[redbabies]

Milan President Silvio Berlusconi is ready to splash out a monumental £70m on new signings for the club.

The Corriere dello Sport claims that the former Italian Prime Minister has finally accepted that the Rossoneri need to invest in some new blood if they are to continue to compete at the top level.

Berlusconi will make £25m available in January, and the remaining £45m will be spent in the summer.

Top of the shopping list according to the Italian newspaper are Azzurri stars Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluca Zambrotta, Palermo striker Amauri, Valencia midfielder David Albelda and Lyon’s Kim Kallstrom.

Milan have made the worst start to a domestic season since Berlusconi took over the club 21 years and currently sit in 13th place in the table.

A major factor in the European Champions’ poor form has been their transfer campaign in the summer just past.

Only the 31-year-old Emerson and the 34-year-old Ibrahim Ba, two players way past their best, were brought to the club.

Teenage wonderkid Alexandre Pato was also signed from Internacional, although he is ineligible to play until January.


-----------
goal
----------

[Jack Sparrow]

Ronaldinho Is Going Nowhere, Claims Vice President

FC Barcelona have stated that they will not be selling Ronaldinho in the winter transfer market or next summer as rumours persist about his future at the club.


Constant speculation surrounding interest from AC Milan and Chelsea have compounded the Brazilian superstar's inconsistent start to the new season.

One report in the British press on Wednesday stated that the Blaugrana had secretly decided to off-load him and quoted an alleged 'source' from the club confirming the news.

That has come as a big surprise to Barça vice-president, Ferran Soriano, who told La Vanguardia that exactly the opposite is true and that the player would be staying put.

"Ronaldinho is not for sale, neither in December, nor June," he stated.

"It's inevitable that he has some problems with his game, but we've never thought of selling him."

Talk of bids from €60m upwards have been mentioned, but the Catalan giants are adamant that they will not be selling their most iconic player.

After a few whistles were heard in Camp Nou at the weekend aimed at Ronaldinho, his team-mates have rallied round this week and shown their support.

Ronaldinho has already said himself in recent weeks that he does not want to leave Barça and that appeared to draw a line under his future at the time.

But constant press speculation has not stopped, with AC Milan at the forefront of the stories that he will be moving at the end of the current season.

So when's dst taking us out to drinks?? (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

This post has been edited by Jack Sparrow: Oct 31 2007, 07:28 PM