Biggest Mistake In The Transfer Market??

Originally Posted by MATNAT

what about giovanni elber?! hes in the squad photo at the start of the 93/94 season and we let him go to grasshopper zurich.

we could have used him seeing as we only had massaro and savicevic in those days...

Elber has to be one of the biggest blunders up there ... we weren't patient enough with him.

Originally Posted by k7r

the biggest mistake was selliing coloccini to deportivo.he was a future contender for the centre back position after good ol' paolo decides to hang up his boots also we should have bought chivu from ajax before roma.what do u say?

Coloccini is not good enough for us.

I don't know why you mention Chivu when talking about transfer mistakes tough as we never bought nor sold him.

Javi Moreno comes to my mind.

I saw Coloccini yesterday against Brazil... Wow, he had MAJOR problems... He made about 70 free kicks or so... I also think he lacks the quality to succeed in Milan...

Definitly Vieira and Davids

what really shocked me was when i discovered people calling ayala a world class defender?!

he was dire for milan and i thought they may have been talking about the paraguyan, celso ayala, being world class as i could have never thuoght it meant roberto ayala.

i still dont know how he became worldclass, it was like he went to milan became poor disappeared from the public eye and then "bang" roberto ayala that worldclasss defender of valencia.....

I would agree that maybe Viera was the biggest blunder, but no one would have known then the player he would become...and would he have become that player for Milan? Maybe not...Wenger is fantastic at getting the most from players.

Javi Moreno...now he ranks up there..what a disappointment!! Not worth a penny of the money we spent..

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

That is a big one k7r...but I dont know if its the biggest...let me think some more, and get back to you....

Usually we dont make mistakes....unless rivaldo (who came on a free) is included...but the players we sell, are usually not mistakes...lets see...Bierhoff, Helveg, Coco...yup, Colo seems the biggest that I can recall...

After last nights performance in the finals of the Confed Cup...I retract my statement above completely! (well the part about Colo anyway)

While Roque Junior (against crappy Argentine forwards) looked impressive, and had the even more impressive Lucio in support, Coloccini was out of position, tackled poorly, conceded unnecessary freekicks, and was just plain and simple: AWFUL....wouldnt want him back in Milan at all.

Both Roque Junior and Coloccini were good riddances imo.

Originally Posted by Chris

Both Roque Junior and Coloccini were good riddances imo.

Agreed, the only regret being their low transfer prices

Originally Posted by Henrik

Agreed, the only regret being their low transfer prices

Really though Henrik, with Colo, I agree we could have gotten in the teens (millions) for him, but for Roque Junior? We were begging someone to take him off our hands...thankfully, (Leverkusen?)someone did..

"teens (miilions)" for Colo? And who would have paid them really? I agree that by not selling him immediately after his great season with Villareal, we lost on a some more cash for him but that would have been 2-3 mil US/euros and not in the "teens (millions)" - guys, it has been a while since trees stopped growing cash

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Really though Henrik, with Colo, I agree we could have gotten in the teens (millions) for him, but for Roque Junior? We were begging someone to take him off our hands...thankfully, (Leverkusen?)someone did..

I think we were offered in the range of 15m for Coloccini years ago and I think we could have gotten 10m+ for Roque Jr after the last World Cup.

I don't remember reading anything about such a high offer for Colo. And even if some merky website did report a 15 mil offer for him that could have easily been a "ghost" like 90% of all the "news" we read all over the place. My point is that had Milan indeed received such a lucrative offer for Colo, I honestly doubt that the managemnet would have not cashed on it on the second - after all, although Colo was/is a young player with potential, Milan never really seriously considered him Maldini's or Nesta's heir. If that were the case, Milan would have loaned Colo to a Serie A team and not to half the teams in Primera starting with a cashed-strapped Atletico M and ending with the Primera newbies Villareal, whose main goal was avoiding relegation. And then, if we counted on him so highly as to refuse a 15 mil offer, we wouldn't have gotten rifd of him after just half a season of unconvincing displays but would have given him more time and chances to prove himself.
As for Roque, I do agree that we miss a great chance to get more money for him after WC 2002 but back then we didn't exactly have an abundance of defenders as Nesta was still a Lazio player - and he became a Milan player in the very last day of the transfer window - and I am not sure if we already had even Simic with us, immediately after the WC. I guess this is why Milan decided to keep Roque for one more year as the 2002/2003 season was his last at Milan.

For me Collocini and Roque Jr are terrible players, look that I'm brazilian.

I do remember that some big money was offered for Colo, as pointed out by Henrik. Then again, I also remember the price tag of 88M dollars for Beckham in 1999 (the year we were interested in everybody including Becks and Rivaldo and finally we brought in Redondo as our president's "one of top five stars" project).

I have no remorse/regret at all for the departure of Coloccini. Rijkaard and Desailly were two players I hated to see them go. They parted with the club in a friendly fashion, but indeed, we could have used their services for a few more years. I really don't know whether anything could have been done to keep them, but I am just sad to see them go.