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@ Fillipo

I said overhyped because not only Galliani's trying to make him look like a star striker every time he talks about Milan's transfer campaign, also because he has played for Milan before and hasn't showed 'anything promising' IMO. I won't bet on his success and I'm not letting his 19 goals for the smaller team Genoa get me carried away. I'm just looking forward to his performances. for me he's as qualified as our third choice striker, at best.

This post has been edited by zdrossoneri: Jul 8 2008, 06:31 AM

Yes, this is the one sentence that is quite ridiculous. On the other hand, like I've said before, the "Huntelaar is excellent" story could also be a hype.

Anyway, I've explained that it is only natural and logical for our board to back Borriello since he's now here. They once put him in without pressure and not much came out. Now they are making the opposite. Anyhow, Milan will sign a striker or Dinho and that will decrease Bori's apps.


Who else except Galliani "hyped" Borriello?


I'm sure we all should not get carried away with the success at Genoa in one season, but by all means, we shouldn't also be carried away by his prior flop at Milan in...17 matches! That's...nothing.

I think Dida has been given more then enough chances, and it's not like he's in his twenties and just starting out and has a decent salary that wouldn't really effect Milan if it is being payed or not.

He has a wage that goes up tp 4m each year, why keep him when Carlo has clearly lost faith in him and won't play him. He'll spend another season on the bench but in the end still collect his money, and Galliani still has the b@lls to come out and complain about money when this is going on

As for Puma, I like him, I liked the way he played last season when he was played, personally I would prefer him over Ambro since he has much more techincal ability, doesn't have the temper Ambro does and is a much smarter player, but with Flamini coming in him and Brocchi will probably only be used in Coppa matched we have waay too many defensive mids, we simply don't need that many

I think the only way Boriello can succeed in Milan is if he is given a first team spot alongside Pato. Otherwise, if he is going to be a rotation player, I don't see him scoring more than 6 goals in all competitions.

I don't think that boriello will be played often alongside pato. we will most likely see the christmas formation more often with pato as a lone striker. and if R10 comes than he'll be the second.

i don't know what galliani really wants to reach with his transfers....

on the one hand he buys new forwards like boriello and perhaps ronaldinho but on the other hand he knows exactly that we have have quite enough strikers like pato, inzaghi, paloschi and so on.

and than he says that we don't have anough money to buy anyone else, and that we should be confident with who we have.
he doesn't care that we could need a gk more than another striker...

I personally don't see how having Pippo, Pato, Boriello and Paloschi as enough, Pippo will most likely be out for 3/4 of the season with another injury, Boriello, let's face it, isn't good enough and has already proved that more then once in the past when he was given the chance at Milan, Paloschi as much potential as he might have he's still a primavera player and shouldn't really be counted as someone that could lead Milan's attack. And lastly we cannot expect Pato to do everything, score, assist and stay fit for an entire season, because lets face it, with the other choices we have for the attack, that is what the poor kid will have to do.

Another striker is simply needed, we can't stay as we are it won't be enough, just like it wasn;t enough last season and the one before that.

mo R10 is the best solution for this, because with him we can play bothe xmas tree with him and Kaka as the trequartisti or the 4-3-1-2 with R10 acting as a suppoting forward, and it will leave us with many option if players need to be rotated because of a tight schedule

i'm not sure Pato is a lone striker i thought he would play behind the lone striker i may be wrong. On Boriello he will be a starter after all this hype from Galliani he then can't leave him on the bench

I think Pato can play as the lone striker in the xmas tree formation, he did it against Genoa where he scored 2 goals, so I don't really think he will have a problem either way we play, he's a versatile striker and I think if we were really in a tight spot he could even play as a trequartista if needed

i hope we won't play the xmas tree to be honest, but from Carlo's comments i think this will be his proffered formation for this season. i just hope we have the ability to be able to break the teams down that defend deep and with 1 striker this is more difficult....maybe a crazy idea but perhaps we should try and play with wingers...but it's t late in the transfer market to bring in players to change the shape of the team

i know that it wouldn't be bad to sign a striker, but it's not our only problem that we don't get through the other team's defence, if we don't have a strong defence.

i know we had a lot of problems with goalscoring the last season.

the only transfer rumours in last time were about adebayor, drogba and ronalidinho.
i think we should not only try to buy new strikers, but also do something for our defensive, like looking for another gk and one more defender.

We all know this is Carlo's favourite formation and it will be the one the will be mostly used.

That's why I'm more in favour of Ronaldinho rather then an out and out striker. With R10, the formation would be more flexible, where as with a striker it would be the same thing we've done the last 2 seasons, which is basically constantly running into a brick wall

---------defence-----------
-Seedorf--Pirlo---DMF----
---------R10--Kaka--------
------------Pato------------

with a pure striker it would look like this

---------defence-----------
-----DMF--Pirlo---DMF----
-----Seedorf--Kaka-------
--------------ST------------

With the second formation we would see the same old tactic of trying to go through the middle over and over again and not succeeding and in the end revert to long balls and hoping that someone (Kaka/Pato/Pirlo) will pull a miracle out of their @ss

With the first one we would have Seedorf instead of the DMF which would already be a big plus and Kaka and R10 floating around behind the striker. And I'm guessing that Pato could really come into his own with those 2 behind him


I think we all here know that Milan is in desperite need of atleast 1 WC CB and a good if not great keeper, but it has been made very clear that those purchases will not be made so I think everyone has given up on the idea, even though we all know we're in desperate need of both players.

A striker is a problem that Galliani has adressed, so we're all basically taking what we can get atm

i think for our limited funds and very little backing from berlu and the fact that we are not in champions league with debt we have done very very well in the market. I personally am going to apologize for doubting his TM ability. Yes we are NOT fully reinforced in every area but realistically we are not chelsea or madrid and we cannot spend millions without care.

I give credit where its due and galliani's time is due. I say well done and hopefully our problems can be solved by winter or next summer.

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Jul 26 2008, 05:39 PM

+1 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Couldn't have put it better myself.

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