Summer Mercato

Galliani has spoken:

«Abbiamo scritto all’Arsenal che siamo interessati a una trattativa per Adebayor ma non ci hanno risposto... Il Barcellona si è detto disposto a mettere in vendita Eto’o, ma al momento ci chiede una cifra che riteniamo troppo alta (si oscilla fra i 50 e i 40 milioni di euro; ndr). Siamo in attesa, invece, di sapere dal Chelsea una valutazione di Drogba. Le quotazioni di Berbatov e Gomez sono in netto calo. Ronaldinho e Shevchenko sicuramente non verranno più. Direi che la nostra scelta a questo punto si limita a uno fra Adebayor, Drogba e Eto’o».

The bolded says: "The quotations of Berbatov and Gomez are declining. It is certain R10 and Sheva won't come anymore. At this point, I'd say our choice is limited to Adebayor, Drogba and Eto'o."
However, as he states earlier, even if Barcelona are willing to sell Eto'o, his price is too high.
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well well well.... not too surprised, as it's pretty much been about Adebayor lately, and slightly less regarding drogba/eto'o... gomez talks cooled down long ago, and berbatov was never REALLY discussed as the others. Benzema was not even mentioned, so i guess he is out of discussion. In addition, all our relevant transfers are always speculated and spread by the media long before... big exception being Alessandro Nesta (god bless him).

CHEERS

Its becoming a comedy now really...We cannot pay 30 mln for the most talented player in the world but can pay 16+vogel for Olivira...shamefull.

Im kind of sick of this Galliani/Berluisconi bull.... so I will now just wait fot them to sign someone and in the and I will evaluate are we good enough for scudetto.

And another thing, Carlo said he wanted to bring Boruc to Milan but his price is 10mln and Milan cant afford it. If those people dont wantto spend money thenm there is no point of atlking stupid things about scudetto in papers.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

I do.
Flamini ran more than anyone else in Arsenal. This isn't my impression but it's what the official stats say.
The similarity between him and Sissoko is the way they cover the midfield, being always where the ball is and winning it in 99% of the cases.
Both of them are useful in many ways but i'll use an example to show one of the ways how Flamini can help Pirlo.
You all watched Italy-Netherlands. When the Italians attacked all Dutch players were behind the ball and it was almost impossible for Pirlo to break that defense with a pass, because everyone was well covered and Pirlo always had a man or two covering him.
But when the Italians lost a ball and the Dutch countered Gattuso and Ambrosini couldn't win the ball back and it was always a goal scoring chance for Holland.
Now, if Ambrosini and Gattuso won these balls while 3 or 4 Dutch players went running in attack, we would have seen a different match. Without 10 players behind the ball covering space and every single Italian player, Pirlo would have been allowed the freedom to look and find a free Italian player on the flanks or in the center and we all know what can Pirlo do in such situations. But he never got such a chance against Holland.

This wasn't a new problem actually. We've seen this happening far too many times this season, especially at San Siro when teams defended with 10 players and countered every time Milan lost the ball. What happened to Italy against Holland happened to Milan against Sampdoria, Atalanta and Empoli at San Siro (there are probably few more matches).
I don't know what happened to Gattuso this year. He seemed like a different player from the Gattuso we know. Ambrosini played very good in attack but defensively he was average at most.

What Ambrosini and Gattuso couldn't do this year, Flamini and Sissoko did with ease.
It wasn't a coincidence that Juve were the best team of the second part of serie A (they won more points than any other team, until the last 3 rounds when they secured top 4 and won only 2 points out of 9).
Sissoko was winning every single ball in midfield and he allowed Camoranesi and Del Piero to do the rest of the job. Camo and Del Piero shined exactly after Sissoko started playing for Juve.
We all know what was Flamini doing for Arsenal, so i won't even mention it.
This is what makes guys like Flamini and Sissoko useful to the team. They make the others play better by allowing them the freedom and the space to play their game.

Some people are sceptical about Flamini and say how he only had one good season which isn't enough to see if he's really good or not. Others say he played well because of Wenger.
Sorry but that's BS. Flamini runs all the time and wins balls all the time. He doesn't need Wenger to do these things.
He'll be great for Milan and he'll be the main reason why we'll see a great Pirlo next year.


Hey, i said thank you for Sissoko, didn't i ?

To conclude: Milan OR Italy cannot paly and use Pirlo without moving fullbacks and one midfielder that if fast and CAN pass ( De Rossi, Flamini...). The thing Milan needs is one more fullback and one more "striker", for the first 11.

What happened to Gattuso? He has been playing ALL serie a matches for Milan, ALL CL matches, ALL Italy matches and ALL Italy friendlys...for like 5 years. That is not possible even for Maradona and Pele in one player. So is not for Rino Gattuso.

Him and Ambrosini are players that CANNOT be used at once in leneup ( except when you have KAka' who is playing at Pele level and Seedorf playing at his best - which is possible once ONCE in 10 years!). Carlo does those mistakes over and over again and so Donadoni repeated them now. Results are obvious failiures.

Without one more FAST fullback ( Antonini theory is BS , Sergio was Worlad class palyer! ), normal GK, and one more fast player in Seedorf's place, we have no chance for scudetto. What Galliani says doesnt matter, its clear as the clearest sky.

I would really be disappointed if we dont get R10, (or an alternative) and a striker...though I still hope not to get Drogba mostly, and Adebayor less so.

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

I would really be disappointed if we dont get R10, (or an alternative) and a striker...though I still hope not to get Drogba mostly, and Adebayor less so.

Warro, are you losing the faith? Is all the pessimism rubbing off?

Don't give up on me now! Only the 11th of June.

Yeah jmac...I guess so.

Its hard to keep optimistic in the face of all this negativity.

Then of course, when u realise we are in June, it makes a difference.

Originally Posted by mrki

Its becoming a comedy now really...We cannot pay 30 mln for the most talented player in the world but can pay 16+vogel for Olivira...shamefull.

Im kind of sick of this Galliani/Berluisconi bull.... so I will now just wait fot them to sign someone and in the and I will evaluate are we good enough for scudetto.

And another thing, Carlo said he wanted to bring Boruc to Milan but his price is 10mln and Milan cant afford it. If those people dont wantto spend money thenm there is no point of atlking stupid things about scudetto in papers.

You better stop your nonesense RIGHT NOW MRKI
Galliani/Berlu and CO know far more about football than we do so we shouldn't offer even the mildest of criticisms. Ronaldinho is an overrated bad player.....he won the 2 WOPY'S because Moratti paid UEFA so that Sheva and later Kaka, wouldn't win. Ronaldinho isn't worth even the generous 10 Million that we are offering. THAT'S even more than we paid for MrX (Borriello)

We DON'T need a fast fullback or winger because our tactics don't allow for them. THAT'S the real reason we haven't gone after Quaresma, Alves, Rathino, Rafinha, Vargas etc (P.S. Not that I knew much about him but bye bye Maggio ).

What we DO need though are MORE CDM/CM'S because as Italy's successful first game in the Tournament has clearly demonstrated...when you pack the midifeld with (preferably slow) defensive minded midfielders infront of ageing or slow defenders..the results are phenomenal.

We aren't spending OUR money for the club (we get tickets, jerseys and merchandise FREE) so we are in no position to voice displeasure over the way the club is run. If Berlu runs Milan like his treehouse club when he was 9 we should humbly bow and say "grazie". This season we'll remain in the bent position when we play Inter- the perennial losers who are hotly pursuing the
overrated garbage player in Quaresma.

Finally Wenger is so stupid that he rejected us- the GREAT MILAN - when we made an offer for Adebayor (who, if we don't get was surely not good enough anyway).......perhaps the offer was so low that Wenger in his stupidity thought it bordered on insulting Doesn't Wenger know that ONLY GOOD PLAYERS ARE TRANSFERED FOR PEANUTS

Lets rather worry about Jankulovski VS CR7 in today's Czech Rep vs Portugal game.

What I read from channel4 about Adebayor, Milan tried to ask Arsenal by sending letter to them asking about Adebayor but Arsenal havent yet given Milan an answer. So, there is still possibility for Milan. We just need to wait.

It will be Drogba, Adebayor or Eto'o but I am still sure it will be Drogba (and Ronaldinho).

We cant just throw away Ronaldinho from Milan transfer wish, he is a player that Milan must buy if the transfer is getting close to the end.

i saw that ancelotti said that Boruc is too expensive, and so did Braida, but Braida stated that, there may still be a possibility.

Originally Posted by drucurl

You better stop your nonesense RIGHT NOW MRKI
Galliani/Berlu and CO know far more about football than we do so we shouldn't offer even the mildest of criticisms. Ronaldinho is an overrated $#!t player.....he won the 2 WOPY'S because Moratti paid UEFA so that Sheva and later Kaka, wouldn't win. Ronaldinho isn't worth even the generous 10 Million that we are offering. THAT'S even more than we paid for MrX (Borriello)

We DON'T need a fast fullback or winger because our tactics don't allow for them. THAT'S the real reason we haven't gone after Quaresma, Alves, Rathino, Rafinha, Vargas etc (P.S. Not that I knew much about him but bye bye Maggio ).

What we DO need though are MORE CDM/CM'S because as Italy's successful first game in the Tournament has clearly demonstrated...when you pack the midifeld with (preferably slow) defensive minded midfielders infront of ageing or slow defenders..the results are phenomenal.

We aren't spending OUR money for the club (we get tickets, jerseys and merchandise FREE) so we are in no position to voice displeasure over the way the club is run. If Berlu runs Milan like his treehouse club when he was 9 we should humbly bow and say "grazie". This season we'll remain in the bent position when we play Inter- the perennial losers who are hotly pursuing the
overrated garbage player in Quaresma.

Finally Wenger is so stupid that he rejected us- the GREAT MILAN - when we made an offer for Adebayor (who, if we don't get was surely not good enough anyway).......perhaps the offer was so low that Wenger in his stupidity thought it bordered on insulting Doesn't Wenger know that ONLY GOOD PLAYERS ARE TRANSFERED FOR PEANUTS

And then posts like this only make it worse...

GREAT POST:

Originally Posted by jmacpherson

Lets rather worry about Jankulovski VS CR7 in today's Czech Rep vs Portugal game.

....sorry about the -ve posting......Janku vs CR7 is FAR more important and relative to our Summer Mercato.....I mean IF Janku keeps him at bay we can spew more selfcongratulatory posts about us 'not needing a left back' because Janku suffocated CR7. be sure to call him 'world class' and 'milan material' while castigating Cristiano as the 'overrated choker'

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

And then posts like this only make it worse...

That's right guys don't blame berlu...blame dru

*sigh*....and the vicious cycle continues

Adebayor must be a smoke screen..because I dont see Wenger selling him to us..."they will get the answer they deserve" he was quoted as saying....and maybe a "non-answer" is what he means...

If they dont answer, its paramount to us not getting him...its that simple...if he does want the switch, its a different thing. Maybe he does. Still prefer Gomez and Benzema (though not necessairly in that order).

Not too worried in truth if we dont get R10...we do need an attacking midfielder to rotate with Kaka and Seedorf...so lets see...