QUOTE (misha @ Jul 27 2008, 05:54 PM)
We don't know in what shape Dida is and what is the situation with his injury. He has been in decline for the past 3 years and last season was bench for someone like Kalac (shows you how bad he was).
For me it's simple - we must buy a new keeper that would number one without saying.
A Keeper should have been first priority the summer before this one not even now. And Galliani tries to feed the fans BS by saying that Abbiati is our new signing in that area. A GK is imo 80% responsible for the teams success and there is no wonder why we have failed season after season with the keepers we have.
QUOTE (Warchant @ Jul 27 2008, 07:58 PM)
the problem is, is that we have so many holes there was no way we were going to fill all of them this season.
Very true, but also a smart person would have thought of this before and not let the squad ge to the state that it has come to now. 2 players every summer for the past 3 seasons would have been the smart thing to do and I'm 100% sure that if we had done this we wouldn't be in the position we are in now (ie UEFA Cup).
We still need a top class goal keeper, a top class center back, someone that can stand in for Pirlo, although I have faith that Flamini can handle that positition, obviously not do the same thing Pirlo does but he can fill it in better then abybody else we have, and we need another great box striker. Trying to market Boriello as the next Van Basten or whatever Galliani is trying to do won't work, and it certainly won't make Boriello any better.
As for actual spending counting the guys going out and what we made on them and the guys coming in. We only spent about €10 - €15m this summer which is not much especially for a club like Milan who are supposedly in a transission fase, Fiorentino have spent more then us for god's sakes (IMG:
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