Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by Tony75

Typical moron. No great signings we'll be made. Lies and more lies again and again. We'll end up with another galliani turkey like Brncic or Oliveira.

Inferentially, what you say implies Kaka` is a moron.

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

I must say we cannot compete for the Scudetto and the CL with this squad. It’s way too thin.

And you can almost always find someone saying what you just wrote every year during the summer mercato.

GALLIANI, ETO'O AND RONALDINHO NOT LEAVING BARCELONA
7/19/2007

ROME – At the exit of the Federal Council, Adriano Galliani expressed himself this way: “For me Kaka is a forward. He’s the top goalscorer of the Champions League. I don’t see how he cannot be considered an attacker. We have Ronaldo, Inzaghi, Gilardino and we have Kaka. Sometimes we can also not keep our word,” he added. “We have not made an offer of 50 million for Eto’o,” continued Adriano Galliani. “Him and Ronaldinho are not for sale. Drogba? I don’t think so. With regards to Kaka, the Brazilian will remain at Milan at 200%.”

www.acmilan.com

Originally Posted by Jeff

Inferentially, what you say implies Kaka` is a moron.

No, inferentially, he would be implying Kaka is a turkey

Ancelotti has had scraps served to him in the last few years thanks to the incompetant dealings of Crapiani. Oliveira, Favalli all bear his hallmark of signing cheap bad players to replace great players, or overspending on below average. Our squad has gone down 2 levels with him messing, only thanks to the quality of Ancelotti's coaching can we compete.

Originally Posted by Jeff

And you can almost always find someone saying what you just wrote every year during the summer mercato.

Oh I'm sorry, you must think that I am part of the rabble...

I said Scudetto AND the Champions League. I think with injuries etc. we have to have a large(r) squad to compete. This year Milan picked one over the other. Inter may have not have the stomach for the fight like we do, but they do have a big enough squad to compete on two fronts.

We'll be striving for more than two trophies next season. We have the quality in the first XI, but to compete for both seems difficult. And a club like Milan has the ambition to compete in both.

The saddest piece of news today is Galliani saying that "sometimes we can also not keep our word". I am a reasonably optimistic person, but this seems like a massive betrayal to the season ticket holders. Admittedly, season ticket holders should buy tickets for Milan, but undoubtedly the expected arrival of a striker must have gotten them excited.

I don't even want a HUGE transfer. I just want someone in defence (Canna, Barzagli or Zambo) and someone in attack (Quag or G. Rossi).

EDIT: I am reading conflicting reports. Calciomercato and other sources say that Galliani said that they will land a great transfer in August, while Gazzetta
and acmilan.com (above) don't mention that. Also I haven't read "sometimes we also can't keep our word" in any other source.

Kaka was signed due to the legwork that Leonardo done in Brzail, and to lesser extent Braida who dealt with the SA market, not galliani sitting in Milan taking credit for other people's work.

Originally Posted by Tony75

Kaka was signed due to the legwork that Leonardo done in Brzail, and to lesser extent Braida who dealt with the SA market, not galliani sitting in Milan taking credit for other people's work.

You really know a lot of how this works within Milan, don't you? I'm surprised your location is Ireland...

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

GALLIANI, ETO'O AND RONALDINHO NOT LEAVING BARCELONA
7/19/2007

ROME – At the exit of the Federal Council, Adriano Galliani expressed himself this way: “For me Kaka is a forward. He’s the top goalscorer of the Champions League. I don’t see how he cannot be considered an attacker. We have Ronaldo, Inzaghi, Gilardino and we have Kaka. Sometimes we can also not keep our word,” he added. “We have not made an offer of 50 million for Eto’o,” continued Adriano Galliani. “Him and Ronaldinho are not for sale. Drogba? I don’t think so. With regards to Kaka, the Brazilian will remain at Milan at 200%.”

www.acmilan.com

I hate our management! I mean just SHUT UP! Do what you got to do and run AC Milan business - but SHUT UP with all these stupid quotes to the public. "We're going to sign a big name player." "That player will be non-EU" "We're looking at these five, but there is also a 6th." "We are happy with the team we have."


I swear Galliani et al are retarded. Just handle your business quietly, discreetly. There is NO advantage to contributing to the transfer rumors with these retarded statements. Instead you just surrender your position and make things even harder. If I needed to buy a car, I'd go to a dealer and keep my mouth shut until I had a completely thought out gameplan. I wouldn't be speaking to a friend loudly saying - I'm definitely getting a red car because that's my favorite f''king color and I won't buy anything BUT a red car!"

I want to play Galliani in a poker match. His blabbering would give him away and I could make enough money from him to sign R10 AND Eto'o myself!

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

The saddest piece of news today is Galliani saying that "sometimes we can also not keep our word". I am a reasonably optimistic person, but this seems like a massive betrayal to the season ticket holders. Admittedly, season ticket holders should buy tickets for Milan, but undoubtedly the expected arrival of a striker must have gotten them excited.

I don't even want a HUGE transfer. I just want someone in defence (Canna, Barzagli or Zambo) and someone in attack (Quag or G. Rossi).

EDIT: I am reading conflicting reports. Calciomercato and other sources say that Galliani said that they will land a great transfer in August, while Gazzetta
and acmilan.com (above) don't mention that. Also I haven't read "sometimes we also can't keep our word" in any other source.

1) I have learnt to never listen to Galliani but to refer to acmilan.com official announcement.

2) But we WANT huge transfers, don't we? We don't want scrap players like (hmm...) Favalli?

3)acmilan.com is the only most trusted source.

Originally Posted by Russo-Neri

I hate our management! I mean just SHUT UP! Do what you got to do and run AC Milan business - but SHUT UP with all these stupid quotes to the public. "We're going to sign a big name player." "That player will be non-EU" "We're looking at these five, but there is also a 6th." "We are happy with the team we have."


I swear Galliani et al are retarded. Just handle your business quietly, discreetly. There is NO advantage to contributing to the transfer rumors with these retarded statements.

There is; saying that Milan is gonna sign a new management may have a positive effect on the number of seasonal sale by raising people's expectation about next year's squad.

Originally Posted by Jeff

1) I have learnt to never listen to Galliani but to refer to acmilan.com official announcement.

2) But we WANT huge transfers, don't we? We don't want scrap players like (hmm...) Favalli?

3)acmilan.com is the only most trusted source.

That quotation is from acmilan.com

Check it out yourself.

I just want reasonably good transfers. I don't want huge names because I don't think we need them.

Originally Posted by Tony75

Kaka was signed due to the legwork that Leonardo done in Brzail, and to lesser extent Braida who dealt with the SA market, not galliani sitting in Milan taking credit for other people's work.

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Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

GALLIANI, ETO'O AND RONALDINHO NOT LEAVING BARCELONA
7/19/2007

ROME – At the exit of the Federal Council, Adriano Galliani expressed himself this way: “For me Kaka is a forward. He’s the top goalscorer of the Champions League. I don’t see how he cannot be considered an attacker. We have Ronaldo, Inzaghi, Gilardino and we have Kaka. Sometimes we can also not keep our word,” he added. “We have not made an offer of 50 million for Eto’o,” continued Adriano Galliani. “Him and Ronaldinho are not for sale. Drogba? I don’t think so. With regards to Kaka, the Brazilian will remain at Milan at 200%.”

www.acmilan.com

Bad news for sure

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Check it out yourself.

Official announcement as in "official communication", not what is quoted saying on the acmilan.com website.

And don't we want a second kaka` ?