Milan have three top goalkeepers in their squad, but Adriano Galliani has clarified that Zeljko Kalac is first choice.

With Christian Abbiati's return from Atletico Madrid and Nelson Dida back to full fitness, there is a crush of shot-stoppers pushing for space.

“We have established a hierarchy of goalkeepers and Carlo Ancelotti drew it up,” revealed general manager Galliani.

“I think that at this stage we can say we're starting with Kalac, then Abbiati while we wait to evaluate Dida's condition, as he is undergoing a recovery programme.”

There were concerns over whether Alessandro Nesta would require surgery for a recurring injury, but that does not seem to be the case.

“Nesta has nothing serious. He does have this back problem and we have sent him to the top specialists, but they all said he does not need an operation. He should recover quickly.”

There are injury worries for Marco Borriello, who sprained his right knee during today's training session. More tests will be performed tomorrow to investigate the extent of the damage.

The only thing that bugs me is that I remember a player mentioning that Dida is training hard, and is getting back into form. And now Galliani comes back to say that Dida is on a recovery program.

Well that just makes me feel so secure about our chances of not conceeding...

I think it would be smarter to give them to Dida. Kalac might have had some good games last season but he's just as big a liability as our other 2 options, Dida provides more experiance and if by some miracle chance he finds some semblance of form we would have a better chance at not destroying our chances at the leugue from the first 2 months

Dida also said himself on 7/12 that he was feeling better. [link] Maybe he's being particularly mollycoddled so his back doesn't go south again, or Galliani is stretching the truth to the press.

It will be suicidal for Dida to start, and then get a dip in form, and let Kalac back.

I'd much rather prefer we sell the big mouth Abbiati, and get ourselves a talented, young keeper for the future. Let Kalac and Dida battle it out while the young one gains ground. We have to build towards the future, and having three keepers of the same type isn't the future, particularly when neither of them is young. Pity people at Milan think otherwise.

I wholeheartedly agree. As much as I'd like to have seen Kalac go to some Serie Z team, bringing Abbiati back was just plain stupid. It's interesting that he came back only after Dida was finally displaced as the Milan number one.

Don't worry, sooner or later he will have to give up on his 'gloves'. I can't see him perform like last season.