Summer mercato 2009

We wont take Zapata & Mexes. no way. I wsih berlu would just sell. His football ideas beling 20 years ago. today he's an old man who can't recognise the need for changes in milan, and neither adebayor or mexes are right choices.

First off, i think Adebayor is over-rated as hell. Mexes is also over-rated but he is still a solid defender just not as a second coming of Nesta or anyone like that.

Personally, I still think that Lucio will be the CB signing and another cheap but reliable striker like Trez or Iqunita will come.

Adebayor and Mexes are both overrated.

I'll believe this story when it appears on acmilan.com and not some unauthorized news site like MilanNews.

Hope Paloschi returns. We need to give our youth a better chance, and if carlo goes I hope the coach recognises that.

As overrated as both Adebayor and Mexes might be, signing them both and bringing back Gourcuff would still constitute as the most succesful mercato we have had in a long time.

It's almost official, Gourcuff stays in France ...

Oh sorry, I wanted to do like rosoneri_11, a little joke, it's Christian Gourcuff (Yoann's father) who should still be the coach of Lorient for the next season !!

Nothing new in the Y.Gourcuff saga, he still said he didn't decide anything and that was a difficult decision to take. Anyway, Bordeaux started negotiations with his agent.

Originally Posted by GeoTav

It's almost official, Gourcuff stays in France ...

Oh sorry, I wanted to do like rosoneri_11, a little joke, it's Christian Gourcuff (Yoann's father) who should still be the coach of Lorient for the next season !!

That's not funny, Geo! I almost had a heart attack

Originally Posted by GeoTav

It's almost official, Gourcuff stays in France ...

Oh sorry, I wanted to do like rosoneri_11, a little joke, it's Christian Gourcuff (Yoann's father) who should still be the coach of Lorient for the next season !!

Nothing new in the Y.Gourcuff saga, he still said he didn't decide anything and that was a difficult decision to take. Anyway, Bordeaux started negotiations with his agent.

http://www.onlysoccer.net/?action=read&idsel=35691
Is there any truth to this article then?

Originally Posted by slifersd

http://www.onlysoccer.net/?action=read&idsel=35691
Is there any truth to this article then?

No because Gourcuff didn't give any key allowing people to know his future decision (if he already knows it himself ...).

French medias start to think he will come back to Milan because of his last declaration ("I don't know and it's a difficult decision, more difficult than what people think", I translate litterally), but he didn't say anything clear.

So it's all about interpretation from medias.

This website musn't be reliable because they don't write the name of the player as it has to be written, and they give a sure information whereas nothing is sure (still 18 days for Bordeaux to try to buy him).

Laurent Blanc, coach of Bordeaux, said in the interview for L'Equipe that Gourcuff wants to play for Milan...

I've been reading the news about Mexes and Adebayor. As SLIFERSD said, it would be the best mercato we've had in a LONG time. Is Benzema way over priced at this point? How about Santacroce? I would love to see him in that position as well. Take a look at this:

---------------------------------Abbiati----------------------------------
----Zambrotta----Nesta/Thiago----Mexes OR Santacroce----???NewLB??---
------Flamini/Gattuso-----------Pirlo------------Gourcuff-----------------
--------------------------------Kaka-----------------------------------
-----------Pato/Paloschi/Inzaghi------Adebayor OR Benzema---------------

gregapenny, like I said in some previous page, it has to be taken carefully because L'Equipe is not always very reliable (they announced that Henry would leave Arsenal for 5 years for example ...).

Which makes me being even more worrying about that is that I didn't find the original interview in French medias ... it's everywhere on the web in Italy, but not in France, which sounds weird.

About Benzema, he said many times this year that he will stay in Lyon for 2009-2010 and then look for another club. And Aulas fixed a 70M price for him some times ago (or more, I don't remember), so yes, he is overpriced, and Aulas is a very good commercial, so if he says 70M, he will ask for at least 60M ...

More rumours today linking us to Clichy. However, the rumour comes from the Sunday Mirror (a less than reliable source).

Originally Posted by GeoTav

It's almost official, Gourcuff stays in France ...

Oh sorry, I wanted to do like rosoneri_11, a little joke, it's Christian Gourcuff (Yoann's father) who should still be the coach of Lorient for the next season !!

Nothing new in the Y.Gourcuff saga, he still said he didn't decide anything and that was a difficult decision to take. Anyway, Bordeaux started negotiations with his agent.

Hey don't steal my ideas!

haha

Originally Posted by gregapenny

that Gourcuff wants to play for Milan...

Very logic. Every player wants to play for Milan. He had been in the starting eleven in his first months with Milan (forced Seedorf to the bench by playing as left MC) before his first injury came, injury that made him no longer the starting eleven because of his very inconsistency in the games.

With his one season very good performances' experience with Bordeaux, he should be starter in Milan pretty easily (except he can't show what he's done with Bordeaux) especially if Ancelotti really moves from Milan.