Winter Mercato 2011

I am against Ganso at this point too, unless he can be more of a Lampard, Gerrard, Xavi type of playmaker than someone like Kaka and Totti. What I am trying to say is that with Ibra upfront, the ideal type of midfielder for Milan to have is not a Kaka but rather someone like Sneijder, Xavi, Hernanez or someone like Ozeil who got great off the ball movement. Personally, I think Kaka is at his best when acting more of a second striker than an attk mid.

If Milan actually have someone like Hernanez, then a lot of the problems will be solve.

Did tribalfootball change its name to caughtoffside?

"AC Milan are lining up bids for Liverpool striker Fernando Torres and Manchester United winger Nani as they look to break neighbours Inter Milan's grip on the Italian League...Moves for the Premier League pair would cost anything up to £75m and other names said to be on Allegri’s wish-list include Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko, Lille starlet Eden Hazard and Real Madrid centre back Raul Albiol."

First off all, i must say that im aganist Kaka's coming back, just because of Kaka passed his best, and im thinking that Milan sold him at best time, Kaka's coming back to Milan if he does, will be like Shevchenko's coming back. in the end, Kaka passed his best, also considering his injuries in the last years, i dont want Kaka coming back to Milan 2 times more...

Secondly, we can discuss what Milan need, What Milan need is in my opinions are world class FB's(for both wing) and 2 class box to box to midfielders. just name a few, Jucilei and Hernanes. Star names who are strong on team defence and team play, who can add something to this side, who can add class and quality to this Milan side...

Then, we did well on mercato last summer, as we signed Boateng, ibra and Robinho who are 3 quality purchases, who add quality and class to this Milan side. yet we need more...

Coentraro, Van Der Wiel, Bale are what Milan needs. even ivanovic, would be nice purchase for us...

Then focusing on the midfield should be our goal, signing Hernanes and Jucilei.

After all, its depent on which formation we will play, if we stick with 4-3-3 or return to 4-3-1-2 we need a quality trequartista, K.Honda is nice player, he can do Seedorf job yet i'd rather to get Pastore from Palermo than Ganso. as i said before, i dont know Ganso much...Ganso could be quality player, but yet i have seen him 2 times and he reminded me of a bit of Alex, ex Parma player.

Finally, we need Coentraro/Bale, Jucilei and Hernanes and one more world class Fb for right wing then we are set...

-------------------------Abbiati--------------------------------
--Van Der Wiel-----Silva----------Nesta-----------Coentraro-
------------------Flamini/Boateng--Hernanes--Jucilei--------
-------Pato----------------ibra----------------------Robinho---

Looking at this line up; im not convinced with our goalies, if we have a chance to find a better Gk, we shouldnt hesitate to sign him.
Then 3rd choice solid Cb is another problem i see. yet we are set in line up, with signing of Jucilei, Hernanes, Coentraro and world class Right Fb.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

I am against Ganso at this point too, unless he can be more of a Lampard, Gerrard, Xavi type of playmaker than someone like Kaka and Totti. What I am trying to say is that with Ibra upfront, the ideal type of midfielder for Milan to have is not a Kaka but rather someone like Sneijder, Xavi, Hernanez or someone like Ozeil who got great off the ball movement. Personally, I think Kaka is at his best when acting more of a second striker than an attk mid.

If Milan actually have someone like Hernanez, then a lot of the problems will be solve.

That's exactly what he is...find a clip of him on youtube that does not show his goals and skills but shows his passes, and your mouth will drop!

i wouldnt care iff kaka came or didnt, its a win win situation realy if he comes we just hope hes in good form and helps us out, if he doesnt we buy someone else.. what imre ally woried about is us not buying anyone? were a tad bit too optimistic atm bcuz we bought ibra and binho in the summer.. maybe those were one time things theres no denying galliani and berlu could go back to keeping the same team for another 2-3years.

Jucilei just with a sick pass in the legs of Elias, who scored.

watching Palermo vs Genoa, 69 mins gone and Kaladze has not done one stupid dumbass move yet that cost his team a goal or Palermo a shot, hes been amazing so far! why couldnt he do this for Milan in the last 2 seasons or so!

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

geo, I am, not saying Kaka won't do well back in Milan. What I am saying is that there are already too many playmaker in Milan with Dinho, Ibra and Pirlo. With Kaka that would make four.

Dinho is just finished, I am hopeless as far as him is concerned. I can't understand how much he has changed from the Ronaldinho of 4 years ago. Seriously, at 30 he shouldn't be that much slow and shadow of his former self. The likes of Lampard, Gerrard, Xavi, Totti etc are still not much different from 5 years ago, but Ronaldinho is just finished. Its just pathetic

Plus Ibra is not a play-maker & Pirlo can co-exist with Kaka, so my point is:

BRING KAKA BACK TO HOME
Milan desperately need a player with some class and iconic figure in the footballing world. Current players are just so boring (apart from King-Nesta)

Kaka is more finished than Ronaldinho.

Not sure where to post this, so I'll just post it here. A very interesting article about Tevez, one which I think highlights quite well one of our biggest problems.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...y-the-question

Thanks Dev, very nice analysis there.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Not sure where to post this, so I'll just post it here. A very interesting article about Tevez, one which I think highlights quite well one of our biggest problems.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/b...y-the-question

Tevez is one of my favorite players..pure class & work ethic is 2nd to NONE...

http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/86/it...blems-at-inter

With Benitez there's always problems... with Mourinho there are never any he can't solve...

What a difference in coaches.. This Benitez is an awful coach..the way he handles a team and press conferences..he always says the wrong thing.. Even as bad as Milan have been in my opinion,,, this Inter Squad is cursed with this moron of a coach..that's possibly worse than ours...

Originally Posted by Reza

Thanks Dev, very nice analysis there.

No problem, I'd definitely recommend Jonathan Wilson's articles. He's got an excellent understanding of the game.

Sorry to double post, but another decent article (from goal.com surprisingly) which is relevant to us, given our injury problems over the past few years.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/1124/cal...out-20-players

Serie A should be 18 teams imo as it used to be. Hated the idea of having 4 extra matches a season, especially given the impact that CL also has.