Summer Mercato

Originally Posted by Giancarlo

Wow some people in here are really unbelievable.

Don't you remember a few years ago we had to play in the UEFA Cup... Bayern had to play in the UEFA Cup this year (which they didn't even win) but they did well domestically...

Who is to say next season we won't be able to contest the Scudetto?

You people need to stop crying when your team doesn't acquire the players YOU WANT, and DO WHAT YOU WANT. What makes you think you're so much smarter than Milan's management?

I have know problems having to play in any Cup, if Milan is playing I will support them. But when I see a lack of preparation for an upcoming season like I did last year...I'm gonna voice my displeasure.

After finishing fourth in the league the same year we won CL, change was necessary. They waited and got burned.

They should have put their coat on last year and not suffer with Pneumonia this year.

How is Ronaldinho anymore outta form than Seedorf.

And then the describing word/adjective "badly" infront of it. come on...you're talking non sense.

Please, no Jo (I read Milan are trying to hijack his move to Manchester City).

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

Giancarlo, we arent pissed off because they diidnt make any transfers we wanted, we are pissed off because they made no transfers, period. They made that mistake in 2006 and we suffered badly in the league and hardly made it to fourth, but then we won the CL because of the great effort of our players..that CL win blinded our arrogant management and lead them to believe that the same eleven can do it again next year. Their problem is that they didnt learn from their mistakes and repeated it.

I understand all of you, but the management was forced into making reinforcements. I just don't understand what they have to do... they jumped on the transfer season ahead of everyone else because of exactly what you said.

And most of the posters are right, this is definitely the worst moment in the Carlo era so if there is to be any worrying then it is now. I aint doing any worrying because I'm confident the management will reinforce well, one season out of the CL wouldn't hurt but it would probably be a blessing I say.

I think we need 3-4 more world class players and not just a striker. Dinho would be nice, but I think there are players that can't be depended on again - Kaladze, Oddo, Jankulovski, Gattuso. We've already got in Zambro and Flamini which are two good buys, but I want one more midfielder for Seedorf's spot. Two DMs formation is something we need to get rid of fast.


ya'all need to just be patient. Good players will come.

Yes, I think everyone does have to be patient. I hear the negotiations for a big striker is under way... and there should be a few more players acquired... Christian Maggio for example... has anyone heard anything about him? He's an inter fan, but Milan is after him...

Originally Posted by Mr. Anonymous

I have know problems having to play in any Cup, if Milan is playing I will support them. But when I see a lack of preparation for an upcoming season like I did last year...I'm gonna voice my displeasure.

After finishing fourth in the league the same year we won CL, change was necessary. They waited and got burned.

They should have put their coat on last year and not suffer with Pneumonia this year.

How is Ronaldinho anymore outta form than Seedorf.

And then the describing word/adjective "badly" infront of it. come on...you're talking non sense.

Very well, you do have a point about finishing fourth, but how far did Inter get in the CL? Case in point.

How far did Liverpool get even though they were what? 4th too in their league?

Ronaldinho is injured all the time, and Seedorf is just all around a better player on the field. He does more attacking.

I'm not talking nonsense.

I just want to know how you guys know more than the management.

Originally Posted by Giancarlo

So the management should do nothing? Yes the moves they are making are reactive... but it's better late than never to fix mistakes that were made, or to fix the lack of action.

No they should...but prevention is better than cure. But on your coat and don't catch the cold instead of convincing yourself otherwise and spending a month in bed.

So don't stick up for or support management in the way they've handled the transfer markets in the recent past given our performance in the league.

Even North American soccer pundits were saying that Milan has to make changes in the transfer market last year. But since they had their "World Class Champion" squad they were perfect and didn't need changing.

Pride is before a fall, and I believe that management's pride are the reason that we are being laughed at.

Originally Posted by Mr. Anonymous

No they should...but prevention is better than cure. But on your coat and don't catch the cold instead of convincing yourself otherwise and spending a month in bed.

So don't stick support management in the way they've handled the transfer markets in the recent past given our performance in the league.

Even North American soccer pundits were saying that Milan has to make changes in the transfer market last year. But since they had their "World Class Champion" squad they were perfect and didn't need changing.

Pride is before a fall, and I believe that management's pride are the reason that we are being laughed at.

Indeed. I agree with you. We should have bought more than just Emerson. LOL. But hey if you make a mistake, it's best to correct it. And perhaps learn from the mistakes... and lets HOPE that the management does.

I think that Milan is making good changes this transfer season though, so I think they may have learned. They are reinforcing the flanks, and the attack... but the buying is not done yet.

Well I need to go in a bit... I have errands to run.

Originally Posted by Giancarlo

Very well, you do have a point about finishing fourth, but how far did Inter get in the CL? Case in point.

How far did Liverpool get even though they were what? 4th too in their league?

Ronaldinho is injured all the time, and Seedorf is just all around a better player on the field. He does more attacking.

I'm not talking nonsense.

I just want to know how you guys know more than the management.

I use my eyes ears and sense of reasoning.

I was cheering as hard as anyone else when we took it to Man-U and got our revenge on Livepool. But I kept on saying..."Kaka & Seedorf are single handedly winning this thing for us, if they don't have a season like this next year or we don't get quality rein-forcements we're screwed."

How could management not see that. The CL Champion blinded them to how poorly we did in the season.

Inter are just under acheivers that can't get it right. It might be a different story this year.

Yeah Emerson last season (my goodness)...Pato too though. Anyways...good talking to you Giancarlo take care.

Originally Posted by Mr. Anonymous

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Yeah Emerson last season (my goodness)...Pato too though.

Imho management thought Ronaldo would deliver this season. that's why I think we didn't got anybody else. To be honest after seeing him last year I'm pretty sure most of us thought he could be of great use this season. I mean we had a strike force of Ronaldo, Gila, Inzaghi, Pato and Kaka. Pretty good on paper but with the injury's of Ronaldo and Inzaghi, Pato unable to play half of the season, kaka's poor form (considering last years) and Gila's struggle to prove himself milanworthy we could say none of our forwards had a decent year so we could say management gambled with a to young player and an injury prone one and lost.

Originally Posted by Koeke

Imho management thought Ronaldo would deliver this season. that's why I think we didn't got anybody else. To be honest after seeing him last year I'm pretty sure most of us thought he could be of great use this season. I mean we had a strike force of Ronaldo, Gila, Inzaghi, Pato and Kaka. Pretty good on paper but with the injury's of Ronaldo and Inzaghi, Pato unable to play half of the season, kaka's poor form (considering last years) and Gila's struggle to prove himself milanworthy we could say none of our forwards had a decent year so we could say management gambled with a to young player and an injury prone one and lost.

All VERY predictable though. pippo was 34 and off multuiple seasons of not being healthy. Ronaldo too has had a VERY checked injury past and we knew was hurt over summer. We knew pato wouldnt play till january and at 18 not alot was expected from him.

Originally Posted by Milano84

All VERY predictable though. pippo was 34 and off multuiple seasons of not being healthy. Ronaldo too has had a VERY checked injury past and we knew was hurt over summer. We knew pato wouldnt play till january and at 18 not alot was expected from him.

Hence I say they gambled and lost... (again, considered they did the same with oliveira the year before)

All very predictable in hindsight.

Has anyone (EVER) predicted Pippo be the hero for our CL success last season?

Have had Milan finished fourth last year a lot of us would already be praising Pippo Inzaghi for doing such a wonderful job toward the end of the campaign.

But now that Milan didn't make it, everyone is saying that he is old and fading. Same old story.

and i'm saying after inter bring in another quality striker to go w/ ibrahimovic. Probably Quaresma, deco, carvalho..... possibly lampard. Do you really think our squad is strong enough to compete with them.... this is there potential lineup

---------drogba-ibrahimovic---------- (Cruz, Balotelli)

-quaresma-deco-cambiasso-zanetti-- (Viera, Jimenez, Maxwell)

-chivu-cordoba-carvalho-maicon- (Rivas, Maxwell, Samuel, Materazzi)

--------cesar-------------

Just saying we could use more attacking and defending

Originally Posted by Jeff

All very predictable in hindsight.

Has anyone (EVER) predicted Pippo be the hero for our CL success last season?

Have had Milan finished fourth last year a lot of us would already be praising Pippo Inzaghi for doing such a wonderful job toward the end of the campaign.

But now that Milan didn't make it, everyone is saying that he is old and fading. Same old story.

Somehow, nobody expect inzaghi to play next season.......i mean everybody here seem to think he has retired, very sad indeed for a player who scored like 10 goals in 7 games.....

Cant believe I just read 9 pages of basically the same thing.

We need to buy, we havent bought yet, management are fools for not buying last term, we are in 5th place, we havent bought anybody, other teams are buying and we arent, we are going to fail next season, we arent getting any players, we need width, we need, we need, we need...

Seems like we are quite needy huh?

Guess in the absence of any rumors of consequence, the discussion has gotten a bit cyclical...a bit staid...a bit tiresome.

Vent all you want, post all you need to to assuage your angst...but c´mon guys...this makes for reeeeeaaaaaally boring reading.

I came here to see if someone had dredged up anything, and even when I did see a post, I lost it, in the sea of complaints.

Originally Posted by hwmook

Somehow, nobody expect inzaghi to play next season.......i mean everybody here seem to think he has retired, very sad indeed for a player who scored like 10 goals in 7 games.....

lets see... last year he started 14 serie A games
06 he started 11
05 he started 13
04 he started 4
03 he started 11


And you wonder why no one is counting on him to hold the line? I love him as a timely sub... but he hasnt been able to play a consistant 90 minutes in so long