Winter Mercato

Milan derby for Berbatov

There is a Milan derby on the transfer market for Dimitar Berbatov, as both San Siro giants send representatives to White Hart Lane.

The Bulgarian hitman alerted clubs all over Europe when his agent pointed out a move was on the cards.

“Dimitar wants to fulfil his potential and win trophies now,” agent Emil Dantchev told the BBC.

“Time is running out for him to play for a club that can match his ambition. I would like to stress this is not about money. This is about sporting ambition.”

Both Milan and Inter have reacted immediately and, according to ‘Tuttosport’ newspaper, have sent representatives for negotiations with his Italian agent Roberto De Fanti.

It is likely a move will only occur in June, as Spurs do not want to sell their star striker mid-season, but neither Italian outfit wants to pay the full £18m asking price.

Former Bayer Leverkusen hero Berbatov netted 90 goals in all competition during his time in Germany and this season already has 17 under his belt.

Milan need a new forward to rejuvenate their squad, as Pippo Inzaghi and Ronaldo do not have the stamina or fitness to maintain an entire season at the top level.

Inter have a selection of strikers, but Adriano is increasingly unlikely to return even after his six-month loan spell at Sao Paolo expires, while Hernan Crespo’s injuries have made him a marginal figure this term.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/footb...alia/jan5f.html

Originally Posted by zafrul

Milan derby for Berbatov

It is likely a move will only occur in June, as Spurs do not want to sell their star striker mid-season, but neither Italian outfit wants to pay the full £18m asking price.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/footb...alia/jan5f.html

Asking price is actually £30M+, he'd be gone by now if it was £18M. I think that money could be better spent on 2 good players.

Paolo Maldini: Milan is lacking young players and we work to slow and not lively enough... in short.

We are a team that has most powerfull and fastest player in the world - Kaka' who cant play with Pirlo AND Seedorf in serie a in the same time. The fastest man with the slowest team. Carlo says he doesnt need any players? No, if he wants to be 10th he doesnt need any new players. But if Milan wants to win scudetto we need 5 new players and a new coach.

For example, look at Van D.Vaart: Gourcuff never plays simply becouse he hasnt showed enough and Carlo doesnt trust him. So - loan the boy! We lack playr like VdV, that can play CL and play together with Kaka', a fast football. That way Seedorf will also get more time to rest and make his game a level gigher for big matches.

The players Carlo didnt manage to pull our their best out of them are: Vieri ( play good now with Prandelli ), Oliveira, GILA, Oddo, Jankulovski, French U21 captain Gourcuff, Rivaldo...

Its not hard to train Gattuso, Shevshenko, Pirlo, Rui, Maldini...

Only way i think we will make a decent summer transfer campaign is if Mourinho or Lippi came in. I cant see if happening otherwise

Landreau joins Dida list

Nelson Dida’s time is up, as Milan draw up a shortlist including Sebastien Frey, Mikael Landreau and Celtic’s Artur Boruc.

A succession of howlers have seen Dida lose the confidence of the club and Coach Carlo Ancelotti, so the race is on to find a replacement during the January transfer window.

The prime candidate had up until now been Fiorentina’s Frey, who is currently out of action following surgery.

Another favourite is Boruc of Celtic, who impressed the Rossoneri when they crossed paths in the Champions League both last season and in this term’s group phase.

Boruc would be willing to leave Parkhead, but Milan face competition for his signature from Arsenal.

This morning the ‘Gazzetta dello Sport’ claimed that Paris Saint Germain have offered shot-stopper Landreau to the Rossoneri.

The former Nantes star moved to PSG in 2006 and has never quite been able to live up to his potential, notching up only four senior Bleus caps.

Nonetheless he has a good pedigree and is known for his penalty saving capabilities. More importantly, he would be available to play in the Champions League, whereas Frey and Boruc are cup-tied.

http://www.channel4.com/sport/footba...lia/jan5h.html

Originally Posted by mrki

Paolo Maldini: Milan is lacking young players and we work to slow and not lively enough... in short.

We are a team that has most powerfull and fastest player in the world - Kaka' who cant play with Pirlo AND Seedorf in serie a in the same time. The fastest man with the slowest team. Carlo says he doesnt need any players? No, if he wants to be 10th he doesnt need any new players. But if Milan wants to win scudetto we need 5 new players and a new coach.

Where did you read that Maldini said this? I read on AcMilan.com, didn't say anything close to this...

Of late there's been a number of rumours of us getting Lucio after he admitted interest in going Spain or Italy.

http://www.goal.com/en-US/Articolo.a...enutoId=525575

I don't really remember reading anything much about it here and thought I'd see how people feel about getting him. I for one would love to see him at Milan, as we could use someone of his physical capabilities (strength, acceleration and ability to push forward from deep). I think he's improved a lot over the years and at 29 I'm seriously thinking he could be our best option for defence in the summer.

Lucio could be a good signing...but really we need a younger defender...some1 who would replace Nesta in d future...coz our present pair, Nesta and Kala, is very solid right now and Bonera is improving in each game so i guess we should go for some1 younger

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Of late there's been a number of rumours of us getting Lucio after he admitted interest in going Spain or Italy.

http://www.goal.com/en-US/Articolo.a...enutoId=525575

I don't really remember reading anything much about it here and thought I'd see how people feel about getting him. I for one would love to see him at Milan, as we could use someone of his physical capabilities (strength, acceleration and ability to push forward from deep). I think he's improved a lot over the years and at 29 I'm seriously thinking he could be our best option for defence in the summer.

Aren't we having way too many Brazilians? We don't want to be mini-Brazil while Inter would be mini-Argie...

Better to keep an Italian DNA...

Originally Posted by mrki

For example, look at Van D.Vaart: Gourcuff never plays simply becouse he hasnt showed enough and Carlo doesnt trust him. So - loan the boy! We lack playr like VdV, that can play CL and play together with Kaka', a fast football. That way Seedorf will also get more time to rest and make his game a level gigher for big matches.

The players Carlo didnt manage to pull our their best out of them are: Vieri ( play good now with Prandelli ), Oliveira, GILA, Oddo, Jankulovski, French U21 captain Gourcuff, Rivaldo...

Its not hard to train Gattuso, Shevshenko, Pirlo, Rui, Maldini...

Gourcuff should not be loaned out, because my fear is that he will have no more motivation to play for us and we will wind up selling the boy, just like we did with Donati.

-Vieri was dropping massively mentally and phiscally when he joined us, it became even worse when he left, now he's back at Fiorentina with a good mentality. Not Carlo's fault.
-Oliveira never ever convinced before and because of the problems with his sister he never got the chance to try it in Milan. Not Carlo's fault.
-Gilardino scored 17(?) goals his first season at Milan, but this was together with Sheva. Now he has no one to help him in front and he struggles a lot eventough he works really hard. Not Carlo's fault.
-Oddo was last season and at the beginning of this season, good. But he has dropped in physical form recently. How would you blame Carlo for this?
-Jankulovski never settled in quite good, that's how I feel it, but he has his matches where is is superbly.Het gets to play a lot and enjoys some affection by the fans and team mates so again I don't see what Carlo has to do with this.
-Gourcuff, when given the chance, he never convinced. It's simple as that, instead of making an impact he plays below average.
-Rivaldo was finished when he came here and even on the level of Olympiakos he is nowhere near good.

And actually it was quite hard to train Pirlo you know. Before he came here he was an average Brescia AMF, thanks to Carlo he now plays DMF and is technically one of the best,if not the best, around.

Anyway, I am actually certain no one can do better than Carlo with this squad and if we were to change coach I can only see two men who might be able to do good.
Lippi and Rijkaard.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Of late there's been a number of rumours of us getting Lucio after he admitted interest in going Spain or Italy.

http://www.goal.com/en-US/Articolo.a...enutoId=525575

I don't really remember reading anything much about it here and thought I'd see how people feel about getting him. I for one would love to see him at Milan, as we could use someone of his physical capabilities (strength, acceleration and ability to push forward from deep). I think he's improved a lot over the years and at 29 I'm seriously thinking he could be our best option for defence in the summer.

I think he's the best defender we can get to fill up the Maldini position.
Great defender and rarely makes a foul!

Originally Posted by ThrusT

Gourcuff should not be loaned out, because my fear is that he will have no more motivation to play for us and we will wind up selling the boy, just like we did with Donati.

-Vieri was dropping massively mentally and phiscally when he joined us, it became even worse when he left, now he's back at Fiorentina with a good mentality. Not Carlo's fault.
-Oliveira never ever convinced before and because of the problems with his sister he never got the chance to try it in Milan. Not Carlo's fault.
-Gilardino scored 17(?) goals his first season at Milan, but this was together with Sheva. Now he has no one to help him in front and he struggles a lot eventough he works really hard. Not Carlo's fault.
-Oddo was last season and at the beginning of this season, good. But he has dropped in physical form recently. How would you blame Carlo for this?
-Jankulovski never settled in quite good, that's how I feel it, but he has his matches where is is superbly.Het gets to play a lot and enjoys some affection by the fans and team mates so again I don't see what Carlo has to do with this.
-Gourcuff, when given the chance, he never convinced. It's simple as that, instead of making an impact he plays below average.
-Rivaldo was finished when he came here and even on the level of Olympiakos he is nowhere near good.

And actually it was quite hard to train Pirlo you know. Before he came here he was an average Brescia AMF, thanks to Carlo he now plays DMF and is technically one of the best,if not the best, around.

Anyway, I am actually certain no one can do better than Carlo with this squad and if we were to change coach I can only see two men who might be able to do good.
Lippi and Rijkaard.


I think he's the best defender we can get to fill up the Maldini position.
Great defender and rarely makes a foul!

No, Pirlo was not an average AM, he was the best young fantasista of italian team that won euro. After that he failed in inter and so on...

Carlo didnt make a DM out of him, but the coach in Brescia did. Now Pirlo is the best registra in the world, yes. Carlo did that, partially.

Rivaldo WAS NOT finished, but he was unable to insert himself into our sistem. He came in Milan as a big star and great player.

Oddo, Gila are falling mentaly? Not Carlos fault? Then who's is it if not the coaches?? When was at Parma Gila had volleys, overhead kicks, good passing, good ball touch and hiper self confidence. Its not that he is struggeling bexouse Milan is poor, its becouse he now simply cant do anythjing out of it, he cant even pass a 5 meters ball.

Carlo is ok coach, but has no guts towards Galliani.

Originally Posted by mrki

No, Pirlo was not an average AM, he was the best young fantasista of italian team that won euro. After that he failed in inter and so on...

Carlo didnt make a DM out of him, but the coach in Brescia did. Now Pirlo is the best registra in the world, yes. Carlo did that, partially.

Rivaldo WAS NOT finished, but he was unable to insert himself into our sistem. He came in Milan as a big star and great player.

Oddo, Gila are falling mentaly? Not Carlos fault? Then who's is it if not the coaches?? When was at Parma Gila had volleys, overhead kicks, good passing, good ball touch and hiper self confidence. Its not that he is struggeling bexouse Milan is poor, its becouse he now simply cant do anythjing out of it, he cant even pass a 5 meters ball.

Carlo is ok coach, but has no guts towards Galliani.

1) Is he already a DMC at Brescia? If so, it would be unjust to whoever put him first as a DMC. From my knowledge, it's Carlo who puts him as a DMC (and he did play a few games as AMC for Milan)

2) I agree that Rivaldo is not finished, but he is no longer as capable as he was before.

3) Is rather the system of play that Gila is failing. Putting Gila and INzaghi together just never works. In Milan's system, Gila has to have a partner striker, be it shevchenko or Ronaldo or now Pato. It will be interesting to see how Gila do with the introduction of Pato.

Gila plays much better in Parma not because he has a partner striker but simply because he is in Parma. No team will defend with 9-0-1 against Parma. Also, Gilardino took penalty kick at Parma, increasing the number of goals (but correct me if I am wrong).

Oddo: I'm just speechless with his cross. If someone is at fault, ask the cross-training coach.

4) If Carlo is an OK coach but still manages to win the champion league twice (with the acknowledgement that the CL Is harder and harder to win these days), I really don't see who else is above OK.

Originally Posted by zafrul

Aren't we having way too many Brazilians? We don't want to be mini-Brazil while Inter would be mini-Argie...

Better to keep an Italian DNA...

Too many Brazilians? Not to say it bothers me how many Brazilians we have, but when you think that in the summer we'll quite possibly lose Dida, Cafu, Serginho and Ronaldo, that would leave us with Pato, Kaka and Digao. Adding Lucio would result in 4 Brazilians and realistically at the most I can see us having 5-6 Brazilians in the squad (currently we have 7).

More importantly, Lucio is a quality defender, proven at the very highest levels. Him being Brazilian would actually probably help him integrate into the club. Added to that, he's got a family and is religious, with a good temperament that isn't likely to disrupt any harmony in the club, so he would fit in pretty well.

Originally Posted by ThrusT

I think he's the best defender we can get to fill up the Maldini position.
Great defender and rarely makes a foul!

lol, if I remember rightly he's got a record of something like almost 400 minutes gone without a foul

Originally Posted by mrki

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Zvone Boban has suggested Ćorluka to Berlusconi before he went to city, now everyone that knows football sees how world class this 21 year old is. The man is simply killing all the attacks that come his way.

After that, Naletilić, one of the best managers for italian football, and few italian managers also suggested Modric as a part of pirlo-rino-modric-kaka' midfield... and , believe me, Milan can get any Dinamo zagreb player if they want ( such strong the relations are with croatian clubs and Milan ).

If Luka Modrić was French or Italian he would be a superstar. In my oppinion, the way he play now is superb. Better than Nasri, Giovinco and so on...

come on man, i know you're croatian, but be objective, at least a little. this is funny

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Adding Lucio would result in 4 Brazilians and realistically at the most I can see us having 5-6 Brazilians in the squad (currently we have 7).

What about Emerson? I think you forgot about him.

Zafrul, if you can name an Italian defender who's better than Lucio right now then lets buy him. But there doesn't seem to be one. I think a Lucio & Nesta partnership would be very good. It's not too unrealistic to see ourselves having this back 5 for the start of next season.

------------Boruc------------
--????--Nesta--Lucio--Zambrotta--

Right now the ???? would be Oddo, but that might change to someone like De Silvestri or Rafinha, or the more high profile & more unlikely Alves. I leave that to yous guys