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Cafu Set To Renew Milan Contract


Milan veteran Cafu is set to be offered a new one-year contract at the club, with Dario Simic sacrificed in order to make this happen.


Brazilian legend Cafu has been at Milan since signing from Roma in 2003, however this was widely expected to be his final season at the club.

Despite the fact that the wing-back is set to turn 38 in June, reports in Italy suggest that Milan are set to offer him a one-year extension to his expiring contract.

The sacrificial lamb in order to keep Cafu will be Croatian defender Dario Simic. The 33-year-old has featured sparingly this season, and is eager to leave the club anyway in order to obtain first-team football.

Milan’s hugely disappointing season had led many to believe that they would revolutionise their ageing squad in the summer.

With Cafu set to stay on, and Andriy Shevchenko looking likely to re-join the club, it appears as though this may not happen.

Cafu is the most capped Brazilian of all time, having appeared 156 times in the Selecao shirt.


Roberto Rossi - goal.com

[Bluesummers]

what you just said there doesnt make sense but i know what ur trying to say. i find it funny that you think i see this as fifa 08  or something when in one of ur last posts ur making mention of ur signings in the game, and i've seen plenty of posts listing all the players we need and who needs to go out so i dont see how you can accuse me of this.

btw ur statement that he hasnt played in 5 months is completly false.

95% of the players for most teams are not produced by the club but our signings, so yess you do sign players and let them become "good".

the tactical system of team has little or no bearing on how much everyone plays, the fact that oddo plays so much is cuz we dont have anyone decent to come in for him.

if you dont understand by now that for the past 3 years we've been holding on o the same guys to avoid going out and getting others then just give up. if cafu is here to be a mentor for the brazilians it would have to be for a young ones  and pato is the only young brazlian we have, kaka isnt young anymore and cafu is not a striker coach nor is he an expert in the field. to let his contract run out and not renew would be forcing him out of the club.

I think your completely mistaken on what i'm trying to say. So i'll take some time an explain to you what i'm trying to say exactly.

Cafu for us is like ronaldo, sergio, dida, kaka, emerson. Just another brazillian right? It is true he may be 38 and is no way a suitable back up for oddo, a child knows that.
But the reason we are gonna sign a contract extension with him is not necessarily his skills on the field; it's what he does off the field that counts. In brazil many consider him a legend. Its like de rasario for us or razidsinki(sorry for spelling). People look up to him for what he has achieved. He is an icon in brazil and an icon for milan, which is why so many brazillians come to milan in the first place. Do you know why pato chose milan, when chelsea and madrid were going to offer him more money? The atmosphere. His favorite players, ronaldo cafu and co are here. He can easily adapt.

Cafu like many of our other brazilllians, is a freindly guy and is the kind of guy who can persuade someone easily. Its the reason why neves will choose us instead of another club and other brazillians we get in the future. For that sole reason we sign an extension with him.

Now going back to what you said earlier, 95% are signed by club statement. Yes, that is true, however there is some exceptions to this. Our current coach will not put in a 22 year old in the place of oddo simply because of the amount of responsibility oddo has. He has to run up and contribute to the attack with amazing crosses and be fast enough to defend. Thats why cafu was so effective for us is because he could do both perfectly. Now your saying we should sign some young player to take oddo's role? Not gonna happen. It would be a waste of a transfer because at max carlo would give him 20 minutes a game. Thats not enough for someone to grow as you can see in gourcuff for an example. So signing zambrotta, someone who is already adapted to such responsibilites is the better choice than signing lets say some young 22 year old. There are some exceptions like lahm and alves but lets be realistic, were not gonna spend 30+ million euros to sign them. Were not madrid.


The reason we have been using cafu for 3 years is because he was still good. You can't say oh he is over 30 so now he is automatically trash and lets dump him. We aren't madrid (yes i dislike madrid). They have been holding off his replacement because he was still able to keep up with the world's best. hence why we were doing so good in the past.

I was guessing when i said he hasn't played for 5 months because he really doesnt play.

Now lets be realistic here. Galliani will not say oh we have cafu so we don't need another rb/lb. That won't happen. Its not fifa 08.


So if you get my point- cafu here as a player is horrible, as a brazillian icon=win/win.

SO I'LL SUMMERIZE IT FOR YA:

as a player i don't want cafu one bit. If he gets one or two games a season fine, but he should not be oddo's backup. Zambrotta will do that.


As someone who is a part of the club, i have no problem with him. He isn't the kind to complain because he isn't getting playing time. So let him stay, as long as he doesnt affect our transfers, which i doubt he will.

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Mar 20 2008, 06:28 AM