Alberto Gilardino to Milan??

AC Milan ask Parma for info on Gilardino
tribalfootball.com - July 25, 2004

AC Milan have approached Parma for information on striker Alberto Gilardino.
An injury to Pippo Inzaghi has forced Milan back into the market for a new striker and the Italian champs made a formal enquiry yesterday about Gilardino's situation.

No bid was mentioned, but Parma is now aware that three clubs, Milan, Juventus and AS Roma, are all circling to sign the Italy U21 ace.
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Well, now Milan have entered the race to sign Gilardino. This is a good news, but I don't see why Milan need to sign him rite now(may be for the future).
Well, I know we will lose Inzaghi for the next 3 months. Well do you guys think this is a good news, if come out true??

i prefer cassano or torres but of course i wouldn't say no to gilardino. but no matter who not for this year

[quote]i prefer cassano or torres but of course i wouldn't say no to gilardino. but no matter who not for this yearQUOTE]

perhaps sign him and loan him back to Parma for a year?

Pippo is struggling with a few injuries and he is now at an age where injuries are likely to be more frequent and harder to recover from, also Crespo is only here on loan. As Juve and Roma would both want him immediately Parma would be more tempted to take Milans offer if they did this.

I wouldnt get excited because tribal football is an awful news source. If they say something you should expect the opposite. With Inzaghi injured which is likely to be for a few weeks, no the whole season. we have three top class strikers and like Braida said in the past Kaka can be the fourth striker. Rui Costa is ready to pounce. Besides what happens when Inzaghi is back then we would have 5 strikers all competing for two spots. Too much.

"perhaps sign him and loan him back to Parma for a year?"

that would be great of course

I think Gilardino would be good but Milan are known for not letting young players play other than for foreign one's (kaka). It would be nice but I would want him with us only if they let him play.. Look at Borriello, he only played like 10 games this year and thats not enough. Lost home talent you know..Anyway we'll see...but i hope Pippo gets better fast!!!

i think it wud b awesome to buy gilardino now n loan him to parma for 1 year. i
read sumwhere that in season 2005/2006 every italian club will have to have at least 5 italian players on the field at all times, and at least 9 italian players in the whole squad. since next year crespo iz goin bac to chelsea, and inzaghi's future seems uncertain, gilardino cud start for us along side shevcenko. we wud also
have 5 italians on the field: pirlo, gattuso, maldini, nesta, GILARDINO. i really
hope we buy him!

I got excited until I saw the article was from tribalfootball

Originally Posted by martin

i think it wud b awesome to buy gilardino now n loan him to parma for 1 year. i
read sumwhere that in season 2005/2006 every italian club will have to have at least 5 italian players on the field at all times, and at least 9 italian players in the whole squad. since next year crespo iz goin bac to chelsea, and inzaghi's future seems uncertain, gilardino cud start for us along side shevcenko. we wud also
have 5 italians on the field: pirlo, gattuso, maldini, nesta, GILARDINO. i really
hope we buy him!

The chance for Crespo to stay in Milan after this season would 60-40. Remember that we have an option on the player. well I'm agree with your opinion about taking Gilardino right now and Loan him back to Parma. Hopefully that Milan would sign him soon, bcoz I don't want to see him in "Bianconeri" shirt. Either Giallorosi or Rossoneri

o i didn't noe we had an option on crespo. if gilardino goes to roma then it wud b like a dream come true for roma fans. they wud have totti, cassano, gilardino
upfront

Originally Posted by martin

o i didn't noe we had an option on crespo. if gilardino goes to roma then it wud b like a dream come true for roma fans. they wud have totti, cassano, gilardino
upfront

Well, we do NOT have an option on Crespo - he was simply loaned out by Chelsea to us but they, for whatever reason, refused to give Milan a buy-out option onthe player. He is on a free 1-year-loan deal with us and Chelsea are paying part of his wages - according to calciomercato.com they are paying 80% of Crespo's salary and Milan the rest.
Don't ask me why Chelsea didn't give us an option to buy him out - it just seems very unlikely to me that they are gonna be keen on him next year i.e. Crespo in Chelsea is in the past. Or may be we didn't whant an option on him?

Originally Posted by GATTUSO1

I think Gilardino would be good but Milan are known for not letting young players play other than for foreign one's (kaka). It would be nice but I would want him with us only if they let him play.. Look at Borriello, he only played like 10 games this year and thats not enough. Lost home talent you know..Anyway we'll see...but i hope Pippo gets better fast!!!

Look I am not sure what you meant by this post but if the young players are world class players as well TRUST ME they are gonna play for Milan. if they are just good young players they are gonna warm up the bench and that's it. What would you suggest - play Borriello in place of Sheva/JDT/Pippo just because MAYBE he will become a great player. Or play Abumeyang in place of Cafu, or Donatti in stead of Pirlo? If they are great they will play young/medium/old they will play only if they desrve to be in the best 11, otherwise ... bench and more training.

I have to agree with acdc81, Cassano is a higher preference, in my opinion...K77SH_C, you beat me to it...Inzaghi is only out for 6 weeks, and if you guys remember the last one, he was ready to be selected for Euro...So maybe shorter than 6 weeks...But more to the point, again 5 strikers would be too many. There's already enough competition upfront. Once Pippo returns from injury and finds form, he will once again be the prolific striker that he is. Particularly in the Champions League.

Imo these are just some invented news from newspapers/web-sites etc because they don't have anything to say about a team with many fans like Milan is.I give max 1% chances to Gilardino to sign for Milan this year(although I would like to see him playing for us).It's not the first time that they are trying to invent fantasy Milan signings just to keep their customers interested..And don't forget that there is a guy called Pozzi who can easily be our 4th attacker for the time Pippo is injured.Pozzi was an upcoming star when we bought him, I am susprised that he is so quickly forgotten.For all these reasons I don't see any real chance for Gilardino..

Originally Posted by zlatanov

Well, we do NOT have an option on Crespo - he was simply loaned out by Chelsea to us but they, for whatever reason, refused to give Milan a buy-out option onthe player. He is on a free 1-year-loan deal with us and Chelsea are paying part of his wages - according to calciomercato.com they are paying 80% of Crespo's salary and Milan the rest.
Don't ask me why Chelsea didn't give us an option to buy him out - it just seems very unlikely to me that they are gonna be keen on him next year i.e. Crespo in Chelsea is in the past. Or may be we didn't whant an option on him?

i think chelsea loaned him to us so they can make room for kezman and drogba. they probably didn want to sell him bcuz he has been playin bad and his price tag wudnt b too high, if he performs really well in milan this season then next season his price tag will rise n they will sell him .