He said it to distract us from his possible Chelski move which is what he should have done but by saying something less concrete !! I see you still play blind man's buff, you really like him ... Please don't answer to this post, I honestly don't feel like talking about it anymore !! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by dst: Oct 22 2006, 04:51 PM

Money always a factor but in this case I'm sure it's wasn't one of te main for sure. There isn't much difference between what he got here and what he getting there.

Edit: if it was about money, Sheva would have been gone much sooner
Sounds very logical to me.

This post has been edited by mishale: Oct 23 2006, 02:51 AM

Serie A Diary: Milan Missing Andriy

Four Serie A games and just one goal: who would have thought that Milan would miss Andrii Shevchenko so much? Well, most Milan fans actually.

How could it be any other way? In seven seasons with the rossoneri, he scored a fantastic total of 173 goals helping them to a league title and a Champions League success when he scored the final penalty as the beat Juventus at Old Trafford. Incidentally, during six of those seasons he was Milan’s leading scorer and he also became the club’s second all time goalscorer behind the legendary Gunnar Nordahl..

So it was always inevitable that Milan were going to miss him once he said his goodbyes and asked the fans to forgive him for being enticed by Abrahmovic’s mo…er…wanting his children to grow up in an English speaking country.

What was surprising was the club’s reaction or lack of it. Distracted by their involvement in the Serie A scandal and the legal proceedings that followed, they seemed to forget that they had to find a replacement. It was only when the summer transfer window was coming to an end that they found some urgency.

At first they fleetingly focused their attention on Ronaldo, a player that has long been one of Silvio Berlusconi’s favourites. Eventually, after a couple of trips to Madrid, even they realized that the portly Brazilian is way past his best so they turned instead to another Brazilian in the form of Ricardo Oliveira.

If you find yourself thinking that you’ve heard the name but just can’t recall seeing him play, there’s no need to torture yourself. Oliveira is the player who Spanish side Real Betis this summer wanted to recalled from his loan at Sao Paolo just two days before the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final. Oliveira wanted to play in that game, refused to do so and was fined repeatedly.

All that was irrelevant for Milan. They were happy to have bought a striker, probably too much so to determine whether they had got the player they wanted. Carlo Ancelotti tried to build him up, insisting that Oliveira was “going to surprise a lot of people”.

People are still waiting. A goal against Lazio on his debut apart, the only interest he has been attracting has been for a couple of bad misses. He could yet turn out to be Shevchenko’s successor, but it won’t happen overnight.

It wouldn’t be too much of a problem if there was someone else to score the goals. But these have dried up lately. Alberto Gilardino has never replicated the splendid form he showed over two seasons at Parma. The pressure of playing for a club like Milan seems to be getting at him with the once confident striker who could score from anywhere and twice kept Parma up virtually single handedly looking increasingly lost.

This has meant Milan turning once again to ‘Super’ Pippo Inzaghi. Now 32, he retains that frustrating ability to be in just the right spot to scramble the ball home. Yet even he hasn’t been getting much luck which, seeing that this is Inzaghi after all, is quite something.

On Sunday they played Palermo and lost 2-0 at home. The Sicilians are currently second so despite the historic differences - this was only their second victory in Milan – it wasn’t out of form. Milan were, however, the third side after Chievo Verona and West Ham not to score against a defence that has so far shipped 16 goals in the league.

To be fair, Kaka and then Clarence Seedorf both hit the woodwork, but that was virtually it for Milan. Just as Andrii Shevchenko scored his second goal on English soil and his first at Stamford Bridge, Milan were missing him more than ever
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That thing is filled with stupid little errors... And doesn't bring anything new to the table... Just stating some facts... with errors...

watching sheva score his goal this weekened reminded me of why we miss someone like him so much. somehow, he always manages to be at the right place at the right time. it's like the ball is magnatized to his foot.

i think, given time, the guys we have will soon fill that role...i just hope it happens soon.

I never thought I would say this but...I want my Sheva back...

I know the feeling, but Milan is bigger than him .. This is just a phase, in time you will see (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

What R7 said...exactly what he said....I hope! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

i think it will too...but his timing is just amazing

Of course he's right!!

Milan overcame the end of many eras, and for me Van Basten was a much bigger loss for the club, but we overcame it. And we will definately overcome this, it's not going to happen over night but it will happen sooner or later

And as R7 said, Milan is bigger then any player, sure it will effect the club in the SHORT run after we lose someone as influential as he was but noone and is bigger then the club

Oh what happened when Van Basten left Milan? Who were we left with? and how did sheva fit into his place? I did not have a chance to see Van Basten play (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

When Van Basten left (1993) we still had Massaro and Simone. And afterward (1995) we bought Baggio and Weah. Sheva came later in 1999 to pair up with Bierhoff.

Even though everytime he speeks, pure sh!t comes out of his mouth he has got a point though.

If this is really true, then it is sad, funny, but sad

It's Bullsh!t.

he speeks his mind IMO !!