Summer mercato 2009

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

To be honest, even with Xabi, I still think Sneijder will choose to stay at Real.

VDV, Drenthe, RVN, Hunter and Gago/Diarra are the players that Real really want to offload. And I have a feeling RB will take VDV in the Xabi deal.
HUnter and Drenthe will most likely end up at Arsenal depending on the price.

Milan is not the only club that short of players. Heck, I bet that ManCity will also end up with a player or two from Real. I would not bet too much on Milan getting all the discount price players from Real. I will be happy with just one(not RVN).

I don't know where you're getting all this stuff from. The only fact is that Real Madrid have had two months to offload their players and they haven't offloaded a single one of the dead weights. Arsenal and Manchester City might be interested in some of their players, but they know as well as Galliani that the later it gets in the mercato, the more negotiation leverage they will have, afterall, there are very few clubs willing (and able) to spend the kind of money, especially on wages, that these players are worth.

Originally Posted by Gio-mania

They've sold many of their players to Inter in the past, so I dont see why they wouldnt sell to us.

But I agree that we wont get him cheap. This guy is worth well over 15-20 million. Probably something like 30+ million.

I seem to remember that there were rumours that Liverpool and Roma were negotiating at around 20M euro's. It would be nice if they'd be willing to sell to us, I really prefered the times when the top clubs were stealing players from eachother left and right

Originally Posted by Christian

I seem to remember that there were rumours that Liverpool and Roma were negotiating at around 20M euro's. It would be nice if they'd be willing to sell to us, I really prefered the times when the top clubs were stealing players from eachother left and right

Really that low? Lower than I thought, but that is still too high for us. That is more than our potential "Pirlo-cash".

Source: Corriere dello Sport

If Andrea Pirlo will leave for Chelsea as expected, AC Milan will try to replace him with either AS Roma playmaker Alberto Aquilani (25) or with Fiorentina's Riccardo Montolivo
(24).

http://www.onlysoccer.net/index.php

stay tuned something big might happen soon

That something big is Pirlo going to Chelsea.

Originally Posted by pirlofanusa

I guess my biggest problem with Gourcuff leaving is that he is young and talented. That in itself doesnt bother me a ton, but he won Ligue 1 player of the year. another young talented Ligue 1 player, Benzma was sold for 40-45 mil. Gourcuff might not have been worth quite that but i think we could have easily made 10-15 mil more on his sale, which could have helped us quite a bit this transfer season.

We have argued the Gorky transfer a lot but we couldn't have got a dime more for him because Bordeaux paied his release clause.

Just a note, I was having dinner with a friend(Pool's fan) of mine last night and we talked about football. He asked me whats wrong with Milan...I just told him Milan has no money, and to think that they are holding their money till Aug 31 is really a HUGE hope. Then we talked about the so call deadweights of Real's players, in which if Senijder, VDV, Hunter, RVN, Robben, Gago, Diarra and Drenthe would probably make the starting lineup in a lot of teams, esp Pool and Milan.
The thing that interested me the most, as he stated teams in England, as he is really on top of EPL news(mainly b/c he is sports writer in HK) are all waiting for Real's players as Arsenal has about 41mil extra to spend on players(thanks to ManCity), Pool will most likely has 45-50mil after the Xabi and Areola sale. ManU had spent like nothing since CR7, and they will at least have 25mil(money for Tevez) still to spend. Then there is INter with 45mil to spend from Barcelona. Ofcourse I said that Milan will probably have 35mil to spend as Pirlo will most likely be gone for 20mil and they still have 15mil from the Dental deal earlier.
I think it will be interesting to see how it going to end, but I am pretty sure that once one of the players at Real is gone, it will be a domino effect.

Originally Posted by Koeke

We have argued the Gorky transfer a lot but we couldn't have got a dime more for him because Bordeaux paied his release clause.

Nobody expected Gourcuff to do all that you mentioned last year.
It also showed that he is indeed very talented but just showed it at the wrong time(for Milan wise).

Having said that, I do believe that Galli wanted to offload him for 15mil ever since he started playing for France. As Galli or anyone, according to Gourcuff never called or emailed him during the whole season.

I read on some newspaper (cannot remember which, albeit) that Real Madrid are aiming to take in about 100 million euros from selling their deadweights.

The want to offload about 7 players ( Sneijder, VDV, Huntelaar, RVN, Robben, Gago, Diarra and Drenthe)... so thats more or less 14-15 million per player-- obviously some will sell for more and some for less... sounds quite reasonable.

But the further we wait to buy, the lower these prices will get, so maybe we might even steal Sneijder and Huntelaar for 25 million....

Originally Posted by Rossoneri Fuego

Source: Corriere dello Sport

If Andrea Pirlo will leave for Chelsea as expected, AC Milan will try to replace him with either AS Roma playmaker Alberto Aquilani (25) or with Fiorentina's Riccardo Montolivo
(24).

http://www.onlysoccer.net/index.php

stay tuned something big might happen soon

now this would be very good one of these two guyz would be superb,especially aquilani.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

The thing that interested me the most, as he stated teams in England, as he is really on top of EPL news(mainly b/c he is sports writer in HK) are all waiting for Real's players as Arsenal has about 41mil extra to spend on players(thanks to ManCity), Pool will most likely has 45-50mil after the Xabi and Areola sale. ManU had spent like nothing since CR7, and they will at least have 25mil(money for Tevez) still to spend. Then there is INter with 45mil to spend from Barcelona. Ofcourse I said that Milan will probably have 35mil to spend as Pirlo will most likely be gone for 20mil and they still have 15mil from the Dental deal earlier.
I think it will be interesting to see how it going to end, but I am pretty sure that once one of the players at Real is gone, it will be a domino effect.

Tevez is owned by a private company so any cash from his sale went to the company who owed not man united. I wouldn't be too sure about liverpool they seem keen to get aquilani and silva with cash receive from selling alonso also i would be surprised if they spend any more after all they are in 320 million pounds worth of debt. as for manchester united i think they are after silva and maybe villa in addition douglas costa so i would expect that they would also be far removed from buying real players. as for arsenal now i would reckon that they will go after huntelaar or gago maybe even higuain and also have targets to get drethe/ meltzelder. Inter milan are also in debt to the sum of 250 million euros but knowing how they chuck cash at the transfer market i would expect one bid from them for van der vaart maybe even robben.

the issue is that clubs keep making low bids for real players until that situation changes or real decided to have a sale on the dutch contingent i can't a domino affect happening. Milan wouldn't have to worry about making huge bid i am sure if we made a 22 million euro offer for huntelaar he would be a milan player for sure.

Marca: "Huntelaar e Sneijder al Milan"
Marca: Huntelaar and Sneijder to Milan
http://www.milannews.it/?action=read&idnotizia=10338


Its Spanish media.
It is Real Madrid's primary newspaper in Spain though.

Now as much as Marca make things up regarding Madrid, why would they make a story up regarding players leaving Madrid? as with all things in the silly season take it with a handfull of salt

Originally Posted by Gio-mania

I read on some newspaper (cannot remember which, albeit) that Real Madrid are aiming to take in about 100 million euros from selling their deadweights.

The want to offload about 7 players ( Sneijder, VDV, Huntelaar, RVN, Robben, Gago, Diarra and Drenthe)... so thats more or less 14-15 million per player-- obviously some will sell for more and some for less... sounds quite reasonable.

But the further we wait to buy, the lower these prices will get, so maybe we might even steal Sneijder and Huntelaar for 25 million....

That is assuming that we're going to be the only ones bidding for them.

Given there are 7 players being offloaded and, judging from Gabriel's list, at least 5 clubs that will have more money than we do to buy the same players, whats there to stop this from becoming a bidding match where in the end we'll lose out because we can't top the other team's bids?

You say RM are trying to recoup 100 Mil, so whats stopping Sneijder from going to Liverpool for 18 Mil and Huntelaar to Arsenal for 12 Mil instead? They'd get more money, offload their players, AND gain the goodwill of more clubs than just poor little Milan :P

Originally Posted by johncharles365

Tevez is owned by a private company so any cash from his sale went to the company who owed not man united. I wouldn't be too sure about liverpool they seem keen to get aquilani and silva with cash receive from selling alonso also i would be surprised if they spend any more after all they are in 320 million pounds worth of debt. as for manchester united i think they are after silva and maybe villa in addition douglas costa so i would expect that they would also be far removed from buying real players. as for arsenal now i would reckon that they will go after huntelaar or gago maybe even higuain and also have targets to get drethe/ meltzelder. Inter milan are also in debt to the sum of 250 million euros but knowing how they chuck cash at the transfer market i would expect one bid from them for van der vaart maybe even robben.

the issue is that clubs keep making low bids for real players until that situation changes or real decided to have a sale on the dutch contingent i can't a domino affect happening. Milan wouldn't have to worry about making huge bid i am sure if we made a 22 million euro offer for huntelaar he would be a milan player for sure.

THe 25mil that MANU planned to use on Tevez not receive from Tevez deal.

Otherwise pretty much agree with what you said.

we should make a 16 mil offer for Huntelaar, we can up that 1-1.5 mil or so if its needed.
then we spend 5-10 mil + Oddo to Lazio for De Selvestri. that would be an amazing deal, because we can dump Oddo, and get on of the most talented young WBs in Italy. Then we just slide Zambro over to the left side, and our defense is set.

2 great transfers for 21-27 mil and we dump Oddo. that would be great