Summer Mercato

Originally Posted by Giancarlo

Eh I'm a bit sad about that, but at least he is not playing in England. I hope Arshavin would consider Italy...

he never mentioned italy. he just said he dreams of spain and barca. I think he just views english style of football as.....well.......unskillful. Thats the reason the only english club he's considering is arsenal. I think if milan came in we'd have an opportunity. When berlu and galliani legitimately go after players.... pato... nesta... they tend to win. Remeber, barca, madrid, chelsea were all bidding heavily on pato.

i'm w/ you though... atleast its not england. I'm tired of epl bs i deal w/ among all my friends. If you live in america. ITs a joke.

i know this was poted b4, but i am just gonna repost it briefer, to show what Galliani said

Galliani says that neither Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, Karim Benzema, Adrian Mutu, Antonio Cassano, Didier Drogba, Dimitri Berbatov, Mario Gomez, Samuel Eto’o or Ronaldinho will be joining the club. Because we have Boriello, and are despretely in love with Ade, whom Arsenal will never sell to us anyway.

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Wow dru..seems you have run out of stock...some more is on the way. I wasnt being sarcastic in-fact Hasan...I was agreeing with the man, but withdrawal is a terrible thing....clouds judgement, makes you lash out unnecessairly, etc.

Just chek the same girl u always check dru...I sent her a shipment last week, should be there now.

Rivaldo came on a free...so that part was sarcastic. Guess the last star we bought was $heva?

Stars though, in defense of mgmt, since I am on their pay roll, dont always win silverware...ask Madrid

If you werent' being sarcastic then the last stars we paid a lot for Nesta, Pippo and Rui. I apologise for lashing out but both myself and Hassan thought you were being sarcastic. Madrid and Inter have proven that buying the wrong stars don't win you trophies but to their credit they have kept trying and eventually the success came......essentially Madrid have done the unthinkable in 1firing Del Bosque, 2selling Makalele and 3replacing him with Beckham We're not much behind if we sold $hevchelski, replaced him with Olivera, then Gila and haven't found a proper replacement for Stam. But the thing is we haven't even signed a big name that would help generate revenue to support or at least cushion the purchase of other necessary team fixtures....If we are sooo ca$h strapped as we claim to be why not invest in a player who would generate more income for the club? It was rumored that Real made back Beckham's transfer fee within the year they bought him.

Imagine if we suck it up, buy Ronaldinho(bad example since most probably he would get all of his own image rights) or another star of similar stature....we would certainly generate income from shirt sales. Even if the player owns his image rights....it serves to "put us back on the map as it were" in terms of drawing additional attention to us. Yeah a bunch of gloryhunters/phans and fanboys might infiltrate our ranks but it's these who make up the MAJORITY of jersey/merchandise market. If we need ca$h we need to learn to make ca$h and not be satisfied with the present level of the funds we have to operate with.

I am not wiser than anyone in managment or even on this forum.... nor will I even claim to understand the transfer market nearly as good as the dumbest person there. I have never said that anyone in management is stupid as it would be presumptuous to say something like that. I am speaking as a layman and someone who loves what he thinks AC Milan stands for.

Ariedo Braida said that Milan is gaining good money from sending players on loan. My question is: what are they doing with this money!?

Originally Posted by drucurl

rudeboy nah cross de border! Yuh yardies dem fi gone against....some ah dem mek fren wid babylon an' some ah dem ah apologise to de tightpants dem Gunshot dem fi get

Dru dru dru...please go see that lady ASAP...it seems you are now speakin in "tongues" or some other unknown language.

Kindly see her immediately for your fix.

i think instead of 'stars' we need more players like pato or kaka when he joined (i know... not asking alot) but i mean this in the way that they r budding recognized talent.... ie talent other teams want, not antonini or another player who is only being pursued by catania and genoa.

The problem with stars is unless they r super hungry. we'll still suffer same problem when we go to atalanta, palermo etc etc. Players like gattuso, pirlo, oddo etc quite frankly couldnt give a **** about playing those games.... it shows. So why not bring in players actually capable of challenging them for aspot. force the to raise there game

All this talk of buying players so they can generate shirt revenue; bah, i'm so happy that we haven't bought any superstars, otherwise there's no way i could afford to have all those names put on the back of new shirts! Thanks for saving me some cash, Galli!

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Dru dru dru...please go see that lady ASAP...it seems you are now speakin in "tongues" or some other unknown language.

Kindly see her immediately for your fix.

Don't I get at least some credit for my Jamaican improving Anyway your posts have raised suspicion that you are indeed on the side of Babylon....So if you'll excuse me I'll prefer to stay in the trenches wid de ghetto yute dem

Here's my big problem with our mercato. Our management is bringing in players they clearly don't think will succeed, soley because they r at a good price. Going into this mercato, changes were promised. Management acknowledged we needed changes upfront and in the back. Now lets put flamini aside. He was not in an area of major need (comparatively) however when he was out of contract and free transfer, it was too good to pass up. so I'll give B&G credit for jumping on that.

Zambrotta also, i'll consider our other good aquisition. He's not young. But he is still a top WB. Something our tactics is dependant upon (which makes me wonder why we dont spend more on them).

But aside from that, the signings have been a joke. Borriello. I know some people (giancarlo) think he will be amazing. But i have to ask you this. If milan is convinced in his ability, why are we trying SO HARD to sign another player with his same characteristics (a first striker). If borriello was really as good as huntelaar and a player with the abilities to lead the line, why do we need anotheR? We already have pippo. Pippo can still play at the highest level, albiet not as many games. but if borriello is really a frontline striker, why would we need a 3rd? You cant really play borriello and pippo together. Now if we get eto'o (just an ex.) do you think eto'o + borriello/pippo will work? NO neither drop back or really create for others. we'd have 2 guys who like to sit in box and arent really good passers or creaters... something thats not very effective.

So obviously management does not have faith in borriello's abilities. Which beckons the question... WHY BRING HIM BACK IN THE FIRST PLACE?! why not just sell him, and bring a striker capable of playing both higher up and a more subdued roll (quagliarella comes to mind, ronaldo could do it if he ever came to health...etcetcetc)

I dont see the point in having 3 strikers who play same position and are uncapable of switching positions. w/ pato... you know he can move uptop at times, or back to AM if needed. Pippo, borriello, 'player x' r all just strikers uptop. We'd have 3 players sharing games at 1 position. In my opinion it would just be more logical to have 2 strikers who can drop, and 2 who play more uptop....

My personal theory is our management knows borriello is not good enough. However at the price, we'll sign him just to fill a number and be able to gloat in the media we signed 2nd highest scorer in serie A blahblahblah. What they should know, is to really please the fan they should field a winner

I posted this over in the Kaka' thread, but i think it merits some worth here, as it might be a longer-term problem to deal with (as it keeps coming up mercato after mercato where some big team wants him).

Does anyone else have any concern about what Kaka' is thinking about the club right now? First, i think there has been some anger about this past season; he was worn down and looked unhappy and frustrated at many times. Then, in some of his words it sounded like milan forced him to have the operation. And he doesn't seem thrilled about not being able to go to the olympics, it still keeps coming up. Now, the mercato has been a bit toilet and all i see is another year of kaka' having to shoulder the responsibility. we're trying to keep him and make him the symbol of the team, yet does it seem like we are doing what we need to keep him motivated? What must he think when other teams are after him, with lots of talent around him, and he's going to pass to simic or borriello or brocchi for another year? mostly just my nervous paranoia setting in, but i don't want another saga of 'kaka to madrid/chelsea' next year.

Originally Posted by jtelly

I posted this over in the Kaka' thread, but i think it merits some worth here, as it might be a longer-term problem to deal with (as it keeps coming up mercato after mercato where some big team wants him).

Does anyone else have any concern about what Kaka' is thinking about the club right now? First, i think there has been some anger about this past season; he was worn down and looked unhappy and frustrated at many times. Then, in some of his words it sounded like milan forced him to have the operation. And he doesn't seem thrilled about not being able to go to the olympics, it still keeps coming up. Now, the mercato has been a bit toilet and all i see is another year of kaka' having to shoulder the responsibility. we're trying to keep him and make him the symbol of the team, yet does it seem like we are doing what we need to keep him motivated? What must he think when other teams are after him, with lots of talent around him, and he's going to pass to simic or borriello or brocchi for another year? mostly just my nervous paranoia setting in, but i don't want another saga of 'kaka to madrid/chelsea' next year.

i think this is a large reason, milan was pushing for dinho... to keep him happy. He is a loyal man, and i think looks happy more than not. But i agree w/ you. another season fighting for 4th, and i think he'll begin to ponder his future.

He is a smart man though, he realizes over the long haul since he came hes won more w/ milan than he would at most any other club. And off years happen. The key is to not let it happen again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/euro2008/...lla_slide.html

bring me top 2

Originally Posted by jtelly

I posted this over in the Kaka' thread, but i think it merits some worth here, as it might be a longer-term problem to deal with (as it keeps coming up mercato after mercato where some big team wants him).

Does anyone else have any concern about what Kaka' is thinking about the club right now? First, i think there has been some anger about this past season; he was worn down and looked unhappy and frustrated at many times. Then, in some of his words it sounded like milan forced him to have the operation. And he doesn't seem thrilled about not being able to go to the olympics, it still keeps coming up. Now, the mercato has been a bit toilet and all i see is another year of kaka' having to shoulder the responsibility. we're trying to keep him and make him the symbol of the team, yet does it seem like we are doing what we need to keep him motivated? What must he think when other teams are after him, with lots of talent around him, and he's going to pass to simic or borriello or brocchi for another year? mostly just my nervous paranoia setting in, but i don't want another saga of 'kaka to madrid/chelsea' next year.

YES!!!

And I don't think it's nervous paranoia...he brought much success to Milan. His desires should count for something. He came to Milan when they had experienced players now entering, just in, or just coming out of their prime.

Now the face and the fell of the team has changed. You have to wonder if he'll re-think in a few years not making a move to another team (R.Madrid) if things continue like this for some time in the future.

you guys are waaaaay too pessimistic. The sun is shining, birds are chirping, borriello> huntelaar etc. As the new ad on the coke* bottles reads "to stay healthy walk 30 min of exercise per day and keep smiling"











*health drink

Originally Posted by drucurl

you guys are waaaaay too pessimistic. The sun is shining, birds are chirping, borriello> huntelaar etc. As the new ad on the coke bottles reads "to stay healthy get 30 min of exercise per day and keep smiling"

i will be smiling if we get boruc, and stop acting we dont need a keeper.