around the world, makes me so proud as when we win the titles.

LOL, what a big post...all this to say: Yep, if Milan REALLY WANTS a brazilian player, no Club in the world can compet with us...and it´s not like we pay low wages also

GREAT POST!!

Are there any news in Brasil about Ronaldinho and Milan? And how did Pato do against Canada?

Originally Posted by Jeff

These are good conversations; OK, so what's next?

Striker: We have to buy a top-quality striker. We have to. Pato is great, there is no doubt about it. I hope that he'll become the next shevchenko, if he is not one already. But he needs to be more tactically savvy; right now he is still not tactically apt; We already see it in the game we played against Inter Milan for the last 15minutes. Borriello... I mean... honestly?

We need one top-quality striker. NOW.

***

Just like Kris said in another thread, we need a DC who is world-class, NOW. I share with Kris's idea, becuase with Nesta + Kaladze + Kalac/Dida, it doesn't sound safe. Kaladze has on and off, and Nesta is more injury-prone than before; he also made mistakes that he would never have made in the past.

How to build a winning team? Start with the defense first. We need at least 2 more defenders who can fill Nesta or Maldini. Zambrotta reinforces the side, but we have issues with DC, as well.


**** Midfield: FLamini is an excellent signing, that's all I can say now. But who's next? I really prefer an AMC who can sub Kaka once for a while and rotate. Otherwise Kaka is just going to burn out physically and emotionally at the end. We need one AMC who can also sub his (and Seedorf?) role, soon.

Here we need at least three players. Three more players and I will feel better...

Oh well... how about GK? *sigh*....

I´m quoting all your post today, moderator
Great post!!
99% of the people worries here in MM are about our striker situation, but imo DEFENCE are the wrost problem we have right now. You summarized perfectly our situation...glad with Zambro purchase, now we need a W. Class Cb and a squad(but good) one...

We conceded more goals than the normal against average Serie A teams last season, and I expect more if nothing will be made...

Yes, Jeff you are right. And I think our problems could be solved by Zapata and ronaldinho, who will fill up the team perfectly. We also need tohave in mind that Oddo and MArek are now over 30 and are injury prone and that SeedorfCANNOT play more then 20 games per season at high level. There fore one more fullback is needed also.

It sounds too much but we really do need another 4 or 5 good players.

Originally Posted by mrki

GREAT POST!!

Are there any news in Brasil about Ronaldinho and Milan? And how did Pato do against Canada?

Thanks, mrki
Some reliable people of the press in Brazil said that history about " Milan or nothing", so I believ it´s true...sure, since Laporta just shows the door for Ronaldinho, he can goes to another club. But all I heard is Milan is the place R10 wants to go if he can´t stay in Barcelona.

The problem is the price Barça are asking...since Ronaldinho is really with "some problems" with the night and parties(sad, but it´s true), I understand we don´t want to pay so much for him. The talent is there, no doubt, but i´m starting to doubt about Ronaldinho´s will and hungry to reach his level again...

Regarding Pato, didn´t have much time since Dunga put him more to the end of game, the team also was changed a lot.

Originally Posted by mrki

Yes, Jeff you are right. And I think our problems could be solved by Zapata and ronaldinho, who will fill up the team perfectly. We also need tohave in mind that Oddo and MArek are now over 30 and are injury prone and that SeedorfCANNOT play more then 20 games per season at high level. There fore one more fullback is needed also.

It sounds too much but we really do need another 4 or 5 good players.

Couldn´t agree more, mrki...
Our defence is injure prone, and we need at least one more fullback...but as I said, also 2 Cb.

Originally Posted by Brasileiro

99% of the people worries here in MM are about our striker situation, but imo DEFENCE are the wrost problem we have right now. You summarized perfectly our situation......

I just want to point out that's not right you guys don't stand a lone, I posted something similar on this thread I think last week or something, and several other posters agreed back then...

Originally Posted by Koeke

I just want to point out that's not right you guys don't stand a lone, I posted something similar on this thread I think last week or something, and several other posters agreed back then...

Sorry, Koeke...I´m not reading MM as I want, so I must have lost your post(and of the others). It´s just the majority of the post only talk about the foward situation. Glad to see more people are worried about our defense situation also ...