Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

Galliani ha poi sottolienato che il Milan non necessita di un rinnovamento della rosa: "Il Milan e' una squadra giovane - ha detto - basteranno tre o quattro acquisti di complemento.

Can anyone translate what Galliani said? From what I understand is that Galliani is Milan are a young squad, with 3 or 4 signings needed?

Yes. He said there is no need to revamp the whole squad, rather 3 or 4 signings will do.

Agree with galliani generally, depends on which 3 or 4 signings it will be.

Originally Posted by will4li

Agree with galliani generally, depends on which 3 or 4 signings it will be.

I suspect one defender, a fullback, an attacking midfielder (difficult to say if a creative AM or pacey winger) and a forward depending on how the attack looks.

Translated, Galliani basically says there's no need for a revolution, the squad is still young. 3-4 players will be enough to complete it.

So basically he's admitting we are 3 or 4 players short for a complete squad. The same 3 or 4 players Carlo wanted in the summer and most people here were pointing out we need. Can we add MM to uncle fester's favourites?

Originally Posted by Snapster

So basically he's admitting we are 3 or 4 players short for a complete squad. The same 3 or 4 players Carlo wanted in the summer and most people here were pointing out we need. Can we add MM to uncle fester's favourites?

He's not admitted we're short, as he could be referring to next summer, when some of the older players (Maldini, Cafu and possibly Serginho) are expected to leave.

Also, he's not specified what areas these purchases are for, so again, we don't know if he's suggesting we need the same players many of us were hoping for last summer.

All I'd take for sure in his statement is that we have a reasonably aged squad , though in the future we can expect some reinforcement (not a revolution).

Originally Posted by Hasan Rossonero

Yes. He said there is no need to revamp the whole squad, rather 3 or 4 signings will do.

i agree with galliani here (if he really said that). but i want those players in january something galliani will surely dismiss. i also don't think that he and i think of the same names

i wish (in no order as they are equally important):

frey
pasqual
rafinha
rosina

those players would boost our squad tremendously and would diminish most of our problem areas. next summer only minor adjustments would be needed.

seceond keeper with kalac beeing 3rd (eleftheropoulos plays great, is he still owned by us?)
1 central defender (barzagli would be nice)
1 striker if ronaldo can't stay fit for at least the whole second part of the season

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

He's not admitted we're short, as he could be referring to next summer, when some of the older players (Maldini, Cafu and possibly Serginho) are expected to leave.

Also, he's not specified what areas these purchases are for, so again, we don't know if he's suggesting we need the same players many of us were hoping for last summer.

All I'd take for sure in his statement is that we have a reasonably aged squad , though in the future we can expect some reinforcement (not a revolution).

Possibly but as you said we do not know his intentions because Galliani is hardly Mr. obvious. I think a few members would have even since revised the 3 or 4 players in the summer to be slightly different due to Ronaldo's injury and Dida's lack of form.

If you take out Maldini, Cafu and Serginho in the summer, with possibly the likes of Simic moving on for first team football I would hasten to suggest that 4 players would be absolute minimum next year just to keep the numbers up, not 3 or 4 starters but squad players. This is before you take into account that we actually need a player or two to improve our current squad. We don't need a revolution, but rather needed gradual tweaks every year which this summer you could argue is something we did not achieve.

The fact that Kaka was listed as a forward pretty much sums up one of our main problems, let alone that he's expected to pretty much cover every attacking channel to come up with something all by himself. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we hear the commentators say something like :

"Kaka brings the ball forward, skipping past the midfield..he slips the ball out left to.... Kaka, lovely pass there. He's looking around for support, he's found it, he floats the ball in towards Kaka...lovely takedown.... GOAL!!! he slips the ball through the keepers legs!"



Forza Milan!

hey guys, how's Grimi doing on loan? I remember some of you praised his form at the beginning of the season, but I haven't heard much about him lately.

Originally Posted by Snapster

Possibly but as you said we do not know his intentions because Galliani is hardly Mr. obvious. I think a few members would have even since revised the 3 or 4 players in the summer to be slightly different due to Ronaldo's injury and Dida's lack of form.

If you take out Maldini, Cafu and Serginho in the summer, with possibly the likes of Simic moving on for first team football I would hasten to suggest that 4 players would be absolute minimum next year just to keep the numbers up, not 3 or 4 starters but squad players. This is before you take into account that we actually need a player or two to improve our current squad. We don't need a revolution, but rather needed gradual tweaks every year which this summer you could argue is something we did not achieve.

The fact that Kaka was listed as a forward pretty much sums up one of our main problems, let alone that he's expected to pretty much cover every attacking channel to come up with something all by himself. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before we hear the commentators say something like :

"Kaka brings the ball forward, skipping past the midfield..he slips the ball out left to.... Kaka, lovely pass there. He's looking around for support, he's found it, he floats the ball in towards Kaka...lovely takedown.... GOAL!!! he slips the ball through the keepers legs!"



Forza Milan!

add favalli onto that list, this season as to be his last

guys usually our beloved management doesn't mention transfers at all but when they say 3-4 players they mean it i personally exclude maldini cafu favalli serginho fiori brocci from next years squad so with coppola grimi antonelli marzoratti back to the team we need a superb RB and a great forward whom i promote:
1) RB : alves or sagnol or serna in order
2) Forward : Huntelaar or Benzemma
in addition, we need 2 backups for our CM like maybe veloso or montolivo or rosina and one good backup for overloaded kaka like modric

this is the thing though isn't it, if you think about all the players who could leave for whatever reason you could easily end up having to replace around 8 or more players. So suddenly this evolution becomes the revolution they wanted to avoid.

Because of this i would seriously doubt that most of the usual suspects we all put up for sale will actually leave. I would not be surprised to see most of them still with us next season because of the board's lack of interest in revolutionising the entire squad.

+ a proven CB to replace maldini like A ) fancies : terry puyol
B ) normal: luisao barzaliga
C ) promising: sirkael hangeland

even if so called revolution happened and we bought players i recommendede in previous posts this will not cost the board much ( a combination of serna + luisao + huntelaar + montolivo + modric +returned loaned players = 50-55 mil.dollars)
which will greately reinforce our squad and with half of ronaldinho's price!!!!!!!

for me hishamilan, i would rather see us get Toure/Carvalho as 'fancies' or Zapata/Kompany as 'promising' cbs

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

this is the thing though isn't it, if you think about all the players who could leave for whatever reason you could easily end up having to replace around 8 or more players. So suddenly this evolution becomes the revolution they wanted to avoid.

Because of this i would seriously doubt that most of the usual suspects we all put up for sale will actually leave. I would not be surprised to see most of them still with us next season because of the board's lack of interest in revolutionising the entire squad.

If we don't qualify for the Champions League I guarantee there will be a revolution. Let's see what happens in January. Remember this happened in the mid 90s as well.