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Toni: I signed for Milan
Friday 4 January, 2008

Azzurri striking star Luca Toni has revealed that he put pen to paper with Milan last summer before joining Bayern Munich.

The towering 31-year-old left Fiorentina for the Bundesliga for around £7m, but he had been contacted by a number of Serie A clubs during his time in Tuscany.

While interest from Inter and Juventus never developed into concrete offers, it now seems that Toni had practically signed for the world champions.

“Everyone knows that I nearly joined Inter two years ago and that Juventus were interested in signing me,” the ex-Brescia man told Il Giornale.

“However, with Milan it went a lot further – I had already signed a contract. I could also have been a Roma player as they nearly signed me when I was playing for Cisco Roma.”

Toni has impressed in the Bundesliga, despite Bayern’s recent woes, but he is still following Serie A with interest.

“Inter are the strongest side and they have a bit more than Roma and Milan,” he stated.

“The Nerazzurri are certainly a better side than the Rossoneri and it isn’t just the derby that shows us that.”

The Modena native’s thoughts then turned to Euro 2008 and Italy’s Group of death with France, Holland and Romania.

“I’m raring to go, but we can feel the responsibility on our shoulders,” he explained.

“It’s not a Group of iron as much as a Group of steel and we can get through. The important thing is to get to the game against France with qualification already assured.”

Toni concluded by giving the peninsula’s giants his tip for the winter transfer window.

“Sign Diego from Werder Bremen,” he commanded. “He is a very, very good player and one of the few fantasistas still around who can decide a game.”


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Why not Silvio?? (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

[han2503]

This is not new han .. Milan showed a lot of interest in him over the summer. But they decided otherwise to give Gila more faith

Gila has nothing to do with this. Even with Gila we were still short on strikers. Calling Seedorf and Kaka strikers should be enough of a sign of how desperate we are in that department (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

We don't need his goals pal, we've already scored... 3 in San Siro all season!

Oh right... I forgot about those, my mistake, I guess we never needed Toni after all (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by han2503: Jan 5 2008, 12:44 PM

[Rossoneri7]

Gila has nothing to do with this. Even with Gila we were still short on strikers. Calling Seedorf and Kaka strikers should be enough of a sign of how desperate we are in that department  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Taking words at face-value "Seedorf and Kaka strikers" as Galliani has stated over and over (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) . He is responsible for this squad and if he said something of the sorts, then he said it for a reason, and not just for 'us' to make a joke out of him (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)


Gila has nothing to do with this ?! Are you sure ? I mean, had Toni actually transfered into Milan, Gilardino would be playing coppa Italia games with the performance that he has been putting in !!
Maybe this is my assessment of him and Carlo sees it differently, but fact remains that had Toni came to Milan, Gilardino would have no room.

[whoarethepatriot...]

Taking words at face-value "Seedorf and Kaka strikers" as Galliani has stated over and over  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) . He is responsible for this squad and if he said something of the sorts, then he said it for a reason, and not just for 'us' to make a joke out of him (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
Gila has nothing to do with this ?! Are you sure ? I mean, had Toni actually transfered into Milan, Gilardino would be playing coppa Italia games with the performance that he has been putting in !!
Maybe this is my assessment of him and Carlo sees it differently, but fact remains that had Toni came to Milan, Gilardino would have no room.

Gila and Toni has a pretty good partnership in the world cup. Shame they didnt play together more