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Pato to decide future
By Patricio Figueroa - Created on 25 Jul 2007

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Internacional striker Alexandre Pato is set to decide his future within the next week.

The highly-rated Brazilian has said that he will talk to his agent Gilmar Veloz to tell him which European team that he favours a move to out of those interested.

The 17-year-old - nicknamed Alex the Duck - has been linked to Chelsea and Milan with Veloz having met with officials from Real Madrid in the last few days.

"My agent will be the first person to know what I have decided and I will tell him that in a week," Pato told Lance Press.

Veloz told Radio Gaucha: "For the moment the only thing that I can say is that Pato has already dismissed some of the teams that have sent him proposals. He told me that after speaking with his parents he will decide which team he will play for and that decision will come from what is best for his family and for his career.

"The president of Internacional, Vitorio Piffero knows which teams are interested in Pato, everything is being handled officially.

"We know that Milan sent people to Canada to watch Pato in action in the Under 20 World Cup but that doesn't mean that he will sign for them."

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Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

"We know that Milan sent people to Canada to watch Pato in action in the Under 20 World Cup but that doesn't mean that he will sign for them."


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people = Carlo Ancelotti and... me! I thought Galliani told me I was supposed to be undercover


meanwhile, even though I wouldnt mind Baptista although I would prefer anyone to him...the management will be in real trouble with the fans if Baptista ends up being the major world-class signing they been talkin about..

and guys, are Romania part of the EU?

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

and guys, are Romania part of the EU?

yes, they are but Chivu is playing for Roma so he would have counted for non-Eu player anyway.

Originally Posted by zlatanov

btw, why on earth do you need it in chinese - you thinking of moving there or what

Because if i wrote it in Italian, at least 10 people would have found it scandalous "Forza Juve" to be written on Milan fan forum
This way you'd never knew what i was saying.

And now you know why i want to kill the guy.
* Unless "Forza Juve" and "Work hard Chinesse National team" are written the same in Chinese, the guy deserves death.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Because if i wrote it in Italian, at least 10 people would have found it scandalous "Forza Juve" to be written on Milan fan forum
This way you'd never knew what i was saying.

And now you know why i want to kill the guy.
* Unless "Forza Juve" and "Work hard Chinesse National team" are written the same in Chinese, the guy deserves death.

I see now and have to say I fully understand

still, I think that guy wanted to say "work hard "unlike" the chinese National team" meaning that while the chinese NT works hard on the field, Juve has other ways of getting the results they want and this year they would need it more than ever before ...

see, he wasn't that far off

P.S. I don't see anything wrong with having a "forza Juve" in the sigi ... Karim for instance has a "forza Inter" in his
as long as it's not something offensive for Milan and Milan fans, I doubt anyone here would really mind ... forum rules certainly don't

Originally Posted by zlatanov

P.S. I don't see anything wrong with having a "forza Juve" in the sigi ... Karim for instance has a "forza Inter" in his
as long as it's not something offensive for Milan and Milan fans, I doubt anyone here would really mind ... forum rules certainly don't

Naah , i write 30 posts a day and it will be a torture for Bosniaco and few others to see Forza Juve whenever they open a topic on MM
Plus, i'm getting +reps lately and i want to stay popular

P.s : The last 2 guys who + repped me didn't leave their name. The next time please leave your name so i'd pay it back to you !

Originally Posted by goose

I'm holding out hope something, anything will go down soon. Silvio and Co. still have over a month to work something, anything out. I hope it doesn't end like the Oliveira debacle (God bless him, he had a 300 lb. gorilla on his back when he came in, then he had to cope with his sister's kidnapping).

I'm trying to be patient.

But my question is what does our youth system look like? If Milan is gonna drive me insane in the transfer market, and I shouldn't be going insane, they've got to be super confident in how the young ones are progressing. I understand Baresi has a part in the coaching staff, but what are the prospects like?

To be honest, a quality youth and scouting system will be the key for the future of club teams. Especially in Italy where the economic disadvantages are starting the bubble to the surface in comparison to England and Spain. The money being thrown around by these countries is getting really ridiculous.

There's a lot of potential there, and a lot to be positive about. The Primavera has a lot of upcoming players some of who are already in the senior squad (Darmian and Aubameyang) and then there are those loaned (Di Gennaro).

Also, the Allievi Nazionali (coached by Alberigo Evani, an ex player) won their equivalent of the European cup (I think, or something like that), so a lot to be hopeful about there too.

The youth setup hasn't always been the best in Berlu's reign, but a lot has been invessed in the past years and the results are starting to show.

hey guys ! sorry for disappearing for a while but here is some scouting from the asian cup :
1) Nashat Akram : 23 years 184 cm an excellent utility player in midfeild very technical very precious national history " with iraq" but he is playing in saudia arabia he is a free agent now and beleived to be targeted by roykeane "sunderland"
2) Jevad Nekounam : 26 years 186 cm excellent CM he plays for osasuna and i think would be avilable for 3 mil. he has also great national history " with iran" ( 2 world cups )
2) Lee Chun Soo : 26 years 175 cm great utility player in midfeild 2 world cups with s.korea greaty freekicker failure in a one season exp. with real soscidad

In the first training match Rijkaard kept Deco on the bench and he let him play in the second half when the other stars were substituted and now Rijkaard excluded Deco from the first team for the match against Dundee Utd tomorrow.
Spanish media believes Deco is certain to leave the club and Milan's name is high on the list of his potential new clubs.

As for Pato, Real Madrid is "interested" to buy the young Brazilian and Calderon confirmed it.
Anyone else aprt from myself thinks Real doesn't need Pato at all but they are only "interested" to buy him because they know about Milan's interest in him ?
Do you also think they're trying to blackmail Milan ? Dunno if this is about Kaka or something else, but i really have a feeling they are doing this only because they know Milan want him and they have no real intention to buy Pato.

Tony, this is why we are forced to keep our transfer moves as quiet as possible, because Inter and Madrid´s scouting reports look like this:

Player: Pato
Clubs interested: Milan
Decision: If Milan want him, he must be quality, lets buy him, or at least bid, to force Milan to pay more...muh ha..muha ha ha ha ha..(Dr Evil laugh)

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Tony, this is why we are forced to keep our transfer moves as quiet as possible, because Inter and Madrid´s scouting reports look like this:

Player: Pato
Clubs interested: Milan
Decision: If Milan want him, he must be quality, lets buy him, or at least bid, to force Milan to pay more...muh ha..muha ha ha ha ha..(Dr Evil laugh)

That's true Warro, but in Dinho or Eto'o case i doubt others need Milan to be interested to know how these 2 are great players.
In their case i don't think that even an interest from another club will make their price higher.

But that's true if we talk about players like Pato or Gourcuff

Quite soTony, though I doubt any team needs to "scout" Dinho or Etoo...

here are other FAMOUS names:
1) Steven Appiah : previous italian exp. only 26 and would backup gattuso and pirlo
2) Ivanchitz : great technical midfeider will also be more famous after euro 2008 hosted by austria he is also cheap
3) zabaletta : great young captain the next j.zanetti he can play in many roles and also not exp.
4) Dirk Kuyt : he will be competing with voronin+babel+crouch+torres and i am sure he will be avilable for around 13-15 mil. he is unbeleivabely milan style a fighter ,...,...
COME ON ZLAT TONY DRU KIM .... WHERE ARE THE COMMENTS ?

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Quite soTony, though I doubt any team needs to "scout" Dinho or Etoo...

Ahh, ok
I thought you were talking about what Zlat said above (about Milan keeping their potential transfers secret and calling them Mr. X so other teams won't join the race) . That's why i said no secrecy is really needed if one of Dinho or Eto'o is Mr.X

Ahh, I see where you were going...no I was really referring to scouting "new" talent...