Summer mercato 2009

Originally Posted by Iggy

I'd prefer Milan to stay italian owned. I'd rather have transfer summers like this instead of the club becoming another Man City

NO! transfer summer like this must stop. its really bad for the image of the team.
If we dont have money to buy someon dont buy anyone. but do not make the club look ridiculous!

Why do some of you assume that if there is a new Arab owner, he/she will just come in and say bench the existing team players and sign players to replace them. If they are quality players, they will play, period.
I mean when Roman bought Chelsea and brought in Mutu, Crespo, Veron... did the coach at that time bench Lampard, J. Cole, and Terry?
Yes, the man at Man City are buying players...but do Man City even have quality players to help them challenge the BIG 4?

Be real guys.

Originally Posted by Rossoneri Fuego

Mrki isn't a milan supporter,he's a as roma intermilan and juve supporter idk how the hell it's possible to support 4 teams in the same league?

I know. Tell me about it. Mrki is so evil that he has been pretending to be a Milan supporter for so many years. I can't believe that I fell for it, but you have to admit that he did a heck of job pretending to be a true Milan supporter.

Originally Posted by Graeme C

I wonder how true the rumours were of michele ferrero "Mr Nutella" taking over the club..

Our other hope is that Milan will get handed over to Belusconis wife as part of the divorse settlement.. jk

I thought it was Giovanni Ferrero either way the made 6.2 billion for 2007 - 2008 according to what I could find out , so they would invest with alot of money but nothing vulgar

Lord knows the Milan hierarchy have been embarrassing lately, but this really does take the cake. First they declare Luis Fabiano is their only transfer target, then refuse to raise the offer above a pathetic – by today’s standards - £12.5m for the Confederations Cup top scorer and number one Brazil striker. Now it emerges they may well be surreptitiously taking Sevilla to court via Rio, the company that owns 65 per cent of Fabiano’s contract. This is not cool.

When clubs start resorting to such dirty tactics, it feels deeply wrong and what’s more impossible suddenly to decry the behaviour of other sides, as Milan so famously did when Real Madrid tried to tap up Kaka in recent years. It is particularly unforgivable when Luis Fabiano would have been available for around £16m – hardly a huge figure – and the Rossoneri just pocketed £56m for Kaka.

That is money, by the way, that has not been spent at all. Oguchi Onyewu arrived on a free transfer, Thiago Silva was signed in January, while all the other newcomers like Massimo Oddo, Ignazio Abate and Davide Di Gennaro are returning from loan spells. Having lost Kaka, Paolo Maldini, Philippe Senderos and Andriy Shevchenko over the summer, it is no time to be penny-pinching like this. It’s embarrassing for what was once the biggest club in Europe to be massively out-spent by Genoa and Palermo. If they can balance the books, why can’t Milan?

Let us not even get started on the lack of world class reinforcements in defence or the inexplicable presence of Giuseppe Favalli. Adriano Galliani and Silvio Berlusconi aren’t just running this side into the ground, they are sullying its image at home and abroad. I never thought I’d say this, but at the moment I am embarrassed to be a Milanista.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/footba...logs/sc74.html

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For once I agree with them.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

Why do some of you assume that if there is a new Arab owner, he/she will just come in and say bench the existing team players and sign players to replace them. If they are quality players, they will play, period.
I mean when Roman bought Chelsea and brought in Mutu, Crespo, Veron... did the coach at that time bench Lampard, J. Cole, and Terry?
Yes, the man at Man City are buying players...but do Man City even have quality players to help them challenge the BIG 4?

Be real guys.

The difference been was Lampard,Terry and cole were and still are good quality players and the reason why Man City cant attract players in the top half of the ladder is they dont have CL football and have no prestige or history, hypothetocally speaking if we got a Billionair to splash the money im sure we could sign anybody within reason, Dzeko,Vidic,Evra,Buffon you name them, as Milan has History and Prestige

Originally Posted by Kaka1899

The difference been was Lampard,Terry and cole were and still are good quality players and the reason why Man City cant attract players in the top half of the ladder is they dont have CL football and have no prestige or history, hypothetocally speaking if we got a Billionair to splash the money im sure we could sign anybody within reason, Dzeko,Vidic,Evra,Buffon you name them, as Milan has History and Prestige

Btw, am I the only one that thinks that Manchester City's transfers are crazy. They buy Carlos Tevez, Adebayor and Santa Cruz the summer after they bought Robinho. Who needs defenders and midfielders if you have alot of strikers!!

Btw, are we playing LA Galaxy tonight? Can't seem to find anything on the www.acmilan.com, it's a really bad website honostly, they really need to fix that up especially the English part.

no its tomorrow we play Galaxy, and seriousley out of the Players City have got this summer only Tevez would i want to wear our shirt.

Originally Posted by Kaka1899

no its tomorrow we play Galaxy

No, actually it is tonight. The match starts at 7 p.m. local time in Los Angeles, which would be 10 p.m. eastern time (U.S.) and, I believe, 4 a.m. in Milan.

Originally Posted by Jay Crisp

Im not saying that I want signings on the 1st of june but the fact is and the sooner you realise it Milan has been (from a transfer point of view) horribly mismanaged for at least well honestly about 5 years and if you fail to see what is in front of your eys then you are a fool , I follow Milan always have always will but the name of the club is been dragged through the mud and for what because Silvio Berlusconi is an OAP out of touch who dosn't have a clue anymore , and the fact is the offered less for Dzeko , offered nothing for Huntelaar and tried to go back on a deal for Cissokho .

So if you don't want to read my whole post and see that MGT have on several occations offered below the value of a player then Il post for you if your going to be smart at least do it from an angle where you are right....have a nice day bye

blah blah and blah. I love miserable people

Originally Posted by Rick

No, actually it is tonight. The match starts at 7 p.m. local time in Los Angeles, which would be 10 p.m. eastern time (U.S.) and, I believe, 4 a.m. in Milan.

anyone one know if its on TV?

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

anyone one know if its on TV?

Not in the U.S., unless it's being shown locally in Southern California. Fox Soccer Channel is showing it on tape delay Monday night at 8 eastern (and a few other times this week) so I imagine it will be the same for Canada, although I know the program schedule is different up there. I don't know if there's a live internet feed or not.

Pece4ever linked this site in the preseason friendlies thread. They're showing Milan-Galaxy on the schedule.

http://www.rojadirecta.com/

im going to see them play inter in boston and i cant wait!

Originally Posted by pirlofanusa

im going to see them play inter in boston and i cant wait!

Great!

I just finished watching Inter lose to America on penalty kicks.

I m excited about seeing Milan, but there has been a lot taken out with the departure of KAKA. I think a lot of people wanted to see Kaka and half of people would have not bought tickets if they knew Kaka was gonna leave.