Winter Mercato

Milan await Barca duo
Sunday 17 June, 2007
The Spanish season ends tonight and transfer guru Ernesto Bronzetti insists either Ronaldinho or Samuel Eto’o will end up at Milan.

It has been a flop of a campaign for Barcelona, who will lose the title unless Mallorca manage to stop Real Madrid at the Bernabeu, and that could lead to a clear-out.

“It all depends on what happens tonight. The club will decide which of the two will go – Ronaldinho or Eto’o,” said the agent.

The Cameroon international seems to be the favourite to leave at the moment and is tracked by Milan, Inter and Arsenal.

“From what I have heard through friends, if he had to choose then Eto’o would prefer the Rossoneri.”

The reigning European champions are also looking to Spain for a midfield reinforcement, as negotiations with Real Madrid’s Emerson are at an advanced stage.

“They are looking for a forward and a midfielder this summer. For the latter, I think the shortlist is just Emerson and Edmilson. Carlo Ancelotti’s vote could prove decisive here.”

Bronzetti is an agent who specialises in working with the Spanish sides and he gave his view on the seemingly endless quest to bring Kaka to the Bernabeu with the latest offer said to be a staggering £54m.

“Lately the Merengues directors have been promising a great deal without delivering anything. I am more likely to believe the words of Adriano Galliani and Silvio Berlusconi, who continue to assure they won’t release the Brazilian.”

Real Madrid have also put together a contract worth £8m per season and full image rights for Kaka. Will they get what they want?

“I would like to date Monica Bellucci, but I’ve never managed it! Jokes aside, I cannot imagine Kaka going to the club and asking to be sold to the Spaniards. Don’t forget Milan are champions of Europe and top in the UEFA rankings.”

Fabio Capello was on the verge of dismissal many times this season, yet he could be celebrating his second Liga title this evening.

“Everyone here thinks Real have already signed Bernd Schuster for next term, but it would be a mistake to change now that the Italian has had to face up to and surpass every obstacle. If I were Fabio, I’d seriously think about walking away.”

German tactician Schuster is currently in charge of Getafe and is alleged to have signed a pre-contract agreement with Madrid.

If had the 100 mil that Berlu is willing to pay for R10 I would never do it for R10. I would get Eto, we have a player that is better than R10. Thats just wasting money on a player that in two years probably is going to cost 10 mil.

This guy Bronzetti seems he knows what he is talking about. He predicted the Vieri move before any rumour mills got sniff of the transfer. He also accurately commented on the Ronaldo to Milan transfer some months back.

He was the one who orchestrated the Ronaldo move, not predicted it.

Did he really predict the Vieri move? I thought I was the only one! But i still dont think we will end up with any of the Barca players.

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

He was the one who orchestrated the Ronaldo move, not predicted it.

Did he really predict the Vieri move? I thought I was the only one! But i still dont think we will end up with any of the Barca players.

Yeah he was the intermediary for the Ronaldo move.

Yeah he predicted the Vieri move; it was truly out of nowhere!

If you thought that we would end up with Barca players, I'd be worried.

Originally Posted by Bosniaco

If had the 100 mil that Berlu is willing to pay for R10 I would never do it for R10. I would get Eto, we have a player that is better than R10. Thats just wasting money on a player that in two years probably is going to cost 10 mil.

I tend to agree with what you said - Etoo, putting the ? marks on his finishing aside, is the type of player Milan needs more than Dinho, as long as we have Kaka, that is. And Etoo will be considerably cheaper both in terms of transfer fee and salary demands.

Also, bar any internal wars between Dinho and his teammates, Etoo is the more likely of the two to be let go by Barca given that Henry is more or less a direct replacement for Etoo in their current tactical formation.
Selling Dinho, however, would mean that they either have to unerath a player to replace him - not many of those around - or Rijkaard would have to mastermind a dif formation from next season on with Etoo and henry in it, which I somehow don't see happening as Rijkaard, without Ten Cate by his side, doesn't strike me as a master tactician who would risk changing a successful formation only to experiment with a new one, but who knows really ...

What's even worse about getting Dinho now and overpaying heaftily for his serveces is that in a couple of years, Barca will most likely be ready and willing to let him go and we won't have to pay a fortune to claw him out of their hands, provided that Silvio still wants him.
If now even 50 mil might not be quite enough to buy him, in 2 years or so, when he will be 29 yo, his price would probably be less than half that amount.

As for Bronzetti "predicting" transfers, I wouldn't be too awed by that as the guy is in very close relations with Galiani and Milan and is one of their most trusted people when it comes to deals with Spanish clubs and not only - he is something like a "mercato" consultant/advisor so to speak and if he doesn't know what is going on beyond what the papers say, who else would really.

well sorry zlat...but ur dreams of signinng kieta is over...he signed with lyon..u shud already know..

If we have to buy one of Dinho and Eto'o, I will choose Dinho. We already have 4 strikers, not including Boriello. I don't expect seedorf to play class football next year. Ronaldinho comes and we can play 4-3-2-1 with 2 best AM in the world. And I think Ronaldinho's shirt will be sold faster than Eto'o's.

I dont want us to have any dealings with Madrid and so I've decided I give my vote to Edmilson, who can also play sometimes as a CD, ( not sure how good but...he can play better than Simic, sorry Dario )! The thing that made my day in this Bronzetti interwiew is the comment that if he( Eto'o) has a choice, he would choose rossoneri. And that is a really important thing. Bronzetti is something like Moggi 2. And his connections with Milan are strong. Eto'o is absolutly a brilliant player, and the most important thing is that Carlo asked for him from the tactical point of wiew. If he arrives you'll see how hard this man works in defence faze.

And I found a way to keep Kaka' Im sure that in the next 2 years, no matter of Milan's results, Kaka' will stay. For the further future im not so sure... So, in the next 2 years we need to get some great players ( Zambrotta ), and win CL twice. That way we will be on no.9 together with Madrid. Yes we are UEFA no.1 team and have most european trophys but all that counts is really a CL cup. Then we buy Calderon's son!!! ( if he has one ), and bench him.

Sorry for the double post, but this may be interesting, aldough its from Tribalfootball, the idea is what matters

AC Milan in Fiorentina swap talks over Gilardino
tribalfooball.com - June 17, 2007

AC Milan are in player swap talks with Fiorentina over striker Alberto Gilardino.

Florence sources say Fiorentina have upped their bid for Gilardino, after having a £10 million plus Valeri Bojinov offer rejected last week.

The Viola are now offering £12 million cash and Milan are studying the proposal closely. The European champs have asked Fiorentina, however, to include one player from Tomas Ujfalusi, Giampaolo Pazzini and Manuel Pasqual, in their bid.

Milan have also informed Fiorentina they're prepared to send Gilardino to Florence on a year's loan.

The striker's agent, Beppe Bonetto, was in Milan on Saturday for talks with directors about Gila's situation.
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It could be fatal to sell Gila and than watch young Italian striker find his form and start scoring for Juve or... Inter! The man has lost his confidence and it can be seen in his every move. In Parma he even passes the ball better, he has fear in his eyes while playing now. The loan to Viola could do him good as that is a strong and attacking minded club where he would play all season long and Milan will still have Pippo-Ronaldo-Eto'o?-Oliveira to play with. Pippo is now injury free and Ronaldo is always Ronaldo. Plus, we can have some advantages over some Fiorentina players like Pasqual who is a VERY GOOD LB and also young and Italian I think. I've seen him in numerous occasions and he always showed to have potential. Has power, cross and can defend.

So what do you guys think?

sems that Gila going to fiorentina

http://tribalfootball.com/article.php?id=44062

Milan tie down Kaka: contract worth £4.3m until 2012

This is a headline from Corriere dello sport. They say Kaka said NO to £8 Real offered and accepted a wage increase from Milan. Now he'll be getting £4.3 per year.
I don't know how reliable this is !


From the same newspaper :
Mourinho: Sheva’s a slave to his wife!

Dunno if this is conected to Alex, but ...
http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?...+PSV&channel=&

Chelsea will send Rajkovic on loan to PSV and it may mean they'll take back Alex

Originally Posted by remote2book

well sorry zlat...but ur dreams of signinng kieta is over...he signed with lyon..u shud already know..

well, he is gone now but Lyon paid much more than I expected it would cost to sign Keita - ~15 mil euros vs ~8mil - so that softened the blow a bit and I can actually sleep

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as for Kaka, that fairy tale that Marca told 1-2 days ago about Real offering 80 mil to Milan and 12/season to Kaka may have been another shot in the dark 'cause now AS seems to have thrown in a much lower offer for both sides - 50 mil euros to Milan and 8 mil/season for Kaka, which I doubt will make Galliani or Kaka's father in that matter salivate.

at least that's what this is saying:
http://www.calciomercato.it/dettagli...a=1&hdnId=2391

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Dunno if this is conected to Alex, but ...
http://home.skysports.com/list.aspx?...+PSV&channel=&

Chelsea will send Rajkovic on loan to PSV and it may mean they'll take back Alex

I think it's more likely that Chelski are simply using PSV as their "incubator" for players the Londoners can't use right now - better play them and have them gain experience than sit them on the bench.

It still doesn't mean they won't get Alex to SB this summer but my point is that this Raijkovic move would have most probably happened even without Alex in the picture.