I think G. Rossi would make a perfect 7 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

My thoughts exactly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) You pretty much read my mind. Rossi and Kaka (on loan) and call it a day. Put the faith on attack and hope the defense holds up. Because El Sha, Cassano, Boateng, Pato and those two guys above will still make up a pretty good forward line. My only concern is the injury situation.

Save for El Shaarawy, pretty much all the players mentioned above are - very - injury prone.

To be honest, I'd take Sahin over Kaká on the spot! It would be an amazing future investment. The guy is great, I have no idea why they overlook him at Madrid.

If we could take both we'd actually have a real competitive team.

Agreed. I'd rather Kaka not come. That chapter is finished. Let's plan for the future. Sahin, Rossi, and maybe one more defender and hope for a better health record. Is say we would still have a scudetto challenging squad with promising young players.

Yeah, if Sahin comes, Kaká's arrival won't be that necessary. We need that one quality man in midfield, besides Montolivo, and Sahin fills the shoes perfectly. Really good at defending, amazing vision and skills, impressive stamina, and he's very young too. He can be our new Pirlo no problem.

Didn't he have a pretty bad injury?

Kaká would be the leader, someone who's been with the real, Maldini, Milan. I'd be glad with both of them. I really think Ricky could lead those kids.

Kaká = great short term, bad long term
Sahin = great short term, great long term

Milan = sucky short term, because of many decisions that were bad for the long term

Let's not make the same mistakes again, and sign players that help us not only for the short term, but also the long term. Players like Sahin and Strootman will offer a lot now and later to Milan. Signings you can sell with profit later.

Agreed. But I think what Fillipo is trying to say is that we lack a leader after all the departures this summer, and he's right about that. Kaká can be that leader. However, I think if a team is good enough, it can create its own leaders. Personally I believe that with the purchases of Zapata, Sahin and hopefully a last minute leftback signing, we'd be good to go for the scudetto and a respectable run in the Champions League.

What decent leftback do you see out there that is in our price range? Criscito? I think I'd prefer Rossi over a LB because this will be the best opportunity to get him cheap and I don't see many viable LBs.

I think for this season we should go for Simon Poulsen, 27-year-old ex-Alkmaar, who had a rather decent Euro with Denmark. He's currently a free agent.

This. I'm unsure however if we can develop a leader who'd bring back some of Milan's old class. Boateng can present a leader perhaps, but not the one we need or I'd like to see. Same goes for Mexes, Abbiati or most of the other guys.

On a sidenote, I'm stunned how everyone is convinced Sahin is nothing but the golden boy waiting to shine with us. Sure, he was pretty good at Dortmund...for one season. Sure he has potential. But does youth/age necessarily mean he'll do good here? Look at Flamini, he had a good Arsenal stay, was pretty young when we signed him...and turned to be a rather bad disappointment.

Now I'm not saying Sahin is bad or that I can foresee the future - he's the best of all possible options for now - but I only disagree with the "young = good" labeling.


To be honest, I don't get why we haven't signed him already. Maybe we're planning something more ambitious for the end after all.

I only added that to the end of my sentence, as a "bonus" if you like. I never said that young equals good.

I tend to agree with Filippo, but only to an extent, yes we need a leader on the field, Ambro is our only leader and I can't see him playing regularly this season.

That being said, I think Kaka would be a huge financial mistake in the long run. And after the big f*** ups that have already been made in that department, we really cannot afford any more