Summer mercato 2009

Originally Posted by Christian

Agreed.

Do you happen to have a link to the interview? I would love to see it.

i have searched a few times... can't find it. Do you live in the usa? I think its re-airing today on FSC.

atleast i saw at 330 (my time, california) on the programming guide so i set my recorder. It was a half hour interview w/ nick webster on a wide array of subjects

Originally Posted by Milano84

i have searched a few times... can't find it. Do you live in the usa? I think its re-airing today on FSC.

atleast i saw at 330 (my time, california) on the programming guide so i set my recorder. It was a half hour interview w/ nick webster on a wide array of subjects

Nope, I supose it'lll resurface on the net at some point. Will keep an eye after it.

isnt the whole purpose of a loan deal to get a player more playing time to show what they can actually do? and Gourcuff willed his team to a championship, the first one in many years. Comparing him to ZZ is a little much, but he could have been Seedorf from 5-10 years ago...

Originally Posted by pirlofanusa

isnt the whole purpose of a loan deal to get a player more playing time to show what they can actually do? and Gourcuff willed his team to a championship, the first one in many years. Comparing him to ZZ is a little much, but he could have been Seedorf from 5-10 years ago...

sometimes you loan a player because you want to sell them but offers of value aren't coming but they must leave...

Cassano to sampdoria
quaresma to chelsea

the gourcuff scenerio wasnt this

Originally Posted by Milano84

I will 1000% agree on this. I think he's a good player, who actually would suit our new tactics MUCH more. What bothers me is a replacement has not been brought.

Leo wants to do a 4-3-3, maybe a 4-3-1-2, but w/ central midfielders who push more. In the 4-3-3 gourcuff could thrive because the playmaker plays in cm. he could link up beautifully w/ ronaldinho for example. As of how i have real questions whether we have enough creativity, namely players who can dribble or run at defenders from midfield. Pirlo is an amazing passer, but will not beat a player on dribble. Seedorf used to be able to but he's slowed down and he's more about passing than taking on defenders. Flamini, fast, again technically limited, ambrosini, smart... not going to beat his man that way, and gattuso well, its not his role. What seperated barca's 4-3-3 is having midfielders like xavi and iniesta who can constantly move ball up to attack in multiple ways. Where as when inter tried it (along w/ lacking decent wide attackers... something we DO have), they couldnt cause of lack of midfield creativity.

Gourcuff decided to stay. Thats fine with me, he clearly was afraid of the challenge. But what bugs me is a replacement hasnt come. What about van der vaart (maybe he'll come), sneijder would be ideal. Hernanes (what happened to him), joao moutinho (great player we were once linkeD). The list goes on.... we just need to add someone so when we playe pirlo and a DM we have 1 more creator who has some pace and dribbling skill.


dru,
on the note of carlo and pato. Did you happen to see the seedorf special on fox soccer channel. They have this new program "Center circle" where they sit down and interview players and last week was seedorf. Its really impossible to hate him after hearing him speak, he's a great person. He spoke a bit about his charities and what he's trying to accomplish but the bulk of the interview was football related.

one question was "are you sad to see carlo go?" and he responded NO. He said, in football sometimes a change is needed, he loved carlo as a coach and a friend, but carlo was in need of a new challenge and it might be best thing for milan. He also said leo is capable and it'll take time for them to adjust playing style because they all spent 7 years under carlo, playing 1 way. I was surprised by the answer but its true.

Huh i always liked Clarence. I'm one of the few Seedorf fans on R&B/MM.

Originally Posted by drucurl

Huh i always liked Clarence. I'm one of the few Seedorf fans on R&B/MM.

sorry my point was there isnt as much distress in milan locker room over carlo leaving. Seedorf was 1 of biggest carletto fans and he's fine. The older players know...


pato is young and naive

Originally Posted by Milano84

sorry my point was there isnt as much distress in milan locker room over carlo leaving. Seedorf was 1 of biggest carletto fans and he's fine. The older players know...


pato is young and naive

Reeeeeealy o/t but do you know giancarlo "came out" on goal.com ? That guy has serious issues

Originally Posted by drucurl

Reeeeeealy o/t but do you know giancarlo "came out" on goal.com ? That guy has serious issues

can u be more specific???

Flavio Roma officially a Milan player. Kalac is released. It is on www.acmilan.com.

Originally Posted by Xudong

Flavio Roma officially a Milan player. Kalac is released. It is on www.acmilan.com.

we rule the market!

it looks like we will get 1 again Robben,Sneijder,VDV i just hope we dont use our last E.U. spot on a couple of nobody's cardaccio viudez should all be gone, they both cant play anything on the field, i havent even seen em on the bench in the pre season atleast ONCE! i hope we can get a WB, i have no idea why the hell kala did not get sold, too bad lorenzo got hurt today hope it's nothing serious, i really think we will get gareth bale he'll be good world class? only time will tell and im not talking about 1 year either...

and about this 4-3-1-2 fellas it looks like we either are too slow or dont have enough attack why? well we have 3 defensive midfielders and i dont know if anybody's noticed but thats the same exact formation jose mourinho runs ..... anyways i think 4-2-3-1, or a italian 433 would work, but pirlo has to be the engine in midfield and R80 and Pato have to play on the wings and hunterlaar has to play up top alone, but it's a new league for him and country so i hope people dont go on a rampage and start ripping em for not scoring 6 goals, in the first 2 games aganst Siena,Inter but i actually have a good feeling we will get new players before the transfer market ends .. trust me it has been a horrible summer for all us but we almost made it through....

if we could have kept Gourcuff we could have put up a lineup of-
------Abs------
Zambro-Nesta-Silva-New LB
------Pirlo-------
Flamini------------Gourcuff
---------R80------------
Huntelaar--Pato

there is our diamond formation, and with the players to potentially make it work

^^^^No really...why are we still talking about Gourcuff?

Originally Posted by drucurl

Reeeeeealy o/t but do you know giancarlo "came out" on goal.com ? That guy has serious issues

Huh

hey let's talk about gourcuff haha relax just some comic relief