Apparently we're offering El Shaarawy to Roma for Romagnoli. /Mediaset

He only wants Juve. He doesn't want us because we're not in Europe. Non-starter. Even if Roma accept, he won't.

Agree with both of you. Great defender but always injured. That said, he was also really badly mismanaged by Pippo, regardless of performance. Given a run who knows what he could be for us.

Don't think that's even plausible as a rumour.

@ Danny, offer him enough and he'd come imo, he's a young Italian CB. A little money incentive will go a long way with him.

It's not like he's coming from a CL team, he was at Samp last season for crying out loud. Players these days...

Boateng was reported as sacked - not a mutual consent termination. For it to be mutual the player has to consent. And Boateng got fired for unprofessionalism - AKA not giving a cr*p. He violated his contract, in effect, meaning the club could fire him without having to pay off his deal. Mutual consent is when the player agrees severance - a 'polite' firing, as Walter Smith once put it, which has a nice pay-off sum. Didn't know Bonera was expired, that deals with him at least. But I don't know who else is actually out of contract.



And the club doesn't find a new club for the player, the agent does. The club just tells the player to accept the transfer or sit out their deal. Or come to a severance deal.



Couldn't remember which one it was.



Cerci was a disaster. But he's not our player. Hopefully we can unload him back to Atleti this summer.



I'd take 500K for him. Terrible player.



I'd take the 6 happily. He cost 4. 2M profit is acceptable.



As I say, doesn't want to come to Milan without European football.



At least Bona, Poli and Berto will try. I'll say Baselli will too. Monto just sits there looking like he's better than all this, while playing like he doesn't care. Biggest fraud at Milan. I'd rather have the other four, given none of them are especially incredible.

And maybe add Witsel ? *fingers crossed*



But not as a squad member. He's good enough to start - if he rotates he'll be patchy and inconsistent.



As I say, first rung. We can't get the best, so we have to get what we can. And find ourselves scaling slowly back up. Next season has to be fifth place as the target. If we are solidly in the top five throughout the season we MIGHT just be able to attract some decent quality come January, and if we secure Europa League, next summer we can build further with that carrot.

Keep on taking the baby steps because we're not buying Messi overnight.

Bonera, Mexes, Abbiati and Pazzini are out of contract. Essien was too, and joined Panathinaikos, whereas De Jong got a renewal.

And no, Danny, we can't be aiming for 5th place if we're going to spend +100 million this summer. You don't pay such crazy money just to get an EL placing. It has to be 3rd spot at all cost. Though I'm pretty sure our management will soon be making statements about already winning the league. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by X-Offender: Jun 30 2015, 04:28 PM

Looks like we've started negotiations with Roma for Romagnoli, according to calciomercato.com. Roma want €30 million for him (SAY WHAT?!), we're willing to offer €18 million. A deal could be struck somewhere in-between. A new meeting is supposed to take place today.

How do you guys value Romagnoli? Apparently Mihajlović is the one pushing for him.

I have no clue about how good he is.

I stand by my post. Fifth is the best we can manage. We could throw 500M and not make third. Why? Because great players don't want to come, no matter how much we spend. And spending 20M on decent but not world class players makes our team decent but not world class.

Look at Real - they can attract someone like Kroos for 24M. But we can't. We get a very decent striker like Bacca for 35M but he's never one of the best in the world.

Having the money is half the equation - being able to get the best players is the other. If we could attract the kind of players needed for third place we wouldn't have been f*cked over by guys like Alves, Martinez and Kondogbia.

What I am saying is I understand your logic, but the biggest wallet ever won't instantly give us UCL.

Going by his Wiki, 30M is an astounding amount for them to want. But then, young players are the most expensive. Just look at Iturbe and Sterling.

Bonera has been reportedly released. Along with Abbiati, Pazzo, Muntari and Essien.

One outstanding job this window done at the very least of releasing a lot of dead wood.

There are two months left before the signing window closes. Let's not jump to conclusions yet. What if we end up signing Hummels, Witsel and Ibra? Then your argument becomes invalid.

And besides, you're saying we're not able to attract big names anymore, and used Jackson and Kondogbia as examples, but are those two big names to begin with? Is Jackson so much bigger than Bacca? What has Kondogbia achieved in his career to be considered a big? Plus he ended up signing for Inter, who are in the exact same waters as we are, i.e. failed season and no European cups. Alves is not a case because Barça ended up agreeing to his terms.

It's true that we're not in the same position we used to be a few years ago in terms of attracting important players, but what has transpired thus far doesn't constitute the basis for saying that we can't sign such players anymore. If we make the right offer, those players will eventually come, because money talks nowadays more than history, appeal and everything else football used to stand for.



Where did you read that? I'm pretty sure we're keeping Abbiati for another season, or so I read.

Like I said, just because their contracts are finished doesn't mean they can't sign a new one with us

I think Abbiati and Mexes will renew.

Danny, I'll get back to you on that one as it's long and I'm in a rush (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)