Summer mercato 2009

Boo hoo hoo...sob sob sob, wail wail wail...B&G are stealing the £s from the Kaka+Gourcuff sale...

Moan, moan groan, wail wail wail, we are full of geriatric players, and next season we are bound to fail....

Woe is we, in this mercato, fans are so frustrated, it seems for certain next season we will get relegated....

B&G are ****ing stupid,i mean really ****ing stupid,they are pissing me off,they want to buy a striker for peanuts?Fine i dont care,just do it already,they are so many possibilities.

Keirisson went to Barca the other day for 14 million,the fee that Milan are only willing to spend,why didnt MGT bought him.

Nilmar is on the verge to complete a move to Villareal,do you guys want to know for how muche?Around 11 million.....why dont MGT make a move for him.For God's sake what the **** are they doing,eating out their asses?

They dont want to spend,fine?! But they are plenty strikers available who are of great quality and avalaible and they see Milan as a dream move,just sign one of them,is it so ****ing hard.

We have defense problems?Fine,Lugano is a great CB and avalaible....do you guys want to know for how much....ehmmm let me think.....FREEEEE!!!Make a move for him,****ing MGT!

30 years is a completely arbitrary threshold to evaluate players. A footballer doesn't lose anything the moment he turns 30, so why do we keep using that as sort of the top of the mountain, where everything goes downhill the moment you hit the third decade? Its stupid.

Leonardo has publicly criticised our transfer market according to milannews and tribal. He apparently said that when taking this role on his first request was to have a striker with qualities similar to Dzeko, something which has failed to materialize and our botched up deals (including Fabiano and probably Trezeguet) will ultimately force him to play a different system to what he intended.

Lavezzi wouldn't be bad, but swapping with Borri wouldn't be good for the same reasons the Trezeguet swap wasn't good. Borriello may not be a great forward, but he's got unique qualities which are important to our squad. Unless we get another forward with similar qualities, we need to hold onto him.

Swapping Borrie with Lavezzi would be a good move,because Borrie is a good striker,but nothing more,Lavezzi will be a world class player in 1/2 years and has more talent then Borrie etc.If we lose Borrie it isnt bad,why?Because we could move Pato to CF,but then we would miss a big forward striker?Well,that would not be the end of the world,Barca is playing with small players and they are doing fine,to play without a Big Forward,your strikers need alloooooooooooot of technique and speed to compensate it....and with Lavezzi and Pato and Dinho,you have that in your team.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Leonardo has publicly criticised our transfer market according to milannews and tribal. He apparently said that when taking this role on his first request was to have a striker with qualities similar to Dzeko, something which has failed to materialize and our botched up deals (including Fabiano and probably Trezeguet) will ultimately force him to play a different system to what he intended.

Lavezzi wouldn't be bad, but swapping with Borri wouldn't be good for the same reasons the Trezeguet swap wasn't good. Borriello may not be a great forward, but he's got unique qualities which are important to our squad. Unless we get another forward with similar qualities, we need to hold onto him.

I have been waiting for Leo to speak up for a long time now.... A few smart low key deals could do Milan a world of good. By low key, I am saying around the 15 million euro mark, which Milan struggles to reach, plus a few clever player swaps....

I think Boriello is similar to Adebayor in terms of accuracy and aerial threat, just way less prolific... It is ok to keep him, but he won't be a first team player, just another good option if a tall man is needed....

Originally Posted by Dutchie-Milan

Swapping Borrie with Lavezzi would be a good move,because Borrie is a good striker,but nothing more,Lavezzi will be a world class player in 1/2 years and has more talent then Borrie etc.If we lose Borrie it isnt bad,why?Because we could move Pato to CF,but then we would miss a big forward striker?Well,that would not be the end of the world,Barca is playing with small players and they are doing fine,to play without a Big Forward,your strikers need alloooooooooooot of technique and speed to compensate it....and with Lavezzi and Pato and Dinho,you have that in your team.

Difference is La Liga and Serie A football are different. We need a physical player to dominate against teams playing with 9 behind the ball and leaving no space. The physical player would be an alternative to dominate physically or be a problem for opponents and thus make space for others.

Chelsea played in a not too dissimilar way to low Serie A teams when facing Barca last season and we all know how much trouble Barca had against them.

Originally Posted by Saliwonczyk

Kaka came relatively cheap from Brazil..... By no means should we be buying already established stars of Europe, but the rising ones..... That is why Dzeko would have matched the bill, becuase in time, he had the potential of becoming as influentual for Milan as Kaka in his prime.....

Well, Kaka came about 7-8 yrs ago and back then the fee paid by Milan was quite high considering Kaka has not play one game in Europe.

On top of that, knowing how much CR7 costed and the way Real throws money around. It is very possible that Milan could have gotten a much better offer than the 65Mil.

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Boo hoo hoo...sob sob sob, wail wail wail...B&G are stealing the £s from the Kaka+Gourcuff sale...

Moan, moan groan, wail wail wail, we are full of geriatric players, and next season we are bound to fail....

Woe is we, in this mercato, fans are so frustrated, it seems for certain next season we will get relegated....

I agree completely.

Originally Posted by brk

30 years is a completely arbitrary threshold to evaluate players. A footballer doesn't lose anything the moment he turns 30, so why do we keep using that as sort of the top of the mountain, where everything goes downhill the moment you hit the third decade? Its stupid.

And the same people who complain endlessly about every Milan player or potential Milan player who is 30 (or even within a year or two of it) think it's a stroke of genius when Inter signs players who are 30-plus.

Originally Posted by Dutchie-Milan

Swapping Borrie with Lavezzi would be a good move,because Borrie is a good striker,but nothing more,Lavezzi will be a world class player in 1/2 years and has more talent then Borrie etc.If we lose Borrie it isnt bad,why?Because we could move Pato to CF,but then we would miss a big forward striker?Well,that would not be the end of the world,Barca is playing with small players and they are doing fine,to play without a Big Forward,your strikers need alloooooooooooot of technique and speed to compensate it....and with Lavezzi and Pato and Dinho,you have that in your team.

Totally agree Dutchie, having lavezzi, Pato and Ronnie would be a potent forward line! It looks like it, mgt aren't prepared to pay +$10m for a CF this mercato. Exchanging Borriello for Lavezzi wouldn't cost us anything (cross my fingers). Borriello would be a loss, and I do believe when his fit and firing, he is a great forward, but like you said....moving Pato to CF would work fine until next mercato when we can buy Dzeko.

I'm really hoping we grab Huntelaar.

---------------------------Huntelaar--------------------------
-------------------Dinho-----------------Pato------------------
----------Gattuso-------------Pirlo-------------Flamini/Abate-----
--Hopefully new LB-----Nesta------Silva-----------Zambro-------

With a bench of Janku, Antonini, Abate (Hopefully to get more time), Inzaghi, Boriello, Ambro, etc., I would be happy. The more the saga of Fabiano dragged on, the more I continued to think that it wasnt all that bad if we were to turn back to Huntelaar. His stats are amazing and he's that poacher like Inzaghi (minus 10 years ).

I also would like for Abate to get more time. When he came on against Club America, he looked very dangerous and had a lot of energy. We need this. If we dont sign a LB, i'm guessing they will shift Zambro to the left and get Antonini in there on the RB slot?? i'm not sure I agree with this for a full-time plan, but I really miss the excitement I had when we signed Cissokho (kind of signed ). I think an LB this year and CB next year will hopefully come.

This is only 2 signings, Huntelaar and LB.

For me, the LB/fullback doesn't have to have European experience (preferably Brazilian), but the CF needs to have played games in one of Europe's more noted leagues (ok, Dutch League included bcs they are in the Champions League....).

We are in a strange situation it depends on how you word it , I made a post earlier and reading back it was all true the problem is you can also say the positives and there is alot of ifs in any of those and it seems like we are great.

This is the way that MGT are looking at it but they know what is wrong they are just not willing to fix it or maybe there is a serious lack of money we will never know.

The thing is Silvio is such a vain person and needs exceptance and to be hailed does he realise and I don't know if he is thinking about or has even thought , that as much as he built AC Milan and it was a big club when he took over.

The success he has had as the owner has made them one of the top 2 most successful clubs in the history of football.

He will now (if things go down more) be known as the man who ran one of the most powerfull successful teams ever into the ground.

All of the players that Milan tryed to buy and their agents managers and club presidents are not insane , and they have all said the same thing about Milan how cheap and sneeky (regards Fabiano going to court) they are the name is being tarnished , not beyond repair YET!! but it needs to be stopped.

If there is no money publicy say so and do not bid small fees for great players , but again this is down to Don Silvio not wanting people to know he might be financially not able to compete as he once was.

No shame in that any person who created a billion dollar empire like he did can be proud , but stop being too proud stop letting and letting his ego get in the way.

There isnt alot to sing about nowadays Milan brings a smile to my face and puts a spring in my step when we are playing well , but I seriously do have huge concerns for the coming season.

god i hope we get lavezzi he has a italian passport imagine

a 433 with pato lavezzi ronaldinho wow