Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by BMWTaylor

Getting Kahn is not the magic bullet to overcome our slow start. We have to put the damn ball in the back of the net first. Case in point: nine goals in our last nine games at the San Siro, the derby included. That's just not going to cut it.

It looks even worse if you count only the matches in serie A.
4 goals in last 8 serie A matches at the San Siro (the derby included).

Back in the old days (not too distant past, the time of Sheva) Milan was easily scoring 25 goals in 8 home serie A matches.

Dida is not the problem, the problem lies somewhere else. Dida's occasional mistakes only make things worst but they aren't the main problem of this team.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

He was injured only twice (injuries that made him miss more than 3 matches in a row)
The average is 22.8, Dutch league and Bundesliga have 18 teams and 34 matches which means that he missed 33% of the matches (not that it makes big difference). Big part of these 33% goes with the two injuries, while a big part must go for some matches where he was simply rested.

Nesta, out of possibile 190 matches in serie A for Milan played in 128, which means that he also missed 33% of the matches.
He had one bigger injury, but does it make Nesta "always injured" and wasn't he a worthy signing for Milan ?

You're overlooking one very crucial point. Nesta is 31. VDV is injury prone already and he's ONLY 24. That's not a good sign.

Anyway, even if he's going to miss 1/3 of the matches, whoever buys him will get a guarantee for goals and especially guarantee for assists. He's Bundesliga topscorer at the moment.

Juve are welcome to him. You can't rely on players like VDV.

If it's Juve that will buy him ( i doubt tho) they'll have van der Vaart and Sebastian Giovinco (you'll find some way to disagree, but he's the most talented young Italian player at the moment).

I agree 100%. I think Giovinco is incredible.

There you go : Van der Vaart and a solid back up

You mean a solid back-up for Giovinco!

Originally Posted by Mehdi

You mean a solid back-up for Giovinco!

I wish
If Gio turns out to be as good as everyone expects him to be then i don't care at all about vdV.

You may be right, Mehdi. I'm not following Bundesliga enough. I saw vdV saying how he wants Juve and you saying he's injury prone and all i did was checking his stats and he didn't look like someone who spends a lot of time out of the pitch.

Originally Posted by Tony29.

It looks even worse if you count only the matches in serie A.
4 goals in last 8 serie A matches at the San Siro (the derby included).

Back in the old days (not too distant past, the time of Sheva) Milan was easily scoring 25 goals in 8 home serie A matches.

Dida is not the problem, the problem lies somewhere else. Dida's occasional mistakes only make things worst but they aren't the main problem of this team.

We scored five goals alone in the Club World Cup, for crying out loud.

Injured or not, I dont see VDV a good replacement for Pavel Nedved. VDV is class belowe Pavel. Giovinco will probably be revolted ny VDV buy and he'll go to Milan...

Papers are writing that Ronaldo is off to Flamengo,aldough acmilan.com is denying it... we'll see aguess aldough I dont mind him off.

If this winter Galliani failes to bring a striker and Zambrotta ( who clearly has no big desire to stay with Barca ), and maybe a fast midfielder, then we are in some real trouble...

To sign Benzema would be incredible and the best move of our management for almost one year! Van der Vaart is waiting to sign a new contract in Hamburg for weeks, i think he wants to move but he dreams of Valencia.

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
12/26/2007

MILAN - A.C. Milan denies to have started a negotiation with Flamengo for the transfer of Ronaldo; therefore also denies to have authorized the same Brazilian club for an eventual agreement with the footballer.

Originally Posted by Rico

A.C. MILAN OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
12/26/2007

MILAN - A.C. Milan denies to have started a negotiation with Flamengo for the transfer of Ronaldo; therefore also denies to have authorized the same Brazilian club for an eventual agreement with the footballer.

Translation. We are negotiating with Flamengo!

No, he will stay. Boy I was so happy when I saw the news.

According to Goal.com, Zamparini (Palermo president) has today claimed that he "begged" Galliani to take Toni to Milan in the past, but Galliani rejected him as he thought Toni wasn't good enough. Wouldn't be shocked if true, but I understand Galliani, Toni back then wasn't really showing much promise.

He also said only Juve are offering a deal he'd consider negotiating over for Amauri and Barzagli, and has said he'd never negotiate with Milan and Galliani. Nice to know the little folks running Palermo still love us so greatly.

Oh well

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

He also said only Juve are offering a deal he'd consider negotiating over for Amauri and Barzagli, and has said he'd never negotiate with Milan and Galliani. Nice to know the little folks running Palermo still love us so greatly.

Bring him ringing euros and you'll see a conversion Saint Paul's style

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

According to Goal.com, Zamparini (Palermo president) has today claimed that he "begged" Galliani to take Toni to Milan in the past, but Galliani rejected him as he thought Toni wasn't good enough. Wouldn't be shocked if true, but I understand Galliani, Toni back then wasn't really showing much promise.

He also said only Juve are offering a deal he'd consider negotiating over for Amauri and Barzagli, and has said he'd never negotiate with Milan and Galliani. Nice to know the little folks running Palermo still love us so greatly.

We could've bought Toni last year when he convinced everyone of what he is able to do and we didn't.
I thought Carletto requested him along with Ribery.
Galliani's excuse for not buying? We already have Gila.. And Ribery, oh, he wouldn't improve our squad.
Just look at these guys now ffs, they are both magnificent players.


And Zamparini is the classic example of a true jerk, just like Lotito.
It's been known for a while now that he wants nothing to do with Milan, can't really blame him actually.
But he's smart, like Giovanni says, when there's enough money involved he will agree to negotiate. Just like Betis got 18mil and Vogel out of us for their Oliveira.

It seems like nowadays everyone can mess around with us. We used to be so dominant on the transfer market and we always got everyone we wanted.
I guess everyone feared Berlusconi and now that he has lost the power(/read mafia) everyone is just pissing on Milan.


Oh btw, am I the only one who thinks that Amauri is no good for us?

Amauri is not a player of Milan class...

We are scouting players too laet my friends, good transfers are made in march or april! not on september like we do.

Toni, ribery... tears are still fresh

It bears no meaning whatsover at all whether a player is signed on November 12th or March 3rd. If we sign Ronaldinho we have something special.

If we signed Ronaldinho the bloody date is irrelevant.