Summer mercato 2009

Hey,
This might not be the right thread to ask this old question but does anyone remember why we didn't keep Crespo when he was on loan a few years ago?

I figured it might've been because he was too expensive but we ended buying R.Olvieria instead anyway.

If this is the wrong place to discuss this can mods move it to the correct place pleease thx.

Originally Posted by Mordicai

Hey,
This might not be the right thread to ask this old question but does anyone remember why we didn't keep Crespo when he was on loan a few years ago?

I figured it might've been because he was too expensive but we ended buying R.Olvieria instead anyway.

If this is the wrong place to discuss this can mods move it to the correct place pleease thx.

If memory serves me correct, Chelsea recalled him from the loan because they wanted another big-name striker to go along with Drogba and Mourinho convinced him to come back. If I'm not mistaken he wanted to come back to Milan after the season, but Chelsea wouldn't let him. Why he ended up at Inter instead, I'm not really sure.

Marco Motta was impressive yesterday.. wonder if we're keeping tabs on him.

He's already playing for Roma. Besides he'd need about 10 years more experience to start for us.

I thought he was on loan from Udinese? We could still get him.

Carlo will never play him as long as he is young and cheap, if he costs 15Mil, then thats a different story.

Give me a ****ing break. Stupid comments like those maybe made sense a while ago, but after buying Pato, Thiago Silva and Felipe you'd think people would grow up a little bit.

Well he/she is partly right though Carlo has shown us better of late.

U mentioned Felipe and yet, I have not seen him play once in the league.

T. Silva costs 12 mil and Pato costs about 20M.

Get your facts straight.

On top of that, Sanderous is young but he costs Milan 2M, even though he is pure crap.

Kaka also costs MIlan about 22M.

Pls accept the fact that Carlo does not know how to develop young players.

Pirlo cost us how much? he was a mediocre AM before moving to milan.he became a nominee for ballon'de or under carlo. so is the case for gatusso also.

I thought Kaka` is much cheaper than that!?

The other key question is whether Milan is open for developing young players; it seems not.

We are not open for developing young players.but if you can not conquer league bottom teams with ease,how can you be able to field younsters to get experience.

Our youth system should take a large part of blame,we are improving recently though.

Big teams emphasize on immediate result, that's why Milan, Madrid, etc prefer buying proven players to developing young ones, except if they have extraordinary quality (Paolo or Raul). To some extent, we the fans, who keep on clamoring for more and glory, deserve to be blamed too

Originally Posted by Nalx

Big teams emphasize on immediate result, that's why Milan, Madrid, etc prefer buying proven players to developing young ones, except if they have extraordinary quality (Paolo or Raul). To some extent, we the fans, who keep on clamoring for more and glory, deserve to be blamed too

Fans always have expectations that border on what's possible for their team - it's the same for all clubs, and it shouldn't be a hindrance to the management or the team. If anything the fans should spur the club to performing better and staying focused on the job at hand. If people at the club can't handle the fans, then they aren't cut out for being in a competitive club (if that's what we are these days ).

True; my question is whether booing is going to help the team focus. It depends so much on individual player, but when you are not playing well + getting booed: you are not going to get motivated and play any better...