Winter Mercato 2011

Originally Posted by brk

Even thinking about selling Pato should be crime punishable by death.

I can't wait for the Ibra-Pato show. Whoever partners them in the front three, Ronaldinho, Robinho, Seedorf, whoever, it's going to be incredible.

I'm not sure if we're really going to be making any purchases this Winter, although it would be a waste not to use the non EU spot.

LOL.... Ok if he ever gets injured again and is out for long spells ( I hope not) let's see if you change your mind.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain...ro-leon-report
looks like we might get pedro leon.. nothing to say to this

Pirlo scored a great goal today, this is a response that he can help us a lot from the time that we improved our squad with some good players this summer.

Forza Milan, we need to be patient the team is better than last year, if the tranfers continue in the same fashion we will be back...

Originally Posted by MilanMikey

http://www.goal.com/en/news/12/spain...ro-leon-report
looks like we might get pedro leon.. nothing to say to this

Why don't we get Afellay on free next June and we push for jucieli in January isn't something to have 3 young talented midfielders, flamini, boateng, afellay, jucieli, pirlo, ambro, seedorf, ambrosini are a very strong group which have everything to be the most dominant midfield on earth

This is not Championship Manager, no way we'll keep all of them happy.

Fullbacks should be the flavour of the mercato.

Originally Posted by zafrul

This is not Championship Manager, no way we'll keep all of them happy.

Fullbacks should be the flavour of the mercato.

Games are won in midfield, you think Milan midfield can take one more year playing 50 games a season, champion ship manager would suggest for ambrosini, seedorf and gattuso to retire but here they are still playing 50 games a season .

Happiness comes last for a team building a project, and that's can't be built around seedorf, ambrosini, gattuso and pirlo.

Championship manager looks very naive for someone who doesn't know a thing about the team he's supporting or football alphabetics

First, this should and WILL BE the last year we see the likes of Pirlo, Seedorf, and Gattuso in Midfield. They've all played pretty well this season compared to most of our low expectations, but together they're slow and CANNOT play 2 games per week, and certainly not 50 games per season. The majority of this year, and certainly next year we will see:

Boateng-Pirlo-Flamini

Pirlo will rotate with Seedorf. Flamini will need to impress this season or he may be back in England. Boateng is the future of our midfield. I think it's very likely we make a move for Jucilei in the next two Mercato's. Also, Lazzari and/or Poli.

Perhaps Boateng, Flamini, Strasser, Lazzari, Poli, Jucilei, Merkel and an ACM we don't know about may be the future of Milan's midfield.

I see Pirlo/Seedorf/Ambro/Rino only playing major roles for this year and perhaps next at most.

Next, I have seen 2 interesting articles:

1. Nigel De Jong was not taken to Netherlands Qualifying matches this week due to his "unnecessary tackle" I'm so glad the coach did this. This guy has a reputation for breaking legs.
http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/st...ro2012&cc=5901

2. Fulham Interested in Bonera
http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy...england-report

3. MANU and RMADRID heavily interested in Gareth Bale
http://www.goal.com/en/news/9/englan...ould-fit-into-

Elmago Madrid for Bale maybe but not Utd they literally have no money to spend and I mean none , maybe Madrid but not Utd Fulham can have Bonera but I doubt he'll agree to sign.If Boateng continues his good form then Genoa will want a decent fee for him how much IDK .And signing Lazarri Poli Jucilei ??? have i missed something Ibra and Robinho were two surprise good signings but im not sure if we are going to go out and sign those 3 and Boateng and an ACM mid.

Well I meant Poli and/OR Lazzari..

Keep in mind, Ambro/Rino/Pirlo/Seedorf/Ronaldinho/Zambrotta/Nesta/Jankulovski/Oddo will ALL need to be replaced within 2 years...3 years MAXIMUM...All these guys are like Mid 30's

So now understanding possibly up to 9 players will be sold or in more likeliness have their contracts expire, we will need to buy some sort of younger, new talent. That's unless Merkel, Verdi, Adiyiah, Strasser, Fossatti and guys of the like ALL become big stars. If not, you can't deny we have to buy.

Originally Posted by Elmago99

Well I meant Poli and/OR Lazzari..

Keep in mind, Ambro/Rino/Pirlo/Seedorf/Ronaldinho/Zambrotta/Nesta/Jankulovski/Oddo will ALL need to be replaced within 2 years...3 years MAXIMUM...All these guys are like Mid 30's

So now understanding possibly up to 9 players will be sold or in more likeliness have their contracts expire, we will need to buy some sort of younger, new talent. That's unless Merkel, Verdi, Adiyiah, Strasser, Fossatti and guys of the like ALL become big stars. If not, you can't deny we have to buy.

The two players in bold don't need to be replaced, they are surplus (actually, this word shouldn't be applied for them !!) ...

Hey, it seems like Abbiati is out for a month! :-D
http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy...-week-spell-on

Here is a great chance to see if Amelia is better.

I think that fullbacks should be the priority .. gattusso, boateng and flamini are good alternatives to the pirlo/ambro/seedorf midfield but zambro/bonera/abate is not working in the right back and eventhough antonini is actually doing good at the left fullback he is not guranteed in the big games and he has no replacement (don't tell me janku ... i'll kill u )

Talking about fullbacks,

seems that Alex Ferguson is interested in one of our players... you guess wanna take a guess who?

Bruno Montelongo who apparently is valued at 9 million euros by Milan.

calciomercato, Oct 4th

We will pretend Janku is Montelongo

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

Talking about fullbacks,

seems that Alex Ferguson is interested in one of our players... you guess wanna take a guess who?

Bruno Montelongo who apparently is valued at 9 million euros by Milan.

calciomercato, Oct 4th

Well, they should be careful with the news they write on this website because Montelongo is not a Milan player, he's only here on loan, and we have until January to decide if we buy him or not ...