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Thiago Silva: I miss Milan
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Paris Saint-Germain’s Thiago Silva has admitted that he’d love to get the opportunity to play for Milan again in the future.

“I can’t deny that I miss Milan,” the stopper, who left the Diavolo for PSG in the summer at a cost of over €40m, told Sky Sport Italia.

“They will always remain in my heart because they gave me the chance to go around the world after I left Fluminense.

“I’d like a return to Milan in the future, they are a great club, one of the most successful in the world.

“I played there for three years and I can’t exclude anything because the future is unknown. If the opportunity presented itself then I would happily go back.”

The Brazilian international was actually hoping for a February ‘return’ once the Champions League resumed.

PSG could have been paired with Milan in yesterday’s draw, but the French giants have been handed Valencia instead.

“I wanted to face Milan in the Champions League,” the centre-back added. “I wanted to play them just so I could return to the club that is still so important to me.

“When I played my last game there, I did not know it at the time and I did not say goodbye to everyone that I wanted to.”


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And people said we just HAD to sell him because of the money and that he wouldn't have wanted to stay if we couldn't match what PSG were offering him (IMG:style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif)

Some players aren't complete mecenaries. I think he'd rather play in Milan in a lot of money than Paris on a stupid amount.

Oh, how I miss this guy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

Me too. If you ask me almost all of our defensive problems this year are down to selling him off. Just imagine that we had Silva paired with Mexes against Roma instead of Yepes. No way we give up 4 goals.

IMO we treated this guy worse than Pirlo. He really wanted to stay and we kept him uncertain, up and down before we demonstrated the intention to keep him, RENEWED his contract and then sold him. I remember how confused he himself was. But he accepted it like a champ in the end.

Here's an interview published today:



The least I can say is that it's appreciated.

*waiting for R7 to throw in the usual wages BS again*

We miss you Thiago. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Such a great guy.. If it was up to him, he would finish his career with us.

Yeah I think he was one of the few people who meant it in interviews!

Dude...the expression ad nauseam is really relevant here. I don't know why you're on this 'wages BS' kick. If you're going to sit on your high horse and go on about how foolish our management were 6 to 7 years ago, then that's fine. But it ends there. Nothing's going to change that is it. What R7 and I and Filippo and even that fraud Birminghamer is interested in is the way forward. The Milan way of managing was over the day people with deeper pockets came into the game. We could no longer play for scraps at the same table. Hence we've changed our management style and it takes time and some deep sacrifices. A bit like going from corporation to start-up mode. No more company cars and free/unlimited coffee.

So stop being all depressed and complaining. You have great points in your posts at times, but 80% of your total posts are on how 'retarded' Galliani and Berlusca are.

Now, I've mentioned this before I'll spit it out again. I'll keep it short.

- Silva: Sold for the transfer fee. NOT for his wages. Unless you had a better plan to plug in a close to 60 MM operating deficit.
- Ibra: Let go primarily for his wages.

The combined deal would make it look like Ibra went for a really low transfer fee. But that's just normal football transfers. Ibra went for a low fee, the same way Eto'o went for 'only' 11 million to Inter. They were on their last year of contract and their current club could not afford to renew. In such cases, the player's transfer fee by rule of thumb is equal to his year's wages.

Hence ~ 12 million was paid for Ibra, PLUS the 12 million we saved from his contract wages.

I'm sorry we had to sell Silva. Defenders are harder to get, and in the long run Silva would have helped rebuild a spine.

I think Ibra not being there will be tided over in the long run, but has hit us hard in the short term- this season. We would not have had such a bad start to the season, or be struggling to keep third.

But from a longer view- At the price of a less impactful Boateng, and a virtually useless Noce - we have gained SeS and Balotelli and possibly some space for Niang to play as well. And there's still room in the wages.

I know at this point it is useless whining but what I really wanted was for the management not to be so careless as to get to the point where we needed 60m to plug a gaping hole in our finances. Alternatively, I would have rather sold Pato for 35m and Boateng for 20-25m to keep Silva. Ibra leaving was somewhat inevitable with his age, contact length, and wages.

Still a laughably awful transfer on our part.

IMO you can not claim to "save" money on wages. If anything, that just shows you're a bad businessman in the first place. Why commit to money you can't afford? If we could afford it, why sell him?

We made 12m + "saved" which is 24m. We should have got around 24m for him anyway! Selling him for so little was ridiculous. As for Eto'o, he wasn't wanted by Barca anymore, very different from Ibra who was still the focal point of our team.

Ostensibly you can. You have to think of 'wages' as a different budget. I tend to think of it in terms of Life vs Mana in RPG games. So you have your transfer budget...but you also have your wage budget. Both are crucial. And cuts in both help.

Ibra saving 12 million..has opened us up to at least 3 potential high value acquisitions. One of whom was filled in by Balo at his 4MM wage.

I understand Eto'o was not wanted. But the principle is the same. While we'd have loved to keep Ibra...he was not going to back down on his wage demands. Which basically made him 'unusable' as well.

Plus in a twisted sort of way, his leaving meant other players could shine a bit more. At the same time his coming was necessary. Without Ibra we would have won nothing. We needed some sort of a statement, because we risked becoming a by the wayside club and we had to compete. Without the scudetto wins and the performance on the field, a lot of the commercial deals couldn't have been pushed through by Galliani.

Silva's was painful though. But we couldn't have gotten that sort of money anywhere else.