Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by zlatanov

Last season, the -8 pts penalty was only one, and probably the least important, of 3-4 factors that cost the team the title race (and being out of it by the winter break) ... there were many other things that influenced the performance of the team on ALL fronts, not just one, "things" that needed time and a special training program to be take care of and we all know how that one ended.
Once that happened, Milan started playing much better on all fronts, not just CL ... unfortunately, it was too late to try to do something more in serie A as the first 2/3rds of the season had renedered such an effort literary pointless.

you got the point here. Still, without proper reinfocments we will suffer playing on 2 fronts even if we throw coppa away from the beginning. Last season was saved by 5 matches, if one of them would go slightly worse we wouldnt be CL champs and we wouldnt listen to all these crap about how good team we are and as such we dont need new players. Milan is a class above all but even our fist 11 cant play good through the season. OK, you say this year should be different but i think it may as well be the same as last 3.

Next thing that worries me is Kaka, withouth proper interest from our administration to strenghten the squad he will leave to real next summer. I really dont believe he is prepared to drag the whole team on like he did last season in CL (celtic remember?) and i think i would not blame him for such acion.

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

Aight enough with them dreams and lets return to the actual rumours going on this summer.

I believe there is no news yesterday or today morning in Italy regarding Dinho, Eto'o, Pato, Sheva and Milan. There also is two days remaining until the squad meets up for training..Most of us here, infact i'd say that before we entered the transfer market 99% predicted we will sign at least a player by July 23. Im curious as to know how many people still think we are going to sign someone in the next two days? I sure hope so.

I have a feeling we are going to sign someone like Emerson in the next few days.
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Originally Posted by peters

Next thing that worries me is Kaka, withouth proper interest from our administration to strenghten the squad he will leave to real next summer. I really dont believe he is prepared to drag the whole team on like he did last season in CL (celtic remember?) and i think i would not blame him for such acion.

Ive been saying this since day one and to be honest I dont blame him either.

Seeing as how my point was seemingly dismantled by your annoyance of having to 'dig' up old facts again Zlatanov. Lets see how well our squad copes if Kaka has a major injury. After all, he was the one main reason, if not THE reason, we got to the CL final. So Sant can sit there saying where was Lugano, Torres, etc, on the date of the final, but where would our players be if it wasn't for Kaka?

I still stand by my point that when compared to ours, Man Utd's squad is more capable of coping with losses to big name players. Which will be strengthened further if they secure Tevez.

What have we done to strengthen our squad? We signed Ba. A player who was hopeless at our club the first time around, so goodness knows what we can expect from him now. However, maybe he will surprise me and i will say good for him if he does.

The point though is while many here expressed their doubts over the form of Serginho & Cafu as they get older and come back from injury, as Inzaghi & Ambrosini carry on spending more time injured than playing football and with Ronaldo still being a bit of an unknown quantity, where the reinforcements that we need? This goes without mentioning the poor performances players offered last season, most notably Gilardino & Seedorf (and where the Dutchman's concerned, i'm sorry but a handful of decent games in an entire season should not justify his place in the starting 11).

I find it difficult to believe our squad is strong enough to compete successfully on multiple fronts. Not strengthening only wastes the peak years of the star players we do have.

i expect milan to sign 2 players this summer. a striker and a dm, i just hope they are quality players and come in time do take part in pre season training.

Stop using the name of "Ba", he is a non-factor, he is not a signing and he won't play.

This has to be the slowest day for transfer rumors this summer

Transfers and Rumors regarding Italian teams:

1. Spalletti : There is a 50% chance that Chivu will stay in Roma

2. Fiorentina will offer new contract to Ujfalusi even though he made it clear that he wants to leave Italy and go to Sevilla

3. According to Marca, Livorno are very close to Diego Tristan from Deportivo La Coruna

Transfers and Rumors regarding foreign teams:

1. Lyon will try to get Reyes but it's still Real Madrid the favorite to buy the young Spaniard from Arsenal.

2. After Abramovich refused to let Robben go , things got complicated for Real. The Spanish champions will make another offer but it's hard to believe that Roman will change his mind. After the unsuccessful attempts to buy Kaka and Fabregas, not getting Robben will be disastrous for Calderon's image.

3. Cannavaro " I'm staying in Real. I wanna win CL. I signed 3 years contract with Real, not with Capello. In Italy they say that i want to come back but it's not true"

4. Greek u-19 team is one of the hot favorites to become european u-19 champions and their greatest star, 17 years old Ninis, is one of the main reasons for the good results. If you remember , i talked a lot about this wonderkid some 6 months ago, when he, as a 16 years old, was playing fantastic for Panathinaicos.
There are many scouts following him but the greatest interest comes from Rafael Monfort, the scout of Real Madrid.
I really like this kid, i'll kill myself if he becomes just another one whose career was ruined in Real.

That's it for today

I feel Galliani gets pushed into saying what ever he does from higher power.

Baptista, Emerson & Alves. Would they all take up non-eu spots, or does Emerson have a Euro passport for his time in Italy?

Ronaldinho Gaúcho, ha rilasciato le sue prime dicharazioni all'interno dell'aeroporto El Prat, rientrato dal Brasile, il campione brasiliano è sembrato rilassato: "Tutti gli acquisti che abbiamo fatto sono importantissimi. Sono molto contento e pronto a iniziare questa nuova stagione"

Ronaldinho came back from Brasil and his first words , at El Prat airport in Barcelona, were :
"All the players we bought are really important. I'm very satisfied and ready to start the new season"

How do you think Ronaldinho finished the sentence in his head :
a) I'm very satisfied and ready to start the new season ...... playing alongside Henry and Messi
b) I'm very satisfied and ready to start the new season ....... playing alongside Kaka and Ronaldo

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

Baptista, Emerson & Alves. Would they all take up non-eu spots, or does Emerson have a Euro passport for his time in Italy?

Emerson had a German passport when he came to Roma and then he even got an Italian passport.
He's an EU player and he won't be taking the non-EU spot.
Alves got Spanish nationality this year and he also wouldn't be taking the non-EU spot.
Baptista is a non-EU and if Milan buy him then no more non-EU players could join you this year !

Tony, i think the answer is option (a)

either that or option (c)

I'm very satisfied and ready to start the new season ...... sitting on the bench behind Henry, Etoo & Messi

I know he'd be expensive ... incredibly expensive ... but i still retain the smallest hope that we may sign Alves.

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

Tony, i think the answer is option (a)

either that or option (c)

I'm very satisfied and ready to start the new season ...... sitting on the bench behind Henry, Etoo & Messi

They're calling the Barcelona team now the 'Fantastic Four' at least they've made Rijkaard's job much easier now. Im saying this now and will be saying this till the last day of the transfer market - forget Eto, R10 we need to concentrate on other players such as Villa. At this rate I would of preferred if we kept RO, no matter how bad he was.

Originally Posted by MedellínBandit®

forget Eto, R10 we need to concentrate on other players such as Villa.

I agree with you on this bit, time to move on from those two players.

Originally Posted by MedellínBandit®

At this rate I would of preferred if we kept RO, no matter how bad he was.

But not on this bit