Summer Mercato 2010

Originally Posted by shegs1157

There's no player that deserves ballon d'or more than Messi. He was the most consistent in 2009/2010 and he shown in all the big matches except the semi-final against bus/plane parkers F.C., inter. And who can blame him? When you come up against a bunch of thugs who can't string together 5 consecutive passes over the course of 180 minutes, whose real intent is to bore everyone with ultra-negative football and stop the game from flowing, how can you play well?
So credit as to go to Messi.

those "thugs" just won the treble. Why string 5 consecutive passes when 2 will do?

Originally Posted by Xudong

Am I the only one here that thinks Mourinho is being (at least slightly) disrespectful to Inter, Moratti, and their fans for announcing that he would coach Real Madrid right after their victory and for staying in Madrid instead of returning to Milano together with the team?

He is being a bit of a coward, he just barely won the scudetto and there was element of luck in them winning the coppa and the CL. I think he is leaving on a high note, he probably can't handle the stress of another season in Italy. Winning the treble was more due to the quality of a few individuals like Millito, Sneider, Maicon than his coaching skills. What he did right and what mattered most was putting together a balanced team and getting one or two important players to complete the team.

i would love a signing b4 the WC, because i would love to look out for a player that will be wearing the rossaneri colours next year.

Originally Posted by payne

i could care less about w.e happens to inter

Fair enough. By the way who is the lady in your avator?

Hey Shegs! I think this Inter success is kind of made you angry, the same way Man Utd's double made me back in 2008. But Inter deserves what they achieved. That is simply a phenomenal performance by this Inter side, lead by the Great Jose and Great Zanetti

Congratulations to Inter Milan

But AC Milan will be back soon

Originally Posted by mzk57

Fair enough. By the way who is the lady in your avator?

Hey Shegs! I think this Inter success is kind of made you angry, the same way Man Utd's double made me back in 2008. But Inter deserves what they achieved. That is simply a phenomenal performance by this Inter side, lead by the Great Jose and Great Zanetti

Congratulations to Inter Milan

But AC Milan will be back soon

i dont kow her name, ive had this 4 my avatar 4 a while now.

Originally Posted by bijon

those "thugs" just won the treble. Why string 5 consecutive passes when 2 will do?


He is being a bit of a coward, he just barely won the scudetto and there was element of luck in them winning the coppa and the CL. I think he is leaving on a high note, he probably can't handle the stress of another season in Italy. Winning the treble was more due to the quality of a few individuals like Millito, Sneider, Maicon than his coaching skills. What he did right and what mattered most was putting together a balanced team and getting one or two important players to complete the team.

Jose is a brave man and has defeated the whole Italian media and his rivals yet again. Without him it would have been the same
I wish if Leo had put a balanced team with the available resources and saved us from utter humiliation against Inter and Man Utd for that matter

& finally, i guess it was mainly Jose's idea to go for 2 passes instead of a string of 5 consecutive passes

Originally Posted by payne

i dont kow her name, ive had this 4 my avatar 4 a while now.

.... And I was expecting that you would say its the picture of your self
But any way, nice avator.

wat do u guys think about a formation like this? the names really arent important to me 4 this post, except where pato is.

-----------striker----------------
------------------pato----------- > i dont think pato plays well as just a winger, so as a secon striker
robinho--------------------krasic > two wide players
------------r80------------------ >maybe pirlo instead of ronnie, but a player who can be creative in midfield, and make great passes.
------------------flamini--------- > to help defensively
antonini-TS--Nesta - Zambrotta

Wow, pretty much every post right now is about Inter's success.

A few updates...

Allegri could be announced as coach as soon as tomorrow. Cagliari want to keep Astori, with us possibly getting Lazzari. Also Tassotti could be on his way too ahead of next season. All news from milannews.

On another note, which I know is off topic but am unsure where else to post this, I must absolutely recommend a book called Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson (a reputable football writer who does articles for the guardian and Times). It's a book about the history of tactics in the sport and talks about significant changes through time.

A chapter within the book is dedicated to Sacchi's Milan (and to a lesser extent Capello's), which I read and found incredibly insightful as it has a lot of comments from Sacchi about his ideas in the game. It is by far the most interesting and in depth read I've ever had about that particular side.

That isn't all obviously, it goes into detail about many great footballing sides, such as systems of the very early days, 50's Hungary, 70's Brazil and Holland (total football), 82' Brazil and Italy and many others.

An absolute must read for any football fan who has an inkling of interest in tactics...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverting-Py.../dp/0752889958

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Wow, pretty much every post right now is about Inter's success.

A few updates...

Allegri could be announced as coach as soon as tomorrow. Cagliari want to keep Astori, with us possibly getting Lazzari. Also Tassotti could be on his way too ahead of next season. All news from milannews.

On another note, which I know is off topic but am unsure where else to post this, I must absolutely recommend a book called Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson (a reputable football writer who does articles for the guardian and Times). It's a book about the history of tactics in the sport and talks about significant changes through time.

A chapter within the book is dedicated to Sacchi's Milan (and to a lesser extent Capello's), which I read and found incredibly insightful as it has a lot of comments from Sacchi about his ideas in the game. It is by far the most interesting and in depth read I've ever had about that particular side.

That isn't all obviously, it goes into detail about many great footballing sides, such as systems of the very early days, 50's Hungary, 70's Brazil and Holland (total football), 82' Brazil and Italy and many others.

An absolute must read for any football fan who has an inkling of interest in tactics...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverting-Py.../dp/0752889958

Thanks for the tip, my friend... I will take a look at it.

Anyway, one of our market objectives(Jucilei) will be playing today. Corinthians X Fluminense(15:50 of Brazil). Also, at the same time would be playing Internacional x São Paulo(same hour) for Brasileirão. Giuliano(we where linked last season) and Walter(interesting prospect) maybe will be playing.

Originally Posted by Xudong

Am I the only one here that thinks Mourinho is being (at least slightly) disrespectful to Inter, Moratti, and their fans for announcing that he would coach Real Madrid right after their victory and for staying in Madrid instead of returning to Milano together with the team?

Well he's disrespectfull to Inter, but so are most of their players, former players, coaches etc. The place is full of mercenaries and it's fun to see half of their players wanting to leave after their biggest victory ever.

I think it's more disrespectful to Pellegrini though, since he hasn't even been fired yet...

Anyways, seems like Allegri will be announced as a coach tomorrow. I think it seems like a decent choice, although it remains to be seen if he can handle players like Ronaldinho, Pirlo and Seedorf, since it's really not the same as players like Matri, Lazzari and Cossu. His style of play though is something that I imagine Berlusconi will like.

Lazzari is linked with us, I've seen him play some games but cant really judge him. how good is he?

Juve...true disgrace, losing 3-0 to NY Redbulls of MLS...

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Wow, pretty much every post right now is about Inter's success.

A few updates...

Allegri could be announced as coach as soon as tomorrow. Cagliari want to keep Astori, with us possibly getting Lazzari. Also Tassotti could be on his way too ahead of next season. All news from milannews.

On another note, which I know is off topic but am unsure where else to post this, I must absolutely recommend a book called Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson (a reputable football writer who does articles for the guardian and Times). It's a book about the history of tactics in the sport and talks about significant changes through time.

A chapter within the book is dedicated to Sacchi's Milan (and to a lesser extent Capello's), which I read and found incredibly insightful as it has a lot of comments from Sacchi about his ideas in the game. It is by far the most interesting and in depth read I've ever had about that particular side.

That isn't all obviously, it goes into detail about many great footballing sides, such as systems of the very early days, 50's Hungary, 70's Brazil and Holland (total football), 82' Brazil and Italy and many others.

An absolute must read for any football fan who has an inkling of interest in tactics...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverting-Py.../dp/0752889958

Thanks for the tip. But isn't Wilson the guy who thinks Sir Alex Ferguson changed 21st century tactics?

Corinthians vs Fluminense on !

30 mins in #8 Jucelei, trying to keep an eye out on him.

So far, one really bad touch that almost led to a FLU goal and a probably undeserved yellow though the announcers agree he got ball but it was a tackle from behind...hmmmm.

To add...this Dentinho guy is as soft as charmin toilet paper ! He's always falling down and almost broke his own ankle slipping earlier !

my friend in Italy says that its all done and dusted and Allegri is the new coach although i cant find anything on the net about this.