Some of those names are depressing indeed, but others like Cuadrado, Kovacic, Pjaca, Zielinski etc. are interesting. The point is that even if we end up signing players who are not huge like Pjaca and Zielinski, at least their talent is something to make us hopeful. But if we end up signing the next Bertolacci's and Kucka's of this world then nothing will change.

Bertolacci is a gamble that is still in play. Let's wait out this season before deciding he's worthless. All talks of Kovacic has died down.

Bacca is turning out into a TV opera.

I'll give you the benefit of a doubt, but I'm very positive Bertolacci is a complete miss. He simply adds to nothing.

Kovačić? Yes, it is a bit troublesome. But the good thing is, I haven't heard any other offer for him came in. So, we'll see.

Oh and can someone enlighten me a explain why we're so eagerly interested in Sosa? The logic in signing Matri or Pavoletti is thin but still there, whereas this particular rumor that appears to linger puzzles me constantly.

Seems like we found our replacement for Bacca in Pavoletti. The deal might, according to MN, include 10M + Suso, but Matri is also in consideration. Way to go, get rid of past baggage, create new one.

Candreva also linked with Milan, while rumors regarding Cuadrado died off along with Kovačić. This is getting better and better...

It’s not about putting too much weight, I know that in most cases nothing comes from a rumour. But when a story seemingly lingers on, there’s usually truth to it. Also, this summer, the usually reliable sources like sky and Gazzatta have been terrible, starting with stories they’re reporting on the sale of the club to transfer market news.

So I’m a bit worried that we’re in mid-july and our only seemingly concrete targets are Zielinski and Sosa. Zielinski is an interesting player but still not going to turn this team around while I honestly do now know who at the club could possibly want Sosa. He was a failure at Napoli and in Spain. The Turkish league is at just about right for his level, so why we are seemingly so interested in taking on even more baggage is beyond me

And tbh, I had high hopes for this summer after that sale was confirmed, but atm it’s looking like the same old story repeating itself


Agreed

This Bacca story is getting irritating tbh. Don’t know what’s wrong with him to want to leave Milan to go to West Ham, at least aim higher and not just go where the cash is.

As for Berto, I honestly don’t know what you could possibly see in him. He’s weak and easily knocked off the ball, has little to no creative vision, is an average passer at best and doesn’t contribute a whole lot defensively either. He’s the definition of below average. I honestly do not know what our management saw in him to make them splash over 25m on this guy, he’s not even worth half of that. I think that should an opportunity to sell him come up, we need to jump on it

Agreed on Berto, also I think we’re mostly just waiting for Real to see what they want to do with him. I wouldn’t be surprised if Galliani and Perex already have some sort of understanding between them


Have no clue. Could be because he had a decent season in Turkey…

Why are we filling up on mediocre strikers? It’s like we’re signing Gilardino over and over again…

As for Candreva, no comment or kurt would immediately jump on me with his stats. But all I have to say is that Lazio want good cash for him, cash he’s not worth

25m isn't it? He's definitely worth that in a World where players who've had one good season are going for 30m+

The Pavoletti rumors have to be a joke. It can't possibly be true. Galliani can't be that stupid. I mean, sure, he's a senile old fool, but he can't be THAT stupid. I just refuse to believe it.

In other news, Besiktas' president said they don't want to sell Sosa.

Will have to respectfully disagree on this one. He's a one dimensional player. Sure he works hard and can deliver good crosses, but he's not worth anywhere near that.

He's the Cerci who never ventured further than he should. And he should really just stay where he is.

Plus he's no spring chicken either. One of his best assets (speed) will only decline as he gets older

Why would it be so hard to believe? Haven't we been over this same old story one too many times now? It's pretty obvious that we'll end up going for him once we sell Bacca. Which will just make it ANOTHER summer of spending half our budget on pointless strikers.

Montella will most likely play with one striker, and atm we have an overload of attackers. Lapadula, Adriano, Bacca (will most likely be sold), Niang, Menez and Matri.

I read that Matri and Suso could be included in the deal for Pavoletti and we'd get him for around 10m.

I think Adriano will also be on his way out and maybe we can get around 8 to 10m for him. Menez will also be sold, most likely. So we'll end up with a pretty mediocre strike force, going by what is being reported.

However, even with all that, I wouldn't be too p!ssed off if we just spend 10m on the attack and heavily invest in midfield.

Atm we can only spend the money we have directly coming in from transfers, so once we sell Bacca, I expect Musacchio and maybe Zielinski as well to be wrapped up

As for the Sosa news, that's good, don't need any more average players to simply make up the numbers

Just read that we parted ways with a few Milan veterans and legends, Mauro Tassotti, Andrea Maldera and Filippo Galli. Sad.

Where is this club going towards? Why does everything have to look this grim?

Only Tassotti and Maldera as far as I can tell. Didn't hear about Galli. The former two have left to join Shevchenko as Ukraine asst. coaches I think.

Yeah, I was wrong about Galli. I think the club should have kept the two at all cost thought.

Looks like Bacca is not going to West Ham. That means everything else is on hold.

Juve have officially signed Benatia on loan for €3 million + €17 million for the right of purchase next summer. And there are widespread rumors that they're going to offer €94 million for Higuain. Not to mention Pjanic and Alves earlier this summer.

So far, our only signings have been Vangioni and Lapadula.

Can we take a moment and think about how extremely far apart we are with Juventus right now. In 2007 we won the Champions League, they just returned from Serie B. Fast-forward almost ten years later and they're dominating Italian football and doing well in Europe, whereas we've become a mid-table level team.

It didn't have to end like this. Curse you Silvio. Curse you Galliani.