Summer mercato 2009

Article 17 in Maxwells contract apparently doesnt allow him to move to an italian team. unlkess Moratti SELLs him to one. So, Maxwell will not come to Milan.

We can for sure talk about "best player of the seqson", as players form goes up and down season wise. And this season its Gerrard in my oppinion. That means "right now".

Next season - Kaka' again

Look, when a player performs consistently over a period of time, it is fair to be dubbed as the "best player in the world", and that changes from time to time, season to season. Last year, it was CR7 with his huge goal haul in the EPL, the year before it was Kaka with his unbelievable CL performances. This year, I would agree with Zidane, that player looks to be Gerard with Messi a close second.

It's all a matter of opinion, but if we can't express our opinions about who we think is the best at the moment, or which club is the best at the moment, then what's the point? These things are a part and parcel of every sport, tennis has their best, track and field have their best, basketball have their best, and football has their best, AC Milan of course

The sad thing about Maxell is, we seems to be dying to sign a player who can't even break into the bench for Inter, thats just sad.

On the surface yes but he's a very good player and certainly an improvement over Janku (as LB).

It's fine that we're thinking about Maxwell, but why is it that we always think about players who are either free or available for cheap? We should just identify our targets and go for them, not the other way round.

Exactly, what happened to us over the past few years.
I don't understand why other teams, not taking about EPL of Liga but IT teams like Inter and to some extend Juve can out spend us over the past few yrs. And yet we are always trying to sign players on the cheapend and hope they still have a few more miles left in the tank.
For the past years, Inter signed, Mancini, Queserma, Ibra, Viera, Rivas, Muntari with very few players leaving. Thus they spent much more than they sold.
Juve is about breaking even but they went two yrs without CL prior to this year and one of those yr was at Series B.
While we seems to be spending more money but when u put in the fact that we never did use Sheva's sell money and the fact that we won CL two yrs ago, we did not spend much.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

Exactly, what happened to us over the past few years.
I don't understand why other teams, not taking about EPL of Liga but IT teams like Inter and to some extend Juve can out spend us over the past few yrs. And yet we are always trying to sign players on the cheapend and hope they still have a few more miles left in the tank.
For the past years, Inter signed, Mancini, Queserma, Ibra, Viera, Rivas, Muntari with very few players leaving. Thus they spent much more than they sold.
Juve is about breaking even but they went two yrs without CL prior to this year and one of those yr was at Series B.
While we seems to be spending more money but when u put in the fact that we never did use Sheva's sell money and the fact that we won CL two yrs ago, we did not spend much.

And we made midweek friendly games just to collect money. Poor management!

I must say that for the forward position Guillame Hoarau that mrki suggested appears to be the best suggestion I've seen so far. I've been racking my brain for other potential players but must admit it's difficult.

However, I dont think PSG.no9 will be a cheep player. They know he has potential and he'll be pretty expencive.

I think its real to expect stronger Inter and Juve next year, and right now they are in front of us anyway. Seriousely.

Juve will most likely bring back Criscito and he'll take the LB place on the clown Molinaro. Then its ( latest ) possibility of Kjaer ( or some other CB ) and one vice-Nedved for sure and Cassano. Its could be even:
----Camo-Sissoko-Diego-Giovinco ( will be an amazing player next year )--

Inter will buy a lot Im sure. Morratti is a desperate man and Mourinho will ( with a little help from Ibra's pressure ) get his 3-4 players he needs: CB, AM, CF...
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For me, its clear that ( as some rightfully say ) Milan needs to buy straingh and with quality. Im for Maxwell, but when we look at the money Berlusconi posseses, and the failured in past, why not Clichy for big money? Chirisis are not so big for a man with 10 bln...

And about defence:
- Nesta could end his career
-Maldini is out
-Favalli is out ( please be out!)
-Kaladze is injured till AUGUST and is in horrible shape!
-Senderos is a joke

That is 4 CB's! And we got Thiago? Agger is like 8mln and IF nest is not ok one more is needed.

In the summer we'll see what we have. But Im sure that if Milan do not spend for real and seriousely we can forget about next year in semptember already without 5,6 serioous players.

Originally Posted by rt9

It's all a matter of opinion, but if we can't express our opinions about who we think is the best at the moment, or which club is the best at the moment, then what's the point? These things are a part and parcel of every sport, tennis has their best, track and field have their best, basketball have their best, and football has their best, AC Milan of course

See, it can be concluded

Originally Posted by mrki

However, I dont think PSG.no9 will be a cheep player. They know he has potential and he'll be pretty expencive.

In all honesty, that is the biggest fear I have with him. I think he will be at a fairly high price after this season (I think he's second in Ligue top scorers right now). Still, he's a player I think could be useful as he's a big target man but isn't like Borriello (another reason why I dismiss Gomez right now), in that he's more closer to the style of Toni than Borriello.

I agree we need to invest strongly this summer, not necessarily by spending fortunes, but through smart deals. We have to change our transfer strategies from looking for big marketing names to seriously strengthening our squad.

As I said in the Gourcuff thread, right now I'd consider selling Dinho as he's worth a fair amount (I'm sure Man City would be interested) and we'd knock a huge salary off our wage bill and fund some of our transfers. I don't think we'll ever get the best of Dinho and if we manage to I think it will be difficult to get the best of Kaka and Pato.

Sell Dinho and we can look to get a new forward, who doesn't necessarily have to be one of the world's best (especially if we're looking to fit Gourcuff in). As a new forward shouldn't come to the same price as Dinho, we can use the leftover funds to pay for key additions in defence.

Like I said before a couple of weeks ago, sell guys wasting space in our squad like Kaladze and we can fund large parts of transfers like Santacroce (who I still dream of even if it's unrealistic). Sell Oddo and we can fund a fair portion of a deal for someone like Clichy. Another fullback solution is to try for Di Silvestri who looks very good and we can play Zambrotta at LB or even Zuniga (though he's a bigger risk). Sell Dida and we can get Marchetti. Get rid of Emerson and even possibly Ambro who may not be needed if we aim to use Janku in midfield, and get Mariga. Finally, with the loss of guys like Favalli and Maldini, we'd need one or maybe 2 additions for backup in the CB role. Bring in a decent backup like Carrozieri that won't cost a fortune and keep a guy like Favalli (or bring in Panucci maybe?) to be the very last choice in worst cases (which hopefully is never). I've not even mentioned guys like Abate coming back either.

Essentially, it's adding depth to the squad, reducing the average and increasing the quality, both in the first team and on the bench. It shouldn't cost a fortune and we can seriously look to compete.

Also, new reports are coming out about us looking at Mariga. I'm happy about this and I still think he'll be a good risk to take this summer.

@mrki: you are forgetting that we have Bonera in central defense also... In my opinion he is a superb backup in central defense, but he's not good as a right back and I really hope Ancelotti will stop using him in that position.

As for a striker, I think we should really consider Paloschi for next year. He is very good. I mean, why would we go to Brazil and buy Keirrison for 20 mil if we have a striker of same qualities right in front of our eyes. We are making the same mistake Real is making... They have a bunch of really good young players around La Liga, but they are buying foreign youngsters that are not even as good as there home grown players are... I think that Paloschi is similar to Pato... If Paloschi would get as many chances as Pato is getting, he would also score that many goals... And imagine Pato and Paloschi in three years. They would form the best attack in the world. I am not saying that Paloschi should be our second striker for next year. I would go with Pato-Borriello in attack and Paloschi and Inzaghi on the bench. So that would mean we could spend much more money on our defense. We could bring Clichy, Mexes, Maxwell and maybe even one more defender. Don't forget that Milan scored 51 goals so far in the league. Only Inter (54) scored more. So our biggest problem is in defense.

And also I really don't think that Juve and Inter are better than us. OK Inter maybe, but they are so lucky this year... What you have to realize is that Milan is missing its key players... We were in the lead at the start of the year when we had all the players at our disposal. Then Gattuso got injured and he is a key player for our team. We are missing Nesta, one of the best defenders in the world, the whole season and nobody really expected that. Then Pirlo got injured for two months and he really hasn't been the same since... Borriello, who is the only striker on our team with different qualities, is out for the season. Tell me also how many games did Kaka and Ronaldinho played at 100%? Very few... So with all the injuries to our key players we are just 7 points behind Juve (who also had problems with injuries, but not as much as Milan) and don't forget they still have to come to San Siro.

The thing is that, it is when we miss our so call key players-Pirlo and Seedorf that enable us to beat weaker sides.

I few quick points about the posts above:

gregapenny
1) I agree, Bonera's a very good backup
2) I wouldn't get Paloschi back as it could stunt his growth. I think it's best for him to stay at a club where he gets to play fairly regularly.

Gabriel
1) I agree Seedorf hasn't really helped our team when played (well, not lately anyway).
2) About Pirlo, I think a lot of blame has been placed unfairly on his shoulders. When we won before he came back, we were not playing good football and our results were often grinding out 1-goal victories, usually from an individual bit of skill from guys like Dinho. Eventually this would come back to bite us as we simply can't maintain results that way and so it's no shock that results fell. I think Gattuso's loss was a much bigger problem than Pirlo's return, as we lost probably the most important player during the first half of the season. It's no coincidence that during the first half of the season our defence was statistically one of the best and now is shockingly poor, leaking goals every game, which is costing us results.

Great point, as usual, Dev. Gattuso's loss, and subsequently the inability of Nesta to ever come back, has cost Milan dearly.