Summer Mercato

Originally Posted by Giancarlo

I respectfully disagree. From what I've seen he's demonstrated consistency while the rest of his team was lagging rather poorly. Even in that final, he was the biggest threat to Spain.

during euro'08, as average he showed decent performance and also good in consistency.
minus against croatia, great against portugal and turkey then like others teammates in final match.
But if you ever seen him in UCL especially against big team with high tense & pressure, overall he did nothing to impress or just convincing me as 1 of milan starter especially to know he worth around 20 million as many people think

apart of that, i think he is easy being frustated, not having good temper enough

lol no u wouldnt. He is 24. 21 mil is not alot for him. he is german and will improve. i think him + ribery on wings could kill teams. klinnsman is going to do everything in his power to hold schweinny and podolski. he knew how to use them for national team, remember.

if they do sell him, i'd jump it though

Originally Posted by Peachtot

during euro'08, as average he showed decent performance and also good in consistency.
minus against croatia, great against portugal and turkey then like others teammates in final match.
But if you ever seen him in UCL especially against big team with high tense & pressure, overall he did nothing to impress or just convincing me as 1 of milan starter especially to know he worth around 20 million as many people think

apart of that, i think he is easy being frustated, not having good temper enough

Respectfully disagreed. Schweinsteiger has shown consistency for quite some time, and from his 50+ performances nationally he has 15 goals. At the Bayern level he did not do as good but that is because of the stiff level of competition in that squad. I mean they are the same squad playing Ribery... and Ribery getting injured may be another reason for Bayern to keep Schweinsteiger unfortunately.

Originally Posted by Milano84

lol no u wouldnt. He is 24. 21 mil is not alot for him. he is german and will improve. i think him + ribery on wings could kill teams. klinnsman is going to do everything in his power to hold schweinny and podolski. he knew how to use them for national team, remember.

if they do sell him, i'd jump it though

nah.. cause he is german then the price would be around 21 mil
you got it

when u name ribery, then i fully agreed to jump it

Originally Posted by Milano84

At the Bayern level he did not do as good but that is because of the stiff level of competition in that squad. I mean they are the same squad playing Ribery... and Ribery getting injured may be another reason for Bayern to keep Schweinsteiger unfortunately.

stiff competition in Bayern squad ?
so what on earth do you think happen in Milan ?
Yes, in milan we dont have great winger lefted like ribery while you comparing winger to winger pos. So.. you could easily say we will have our best winger
but we wont play with pure winger and you'll say schweini also good in center of play as attacking midfielder behind the main striker.
if you think so.. considering we've had the best player who can manage in that role, smartly that large amount of money could splash for forward section as we do need 1 world class striker, IMO

Originally Posted by Peachtot

stiff competition in Bayern squad ?
so what on earth do you think happen in Milan ?
Yes, in milan we dont have great winger lefted like ribery while you comparing winger to winger pos. So.. you could easily say we will have our best winger
but we wont play with pure winger and you'll say schweini also good in center of play as attacking midfielder behind the main striker.
if you think so.. considering we've had the best player who can manage in that role, smartly that large amount of money could splash for forward section as we do need 1 world class striker, IMO

What are you talking about? I'm talking about Bayern at the moment, not Milan. Ribery suffered a pretty bad injury. I don't know if Bayern will give him up. That's all.

i mean stiff competition in bayern also happened in milan especially related to players composition to support carletto tactic

i got ur point that bayern won't be allowing schweini out while ribery's injured

Originally Posted by Peachtot

i mean stiff competition in bayern also happened in milan especially related to players composition to support carletto tactic

i got ur point that bayern won't be allowing schweini out while ribery's injured

I'm sure if Ancelotti had more players to deal with it would be different than the 4-5-1 formation.

Nice rumour...

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=758576

I think we have two options for our summer mercato

A) Drogba Ronaldinho Zapata

B) Drogba Ronaldinho Ferrari Boruc

I would choose option A

AC Milan have resurrected their interest in signing Chelsea striker Didier Drogba, according to the Corriere dello Sport

As it's now July 1st we can officially declare this thread open!

I don't want Ferrari even if he is free!

Originally Posted by Giancarlo

Schweinsteiger can play defensively and does have traits to be a defensive midfielder. So yes he does have the ability to defend and his skills are quite good. But preferably his position is a more attack minded creative midfielder... but he can step and I've seen him do so during Germany's campaign. He's better than Lahm when it comes to defending, but just as good as it comes to attacking. Schweinsteiger could be important to fill in if one of our creative midfielders is injured.

Come on, are you serious? He is better than Lahm when it comes to defending?

Why didnt Löw play him on the right winger in the group matches when Germany played two-striker formation? Löw instead played Fritz who is much better at defending than Schweinsteiger.

Wikipedia says Schweini can play DM, CM, etc. Yes, he can. Its like Gattuso, he CAN play as striker, AMC etc but is he able to do that? Schweini is great while he is attacking BUT not when he is defending.

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

I don't want Ferrari even if he is free!

Really, I cant disagree with you. I really cant.

@Peachtot

Yes mate, he is one of the best opiton to replace Seedorf to play in left CM. But as you mentioned, it's almost impossible to take him to Milan.

So goal.com is reporting that Maxwell is unhappy at Inter...now's our chance guys he's a great left back and he's 26.....it may take some hard work for him to get past a world class champion like Antonini in the pecking order but I think he could do it

I read where Pirlo is asking for reinforcements...

Anyone got anymore details on this? Did he ask for a particular player, or for a certain position to be filled or reinforced with a sub?

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

I read where Pirlo is asking for reinforcements...

Anyone got anymore details on this? Did he ask for a particular player, or for a certain position to be filled or reinforced with a sub?

All he said was we have heard a lot of talk some big names, but still no one. We will see...

I must say I have to agree with him. If we our frustrated as fans, then the players must be really fed up with the management.