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Id rather have Ribery than Malouda. What is more, Lyon players are always overrated.

Malouda is fine, if he comes at a reasonable price. otherwise, I would stick with Janku, who isn't much better but definitely fine offensively. I would rather use that crazy money on Buffon.

from Milan official site:

OFFICIAL A.C. MILAN ANNOUNCEMENT
2/11/2007
A.C. Milan announce that they have prolonged Marek Jankulovski's contract until June 30, 2011.

Originally Posted by Xudong

from Milan official site:

OFFICIAL A.C. MILAN ANNOUNCEMENT
2/11/2007
A.C. Milan announce that they have prolonged Marek Jankulovski's contract until June 30, 2011.

Yes, even Gattuso prolonged his contract till 2011, and both players scored today

Good new on both Janku and Rinho... We need some changes but we need to keep most of the players for the upcoming season...not to become like Inter.. different starting eleven every season!!!

Originally Posted by Maltese Charlie

Yes, even Gattuso prolonged his contract till 2011, and both players scored today

Originally Posted by Maevious

Id rather have Ribery than Malouda. What is more, Lyon players are always overrated.

Ribery is great,but in our system we had as MR Gattuso,DMC Pirlo and we need a seedorf replacement.Malouda plays as a ML and Ribery i think plays only as RM.
Anyway i like too very much Swheisteiger!He can play everywhere in midfield!

Schweinsteiger is another interesting proposition as i genuinely think we would have a decent chance of landing him.

Originally Posted by rosoneri_11

Swheisteiger!

+ REP points !
You deserved them.

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

Schweinsteiger is another interesting proposition as i genuinely think we would have a decent chance of landing him.

It's really strange how well German players did in serie A, and how Spanish players couldn't shine as they did in La Liga.
I really don't know the reason for that, and i'd appreciate if someone shares his opinion regarding how come the Germans almost always make an immediate impact in Italy.
Matthaus, Brehme and Klinsmann even managed to outshine the Milan dutch trio in 1-2 seasons and they were the ones who brought the last scudetto to Inter in 1989. Reuter also did great for Inter in late80's and early 90's.
Kohler and Moller are allready concidered Juve legends although they didn't win anything apart from UEFA Cup with Juve and they were in Juve for 3 years only.
Bierhoff was Udinese's best player and was one of the best in Milan's 1999 scudetto.

The only 2 germans who didn't make it in Italy and were stars in Germany were Jancker ( who's carierre was allready in decline when he came to Italy) and Thomas Hassler who was a real genious but had Roberto Baggio holding his place in Juve and didn't want to be a sub !

The other strange thing is that for some reason, very few German players are now playing in Italy. It seems like the top German players all get snapped up by Bayern Munich and remain there for most of their careers. Also strange is the fact that very few Germans are even linked to top Italian clubs. For instance, if Milan needed to get a new midfielder, we hear about names like Malouda, but why dont we hear anything about us being linked to Schweinsteiger?

GK: Buffon, Storari
LB: Janku, I think we need another quality LB---dont think Sergio is going to be injury-free
RB: Oddo, a young, pacy right back Ilsinho? would be good
CB: With Bonera proving his worth, I think we're quite well covered
RM: Gattuso, Brocchi
LM: Gourcuff, Seedorf
CM: Pirlo, we're still looking for his "substitute", it's now been 3 or 4 seasons and we havent found him. It would be good to get a solid midfielder who can replace Pirlo when he needs to be rested
AM: Kaka, Gourcuff
FW: Gila, RO, Ronaldo, would be good to get another young striker in. IMO, Inzaghi is now getting close to retirement age.

Originally Posted by rt9

CM: Pirlo, we're still looking for his "substitute", it's now been 3 or 4 seasons and we havent found him. It would be good to get a solid midfielder who can replace Pirlo when he needs to be rested

We've had replacements for Pirlo, but the club keep getting rid of them - Rui could play that role, Dhorasoo, and also Vogel too. It's Ancelotti who is to blame for failing to implement a different tactic so these players could play. If it was me, Milan would have at least 3 systems of play depending on opposition. At the moment we barely have 1.

has anybody mentioned that we should Sign Pato in the summer really do we need Boriello?

Originally Posted by Kaka1899

has anybody mentioned that we should Sign Pato in the summer really do we need Boriello?

Pato IMO is not a definete requirement, but for his age and potential he'll add to squad he'd be great. Borreillo is gone after his drug episode IMO.