Summer Mercato

Originally Posted by Bosniaco

Zapata ??? GREATTTTTTT BRING IT !!!!!

Is this lad good enough to be a starter? In recent years Udinese has a tradition of bringing unknown players from all over the world, yet nobody really turn out to be a real big name. A couple of years ago some major clubs were closely watching on Felipe, including us, but after his injury's healed he's just not the same promising player anymore.

I'll humbly say this. We will sign Zapata and Drogba.

Of all the players linking to Milan, I must admit, the R10 is great, Sheva coming back is good, Drogba signing is unreal, but the one I want the most is actually Zapata.
B/c I believe he will be a great CB learning from Maldini and NEsta.

Imagine this is what will happen in the summer for us.

In: Frey, Zapata, Zambro, Grosso, Diarra(well if he is links with INter, why not us!), Aqualini, Flamini, R10, Drogba, Borrellio and Sheva
Out: Dida, Simic, Cafu, Serginho, Favalli, Brocchi, Emerson, Seedorf, Gila and Ronaldo.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Nalx

Is this lad good enough to be a starter? In recent years Udinese has a tradition of bringing unknown players from all over the world, yet nobody really turn out to be a real big name.

Zapata is only 21 and he played more than 100 matches for Udinese (around 80 of them in serie A).
I'm not surprised at all that Milan want him because the kid plays like an experienced 30 yo defender. Tactically and tecnhically Zapata is perfect defender and in many aspects he reminds a lot of the greatest Milan defenders.
He's calm, always on the right spot, close to impossible to pass through him and yet he plays clean, without Matrix-like fouls.

Last year he was pure brilliance. This year i didn't follow him much but i watched few matches that Udinese played without him and i noticed how their defense falls apart without him.

If he stays injury free then there is no doubt at all that his name will be put among the best defenders of the next decade.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Zapata is only 21 and he played more than 100 matches for Udinese (around 80 of them in serie A).
I'm not surprised at all that Milan want him because the kid plays like an experienced 30 yo defender. Tactically and tecnhically Zapata is perfect defender and in many aspects he reminds a lot of the greatest Milan defenders.
He's calm, always on the right spot, close to impossible to pass through him and yet he plays clean, without Matrix-like fouls.

Last year he was pure brilliance. This year i didn't follow him much but i watched few matches that Udinese played without him and i noticed how their defense falls apart without him.

If he stays injury free then there is no doubt at all that his name will be put among the best defenders of the next decade.

For me he is a good this season as the one before. Tactically even smarter IMO.

Good post.

Originally Posted by Gabriel489

Of all the players linking to Milan, I must admit, the R10 is great, Sheva coming back is good, Drogba signing is unreal, but the one I want the most is actually Zapata.
B/c I believe he will be a great CB learning from Maldini and NEsta.

Imagine this is what will happen in the summer for us.

In: Frey, Zapata, Zambro, Grosso, Diarra(well if he is links with INter, why not us!), Aqualini, Flamini, R10, Drogba, Borrellio and Sheva
Out: Dida, Simic, Cafu, Serginho, Favalli, Brocchi, Emerson, Seedorf, Gila and Ronaldo.

Cheers

I can only imagine that, because its so unrealistic

maybe Zambrotta and R10, and Sheva, but the rest... :/

and about the players leaving.. why including Seedorf and Gila?

i know the reason about Gila.. but SEEDORF??

Berlusconi Says:


"Noi siamo ancora desiderosi di prendere Ronaldinho e sappiamo che lui vuole il Milan, però il Barcellona ha presentato una richiesta che tutti considerano eccessiva. In ogni caso andiamo avanti sperando di acquistarlo"

In English Berlusconi

We are still yearning to take Ronaldinho and we know that he wants the Milan, but Barcelona has introduced one demanded that all consider excessive. In any case we go ahead hoping to acquire Ronaldinho

MY Dream Milan for next season is

Frey/Boruc Ramos/Emanuelson Nesta Mexes Zambrotta Pirlo Essien/De Rossi Kaka Ronaldinho Pato Gomez/Drogba/Benzema

I BELIEVE

Every day I read how Flamini is "closer" to Juve....and Milan are mentioned less and less....I confess that this worries me.

Indeed, I would b more disappointed if we don't get the young Frenchman, than if we don't sign R10, as Rino and Max are getting on in age, and a more youthfull option is necessary....and unless we have some promising primavera player that I don't kno about, Flamini represents for me, the best option in this mercato.

Well....let's see what the rumors are on about today.....

Who knows, maybe we will hear that Cambiasso and Mascherano both want to join Milan

I can clear that out for you Warren. Flamini is Juve.

We will get another one that is equally good. So I've accepted it.

Being linked with Zapata was really great, i hope we sign him. A Zapata & Nesta partnership would be fantastic.

I also read (in Italian i might add, so i might be getting this wrong) that we offered Ramos 7 million a season and he apparently said this was a tempting offer. How crazy would that be!

Anyway

HAPPY ST. GEORGE'S DAY!

Today's there's some interesting news. It seems more and more realistic that Flamini is Juve bound after yesterday's comments from Gigli.

Something I missed off in my post yesterday is Gattuso's agent's comments, as he feels confident Rino wants to stay.

Lahm almost certainly won't be renewing his contract at Bayern (Bayern official site) and has said he wants to play abroad, though I've not seen any rumours about him coming to Milan yet (probably be reading about Milan's interest tomorrow).

Ramos is the big story as far as we're concerned today (story is from Corriere Dello Sport), as he's been disappointed with Real and apparently we've prepared an offer. To the rumours about us going after him, he has said "The interest of Milan makes me happy". An interesting rumour and response.

Tuttosport apparently says Braida has held talks with Adebayor's agent and Galliani wants to go ahead with the transfer, apparently as it is a compromise between what Berlu wants (Sheva) and what Carlo wants to progress with (Pato and Paloschi). The compromise part doesn't make any sense to me if I'm honest, but the signing I feel would be positive.

Again from Tuttosport, Milan is apparently interested in Hleb now. Doubt there's much to this one, but again an interesting rumour (vice Kaka? or maybe an alternative option to R10?).

Finally, I'll go back to the Zapata rumours yesterday. There's more said about it today, but the interesting part is Braida's conducting the talks. For those not in the know, Braida was an ex-Udinese player and apparently has excellent relations with the club. Personally, this is the rumour today that I hope has most truth to it.

A couple more to add after reading calciomercato.com

The first is we're apparently after Robert Aquafresca of Genoa.

The second is about Vargas, who many (including myself) were hoping Milan would go after. Apparently he looks almost certain to join Napoli now, at a cost of 8 million euros.

Originally Posted by hishamilan

lahm is simply great and he is 27 i think .... but anyone tell me the seriousness of his injuries

He's 24.

Signing Lahm for free would be so good transfer that it can even be described! Having Lahm and Zambrotta on the flanks is a really super power. This solution I've never thought of as I've never thought Lahm will leave Bayern so soon. If we have any chance we need to go for this player.

Zapata reminds me of Ivan Cordoba from Inter, a player that,for a 21 year old, play extraordinary defence. We will see aguess, but those are all great players that are better then Oddo, Marek, Cafu, Sergio, Bonera, Simic and so on...

Thats ACMILAN1983 for the updated.

Why Napoli Vargas, why????? We could have sign him and Zapata.

The one thing I find interesting is that Brida is the one who is being link with Zapata and not Galli, which from my records, where ever Brida or Leonardo name is mention with a player, that player will play for Milan. Lets just hope this streak continues with Zapata and Adebayor.

As for Flamini, I know he is great but I don't see Juve needing him, as they already have Zennetti, Sissoko and that new kid. Anyhow, I think Aqualini from Roma is better, lets hope we get him instead.

Lastly, why Helb if we have Dinho????

Cheers guys