Winter Mercato

you mean like "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" kinda miracles or the " who knew a guy so highly rated would be such utter rubbish" kind of miracles

Personally I think the first describes Zebidonna while the latter describes Leggrogaggio

I know Tuttosport isn't that reliable, but there's a part of it i just like so much.

The rumour is Luca Toni to Juve, Gilardino to Fiorentina and Trezeguet to Milan ... forming an anti-inter alliance

I also read Juve are monitoring Etoo so i guess we've swapped round, Robinho was nearly always a Juve target and Etoo ours (for Italian teams i mean).

Also the Milan site has issued another official statement about the new story of Kaka going to Real in the summer. I would be happy if the purchase of Ronaldo has but one positive outcome and that's for him to tell Kaka that Real really isn't worth moving to. If he convinced him of that i wouldn't care if he ate all the pasta in Italy, never scored a goal again or never even moved on the pitch!

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

The rumour is Luca Toni to Juve, Gilardino to Fiorentina and Trezeguet to Milan

Hmmm, Trez is one of my favorites, but i won't say No to this. He's having his 7th season with Juve, and it's time for a change.
Juve's losing a legend this way, but getting a top quality striker, maybe the only one in Italy who's a guarantee to score as much as Trez did.

Milan will profit in short term. Trez will, imo, have his best season next year. He's not happy in serie B and he's so much hungry for top football, so much hungry to prove himself somewhere else apart from Juve.
In long run, i'm not so sure . Trez is better striker than Gila, but he's 5 years older also.

Fiorentina is the only one losing here (at the end i may be proven very much wrong for thinking they'll be losing with replacing Toni with Gila), but to be honest, Toni is a player who deserves to play for someone from top3 in Italy at certain time of his carierre, and i doubt he wants to end in Firenze.
Still, Viola gets another top quality player and long term solution. And i won't bet on Gilardino not being able to replace Toni.

The only bad thing is ...... none of this will happen at the end
Damn u Tuttosport !

Originally Posted by zlatanov

No personal attacks, please.

My apologies.

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

The rumour is Luca Toni to Juve, Gilardino to Fiorentina and Trezeguet to Milan ... forming an anti-inter alliance

That story is several months old, actually.

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=233150

"Zebina still has two years to run on his Juve deal after the end of the season, but the Bianconeri consented to his departure subject to a reasonable offer. Milan seem to have come up with that offer, and an agreement has been struck."

According to this, it looks like Milan will not get Zebina for free, but they'll actually pay for him.
Or maybe some player from Milan will go the other way ?

Did you forget the Roma's goal in the first leg of the Italian Cup? Just to mention last one. He did not played well at all this season

The last thing I want to do is start a war of words and I'm not trying to get people to bow down to him, but statements like above bug the hell out of me, especially when they aren't sufficiently backed up. So he's having a bad season this year because of the Roma goal? You mean the same season in which he was MotM in the 0-0 Lazio draw, kept three clean sheets - and allowed only 2 goals - in five CL matches and had 446 minutes of scoreless Serie A play earlier this year (while our strikers couldn't score to save their lives)? Yes, there have been mistakes, but they've been few and far in between.

but what the point to re-new his contract when he is over 30. [...] We need a new realiable goal keeper and that's the end of story!

Pretty much anything from Tuttomercatoweb is BS; this story hasn't appeared anywhere else, Barca have Valdes, and Milan aren't going to dump Dida right after one appearance by Storari, as terrific as it was. Clarence Lazybones is well over 30 and yet he was given an extension.

Plus, goalkeepers take longer to age physically than outfield players. However, as Billy's performance in the Roma match showed, virtually no goalie can compensate for a flimsy defense, which is the bigger fish we ought to be frying instead of trying to play goalkeeper roulette.

I couldn't agree more with BMWTaylor !
Dida is one of the best 3 goalkeepers in the world, and he can play top football for 3 more years at least !
Milan doesn't need a new keeper and they must keep Dida !

And Yes, i'm saying this mostly because .........

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

My apologies.

no problem. Thanks for understanding

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

The last thing I want to do is start a war of words and I'm not trying to get people to bow down to him, but statements like above bug the hell out of me, especially when they aren't sufficiently backed up. So he's having a bad season this year because of the Roma goal?
..................

Clarence Lazybones is well over 30 and yet he was given an extension.

.................

Agree on all counts, except one - C. Lazyboones is exactly 30 yo

Originally Posted by Tony29.

I couldn't agree more with BMWTaylor !
Dida is one of the best 3 goalkeepers in the world, and he can play top football for 3 more years at least !
Milan doesn't need a new keeper and they must keep Dida !

And Yes, i'm saying this mostly because .........

The above mentioned is not true in my opinion.
At least the keepers of Real Madrid, Chelsea and Juve are much better and consistent than Dida.

Samuel Eto:
"""""It wasn't an explosion. I simply answered honestly the questions that were put to me. That's what you want, isn't it? For people to speak their minds?
Gentlemen, I won't accept someone saying I am going against the playing group. We have trained 300 times and even when I was injured, I would stand in the rain and support them. And from that we form a family. I know we can't all be friends, but it doesn't excuse you from throwing s*** at your teammate!
I am only going to say that someone is a bad person or a bad teammate when they mislead.
If a teammate is upset with me, then they can say so to my face. I wasn't the one who broke the laws of the dressing room. If I have something to say, I always say it inside the dressing room.""""

This kind of players AC Milan MUST buy!

Originally Posted by dejan.s

Samuel Eto:
"""""It wasn't an explosion. I simply answered honestly the questions that were put to me. That's what you want, isn't it? For people to speak their minds?
Gentlemen, I won't accept someone saying I am going against the playing group. We have trained 300 times and even when I was injured, I would stand in the rain and support them. And from that we form a family. I know we can't all be friends, but it doesn't excuse you from throwing s*** at your teammate!
I am only going to say that someone is a bad person or a bad teammate when they mislead.
If a teammate is upset with me, then they can say so to my face. I wasn't the one who broke the laws of the dressing room. If I have something to say, I always say it inside the dressing room.""""

This kind of players AC Milan MUST buy!

Yes these kinf of players we need!He is the best striker of the world!

Juventus, Inter and Milan are ready to battle it out on the transfer market for Alexandre Pato of Porto Alegre.

The 17-year-old is seen by many as the new Kaka and he’s admitted that a Serie A switch is a desire of his.

“I know that Milan, Juventus and Inter are following me,” said the South American starlet.

“I feel that I am ready to undertake a European adventure and therefore the interest of these important clubs flatters me.

“I always follow Italian football on television and my dream is to play in Italy.

“I would like to become the new Ronaldo – perhaps I will follow the career of the many Brazilian players who have won so much with Milan...”[i]

Pato is contracted to Internacional until 2009 and is currently valued at £10m, with reports suggesting that a £7m offer from Milan has already been rejected.

Juventus are understood to be in a favourable position to net the attacker as his agent is Gilmar Veloz, who is also the representative of former Juve ace Emerson.

Pato won the Copa Libertadores last year and 2006 FIFA World Club Championship by defeating Barcelona in the Final.

He also impressed in the recent U-20 South American Championship in Paraguay, which was won by the Selecao.

I love this boy

Re: Pato.

Well, will we have space for him? Who would he replace? He wont be a "Pirlo" replacement...maybe a sub for Kaka....if Gourcuff is Seedorfs sub....hmmm...I dont have a problem with us getting him...if he is all that he is purported to be.

I think Pato is just too young to hav him as a viable option in attack just yet but I guess,if we can afford it, we could get him now and keep him in the team but outside the 25 players who will form the squad for the CL, at least for the first year that is.

The good thing about him is that if we buy him this summer when he will be 18 or so, when he becomes 21, he will have been a Milan player for 3 full years, which would allow Milan to include him in the CL as a club-trained player i.e. a player who's coming from Milan's youth system like Maldini is now.

GK: /

RB: maybe rafinha
LB: /
DC: sell simic, buy a young good prospect

MC: sell abro, buy a young prospect: snijder, andersson(porto),

S: sell pipo , buy robinho or kerlon (or pato)
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who i like that milan want to buy, but impossible:
ronaldinhio, fabregas, de rossi, mascherano, barzagli(prob go to juve)