Banter 2009/2010

Originally Posted by sylrus

there is another player from cagliari that i am excited about
its lazzari
anyone know about this guy?

I can only give you the statistics:

Lazzari (Italian, 1984, 1m84, ML/AML): Product of Atalanta Primavera (near Milan). Cagliari got him in 2008 for 2M. 4 goals & 2 assist / 25 matches (20 starts).

If we buy him, he will be the direct sub for Dinho.

LOL inter is up 0-1... 10 min left.

Carlo is such a great coach.. I hope the people that wanted inter to progress are happy. I sure the fk am not.

Tough to watch that one, Inter are playing too well.

Originally Posted by Reza

Tough to watch that one, Inter are playing too well.

Inter win... CSKA win...

Yea inter won. Lucky for us. They will have no confidence now in the Seria A. LOL Im joking incase some dont know

If we have the referees with us in Serie A (Mourinho copyright), it looks like Inter found the way to buy referees in Europe !!

Chelsea was just bad during these two games, and I wasn't impressed by Inter anyway, actually, these two teams played both games like if they had no midfielders ...

I wanted them to pass that turn (I couldn't have imagine they would beat Chelsea in Stamford Bridge), because as I said, I want them to do better than Bayern, and I hope that doesn't mean winning the CL (if Bayern goes to the final).
Now, I hope Juventus won't play with a B team and will pass the turn in Europa League too ...

Hard to admit, but Inter is the true reprensentative of Italian football now.

Except for Motta, Sneijder and Pandev, all 8 other players are world class.

There are no team in the world, even Barca has a defense of 5 world class players:
---------------------Cesar-------------------
--Maicon------Lucio-----Samuel----Zanetti---

not even Barca.

Drogba & Anelka has no chance against them.

Chelsea and Inter are physically equal, but Carlo's team is awful at passing. Inter always tried tricks and precisely at counter, which is the true character of italian football (not Milan).

Eto and Millito are two last pieces that Inter lack. They do not have truly creative player but they do have the idea how to attack (not clueless like Chelsea), and the most important is: their forwards can give deadly finishes. More mature Pato and younger Pippo are required to do what Millito and Eto did with Chelsea. Inter needs Eto, not Ibra, and I think now Barca need Eto, not Ibra, too. Barca might pay the price of not having a clinical finisher, who focus only how to score.

It is still early to make a conclusion about the last result of Inter in CL. However, this is the best chance for them in 50 years.

In Serie A, they are not this effective as all the team know how they play. When they are too obsessed with CL, the chance are ours.

Let's focus on Serie A, Scudetto will be ours.

Next year, Milan will be back at CL. If Juventus has an appropriate coach, they will be share the same task as Milan and Inter.

mourinho's tacticks were genius today..he made carlo look like an idiot..one class above imo..

anyway as i ve said before,we now have gr8er chance for serie a as they cant compete for both,its really rear for serie a teams to do well at both..but its sad to see that we're not in the same quality as other teams..

i remember when i laughed every time we used to face inter..

What are the teams they might face now?

Originally Posted by OCmilano

What are the teams they might face now?

the 8 teams are(they all can meet):

inter
manchester
lyon
cska
bayern
arsenal
winner of barcelona-stutgard
winner of bardeux-olympiakos

Originally Posted by OCmilano

What are the teams they might face now?

There are: MU, Arsenal, Bayern, Lyon, CSKA and maybe: Barca & Bordeaux

If they play like this, the rematch with Barca will not be so hard. It is interesting if they face MU or Arsenal.

I'm, of course, not support Inter, but they really adapted the Italian style football.

When I watch Milan, I only want to now how we beat each opponent. But this time, I am eager to observe how Italian style plays against Spanish & English (German, French, Russian).

Originally Posted by M.O.I.

mourinho's tacticks were genius today..he made carlo look like an idiot..one class above imo..

anyway as i ve said before,we now have gr8er chance for serie a as they cant compete for both,its really rear for serie a teams to do well at both..but its sad to see that we're not in the same quality as other teams..

i remember when i laughed every time we used to face inter..

It has nothing to do with Carlo... Carlo can't deal with those players. How many times Carlo outsmarted Mourinho during his time at Milan?

What you could expect from a team who's best technical player is Malouda?!

There's no imagination, no flair, even no running like before, Ballack is dead, after 7 km and 70 minutes he was gone, Anelka has no wish to play whatsoever, there is a lot of 50 years old men faster than Mikel... Essien was missed a lot in the middle... so was Carvalho in defense. Still, with a player like Kaka or Ribery, and with full squad, they would be the best team in the world, I have no doubt about that.

Originally Posted by Revolver

It has nothing to do with Carlo... Carlo can't deal with those players. How many times Carlo outsmarted Mourinho during his time at Milan?

What you could expect from a team who's best technical player is Malouda?!

There's no imagination, no flair, even no running like before, Ballack is dead, after 7 km and 70 minutes he was gone, Anelka has no wish to play whatsoever, there is a lot of 50 years old men faster than Mikel... Essien was missed a lot in the middle... so was Carvalho in defense. Still, with a player like Kaka or Ribery, and with full squad, they would be the best team in the world, I have no doubt about that.

chelsea was much better at san siro..today carlo was too afraid of the match,he couldnt handle the pressure from the attacking 3 mostly,they seemed confused..anelka was out of the match just because he had no connection with anyone,drogba seemed so alone too,fighting both lucio and samuel..i really dont think that inter's squad is better than cheslea's(or at least not that better,to win in and out)..

ps i thibk that bringing kalou instead of zhirkov was nonsence,he should have replaced anelka,zhirkov did a really good job with etoo..and it was more balanced..anelka was a flop so it would be a frsh breath on that side,cole could have helped maloud on the left..

anyway i think carlo(as much as i dont like it) is the first to be agianst the wall for both matches imo..

Originally Posted by Revolver

It has nothing to do with Carlo... Carlo can't deal with those players. How many times Carlo outsmarted Mourinho during his time at Milan?

What you could expect from a team who's best technical player is Malouda?!

There's no imagination, no flair, even no running like before, Ballack is dead, after 7 km and 70 minutes he was gone, Anelka has no wish to play whatsoever, there is a lot of 50 years old men faster than Mikel... Essien was missed a lot in the middle... so was Carvalho in defense. Still, with a player like Kaka or Ribery, and with full squad, they would be the best team in the world, I have no doubt about that.

Carlo won 1:0 and Mou won 2:1 thank to a handball of Adriano. I don't think Carlo oursmarted Mourinho. However, he was unlucky, and we was unlucky, too. The unluckies in CL will be lucky in domestic league

And as you mentioned Ribery and Kaka, do you think that despite having Lampard, Joe Cole, Deco and Ballack, the highest position of diamond midfield is still lacking?

Originally Posted by GeoTav

The problem is generally when both clubs want the player ...
And a "blind bid" can be postponed to the following year once.

What do you mean by 'can' in the last sentence? Who decides the postponement?

Originally Posted by GeoTav

Here, it's really smart from Cagliari to say they are going to pay 5M to get the player ... as that means that if we really want him, we need to pay more (and without knowing what real bid will do Cagliari, we could have to secure ourselves by paying 7-8M for example, I repeat, it's just an example).

I don't think it's smart. 5 million (half of contract) for non-regular defender in a small club? No way his price is near 10 million euro. IMO it's really a 'joke' statement from Caliagri to raise the price of Astori.