I fully agree.


I will admit I was one of those that said "We are Milan afterall" and that we shouldn't lose and its all silvio fault etc etc.


But i've come to realise it solves nothing, all it does is create scapegoats towards people who could care less. We as fans need to realise this club's belongs to its supporters and not one single entity.


Bashing Silvio will solve nothing. We need to look at our situation and realise that we have no money, our owner who injected cash into our club for 25 years has stopped, we are an old squad, we have a poor mgmt in terms of backroom stuff, we have poor stadium attendance, we have an unbalanced wage bill, we barely have any sponsors.




These problems run deep but they are slowly getting fixed.


The positives:


1) We have bought a youth system. I give full credit to Galli, Pederzoli and Stroppa for the fine work they've done so far. I would say with the youth we have coming up, I'd place us in the top 10 best youth academies in the world.

2) Our club's financial structure is in good health in comparison to others. We are very forunate because we've mainly bought players for the last 25 years instead of tried to grow our own talent. Madrid has done a similar thing and they will eventually pay the price for their massive debt.

3) We have 7 champions league trophies (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) We need to realize what the significance of that.

4) Poor mgmt. This is a part of the club that needs to be addressed and it has been getting addressed slowly. We are rapidly building youth projects all over the world and promoting the milan style. We have strived to bring in more sponsors. We are playing more and more freindly matches, making us a marketable product. We are already going hardcore into the USA market. We just need to breach Japan and China.

5) MilanLab. As it stands currently, we have the best Sports Science research development centre in the world for soccer. According to the book "Soccernomics" We are the only club in the world to be able to have several players at the age of 30+ sustain consistent performances at the highest level and feature regularly in our starting line up. Most other clubs will have 1 or 2 at most.






So all in all its not all gloom and doom. Yes we are going to suffer for a few years. This is given, lets not deny it or try and sugar coat it. The possibility of us finishing under 4th place is very possible. But thats what a soccer club is.


There are the dark years, then the domination years, then the dark years.

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Aug 2 2010, 09:22 PM

It was indeed Marca that reported the story.

http://www.goal.com/en/news/10/italy/2010/...er-thiago-silva

Thus it is total BS

Tuttomercatoweb reports that Milan may be making a bid for Lazio's Cristian Ledesma.

Hmm, I'm ok with that. I kind of like him

UK tabloid Daily Mirror is reporting that AC Milan could sign Mexican attacking midfielder Giovani Dos Santos in exchange for striker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar
Link


Portsmouth have lowered their asking price for Prince Boateng, they won't ask for more than €7.2m for the Ghana international midfielder. Lazio is close to signing him. I would love to see him in a Milan jersey
Link

AC Milan have joined Inter Milan and Genoa in the pursuit of Brazilian right-back Ilsinho, who was recently released from Shakhtar Donetsk.
Link

I've seen him playing in Barca, and I must say that he is very talented guy, but he has some problems with discipline and alcohol.... I'd like to see him in Milan anyway.

Agree - I like Dos Santos. I think he'd be a very good option for the wide positions if we're going to go 4-3-3.

I still think there is a role for Huntelaar even as back up to Boriello I'd give him till January before ditching him of course he needs some game time to. As for Dos Santos I've seen him and not all that impressed but he's young so time to improve for sure

Thiago silva.

http://www.acmilan.com/NewsDetail.aspx?idNews=125953

Put a smile on my face. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I don't know why Barcelona let him go !?
But he is good, but he plays better with Mexico then with teams

Hernanes to Lazio: 'It's done!


source : link

This post has been edited by d'Arc.LP: Aug 3 2010, 06:25 PM

Dos Santos seems to have a bit of a problem personality from what I've gathered. I'd pass.

#1 and #3 are not reliable sources, and we're not linked with #2 in any way.

Because of his attitude. He wanted to get a lot of playing time, and Barca was unable to offer it. By the way, it seemed, he imagined himself as a very good player. I mean, he was immature at that time and the question is, is he now ?