No Movement in Market - A Shift In Policy?

Digao will be 22 before the end of august.

Originally Posted by kris

Maldini, Brocchi, Oddo.

Cool in seeing 17 year old Darmian there. hoping they have a Maldini there? Darmian actually debuted at a younger age than Maldini for us.

Wasn't it Maldini debuted at a younger age, but there was only a few months difference or something.

Still I've seen Darmian in a number of games now and must say he does seem an exciting prospect. Along with Di Gennaro, he's the one I have the highest hopes for from Primavera.

Darmian didn't impress me when I saw him, but he was at that time a 16 year old playing with the big men. Especially in defense it is harder to impress at that age as you don't posses the physical charactertics needed.

Last season in primavera, which position did Darmian play most? central defence or left fullback?

I wonder Ba is on the squad list. I thought he is just Esajas which not went to squad list on milan website.

Originally Posted by Siregar

In Primavera squad in which position did he played most? central defence or left fullback?

I wonder Ba is on the squad list. I thought he is just Esajas which not went to squad list on milan website.

I think he is primarily a CD, but not 100% sure.

as for Ba, this is just a broad list of players, not CL list or anything like that - every Milan player will be on that broad list as long as he has a contract with Milan, Esajas was on it too when he was at Milan.

Originally Posted by zlatanov

I think he is primarily a CD, but not 100% sure.

as for Ba, this is just a broad list of players, not CL list or anything like that - every Milan player will be on that broad list as long as he has a contract with Milan, Esajas was on it too when he was at Milan.

Aha, I thought he is again-next Maldini (left fullback). Thanks Zlat.
It means, Darmian 'subtitutes' Costacurta on the list.

So, Esajas was also on that list. It's my mistake then. I still can now hope, Ba is just another Esajas.

If I'm not mistaken, Digao played as a first-team player in Rimini (what I read from the line-up from Rimini's serie C and B matches. But I am not sure, if he played as CD or RB. I really hope, Digao can compete with Cafu as RB (considering the age of Cafu and the height of Digao).

Originally Posted by kris

Darmian didn't impress me when I saw him, but he was at that time a 16 year old playing with the big men. Especially in defense it is harder to impress at that age as you don't posses the physical charactertics needed.

Physically he is pretty small, so it would be difficult for him to really impress from that point of view. What impresses me is his positioning and timing when tackling.

Originally Posted by Siregar

Last season in primavera, which position did Darmian play most? central defence or left fullback?

I wonder Ba is on the squad list. I thought he is just Esajas which not went to squad list on milan website.

Darmian can play CB and RB (most likely position in the senior squad)

Originally Posted by Siregar

Last season in primavera, which position did Darmian play most? central defence or left fullback?

I wonder Ba is on the squad list. I thought he is just Esajas which not went to squad list on milan website.

Ba is at the club to keep an eye on his son who plays for one of the youth teams.

This indeed is a sign of the new policy. The new policy is not to give younsters more chances but rather take the cheapest options available to fill out the roster. Signing the cheap options on the transfer market and then get young players to come up and hope for them to turn into superstars is the new strategy for this team now. I honestly dont believe that those young players should be here right now. They are a long way off from being able to contribute for one of the elite teams in Europe.

As are most of the older players - Kalac, Brocchi, Favalli. Shouldn't be in our squad, never mind signing dirt like emerson.

Originally Posted by Mehdi

Ba is at the club to keep an eye on his son who plays for one of the youth teams.

http://www.acmilan.com/InfoPage.aspx?id=30558

Well you can say it's a "new" policy---but IMO, it is something which we have learned over the years and learnt the hard way. Back in the early to mid 90's we were no different to Chelsea and Real of today---we bought everything in sight, young prospects, old superstars, and many players from teams we faced as opponents in Europe. But then what? We realized most of these players landed on the bench, never fit in the team, and landed up being sold for a fraction of their price---and worse of all, the team wasnt necessarily successful with them on board.. Hence the lesson---even if you have the money (Berlu certainly does) there is no use in buying players, even superstars, if they cannot improve the team---because after all, you can only field 11 players on the pitch---and results come on the pitch not on how good you look on paper.

Originally Posted by rt9

Well you can say it's a "new" policy---but IMO, it is something which we have learned over the years and learnt the hard way. Back in the early to mid 90's we were no different to Chelsea and Real of today---we bought everything in sight, young prospects, old superstars, and many players from teams we faced as opponents in Europe. But then what? We realized most of these players landed on the bench, never fit in the team, and landed up being sold for a fraction of their price---and worse of all, the team wasnt necessarily successful with them on board.. Hence the lesson---even if you have the money (Berlu certainly does) there is no use in buying players, even superstars, if they cannot improve the team---because after all, you can only field 11 players on the pitch---and results come on the pitch not on how good you look on paper.

Good post

It seems to me, yea, there seems to be a new policy regarding the mercato. Everyone else is buying someone else, while Milan? Two, TWO signings this summer. While we also have TWO strikers going out. I will be honest, I'm surprised. It also frustrated the heck out of me. It feels like we are missing some pretty good players in the market.

Or maybe we just wait for January transfer window, where the management can finally see who we need to strengthen the squad, instead of rushing in the Summer. Last January, it was Oddo and Ronaldo (let's quietly forget about Grimi, k? I'm still baffle.) who really help us achieve our target. The bad thing about January? All the good players might not be available anymore, and we might end up paying more than the normal price.

Originally Posted by rt9

Well you can say it's a "new" policy---but IMO, it is something which we have learned over the years and learnt the hard way. Back in the early to mid 90's we were no different to Chelsea and Real of today---we bought everything in sight, young prospects, old superstars, and many players from teams we faced as opponents in Europe. But then what? We realized most of these players landed on the bench, never fit in the team, and landed up being sold for a fraction of their price---and worse of all, the team wasnt necessarily successful with them on board.. Hence the lesson---even if you have the money (Berlu certainly does) there is no use in buying players, even superstars, if they cannot improve the team---because after all, you can only field 11 players on the pitch---and results come on the pitch not on how good you look on paper.

Good point Rt9!