Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by Tony75

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.

This is patently ridiculous...unless of course, you are secretly Braida or some one else in Milan management.

It is completely preposterous for you to make these statements, when you have no empirical evidence, and even if I am just as frustrated as you are over our transfers, or rather the lack thereof this mercato, I am not prepared to make such banal statements as the one quoted above.

Berlusconi has the purse strings, yes, but Galliani sees to the day to day running of the club, including transfers...and while Leonardo does a lot of the "grunt" work, Galliani is the one who takes the player stats to Berlu for approval, or takes the decision himself...ultimately, none of us really know, so to lay the blame for anything regarding Milans transfers squarely at Galliani´s feet is disingenius to the extreme.

I grow increasingly weary when otherwise intelligent posters allow their frustration, lack of patience, and anxiety to take control of their minds and fingers to the point where they post inanity, like its a poem.

If you want to blame anybody, blame Berlusconi, whose final decision (as far as I know, or dont kno actually) is required before any player signs for the club....and that would be completely ridiculous, since we have won so much under his ownership.

The same squad that has "gone down 2 levels" just won the UCL...after a horrendous summer filled with uncertainty, and an injury plagued season...wow. I guess we would have won successive trebles had Galliani, or Crapiani (as u choose to call him) not meddled.

The same Favalli that scored some important goals that allowed us to qualify for the UCL this term....this is a cheap and bad player? What team are you watching? Or are you just playing Winning 11?

I dont know, I am sorry if I have been harsh, or offended you, but as with most of us here, my patience is wearing thin, and your comments dont help.

Don't get too caught up with what Galliani's been saying, he has said that at least every transfer market a few times. If Galliani does not sign a world-class striker by the end of the transfer window I can see a major strike happening at Via Turati asking for his chop. 2 poor summer transfer windows in a row can not be tolerated for a team with high ambitions as Milan.

Let's just give him time and space to do what he does best. We know for sure that he is in Barca for one purpose only: to get a player. It could even be Zambrotta (which I would take over Dinho/Eto'o any time any day) so just hang in there for now

Originally Posted by prifess

our board is just talking talking blablablabla that's all...

LESS TALKING MORE ACTING

if carlo and galliani truely believe they can win supercup, serie A, champions league without any reinforcements? then they are really blinded by kaka!
kaka is world bes player. but kaka cant do everything thats their problem :|

why does it takes so long?

1)talk with club for starting ngotiations with player
2)come to agree with player
3)do offer to club
4)we got em

follow these steps, they always do their own way and what did it for milan? 2 seasons without any reinforcements


real asks 15mil€ for baptista... why wait?
has ge hot eu pasport btw?

Because he sucks.

Might I refer you all to the Silly Season rules yet again?

Click here or check a few hundred posts back...its there somewhere....

Please, believe nothing, and I mean nothing, until we see the player hold up the shirt in an official news conference, or, at midnight of the last day of the transfer season.

Calm down everyone...its pure postering, as Hasan has said.

And if it isnt pure postering, and we are indeed not getting either Barca player...thats ok with me as well...regardless of who we buy, or dont, I am a Milan fan for life....

I wont hit out at management, who I am sure are doing their best...but for me, they have done one important, fundamental thing for our future...

They have secured Kaka...and that is more important than getting Etoo, Ronaldinho, Messi, Lampard, $heva, Villa, Torres...et al.

Maybe now they will turn some attention to Barzagli, or Quagliarela....on every cloud, there is a silver lining...

Milan, Galliani: "Eto'o e Ronaldinho sono incedibili, ma faremo un colpo"
19.07.2007 16.37 di Christian Seu articolo letto 5409 volte
L'amministratore delegato del Milan Adriano Galliani chiude la porta a Eto'o e Ronaldinho: "Restano al Barcellona, non sono in vendita - ha spiegato -. Non abbiamo fatto nessuna offerta di 50 milioni di euro, siamo in corsa per un grande attaccante, un colpo lo faremo, lasciateci lavorare. Anche Drogba non e' in vendita, non fatemi dire nulla. Ad agosto il Milan un grande colpo lo fara' di sicuro". Il Milan ha una squadra forte e completa, cosi come è. Abbiamo Kaka, Ronaldo e Gilardino, l'attacco va bene così", ha detto Gallini al termine del consiglio federale nella sede di via Allegri.

Last season i was calling for Galliani to go, and so far im sticking to that. We have the protential to go so far, and the transfer dealings from the last couple of years is holding us back. I dont want to turn to Inter style spending, just a stitch in time saves nine.

Leonardo and Cesare Maldini would be sooo much better at the job.

The team is constantly ageing, and its a joke that we have Serghino, Favalli and Fiori still in the side.

i dont ask for big names, all i ask for par exemple - Cassano/ Rossi - Chiellini/zambrotta and maresca.

i think i might start to take bets at how quickly ambrosini can get injured again, any takers? :P

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Might I refer you all to the Silly Season rules yet again?

Click here or check a few hundred posts back...its there somewhere....

Please, believe nothing, and I mean nothing, until we see the player hold up the shirt in an official news conference, or, at midnight of the last day of the transfer season.

Calm down everyone...its pure postering, as Hasan has said.

I hear ya, and to be honest it would be quite conceited of me to say this team needs R10 or Eto'o or Pele clone - I don't know anything and could never analyze our team needs the way someone who has spent their years doing it, like Galliani. And we may not sign anyone and (while disappointed) I could live with it.

BUT what angers me is the silly way Galliani handles himself publicly. I don't care if he is a futbol genius, he talks too much and it's embarrassing. And maybe I'm just biased because I pay more attention to Milan news than other clubs, but I get the sense not many other team managers shoot their mouth like Galliani does. Personally I think it's immature and more aptly - FOOLISH!

Merged a thread regarding "no big signing".

Russo-Neri...I agree, to a point...regardless of what he says, if we land Ronaldinho, all that he said previous will be forgotten instantly. Believe me.

I agree that he talks a bit much, but if you are faced with 10 microphones every time you step into public, and you need to keep "cordial" relations with the media, you have to give them a paragraph/sound bite...and if its blue one day, and green the other, ultimately, no one cares, especially if a "big" name is signed.

thats the other thing, we have no accuses not to sign someone this window. We are already qualified for champ league, not waiting on any trial....

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Please, believe nothing, and I mean nothing, until we see the player hold up the shirt in an official news conference, or, at midnight of the last day of the transfer season.

SS rules might need some addition, if i remember right i was reading something about som guy Suazo joining us on acmilan.com...

Btw, you are loosing our bet, right?

If we dont make some signings (or if we do it oliveira style) i cant wait to see what will be the excuse for it, when we start failing in our scudetto campaign again. And then we'll sign pato in january, climb to second spot in serieA (which will be our priority by then) and loose out on semi-finals or finals in CL - season will be saved (we will get to play in CL and juve wont, huh!), milan wont need any signings next year

Before Nesta saga,He also said We had Roque Junior,he was a world champion e.t.c.in the end ,he got Nesta.

i think we will just sign PATO.

I might indeed end up losing the bet peters...but you cant win em all can you?

In other news my index finger is gigantic now from all the page refreshing.