Summer mercato 2009

He was never a great player. A journeyman at most. Should never had ended up in Milan. Only ended up in inert because of mancini. A sign of the decline in Milan and Italian football when players like favalli are playing for big teams.

Favalli will leave in the end of the season. And don't trust Tuttosport, they are Turin piece of ****... Everything they write is trash...

Originally Posted by Tony75

Actually a flat four of Gourcuff, Rino, Flamini, Kaka would be our best option for next season, esp if Kaka wants box to box players. Only Rino of that 4 would hang back a bit more.

Rino + Flamini would not work

Originally Posted by Ghost

Rino + Flamini would not work

Why ? Did you see them playing together ?

Mystik, I saw you put a link for the game with Neymar and Keirrison, did you watch it ?
Any comment about the players ?

Originally Posted by Ghost

Rino + Flamini would not work

How about this

---------------------2 strikers-------------------

------Gourcoff-----Flamini-----Kaka-----Rino---------

or

---------------------2 strikers-------------------

-----------------------Kaka-------------------------

----------Flamini-----Gourcoff-----Rino----------------

It works for me

And is ACM really linked with Arsenal's Aderbayor? And how much ACM is willing to pay? It must be around 25 mil. Why not add 5 mil more and get Torress or Villa if possible, specially since both of them have shown their dsire to play in Serie-A (atleast according to Goal.com)

Aderbayor would be waste of money

Your first formation can't work ...

And just something I noticed the last few days (didn't post but I checked what was new): is it possible to write correctly the names of the players ?

LONDON (England) - They have no doubts in England: the forbidden dream Berlusconi called Emmanuel Adebayor. According to today's edition of 'The Daily Mail', the patron rossonero would be willing to invest 35 million to buy the Arsenal striker, courted in the past.

Originally Posted by GeoTav

Your first formation can't work ...

I would disagree....
If the players play well and do their thing, it doesn't really matter what kind of formation they're in.
RealM played 4-4-2 or shall we say 4-2-2-2 with Zizou and Figo and they crushed everyone. They weren't just stars who walked around on the field, but rather players who were running, closing down opponents, did their work in the defence too.
The moment they slowed down (seedorf syndrome) RealM collapsed.

Today, Barca uses technical players,to me, they're all attacking midfielders, but they also play their part in defense, put pressure on opponents etc....

Originally Posted by Fret

I would disagree....
If the players play well and do their thing, it doesn't really matter what kind of formation they're in.
RealM played 4-4-2 or shall we say 4-2-2-2 with Zizou and Figo and they crushed everyone. They weren't just stars who walked around on the field, but rather players who were running, closing down opponents, did their work in the defence too.
The moment they slowed down (seedorf syndrome) RealM collapsed.

Today, Barca uses technical players,to me, they're all attacking midfielders, but they also play their part in defense, put pressure on opponents etc....

All depends on the role and restrictions you give to your players ...
For example: putting Kaka' in the center of our midfield means he has to defend, more than what he usually does, will he be able to be decisive ?

My point of view goes something like this:
If Iniesta can play defense, Kaka can also

But Iniesta doesn't defend well, it's because the whole team, all the players are placed like they have to be placed to take the ball to their opponents, put the pressure, etc.

So it has to change for all our players, if you put Iniesta today in our team, you'll notice he can't defend.

And the problem is that Iniesta isn't the same kind of player than Kaka', nowadays, if you give defensive tasks to Kaka', I don't think he can be decisive as he is hardly decisive without having defensive tasks !! Also, Iniesta is an attacking midfielder, he plays like a "central midfielder", but if you put him in attack, he will be useless, I think it is the contrary for Kaka', he is an attacking midfielder, he can play like a "second striker", but I think he is useless in the centre of our midfield.

I dont think it's too much to ask of Kaka to get into passing lanes, disrupt passes....we wouldnt ask him to run down ball carriers and tackle. Iniesta is as far forward up the field as much as Kaka. Iniesta is brilliant and to be described as around here the term "modern" player.

Originally Posted by GeoTav

Why ? Did you see them playing together ?

Mystik, I saw you put a link for the game with Neymar and Keirrison, did you watch it ?
Any comment about the players ?

Palmeiras got completely owned up to the point that I didn't see Keirisson get one chance on goal. I must admit I didn't watch the entire match though...got finals coming up. While I did watch the match though, neither player did anything special. I must have bad luck

JUst want to say, over the past 6 games.
We were
3-0(no Seedorf)
5-1(no Seedorf)
0-0(Seedorf)
2-1(Seedorf, extra mins winnner)
1-0(Seedorf)
5-1(No Seedorf)

Very interesting if you ask me. ON top of that Carlo said we lacks speed and movement and yet he also stated Seedorf is an important player and regardless of his form, he is needed in the first team. Very interesting!!!!

I watched Bourdoux-Lyon for like 15min in each half (just when Milan had a HT and after the end )... did anyone saw more? Yoan did well from what I saw. Classical fantasista with great passing and vision.

I think we can all see its the end of Seedorf...