Winter Mercato

Originally Posted by Tony29.

Nothing happened with " No contacts with Real" statements.
Looks like it has to be done between Milan and Real, and not Ronaldo-Real.
Galliani is negotiating the Ronaldo deal with Baldini !
http://www.channel4.com/sport/footba...ia/jan24f.html

well, real are refusing to rescind his contract and let him go for free, which is understandable cause that would make them look like total idiots given that 3-4 months ago Milan were offering close to 15 mil euros for him and they made everything possible to stall/ruin the deal by asking for 20+ mil for the player.

So, at this point Milan would have to talk to them and make an offer. real are reportedly asking for 8 mil, so I would guess Milan would get him for 4-6 mil or so with possibly Milan paying half of that and Ronie the other half by relinquishing part of his image rights for this year to Madrid, or at least that's what was mentioned as a possibility at the beginning of these dealings.

Originally Posted by mrki

I do agree. A question Zlatanov - where did you watch the games?? Im trying to find some live matches fom that tournament! Its always interesting to see young players from Brazil playing.

you can find schedule and links for streams on the very same website that gives us links for Milan games:
http://myp2p.eu/Weekdays.htm

Actually, if you scroll down you will see that there is another round of sub20 championship games coming on Thursday. The links are mostly for TvAnts but there are also some WindowsMediaPlayer streams for which you don't need any of the P2P clients like PPStream, Tvants, etc.

you can use this site - www.myp2p.eu - for virtually anything when it comes to streams. IMO, it's the best site of its kind out there.

GALLIANI COMMENTS ON RONALDO
1/24/2007

Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani said: ‘Ronaldo said that he only wants Milan and he had Real Madrid’s permission. So there shouldn’t be any problems with the Spanish club. If things proceed as they should, then I will go to Madrid on Monday. The tone of Real Madrid’s sports director regarding the meeting seems conciliatory, but I don’t want to be overly optimistic. We are still in discussions and we’ll see how it turns out in the end.’ (Ansa)

GALLIANI COMMENTS ON RONALDO
1/24/2007

Milan chief executive Adriano Galliani said: ‘Ronaldo said that he only wants Milan and he had Real Madrid’s permission. So there shouldn’t be any problems with the Spanish club. If things proceed as they should, then I will go to Madrid on Monday. The tone of Real Madrid’s sports director regarding the meeting seems conciliatory, but I don’t want to be overly optimistic. We are still in discussions and we’ll see how it turns out in the end.’ (Ansa)

from acmilan.com

Italian giants monitor Caceres

from channel 4:

Milan and Juventus are set to do battle on the transfer market for Uruguayan defender Martin Caceres.

The Defensor Montevideo youngster is currently being watched by scouts of both Italian outfits at the Under-20 South American Championships in Paraguay.

The 19-year-old is seen by some as the new Paolo Montero, a former Bianconeri stopper, and his agent is ex-Juventus player Daniel Fonseca.

Fonseca has also allegedly spoken to Milan boss Carlo Ancelotti even if Arsenal are reportedly ready to offer £5m to bring him to the Emirates Stadium.

Milan and Juve are also interested in Uruguayan striker Edison Cavani, who is considered by some as the new Zlatan Ibrahimovic and might be included in a deal with his fellow countryman.

The 19-year-old, who impressed in the Apertura tournament by scoring 13 goals and leading Danubio Montevideo to victory, has admitted that he is flattered with the Milan and Juve links.

The striker, who will soon have an EU passport, is valued at £5m and reports suggest that £8.5m would be enough to net both Cavani and Caceres.

Juve are seemingly keen on blocking the duo now, in order to finalise a transfer in June, whereas the Rossoneri might decide to make an immediate offer to bring Cavani to the San Siro this month.

More good news. Looks like two talented players. Maybe Storari, Grimi, Oddo (and Ronaldo) aren't the only players that will have joined us in January.

I think after Oddo, we'll sign no more this window, and Galliani will lie and say eveything is fine.

Originally Posted by drucurl

1. Additionally, the fact that you have decided not to moan about our recent poor decisions would have even less effect...in the unlikley event that anyone from milan's management even gets a glimpse of this site, they are quicker to be moved from the passion of the fans than their apathy

2. Juve seems to have healthy links with the rest. Are we in a worse position than Juve?

3. ManU was purchased this year by a tycoon who was heavily in debt at the time. ManU have still manages to buy the esentials to their squad and are still chasing other top rated players...so what exactly is your point?

4. Doesn't it seem to you that Berlu's books are being balanced a bit too heavily in his direction?

1. Moaning never gets attention from grownups. In the not so likely scenario that someone important would look here they would look at a well thought out post about what is good and bad and why we would really need something.

2. We are linked with Ronaldinho, they most recently with Gerrard. Neither will happen, but our link is more likely still. In the end they have only signed free transfers.

3. ManU didn't succed in getting their top targets and they failed many times before. The fact that Chelsea is there to stop them don't exactly help.

4. He have not balanced the books in his direction in the last 10 years at least, it is doubtful he have ever done that. In fact he have just pumped in money year after year.

Originally Posted by Tony75

I think after Oddo, we'll sign no more this window, and Galliani will lie and say eveything is fine.

You don't think Ronaldo will come?

Originally Posted by kris

You don't think Ronaldo will come?

Not in the timeframe we have, not with the club we are dealing with, and not with the money they want.

In all likely, he'll be signed in the summer for free, when a future player like Pato will be missed out on as usual.

Originally Posted by Tony75

Not in the timeframe we have, not with the club we are dealing with, and not with the money they want.

In all likely, he'll be signed in the summer for free, when a future player like Pato will be missed out on as usual.

But Ronaldo will sell 10 more jerseys than Pato, dont be so negative!!

Originally Posted by Galliani

Galliani 'Ieri avevamo preso Mesto'

18:58 del 24 gennaio

Viste le difficoltà di giungere a un accordo con la Lazio per il trasferimento in rossonero di Massimo Oddo, il Milan si era cautelato bloccando il difensore della Reggina Giandomenico Mesto, ma poi l'affare e' andato in porto. Lo ha rivelato l'amministratore delegato del Milan, Adriano Galliani: "Ieri avevamo gia' preso Mesto perche' l'affare Oddo sembrava saltato. Poi non l'abbiamo piu' preso, perche' siamo arrivati all'accordo per Oddo", ha dichiarato il dirigente rossonero.

I'm not sure if i understood correctly...

Looks like due to the difficulties you had bying Oddo, yesterday you almost bought Mesto from Reggina. But now that transfer is blocked.

yeah, that's what it says on Gazzetta too - It seams Milan had already blocked Mesto as an alternative to Oddo and were about to go ahead and finilize the deal with Reggina when Lazio and Milan finally reached an agreement.

and as i see Lazio gave Foggia to Reggina i don't know if it's a loan or they bought him but the guy couldn't get a starting place play in Lazio and you were disappointed for selling him, i think that was the best solution cause he would've rot on our bench and he never suited our formation also

Originally Posted by Acmir^

and as i see Lazio gave Foggia to Reggina i don't know if it's a loan or they bought him but the guy couldn't get a starting place play in Lazio and you were disappointed for selling him, i think that was the best solution cause he would've rot on our bench and he never suited our formation also

Lazio wants to buy Mesto from Reggina and i guess they sent Foggia there as part of the deal.

It's all connected i guess.
Lazio is interested in Giandomenico Mesto for a while. Milan almost buying Mesto is probably the biggest reason for Lazio finally deciding to sell Oddo.
It's like a chain
Milan-Lazio-Reggina : Foggia-Oddo-Mesto

EDIT : Btw... hats off for Galliani for great tactic with Mesto

Tony: Galiiani did nothing with Mesto to convince Lazio. Lazio accepted only because Milan uppered their bid to what Lazio wanted. Lazio never lowered their demands for 1 dollar. Berlusconi intervened and gave the additional money Milan needed to meet Lazio's demand. This is FAR from great tactic, this is incredibly embarassing by Milan. We decided to go to a totally unproven player just because we dont want to add 1.5million pounds? WHAT THE HELL?????

Good thinking Tony but anyway we ended up paying more as Berlusconi filled the gap himself.