Summer mercato 2009

Originally Posted by Rick

But they found him. You don't always replace a great player with another player who is just as good or better right away. It's better to wait and find the right player.

I think a lot of this depends on your definition of replacement. To me, a club of Milan's caliber should replace a dynamic goal scorer like Shevchenko with someone who can contribute at similar levels. In that regard, one can argue that milan still haven't found a replacement for Shevchenko yet as we still do not have a forward we can relay on for goals. Pato is a great player, but replacing Shevchenko with him did indeed significantly decrease our attacking power.

I think our downhill spiral began with our inability to find a viable Shevchenko replacement after he left in '06. They were either busts (Gila) or a waste to begin with (Oliveira).

Originally Posted by Blacktop

I think our downhill spiral began with our inability to find a viable Shevchenko replacement after he left in '06. They were either busts (Gila) or a waste to begin with (Oliveira).

Hmm...Gila came in 2005.

Pato was our replacement for Sheva; Oliveira was bought during the infamous Calciopli summer. The management doesn't deserve much credit in recent years, but Pato was a great purchase.

Andre Santos is our reason for being in Brazil (milannews).

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Morabito: If Milan want Huntelaar they have to pay Valdano's price. They could wait till August for a reduced price, but by then he may be gone.

goal.com

Milan can't wait as german side VfB Stuttgart plans to sign him, in order to replace Gomez. And remember, Bayern paid 35 Mio € for Gomez!

It looks like we try to build a strong squad ... for the Primavera !!

Is it our new way to build the team ??
We already bought 3 players for the Primavera, 3 promising players ... so maybe they want to build a strong Primavera by taking players from other clubs for now (by waiting players from our own youth teams), and it's a way to prepare them to be in our first team in some years ??

Acording to some sources we are very near to buy Andre Santos..Braida in mission in Brazil..lol..

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Hmm...Gila came in 2005.

Pato was our replacement for Sheva; Oliveira was bought during the infamous Calciopli summer. The management doesn't deserve much credit in recent years, but Pato was a great purchase.

Andre Santos is our reason for being in Brazil (milannews).

Eh, I don't know about Andre Santos, what are your thoughts of him?

I'd rather have Cissohko, I just read Porto rejected a bid from Lyon for 10 mil.

Re: Santos

Corinthians have Real flu atm and are asking for 20 million euros . But a South American transfer expert thinks a deal could be in place for 6 million euros.

If we sign him, then we will certainly give up on Cissokho. He will also take up the non-eu spot and our striker options would be limited.

Originally Posted by mrki

Now we'll make the Us tour, sell his shirts and make milions again.

You know, actually I don't think it is the bad idea.

Originally Posted by Dutchie-Milan

I already said it a million time you scum,my account was takenover by somebody else(probably a interista)and i thought in that time Warro said that it wasnt me because i was posting like a Milan fan and all of the sudden i was posting negative crap about Milan,even mrki said sorry to me because he thought it was me who was saying those crap-****.

But i remember that back then you were the only one who still believed it was me who posted those **** and thats because youre scum.I remember it clearly SCUM

Mods please ban this user, he's roaming around cursing everyone in his way...

Hey Dutchie, I want you to know that to have less swearwords in your posts doesn't mean that your point will be lost, so chill down. I'm not your mother but I'm concerned, tired, and annoyed if you keep swearing to everyone not agreeing with you. And don't even try that to me.

Juve just signed Felipe Melo for 20 million euros plus Marchionne (2-3 million euro).

Along the same lines, Bayern paid 30 million euros for Mario Gomez.

We would have never paid that much money for these players.

I think Juve is way ahead of us at the moment.

Originally Posted by Fret

I think Juve is way ahead of us at the moment.

by a far mile!! But the market is young and we all knew without Pirlo leaving, we were never going to chase Melo! With this now done, I would like for us to chase D'Agostino

They have bought Diego and yet Melo (if news can be trusted). They haven't got any big money for players they have sold. They were in Serie B 3 years ago, had no CL two years ago and still can buy 'expensive' players?

What happened actually with Milan?

Originally Posted by Fret

I think Juve is way ahead of us at the moment.

Yea definetly, they've probably had the best Mercato so far in Italy. I don't expect much else to happen there though.

I'm actually glad that Melo went to Juventus and not Arsenal. I think it's good for Serie A that he stays, since it's very important that the Italian teams do good in europe this season.

Also about our economy, as far as I know it's as good as they come. The only reason why we sold Kaka and haven't spend like Juventus is that our club is the only one of the top clubs who has decided that we're not gonna run on debt.