MilanMania to shutdown

There comes a time when we all must call upon ourselves to do something that is beyond our personal "self" interests. That time for such a call has come now for all of us members at MilanMania.

The site has reached a critical crossroad at this time and from my sources I will say this with much sincerity.

This is no joke! As of right now we have only 3... yes only 3 people who are funding this site to keep it going. From what I know, Debs, Rezag, a only one regular member here is actively funding this site.

This site, if no committed patrons are found within and from members in this site, we risk this Forum MILANMANIA of shutting down as early as February. There was tentative plans to hold this place all the way up to April. But with no promise in site and no one showing an inking of interest, it will be as early as February.

What does this site need???

As I have said and as Debs has pleaded to deaf ears, MilanMania is looking for least 10 to 15 committed donors amongst us all to help foot the bill for a duration of time. During such time, the Admins can get busy on re-organizing the site to a point where it can be self sufficient. I cant promise anything of the successes of such re-organizing. But I can promise all you august members here at MilanMania that failure to find donors will... yes will cause this site to shut down. Guranteed!

Now I know I have been the hard A$$ and the antigonist here on this site on many occassions. Somehow I still have managed to make friends with you all regardless of our idle differences on many things including those outside the realm of football. All of you have been made friends of mine.

However this was not possible until a very good few... some long gone, but some still here, brought forth to us this premere football site for a team we all grew up with and love. I have no doubt that many of you have grown fond of this site through the many invaluable contacts and friendships made here. Imagine the possibilities of growing that relationship even bigger??? This site needs your help. I know there are many of you who want to and for some reason cant or wont. Fine. I can deal with that. I also know that there are those amongst the many who can and should help out. To you folks I humbly ask and plead for your help at saving this site. I'm not doing this as an owner as I dont own this site nor do I administer it. I'm asking you as an ordinary and humble member of MilanMania.

Please.... PLEASE... PLEASE I beg for a a response to those who are willing to be saviors of this site. Ho'oHui Pu Kakou! "Together We CAN".

A hopeful and optimistic Member

Ku'iKahekili

I will be donating some money, although i'll be honest and say i'm not sure if i can afford to be a regular contributor.

Hopefully now they've read your post Kui, more might now realise the severity of the situation !

Originally Posted by Jim_UK

I will be donating some money, although i'll be honest and say i'm not sure if i can afford to be a regular contributor.

Hopefully now they've read your post Kui, more might now realise the severity of the situation !

I thank you Jim. The site is desperately trying to find at least a dozen people to help out so that no one is left to foot a big bill all by his/herself. Give what you can without putting yourself into trouble. Listen Jim.... I dont know how much to thank you for helping this site out. I'm certain that the Admins are also grateful. They are getting into some heavy financial burdens in regards to MM.

Many Thanks JIM!

I dont know how some of you folks can be ignoring this problem??? I'm not going to give up and will continue to try to find anyone out there who CAN help. If not and I say again that it isnt a joke, this site will close down.

FORZA MILAN!

id love to help ... but i still dont know how much your expecting, it would make it alot easier... besides ud have to wait til i go back to the US to do this, i might be able to send the money before it shuts down... i too cannot believe how people here are ignoring this... think about it this way, this is the biggest milan forum there is, and probably one of the most organised forums there are out there, and its all under the name of your club, and if u claim u love this club the way you do then do something about it, id hate to see juve and inter having forums running while us having only crappy ones.

mk and everybody else, the amount is anything you can afford...its more important for it to be regular as to cover monthly expenses. Like lets say 10 dollars a months....contributed 10 each month or 30 every 3 months, for example

PM me if interested in helping

i really want to help but i can't, i don't earn money, dont have a credit card
i don't know how to help
i don't want to see this site closed down so if anyone could help please do it

Originally Posted by rezag

mk and everybody else, the amount is anything you can afford...its more important for it to be regular as to cover monthly expenses. Like lets say 10 dollars a months....contributed 10 each month or 30 every 3 months, for example

PM me if interested in helping

ok ill do it but u guys will have to wait until i go back to the US

Originally Posted by rezag

mk and everybody else, the amount is anything you can afford...its more important for it to be regular as to cover monthly expenses. Like lets say 10 dollars a months....contributed 10 each month or 30 every 3 months, for example

PM me if interested in helping

Yes.... if we can find 10 to 12 people who can regularly contribute 10 US Dollars per month, than this site can be able to hold on. That way Rezag and Debs dont get it in the a$$ every month with a can of whoop a$$ bill.

Thanks MK18! Welcome to the Milan Contributors Club!

Kui.

KEEP MilanMania alive!

i cant believe how selfish some people here can get, im 18 years old, and i live in a completely different environment, and the last thing i need is to see myself as the only one here (besides kui rezag and whoever) ready to keep this place alive, i know u think its not ur duty, but what makes me different than u are?? ... MM is like a virtual home for u, think about it as ur own home, think of what u will do when ur bored and theres nothing to do on the web? what will u do without MM?? ... have some fookin dignity for ****s sake... theres more to life than money!

Well after this comment I need to explain once again why I am not able to donate money.

First thing is that [as Acmir mentioned] I do not earn my own money. Secondly what I get from my parents it is so little that you can not imagine. It's 50 euro per month. My father is a lecturer of university and my mother is a doctor of hospital. Nevertheless they manage to earn only 600 euro. What a fvckin country Lithuania is?! Thirdly I live in different city so I have to rent accomodation... so even one euro is big money to me

I've stayed out of Kui's topic until now; the fact is that I approached him to help us save the site. Kui has been very generous the past couple of months, donating alot more than I ever asked or imagined one person would donate at any one time.

If you can't donate, don't stress and go crazy over it. I understand we're all in very different situations, differwnt ages, different job situations and so on. We're not asking anyone who can't donate to cough up any money. We're not even asking that everyone donate even a single dollar. What we're asking, and what I have posted so many times that I have literally lost count, is that we really NEED to find a group of regualr contributors. It can be a monthly donation of $10, it can be $30 every 3 months, whatever. The key is and has always been regular contributors. Right now there's a very small group of us footing the entire bill while everyone else posts with apparent obliviousness, apparently thinking this site exists for free. Our original creator went very deeply into debt keeping MM, Xt and a couple other sites up and running. I learned a very valuable lesson from that, and swore that No ONE SINGLE PERSON would have to foot the bill to keep this site online. I cannot afford the costs myself, nor can Rezag or Rio, or Kui...

My concern is that our pleas, which have been going on since September or October, have been met with very little response. I've spent 7 years of my life tied to this site, going from being one of the first members to being the first mod, to helping Jan with his designs and ideas, to literally inheriting the domain from him and paying for that domain. Please put yourself in my place--you've asked repeatedly for help and few people, or even no one steps forward. How does that get interpreted? Very badly if you want the honest truth. To me it means no one cares about MM, hence I've made the decision that MM will cease to exist if we do not set up a list of contributors that we can rely on. January into early February is paid for--Kui, Rez, Andrew and I contributed. What happens next is entirely up to the members of this site. Do we continue to exist...or do we shut down? We've got 3 or 4 weeks to work it out. I can't say it any more simply or clearly. Thanks for listening!

Debs, add me to the list.... PM me with instructions... I will gladly help...

c'mon guys, some of us are in a position that allows us to help others who may not have the chances to do it right now...

I`ll be glad to help but when i have some money and CC(credit card)! So don`t think I`m ignoring it! I hope you will find some donnors and patron`s! I promise I will help as early as I can do it!!!!!!!!
FORZA MILANMANIA!!!!!