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Berlusconi Rejected Chance To Sign Buffon

Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon had a pre-contract deal to sign for Milan this summer but Rossoneri President Silvio Berlusconi pulled the plug on the deal.

According to the Gazzetta dello Sport, Buffon had agreed a four-year contract, worth €6m a season, but Berlusconi stopped the transfer from going through because it would have cost him €25m.

Instead the former Prime Minister of Italy wanted to spend this money on renewing the contract of Brazilian keeper Dida, and bringing in youngster Alexandre Pato and midfielder Emerson.

Milan fans will surely be dismayed by the news that Buffon could have signed for the club. So far this season Dida has made a number of high-profile mistakes, particularly during the week three draw against Siena, while 31-year-old Emerson looks a shadow of the once great player he was.

The Milan hierarchy have been criticised enormously for their transfer policy over the summer, with the failure to bring in a top-class striker and a decent back-up goalkeeper the main points of condemnation.

These latest reports that Berlusconi turned down the chance to sign the undisputed number-one goalkeeper in the world, will certainly not go down well with the supporters.

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[Bluesummers]

And how many of those 4 have we won? A team with our quality you'd expect to be able to keep 2 clean sheets, especially when you take into account who we were playing. Bu we won NONE of those games.  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Our quality lol?? Don't make me laugh. Our gk is past his prime and can't hold onto a ball if his life depended on him. He fears corner kicks like cristiano fears gattuso. Lets try and forget he did the diving incident. Our defence Oddo average at best, janku(NOT A DEFENDER), Bonera (um...why did we buy him over barzagli?), Nesta (past prime no longer world's best). Midfield Ambro (sorry i love the guy, but we just dont need him in our current state. I say sacrifice for attacking player.) Pirlo (quality). Gattuso (quality) Seedorf (average quality). kaka (only one who does anything). Inzaghi (past his prime, we can't keep depending on someone who is 35 to win us matches). Gilardino (I'm not even gonna comment).

So we have truly 3 quality players. Kaka pirlo gattuso. Everyone else is average right now. So porty im waiting for your rant about what happened to the rest of the 80 million.

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Oct 5 2007, 02:41 AM