Winter Mercato

Nada nuevo me mon.. wuh yah do? how d summer breeze down there?

Wow.. Now tribal is bsing about interviews too whats next.. Anyways, we seem to be linked with both Emerson and R10 now if I find a better source I'll keep ya updated

Boring day, he ?

Not many news about Milan, except for Dinho's agent saying that Barcelona previously rejected a 60m euro offer from Milan and for the info coming from Corriere (see #8)
In other news :

1. Valencia bought Serbian striker Nikola Zigic for close to 20m euro.

2. According to voices from Spain, Real and Chelsea made a deal Chelsea to sell Robben. In the next days the transfers of Robben and Drenthe to Real will be official.
The deal with Drenthe is reportedly done and the Dutchman will be transfered to Real for 14m euro.

3. The best Bundesliga player for the last season, Stuttgart attacker Gomez said that in the future he'd like to continue his career in Spain.

4. Arsene Wenger stopped all the rumors about Gilberto Silva going to Juventus after giving him the captain armband. After Henry left for Barcelona, the Brazilian DM will be Arsenal's new captain.

5. After the optimism from the previous days, Boca's president said " I don't believe Riquelme will play with us this season. At the moment it looks impossible to get him"
Villareal was asking for 8m euro and it's too much for Boca who wanted only to loan Riquelme.
8m euro isn't expensive at all, imo, so i'd expect some european giant to buy the Argentinian creative midfielder.

6. Arsenal offered 7m to Chelsea for Lassana Diarra

7. According to L'Equipe , Sylvian Wiltord is one step away from signing with Rennes

8. According to Corriere dello sport, Inter and Juve are leading the race for Banega while Milan is following Thiago Silva, the young defender who should join Milan in 2008.
As for this year, according to Gazzetta, Galliani prefers Thiago Motta in front of Emerson and Julio Baptista.
Corriere came with another option for Milan - Rosicky.
The Czech didn't renew his contract with Arsenal and could be a sub for Kaka.

Didn't Arsenal set Gallas to be the captain?

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

Didn't Arsenal set Gallas to be the captain?

I have no idea
Today i read on Calciomercato and few other sites that Wenger is giving the armband to G.Silva

Hey guys, who is Drenthe? Is he a talented player? another Brazilian?

Don't think Gallas could be Capitan since he has been only 1 year with Arsenal and G Silva has been there earlier but yes I saw Gallas as a cap. in one of the friendlies against Valencia or Inter not sure

Originally Posted by Dave

Hey guys, who is Drenthe? Is he a talented player? another Brazilian?

He's Dutch. Apparently Brasil is not the only country with talented youngster

Originally Posted by Dave

Hey guys, who is Drenthe? Is he a talented player? another Brazilian?

No he is from Holland actually playing for Feynord , very talented player had impresive performances in WC U-21 this year

Just read theGuardian´s version of our purported Rosicky interest....but why would we go for this type of midfielder?

Ok, so we have:

Max, Rino, and Brocci as DMs
Pirlo, Gourcuff, Seedorf and Kaka as AMs (or a rough analogue)

Am I missing anybody? Oh yeah, Ba ...but the question remains:Where does the Czech fit in?

My assumption would be that since he is an attacking midfielder, that he would be a sub for Kaka, but he doesnt have the range of passing that Pirlo has...so is he a Kaka sub then?

Imo we should be concentrating on gourcuff, he can be a great player if we give him time and proper positioning, he's been all over the place, and thanks for the updates tony, I like rosicky but after losing henry will arsenal sell him? Doubt it..

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Just read theGuardian´s version of our purported Rosicky interest....but why would we go for this type of midfielder?

Ok, so we have:

Max, Rino, and Brocci as DMs
Pirlo, Gourcuff, Seedorf and Kaka as AMs (or a rough analogue)

Am I missing anybody? Oh yeah, Ba ...but the question remains:Where does the Czech fit in?

My assumption would be that since he is an attacking midfielder, that he would be a sub for Kaka, but he doesnt have the range of passing that Pirlo has...so is he a Kaka sub then?

I just read the article from Corriere. Nothing concrete again. They are only trowing names. Rosicky has a contract until 2009 and still didn't renew it and Corriere journalist thinks that it may mean he's close to an exit.
The journalist thinks that a player like Rosicky would do good for Milan because he can replace Kaka when the Brazilian will be tired or injured.

As for Banega ..... i also read that article. Juventus and Inter are following him for a long time but Corriere gives much more chances to Real and Barcelona to get the new Redondo.
On this i agree with them !

Well for one thing I'm sure he will not come here to be a benchwarmer

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

Nada nuevo me mon.. wuh yah do? how d summer breeze down there?

Mi deh yah a fulljoy di summa breeze mi doops!

Thanks Tony... and it seems my assumption that Rosicky would be a sub for Kaka is correct...but doesnt he start for Arsenal? If so, I doubt he would want to leave for the Milan bench...but who knows...he may just decide that to join us is the only way to win a UCL medal!

hey Tony, proof of the Gallas captaincy:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/break...838113,00.html