You can't force a player out. You can accept the bid, but no one holds a gun to their head saying they must leave.

The player has to be willing to leave.

Encourage, yes, force? Not a chance.

Footballers have more power than the clubs do.

Raiola: "Galliani is a sincere person, honest and sensible. He's very sad about having lost two great players like Silva and Ibra. I've talked a lot with him, the project of selling Ibra dates back to January, when PSG signed Maxwell. It was a necessary decision, in line with the conditions of the country. Ibra always said he wanted to stay at Milan, but personally I wasn't too convinced about it".

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Yep. And Raiola confirms it.

It doesn't make any difference. there's two ways a player is transferred, either the players wants out (Sheva-Chelsea) or the club decides the player be sold (Silva-PSG).

As far as I'm concerned Silva and Ibra's transfers fall under the second category. I mean, after ALL the FFP/financial discussions and arguments we've had, one can't possibly say it was Ibra who wanted out!

This post has been edited by Zed.D: Jul 18 2012, 10:33 PM

But,I don't know from the sound of the interviews,the player didn't seem to have no idea he was being sold lol.

Have you read the two interviews? You think they're blatant lairs or what?

I can believe Ibra wanted to leave. Milan is a sinking ship after all. Who knows if we'll even make champions league next year.


Silva though, i believe he was forced out.

Well, Raiola says that it was us who wanted to sell him, due to our difficult economic conditions.

"Ibra always said he wanted to stay at Milan, but personally I wasn't too convinced about it".

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Fillipo, look in my eyes and tell me we wanted to keep Zlatan on 9m/y. besides, the guy said Milan need to show ambition, but when we decided we had to sell Silva, he knew there wasn't much. so it was easy for him to accept to move to PSG. hell, even Cassano's considering his future.

This post has been edited by Zed.D: Jul 19 2012, 08:16 AM

Cassano? What the heck has he got to do with it? He's totally unaccountable, don't bet your money on knowing his reasons. Yes, Milan gave the green light, but I rejected your simplistic two-option pattern. I believe Milan gave green light but didn't push for the transfer. Why would Galliani be bitter if it wasn't like that?

Because he is the doer, not the decision maker. He ends up taking most of the heat in these sort of situations.

I personally believe that Milan were thre ones that forced the move.

If that weren't the case than we would have gotten a lot more had PSG been as desperate for him as Raiola and Leo are saying. Leo was desperate to get Silva and Milan wanted to get mostly Ibra's wage off their bill, so they sold Silva with the condition that PSG would also buy Ibra.

Of course Ibra will not say that he was forced to join PSG and only agreed because of the massive wage he'll be getting, that would endear him to no end with the new faithful I imagine... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif)

Like I said, the only one PSG were desperate for is Silva. Ibra was just the deal breaker for us

Lavezzi, Silva and Ibrahimovic in one summer, madness.

Didn't Cavani go to chelsea too?

I was talking about just PSG!