Summer mercato 2009

Galliani cares about himself first and foremost. In the 1980s, he once remarked that he wants to stay in Berlusconi's orbit, so he can, well, become rich.

He is a cynical fat-cat. It's not Florentino who pumps money into Real, it's their merchandising and TV deals that do.

If, as you say, Galliani has Milan's best interest in mind, he can take two approaches:

1) Keep Kaka' and Pato and whittle the squad down to a solid set of 14-15 players who earn their keep. Further, he can promote players from the youth set-up.

2) If he runs Milan as a business, then he, alongside the angelic Berlusconi, will sit down and say, "we bought Kaka' for peanuts, let's make a profit while he is under 30."

The former is the sensible thing to do if you have a miserly owner who only cares about his image. The latter is the easier thing to do.

Well, lets see what Berlu will do for us this summer.

I just think he will spend big, and I mean very very big.

For one thing, i'm really sick of hearing Kaka rumors. The more that Kaka and management deny any movement, is the more that the papers continue to hound the issue. At some point during the summer, it get annoying.

Cristiano Ronaldo is continually linked away from Man Utd to go to REAL MADRID. Kaka is continually linked away to go to...REAL MADRID. I think we've been going through this song and dance with Real for the past 2 summers. I dont know what needs to be done for it to stop, but for one idea, the armband may very well cut the rumors for good?? It's not a gesture to stop rumors since I truly think he deserves it. The spanish press (AS and MARCA) are some of the worst i've seen. I think we've all seen the mockup picture of Zidane handing Kaka the Real shirt.

For one thing, if Milan were to sell Kaka, Berlu and Galliani would have to immediately sign Ronaldo or Messi or else that city would be turned upside down!!

They won't stop as the media in Spain needs to sell paper.

Originally Posted by fLame

Anyway, I will let you have your minute of ridicule. We will see the results next season.

well flame you had a lot of minutes of ridicule the past season,and results were nothing near to what you expected..

so please before you start mocking and insulting everyone just remember your posts,and all your wong predictions showin that you know NOTHING about football..

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

Well, lets see what Berlu will do for us this summer.

I just think he will spend big, and I mean very very big.

It's very unlikely he will spend big. I will be happy if we keep our best players and with 2-3 smart buys.

Originally Posted by kef

It's very unlikely he will spend big. I will be happy if we keep our best players and with 2-3 smart buys.

I just have the feeling that Berlu did not spend mainly due to the fact that he does not like Carlo and wants Carlo out.
I still believe that if we actually made it to the CL last season, Carlo would have been gone.
I think alot of us here tends to forget that if it was not for the calipolli(can't spell), we would have bought in, Thuram, Zambro, Ibra and even Buffon from Juve. Thats a lot of players.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

I just have the feeling that Berlu did not spend mainly due to the fact that he does not like Carlo and wants Carlo out.

Why would Berlusconi do that? He could have just fired him, if he wanted Ancelotti to leave previous year.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

I still believe that if we actually made it to the CL last season, Carlo would have been gone.

So if Ancelotti had done better, he would have been fired?? Strange reasoning...

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

I think alot of us here tends to forget that if it was not for the calipolli(can't spell), we would have bought in, Thuram, Zambro, Ibra and even Buffon from Juve. Thats a lot of players.

It's possible we would have bought some of those players, but we would have bought them just because Juventus had to sell them against a considerable cheap price.

Originally Posted by fLame

O really? How about our 2007 champions league squad?
And i know what you are going to say - "Kaka at his best in 2007".
BUT, it was Ancelotti that put Kaka in that role, it was Ancelotti that gave the team the right motivation, and it was Ancelotti that found the perfect balance with his far from perfect team and outclassed ManUre.

Soon you are gonna start basing your arguments on single games.
You make me luff.

I always said positive things about that CL period of Milan. Its absurd to say different. But its wrong to think that Milan had poor squad for that CL:

Maldini played as CB and was great, Nesta, Pirlo was on top of his form and was always rested and specially prepared for CL games, Seedorf the same ( and 2 years younger then now), Gattuso of course, Kaka' and Inzaghi who was also specially prepared for CL.

That season Milan played only CL. In serie a we played horrible and did all we can to prepare those 8-9 players to be 100% for CL.

Man utd of that season is nowhere near the United of the next year. Its clear to everyone. Anyway we did brilliantly, noone in here ever said anything against that CL campaign.

My post was, if yu didnt understand, a response to your prediction that Leo will not do well in his first season and that he is downgrade in our bench compared to Carlo. I just explained that Ancelotti also did nothing in his first year and started to play well after Milan created a team out of 12-13 superstar players. A team that was, back then, the strongest team in the world. It was my responce to your conclusion Leo will not do well in his first year ( back in Leonardo topic ) while Carlo did ( which he also didnt).

I never based by arguments on single games and you saying I'll start is just comical and without any reason except your immagination.

Also, one poster said well ( M.O.I. I think): look at your comments before and things you predicted ( all wrong). Then think about it and then come here to talk again.

Well, my point about Carlo did not leave last year is mainly b/c no good coach want to take over Milan(being not in CL), thus nobody can replace Carlo.

Think about that, Berlu can't fire him after 2006 b/c of the incoming scandal, as no good coach will want to take over Milan with all those uncertainty. If it was not for that, Berlu would have spent money on players along with a new coach.
Berlu can't fire him after 2007 b/c lets face it we were CL champ.

Just have some faith in Berlu, as he always like to play hero and save the day.

Anyway, new comment not connected to the Carlo Ancelotti response:

Leonardo talked today about new way of preparations that will include work with the ball. Something Mourinho does as well. That should improve speed of passing and movement and ball possesion in opponents half. Also new metods of phisical preparations will be presented etc.

He also talked about wanting fullbacks who move deeper and that he'll work on wing positions which are important in his vision of Milan.

ManUtd in 07. When they played against us, a lot of their key players were either came back from injury or injured at that time.

It seems like he wants a winger and with Berlu whispering to CR7......interesting don't u think.

yup it'll be interesting to see what he will do with Milan, how will are team look next season. I like to see Milan play with wingers again, it's been a long time since we last played with wingers. He has plans without a doubt but if he will be able to accomplish them it's yet to be seen. So i guess we'll be fishing for wingers and attacking fullbacks this summer.

Originally Posted by mrki

Anyway, new comment not connected to the Carlo Ancelotti response:

Leonardo talked today about new way of preparations that will include work with the ball. Something Mourinho does as well. That should improve speed of passing and movement and ball possesion in opponents half. Also new metods of phisical preparations will be presented etc.

He also talked about wanting fullbacks who move deeper and that he'll work on wing positions which are important in his vision of Milan.

Oh ... I'm disappointed, that means he wants fullbacks a bit like we had with Cafu and Serginho, so that means no Oddo for next year ... I'm sad ...

More seriously, a kind of 4-3-3 could be done with our current players (if we keep them) + some additions:

----------- Pato ------------
Ronaldinho ------- New player
----------- Kaka ------------
---------- CM/DM -----------
---------- Defence ----------
------------ GK -------------