Official: Yoann Gourcuff PERMANENT TRANSFER to Bordeaux

Dont talk nonsence Yoan... Inter, Juve?

Maybe Yoan is on his way back to Milan as Milan will have a new coach to lead Yoan and Yoan knows it.

Originally Posted by fLame

Maldini is not our starting defender, yet does very well when called up.
Why not throw out Maldini and field a player who can play every game?

I just read this...

Paolo Maldini is one in a milion and players we have ( Bonera, Kaladze, Senderos, Favalli ) know wery well that for big games Maldini plays better then them. Also, Maldini is 40, Milan's possible biggest legend, captain, and a man who fights with 100% his every game.

All those things do not stand by Seedorf's name. Aldough Seedorf is a pure class player, the fact that he cant play few games in a row at highest level means he is phisically not capable anymore of Milan's demands.

And also this year only big game Seedorf played well was Milan-Inter when he palyed DM between Ambro and Rino. Others he was rubbish.

And other thing - the way Seedorf should be used, as you just described....well Milan doesnt use him like that. Why? I will not even start it coz there's no point.

"I would like to return to Italy. Milan or another big club"

Thats it, bring the boy back. In the past, he talked about how he wants to develop and how he will be patient. Now he feels he is ready and should be given the chance.

Originally Posted by mrki

I just read this...

Paolo Maldini is one in a milion and players we have ( Bonera, Kaladze, Senderos, Favalli ) know wery well that for big games Maldini plays better then them. Also, Maldini is 40, Milan's possible biggest legend, captain, and a man who fights with 100% his every game.

All those things do not stand by Seedorf's name. Aldough Seedorf is a pure class player, the fact that he cant play few games in a row at highest level means he is phisically not capable anymore of Milan's demands.

And also this year only big game Seedorf played well was Milan-Inter when he palyed DM between Ambro and Rino. Others he was rubbish.

And other thing - the way Seedorf should be used, as you just described....well Milan doesnt use him like that. Why? I will not even start it coz there's no point.

The only diff is that Seedorf is an AMC and Maldini is a DC. Which one will require more physical energy and which player will deteriorate faster (physically) is obvious.

I find it quite interesting that Gourcuff came out and say he would like to return when Galli just stated Carlo might not be back next year!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

Galli just stated Carlo might not be back next year!!!!!!!!!!!!

he didn't say that

Galliani just said that if the minimum goals are not joined, they could think about a change, but if we are 2nd or 3rd of the championship (and qualify directly for the CL, which was our real goal at the start of the season actually), Ancelotti will be our coach next year.

Everything else that people say is just interpretation ...

^^ Don't kid yourself our goal was to challenge for the scudetto and now that has failed we're aiming for automatic CL qualification. Wind the arms of time back to the beginning of the season when the goals were: 1. Scudetto --> 2. Uefa Cup --> 3. Coppa Italia

Originally Posted by Mystik

^^ Don't kid yourself our goal was to challenge for the scudetto and now that has failed we're aiming for automatic CL qualification. Wind the arms of time back to the beginning of the season when the goals were: 1. Scudetto --> 2. Uefa Cup --> 3. Coppa Italia

Don't kid yourself too , actually, the main goal being "Scudetto" appeared when we were at the first place, not before. I don't think the management ever thought it was possible ...

Originally Posted by GeoTav

I don't think the management ever thought it was possible ...

I know you are kind of joking, I hope any way, but if this is even 0.0001% true they have no business running a club like Milan, frankly this makes that Man City 40% ownership rumour sound good

30th August 2008: http://www.acmilan.com/NewsDetail.aspx?idNews=71640

Originally Posted by Adriano Galliani

Adriano Galliani:
"Shevchenko and Senderos are two players we strongly wanted. It's never easy to negotiate with English clubs, not only because of the language, but we still managed to bring them here.
Andriy is the player who has scored the most goals for Milan in the last fifty years, he's always remained in our hearts, and we have remained in Andriy's heart.
Senderos, meanwhile, was chosen because we wanted a player with certain characteristics, technical and athletic, like Stam to be clear, and we hope that Senderos will do as well as Stam did.

In this transfer campaign there were ten new arrivals and eleven players who left. It was the biggest transfer campaign, to which we have to add all the co-ownership deals and loans. On the Monday following the last championship we already started to think about what we would do because the fact Milan would play in the Uefa Cup motivated us even more, giving us an extra incentive. That's why we ended up having a great transfer campaign.

We believe this team ought to compete for the Scudetto, this is the objective we have given the coach. Last season the objective was to win the Club World Cup and become the most title-winning club in the world, and we did. Tomorrow our tour of Italy begins and it will be divided in 38 stops. On paper this Milan team looks extraordinary, with three Golden Ball winners. Everything we have done in these 23 years was done on the basis of feeling, our motto has always been to win by playing well. This is the philosophy of president Berlusconi and I think it's always been respected because even when we didn't win we always played well.
I thank president Berlusconi for never forgetting to show his affection for this team and if he hadn't had business elsewhere due to his role as Prime Minister, he would have followed the team's training and would have had dinner with the players. Silvio Berlusconi maintained his promises and it's too bad that some fans showed too much nervousness, but sometimes there should be more faith in the president, who kept all his promises."

There we go Geo...lol

Well that's good, don't make stuff up Geo and it is not unreasonable to want or expect that there will be big casualties if the objective isn't met.

Originally Posted by Mystik

30th August 2008: http://www.acmilan.com/NewsDetail.aspx?idNews=71640



There we go Geo...lol

This sentence is funny ... (the one that won't appear in my post because it was already a quote lol). Funny because of two things:
- Galliani is now the person who never lies ...
- in the same sentence when he says we'll compete for the Scudetto, he says that our main goal of the last season was to win the World Cup to be the most title-winning team in the world ... ... so of course, winning the last Serie A or CL wouldn't have allow us to become the most title-winning team in the world. Do you really believe this sentence ?

Originally Posted by Reza

I know you are kind of joking, I hope any way, but if this is even 0.0001% true they have no business running a club like Milan, frankly this makes that Man City 40% ownership rumour sound good

After last year, without being able to spend tons of millions, I think it is just reasonable not to say "we're going to win this title" whereas we just don't have the bench to do it ... anyway, it's also contradictory from me to say that as I still think that with some lucky results, we could still battle for this Serie A title ...

Originally Posted by GeoTav

After last year, without being able to spend tons of millions, I think it is just reasonable not to say "we're going to win this title" whereas we just don't have the bench to do it ... anyway, it's also contradictory from me to say that as I still think that with some lucky results, we could still battle for this Serie A title ...

You are right, I understand what you are saying. I just meant that some of the things that are said, done or not done by the management are becoming farcical.