Summer Mercato 2010

The only logical thing I can think of with respect to reported 20 mil budget (+ sales) and no spending so far is Allegri wants to work out with team and gauge some players before making purchases.....

Otherwise it's just more incompetence from Galliani

There is also aspect of world cup

Abate is pure disaster... I can't imagine first line up with him,it would be hilarious!
He was playing out of his position last season,but that don't change the fact that he is nothing more than mediocre player.Someone said something abot willingnes to fight,tenacity... That is features of defensive midfielder,not winger.. We need creative,fast,skilled player on that position and abate is only fast. He is good for Atalanta,Bari... or something like that, but first 11 of Milan???? You guys must be kidding!

Originally Posted by Nesta 13

Abate is pure disaster... I can't imagine first line up with him,it would be hilarious!
He was playing out of his position last season,but that don't change the fact that he is nothing more than mediocre player.Someone said something abot willingnes to fight,tenacity... That is features of defensive midfielder,not winger.. We need creative,fast,skilled player on that position and abate is only fast. He is good for Atalanta,Bari... or something like that, but first 11 of Milan???? You guys must be kidding!

dude we all realize that. but have you heard of any rumours about us signing a world class winger? have you read Berlu's interviews about how much we are going to spend?

we need to work with what we have

Originally Posted by Nesta 13

Abate is pure disaster... I can't imagine first line up with him,it would be hilarious!
He was playing out of his position last season,but that don't change the fact that he is nothing more than mediocre player.Someone said something abot willingnes to fight,tenacity... That is features of defensive midfielder,not winger.. We need creative,fast,skilled player on that position and abate is only fast. He is good for Atalanta,Bari... or something like that, but first 11 of Milan???? You guys must be kidding!

for someone so terrible, he did a great job playing a position he'd never played and holding an excellent defensive record


he had one **** up v. inter. Otherwise i thought he showed alot of potential @ FB

What is going on with Klass?

Originally Posted by Milano84

for someone so terrible, he did a great job playing a position he'd never played and holding an excellent defensive record


he had one **** up v. inter. Otherwise i thought he showed alot of potential @ FB

Agree totally, he started the season like a house on fire and at one stage seem the only player in our squad who could cross. Towards the end of the season, he lost his way, but he was a relatively young player playing out of position, in his first shot at a big club. Its understandable.

He deserves a second season at the very least. Although, I think he has more chance of being a world class rightback than a world class winger. He has the pace to recover from mistakes, similar to Serghinio.

Hey what about Landon Donovan... 8 million Euros would seal the deal...lol at this point I'd actually be very happy about that....

-----------------Amelia-----------------
Sokratis---Nesta---T. Silva---Antonini
----------Pirlo-------Flamini-----------
--Pato--------Donovan------Ronaldinho
--------------Borriello/Hunter-----------

I actually liked how Abate played last season, first season at Milan, out of position, still young, I thing we will turn into a great player. His defensive side sucks, but he has much better crosses than Oddo,and he has speed. Speed is the key the rest he can learn he still young. You cant teach speed.

Here is the press congerence from Masimilliano

http://www.video.mediaset.it/video/s...-presenta.html

Originally Posted by Nesta 13

Abate is pure disaster... I can't imagine first line up with him,it would be hilarious!
He was playing out of his position last season,but that don't change the fact that he is nothing more than mediocre player.Someone said something abot willingnes to fight,tenacity... That is features of defensive midfielder,not winger.. We need creative,fast,skilled player on that position and abate is only fast. He is good for Atalanta,Bari... or something like that, but first 11 of Milan???? You guys must be kidding!

For starter, I think Abate did a solid job at RB last season. Esp., when you considered the amount of help he got from midfield and the CBs(when Nesta and Silva were injured). His def. positioning in transition and cross from the other side as well as his one on one defending needs improvement, but beside that he showed great potentials to be the next GREAT RB for IT. Remember that it took times for Zambro to adjust playing at RB too.

Juve bought Bonucci
Inter co-own Ranocchia with Genoa.

I'm happy with Papa, but Milan missed out on 2 very talented, young, Italian defenders.

I don't expect Thiago Silva to stay for too long. These guys are likely to be more loyal.

Originally Posted by tardissun

Juve bought Bonucci
Inter co-own Ranocchia with Genoa.

I'm happy with Papa, but Milan missed out on 2 very talented, young, Italian defenders.

I don't expect Thiago Silva to stay for too long. These guys are likely to be more loyal.

Actually, I rate Sokratis more highly in terms of skill and prospect than Ranocchia and Bonucci if they weren't Italian. Ranocchia and Bonucci had just appeared last year while Sokratis was singed as one of the most promising defender in Europe long before he moved to Italy.

I was watching our second training yesterday on Milan Channel. some conclusions:

1. What I loved about this training is most of it it was team play with Ball. A lot of first touches and a lot of movements.
2. A lot of the youngsters were involved(but that maybe because some of the players are still on holiday)
3. Ronaldinho was not training with the group, meaning that he trains alone on his fitness. And thats absolutely terrible, I will never understand how a sports person can loose fitness in 5 weeks,that much. To come to the condition that Dinho is after every summer break you have to live very unhealthy. How come flamini and the other were fit enough to start immediately the normal training.
I absolutely believe that he sat all day on his ass for 5 weeks. you know what other football players do during their summer break. They go 10 days on holiday somewhere, the eleventh day they are already training lightly(some of them even join local teams that start earlier to train with the to HOLD DOWN TO THEIR FITNESS, a term that Dinho is not familiar with.) In this whole mess we are in, the only positive thing that we had was that all our Important players missed the World Cup, and I believed that we could have a great start of the campaign cuz we would be fresher than the competition.But NO, now we have to wait for our Most important player to get back to fitness. For me that is irresponsible we can not relay only on his magic, Allegri was very clear on this matter.We should FIRE HIM(read sell him). period.
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While watching Milan Channel yesterday I saw the funniest thing ever.(but didnt know weather to cry or laugh )
There was a video compilation of Seedorf and Pippo yesterday of their glory days. And the music in the background was "I wanna be forever young". Have we started to mock ourselfs now??!!!

Originally Posted by Nesta 13

Abate is pure disaster... I can't imagine first line up with him,it would be hilarious!
He was playing out of his position last season,but that don't change the fact that he is nothing more than mediocre player.Someone said something abot willingnes to fight,tenacity... That is features of defensive midfielder,not winger.. We need creative,fast,skilled player on that position and abate is only fast. He is good for Atalanta,Bari... or something like that, but first 11 of Milan???? You guys must be kidding!

Hardly a disaster. Many have defended him and rightly so, as I honestly think he was one of the most positive aspects of our campaign last season, at least in development of players. As a RB he made one high profile mistake against Inter, which he was quick to admit to and learn from. Beyond that, he did make minor mistakes at RB, but he often covered them up with his speed (and given his relatively young age and naivity to the position, he could still develop his positional sense).

Granted he's not the most talented player we have, but as a wingback in attack he needs pace, stamina and a good understanding of timing runs. The first two he has plenty of, whilst he improved through the season with the timing of his runs.

The guy at the very least deserves another chance in the squad to develop further. If we use him our first choice RB for another season, then I won't
be complaining as I still believe he has a lot to offer but needs patience and at 23 is still young.

Originally Posted by GeoTav

Their webmaster is an amateur ... There are regularly mistakes on the website.

About Abate being in the midfielders list, would it be because Allegri will use him in midfield ? It could maybe give the reason why they gave one more year to Oddo ...

I wouldn't take Oddo's renewal to mean much about how we intend to use our squad. Oddo himself admitted that his contract has been spread over 2 years. Basically, this means the purpose of the renewal was to ease the burden of cost on him for the coming year. In the long term it doesn't make much difference, but for the coming year, we save a little.

Originally Posted by kastriot

I was watching our second training yesterday on Milan Channel. some conclusions:

1. What I loved about this training is most of it it was team play with Ball. A lot of first touches and a lot of movements.
2. A lot of the youngsters were involved(but that maybe because some of the players are still on holiday)
3. Ronaldinho was not training with the group, meaning that he trains alone on his fitness. And thats absolutely terrible, I will never understand how a sports person can loose fitness in 5 weeks,that much. To come to the condition that Dinho is after every summer break you have to live very unhealthy. How come flamini and the other were fit enough to start immediately the normal training.
I absolutely believe that he sat all day on his ass for 5 weeks. you know what other football players do during their summer break. They go 10 days on holiday somewhere, the eleventh day they are already training lightly(some of them even join local teams that start earlier to train with the to HOLD DOWN TO THEIR FITNESS, a term that Dinho is not familiar with.) In this whole mess we are in, the only positive thing that we had was that all our Important players missed the World Cup, and I believed that we could have a great start of the campaign cuz we would be fresher than the competition.But NO, now we have to wait for our Most important player to get back to fitness. For me that is irresponsible we can not relay only on his magic, Allegri was very clear on this matter.We should FIRE HIM(read sell him). period.
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While watching Milan Channel yesterday I saw the funniest thing ever.(but didnt know weather to cry or laugh )
There was a video compilation of Seedorf and Pippo yesterday of their glory days. And the music in the background was "I wanna be forever young". Have we started to mock ourselfs now??!!!

Thanks thats useful. When Maldini retired, he said something like 'I will miss the smell of hard work.' True great.