Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by zlatanov

As for Baptista, I predict that within a week, 10 days tops, the words that would be coming out of his mouth will be - "Milan, is a great club and it's every player's dream to play for them ... I came here to win" ...

and remember, you heard it here first

If this happens I will send you my "talented dog" named Bimbo to keep him for 1 month or all my 5 dogs together for 1 week+air ticket (enough time to destroy everything you have fixed. )
but if Milan signs Emerson first, you should make all the Translations in english for 1whole month.

Do you agree? Is it a deal?

I think we should get Rafinha from Shalke 04, rightback good back up for Oddo and a replacment for Cafu. Maybe we can get him next season.

Just took a closer look at this from channel4.coms transfer section:

Milan
IN: Abbiati (G, Torino); Donati (M, Atalanta), Sammarco (M, Chievo), Antonini (M, Siena), Novinic (A, Nafta Lendava), Ba (M, Varese), Pato (A, Internacional)
OUT: Costacurta (D, retired), Abate (M, Empoli), Borriello (A, Genoa), Donati (M, Celtic), Abbiati (G, Atletico Madrid) Sammarco (M, Sampdoria), Di Gennaro (A, Bologna), Coppola (G, Atalanta), Grimi (D, Siena), Oliveira (A, Zaragoza)

This Novinic...is he the wunderkid we got from Eastern Europe? Is he playing for us in the youth Champions League? Or was he signed too late? Anyone kno anything bout this dude?

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Just took a closer look at this from channel4.coms transfer section:



This Novinic...is he the wunderkid we got from Eastern Europe? Is he playing for us in the youth Champions League? Or was he signed too late? Anyone kno anything bout this dude?

you are right, im quite sure this is the 16 yo wonderkid picked up from eastern europe. and on the emerson front, i wonder who would ppl here rather have, emerson or motta? motta is asking his boss to be let off for free and choose club after his boss declared publicily that he does not fit in barca's plans. even if we buy him, he would be cheaper than emerson and it would be easier to deal with barca than real m. motta is younger but emerson is experienced, who would you guys rather have?

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Just took a closer look at this from channel4.coms transfer section:



This Novinic...is he the wunderkid we got from Eastern Europe? Is he playing for us in the youth Champions League? Or was he signed too late? Anyone kno anything bout this dude?

Nope, nothing to do with wunderkid as far as i know. I have many friends from Slovenia and one of them is the best pundit on earth, with an incredible football knowledge about every single league (the guy covers even Scottish 4th divisions) . His nick is Macot and is a collegue mod of mine from www.bettingadvice.com.
I talk often with these guys and they never mentioned Mitja Novinic as a special player. They were even pleasantly surprised when they saw him go to Milan.
The boy is only 16 and is probably talented but he's not a hyped EE player.

Originally Posted by Zlatanov

That's what you get when you buy a Pepe for 30 mil when even at 18 mil, the player was considered "overpriced" by the other clubs that were after his sigi

This joke is originally with Abramovic but it won't hurt if i change his name with the name of Real's president :

"The Afgan National Army caught Osama bin Laden. The American government offered 25M for him. Calderon offered 30M"

Originally Posted by martin

you are right, im quite sure this is the 16 yo wonderkid picked up from eastern europe. and on the emerson front, i wonder who would ppl here rather have, emerson or motta? motta is asking his boss to be let off for free and choose club after his boss declared publicily that he does not fit in barca's plans. even if we buy him, he would be cheaper than emerson and it would be easier to deal with barca than real m. motta is younger but emerson is experienced, who would you guys rather have?

I'd rather have Motta as he's younger. None of them would be regulars anyway...

Originally Posted by Maltese Charlie

Yes, I think so.

Our team is fine as it is now.

Emerson wil be only a sub, and he is the best option from the available list of players who are for sale. He is a guarantee in serie A. (If he is fit)

Even Sacchi today said that Milan are complete as they are, but because they have some aged players it will be useful if they sign Alves OR Emerson.

I believe nobody will be offended if I trust more Sacchi's opinion, although here in MM we have more competent people.

is our team fine?? omg??? let us forget sacchi. i m not competent as he is, of course. but saying milan is fine, as they are, is completely out of this world. let's look at our front line. ronnie and pippo are good strikers but injury prone. they r over 30's. gila is a bit out of form, though i believe that he's our best striker. pato?? he's just 18 years. he can't make any difference. may be he will, but in 3/4 years time. of course we aren't fine!!!

Emerson for me martin...more experience, same pace, less likely to get injured, and with a history of winning....need I say more?

and dont forget that our president has rejected Toni in April, because he was 100% sure that Milan will engage Sheva, ETo or Dinho in summer's transfer market.

Well Tony, to be honest, I think he must be special, special enuf for us to sign at 16...Milan, as you kno, dont do that sort of thing for "average" players...we tend to buy experience, rather than potential, unless, like Pato and Kaka, it is staring us in the face...

Originally Posted by schenko

is our team fine?? omg??? let us forget sacchi. i m not competent as he is, of course. but saying milan is fine, as they are, is completely out of this world. let's look at our front line. ronnie and pippo are good strikers but injury prone. they r over 30's. gila is a bit out of form, though i believe that he's our best striker. pato?? he's just 18 years. he can't make any difference. may be he will, but in 3/4 years time. of course we aren't fine!!!

No, you got it wrong.
The starting XI are fine and all Milan now needs is quality on the bench. That's what he wanted to say

Between Emerson and Motta i'd chose Motta...... but only if i'm choosing what's better for Milan.
If i have to chose for my team then i pick Emo.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

No, you got it wrong.
The starting XI are fine and all Milan now needs is quality on the bench. That's what he wanted to say

Between Emerson and Motta i'd chose Motta...... but only if i'm choosing what's better for Milan.
If i have to chose for my team then i pick Emo.

of course, but it seems that everyone is forgetting the department where we need most. the attacking department. aubamayeng?? omg.

emerson a benchwarmer?? well he won't come for that.

Originally Posted by Warro Bantan

Well Tony, to be honest, I think he must be special, special enuf for us to sign at 16...Milan, as you kno, dont do that sort of thing for "average" players...we tend to buy experience, rather than potential, unless, like Pato and Kaka, it is staring us in the face...

Warro, even though he's a Milan player i would really like him to be special because i'm really in love with EE players.

But it doesn't have to be that this boy is really good. I think that Milan has a talent camp in Slovenia (they have in Croatia and they recently opened one in Macedonia) and from time to time they pick young players for their cadetti teams so it won't be that nothing is happening with these camps.
Another Slovenian was signed by Milan the same way in 2004, Sandro Bloudek. He was 17 when he came to Milan and ever since he's been loaned to 3rd division teams because he wasn't good enough even for Primavera.
You know, usually it never turns out good with these youngsters. Juventus traditionally has the best youth teams and still they rarely make it to the senior team and are being loaned all over serie A. Milan is also doing similar things.
Juve and Milan are buying talent, we rarely produce them

Mitja Novinic is atm with the Allievi Nazionali ( 2 levels behind primavera) and we'll see how will he develop. I really hope he'll be a star, but if i have to go with the odds....i'd say he'll hardly ever make it to play for any serie A team.

Originally Posted by schenko

emerson a benchwarmer?? well he won't come for that.

Emerson has this choice :

1. Good money and bench in teams like Real, Milan, Inter
2. Lower wages and regular place in Sampdoria, Udinese, Betis

Wanted or not he'll have to get used to not being a regular starter if he wants to play for the best teams.

How much Emerson would cost us? Why did some fans say he is cheap? Apart from his price, I would welcome him but I really hope Ancelotti will still give more chances to Gourcuff compare to last season.

If I have to choose between Emerson or Motta, I absolutely will choose Emerson. Emerson is a champion, an experienced player and has more skill than Motta, IMO. For me Motta is not more than average player. He was young and had talent but not now. But yes, I would choose Motta over Brocchi.