Summer Mercato

Look like Milan have new idea for striker position according to SportItalia

Nicklas Bendtnerr would be an alternatve if Adebayor/Drogba case fail

Nicklas Bendtner
20 Year old
1.93 Height

John Sivebæk said to the media that he can see great potential in Bendtner. "His speed and technique reminds me that of Thierry Henry but there is also a little bit of Zlatan Ibrahimović in his challenging and unpredictable style.

what do you think ??

Dont see Milan spending more than 20million on Striker guys.Its just a bunch of pipe dreams if anyone thinks that Milan will spend more than that.
Reason Pato and Kaka,i think Milan would rather find a superstar on the rise than buying one right now.That's maybe why Adebayor made sense,but just way too much money for him.

And yes Milan did gamble with Oliviera and Ronaldo last couple of years,but remember they were not the 40-45millions that these clubs are asking for now.
Look out for players that were rumoured with Milan a few months ago and have not been mentioned lately.

Please leave some money for a Goalkeeper.

Originally Posted by Vulli

Look like Milan have new idea for striker position according to SportItalia

Nicklas Bendtnerr would be an alternatve if Adebayor/Drogba case fail

Nicklas Bendtner
20 Year old
1.93 Height

John Sivebæk said to the media that he can see great potential in Bendtner. "His speed and technique reminds me that of Thierry Henry but there is also a little bit of Zlatan Ibrahimović in his challenging and unpredictable style.

what do you think ??

i watched bendtner alot at arsenal... meh, not good. He is young though, he could become very good. He's probably a couple years away though

btw udinese got alexis sanchez back from river. He is a superstar in making (cristiano ronaldo type winger) and very popular in south america. I think they would part ways w/ quagliarella or di natale.... more likely the later as he is 31

Wow looks like Moratti has read Giancarlo's praise of Schweinsteiger goal.crap is reporting that Inter may be after him

Originally Posted by drucurl

Wow looks like Moratti has read Giancarlo's praise of Schweinsteiger goal.crap is reporting that Inter may be after him

You people jinxed me. lol. I'm never naming another player on here again.

I'm off and going to the beach.

Originally Posted by drucurl

Wow looks like Moratti has read Giancarlo's praise of Schweinsteiger goal.crap is reporting that Inter may be after him

omnly difference is he might pay for him

Originally Posted by Giovanni

It doesn't matter. The other mods do a great job. Long story short, i couldn't guarantee the same committment as before and resigned.

With utmost respect to you GIO,(your presence as a mod will be missed)

It does matter, I do respect your personal choice, And i`m sure this is the best Moderated forums on the web, however i brought this issue cuz I think this particular thread lacks mods touch a bit nowadays, and it has become to personal..now its not about milan and its transfers, its about about smb third!!

Once again I`m sorry i went off topic but this thread became unbearable and i`m sure the mod of this thread and supermods will do their job as usual.

respect
kastriot

I think we will end up with one major purchase, and then our mercato ends.

I admit that Berlu's approach as indicated by Gio is not what a fan wants to hear, but I see, understand, and repect his decision.

Many of u here won't, and that's fine as well...

The bigger picture is that as long as the Serie A isn't attractive to a global audience, it won't earn for clubs what the EPL can, and combine that with the lack of ownership of stadia, as has been mentioned before, and it will be a while before an Italian club breaks any transfer record, outside of the one relating to their own history...and even that would be difficult.

While Milan may (and its far from certain that we will) suffer from this $ pinching approach in terms of silverware, I am quite relieved that we are seeking to ensure the financial security of the club as a priority.

Quite a few persons here don't believe that a club of Milan's stature could do a "Leeds" and because of financial and other areas of mismanagement, end up in Serie B or worse.....but while the "sky isn't falling", I see no reason why we shouldn't balance our books as an urgent priority....and point two things out:

1) Financial and poor player management (players gambling, and nothing done about by the club to curb/prevent it) saw us in Serie B not so long ago....

2) Not one of the Leeds fans who saw them beat us in the UCL, would have believed that a few years later, they would be in the lower levels of British football...

Having the club around so I can take my granchild to a Milan match is more important than us splurging millions on transfers every season, and if Chelski and Inter aren't proof enuf that mindlessly splashing cash around won't guarantee the biggest trophy of them all..then I don't kno what is..

That Berlu pumps $ into the club is known by all...yet when he declares that he will spend $x and no more on transfers, he becomes a miser, and doesn't want the club to win anything...

Few of us here know and appreciate difficulties of owning and operating a club, but from what I understand, I like this step by Berlu.

Being fiscally prudent never hurt a soul...and if we need to get 4th place or higher next term so we can afford higher priced players, then that's what we have to do.

Can't speak for everyone, but if I am alive then, I will be supporting the club just the same.

I will agree that Galliani speaks a bit too much at times, when a simple "no comment" would suffice, though as long as his "dated" negotiating tactics work, I won't knock him for it too much.

Everytime I see him celebrating mindlessly when we score, I think how happy I am to have a VP like that...and I forget his 180% comments...for a while.

I think, Gio's presence as one of quality posters is also missed here
welcome back GIO,.. we now need u (and others) to calm this thread with your post

Gio is a fantastic poster that I have known ever since my BBC posting days (2003 ish).

What he said from the Il Giornale source is fairly well known. I was talking about it the other day with one of my Italian friends. For those of you who can read and understand Italian, that news was indeed circulated, and even mrki talked about it a while back (though maybe quoting another source).

Financial prudence is all fine and dandy, but many clubs in Italy are spending. Surely we have to spend a little bit this summer. My fear is that we won't get anyone, unless it is from "parameter zero". In 2006, Galliani could hide behind Calciopoli's uncertainty. In 2007, we were coming off a high of the CL and we got Pato. Galliani kept repeating we are European Champions. In 2008??
We shall see.

Well, to me, 17 years ago the EPL, actually back then it was Division 1(no EPL back then), were struggling greatly, due to fan violence and all Eng teams were banned from Europe Competitions and all great players went to Series A(the 7 great clubs) or Real and Barcelona. Then the formation of EPL began and did not really pick up steam till 13 yrs ago, but with just only two teams -Arsenal and ManU that got world wide appeal, Chelsea was a mid table team till Roman and Pool was struggling.

Then IMO, the moment ManU and Beckham won the triple, thats when EPL got the World Wide audience in 10 yrs ago. ANd they never looked back since.

What I am saying is that, the League as a whole should really start promoting Series A as a great league to the world wide auidence or slowly they will drop from being the top 3 leagues(used to be number 1), to top 4, then top 5..... Which is something that is very very sad.

Back to transfer, to be honest, I think at the end, Galli will manage to sign one more player who is a superstar and all of us will be thrill b/c we manage to sign one superstar, but do you guys think that is enough for our current team to win it all?

Warro,
Your post make me so proud. You are what I call a die heart fan. You breath and live AC Milan.

Everybody talks about who we are going to purchase in the summer but I like Warro will never get distracted from the point that the clubs security must be of the upmost importantance. If the club dies then we will no longer be involved in such forums as these.

Everyone wants to sign the likes of R10 and so on but it must not come at the expense of the club. Milan and the other top italian team need to get together and figure out a plan to bring Italian football back to the top.

Again great post Warro

guys gimmie a break Most of us love milan down to our last drop of blood but in case you haven't noticed....we're not exactly eating at the Salvation Army here.....if Berlu has lost his love or first love for Milan or our success he should sell the club to someone who does...it's THAT simple. Otherwise in the grand scheme of things .....we are just another toy some rich guy got tired of.......and the aftermth of THAT is far worse

Inter were so much better than Milan in last 2 seasons, it's not even funny.

Should admit it, but...

Inter is crap and always will be crap.

Absolutely agree.

And without the CL distracting Milan, that'll be more possible.

We do still have UEFA Cup to win.

Any further intolerance, insults, etc, will result in a ban.

I am a bit tired of reading pages and pages of insults, implied, or direct.

There will be no further warnings.

Long live mods!

I wonder why he feels the need to keep saying these statements, it just makes him sound ignorant to everything and a bit of a fool.

To keep us optimistic, maybe? It's okay. We need to be optimistic at hard times like this.

Okay, and for Summer Mercato:

We may be forced to look for another striker now. Ronaldo's contract was not renewed, and likely I do not think there will be another offer.

Good. He was never been really useful.

'bout Antonini:

No one said that you were wrong....but the thing is we need a great/WC STARTING left back.....what's the use fixing your generator all the time when your house has no permanent power supply.....We need a good starting Left Back with pace and skill otherwise we haven't improved....that's what everybody is trying to tell you....our team hasn't improved!!

As I said, we DO need a backup, but backup is for backing up world-class first team squads, which we didn't have!

That said,i spoke to a close friend down in Argentina and he said that he was reading in the papers that Milan,ManU and Real Madrid are chasing Radamel Falcao of River.

When i asked of the player he said that he is kind of like Pippo,very quick,can shot with either foot,great without the ball and is one the most incredible players in the air he has ever seen.

Too young and unproven. Good talents, though. Bu I saw him more similar to Pato. Maybe we can get him but we MUST ALSO get a world-class striker now.

Adebayor isn't worth 45 million. If Barcelona gets him, they'll off load Eto'o for far less than that... perhaps 30-35 million.

Actually I didn't like both, but if they could come with cheap price then no problem. In my opinions we could buy 3 Adebayors with 45M, he's so overrated. And I think we should not go for Eto'o with more than 25M.

Nicklas Bendtnerr would be an alternatve if Adebayor/Drogba case fail

And I heard he's a Milan fan since child, too. But no. We need more than him. Besides, it would hard to be imagined that Arsenal will be willing to sell him if Adebayor were to leave. Anyway, the reason why I don't like both is because they're aerial strikers which wouldn't suit with our tactics.

Oh yeah, and I think why the management is losing money more and more is because they invested so much money on players that didn't repay those, such as Ronaldo, Oliveira, and Oddo. So if we want to get back on track, then we couldn't stop buying players. Instead of it, we should spend more money, BUT for the right men!

And I'm getting tired because we are talking about same players every post. Yes I understand that we are waiting for big signings, but I think we've discussed some of the repeated names here till death. Could we start with some new names?