[I_Rossoneri]

http://www.firmiamo.it/berlusconivendiilmilan

Now I can't read Italian so if any Italian speakers out there care to translate please feel free. The only bit I understand is the vendi il Milan bit.

Seems the natives are getting restless.

[han2503]

Italy wasn't in debt in 2007 ... Italy has been struggling since the turn of the millennium. If you read into it, you will see what I mean.

Even with that said, I believe Milan will bring in players this transfer window .. But just as discretely as possible.

The past two years .. Well, lets just turn back the hand of time .. 1- calciopoli (and this was very serious at the time, that Milan didn't get news of it's entrance into the CL until it was almost August 1st) .. 2- Milan won the CL and no team that wins a CL breaks up ... Look in history, look at every CL winning team (except for the small ones like Porto).

Still, so far Milan is on the right track and has brought in 3 players ... And the window is still open, there could be two or three more coming in.

There is a reason behind letting Stam and Rui go, an ethical one and a one of moral gratitude to their service. Milan doesn't need the money, Fininvest is one of the richest holding companies in Europe.

What Galliani says in the media is exactly the politics that Silvio Berlusconi wants shown by Milan. Silvio wants Galliani to say such things, and say them loud and clear (not to Milan fans, but ..) so the whole of Italy will see that one of the richest men in the world, and their PM, is also affected by the crisis.

Now what Galliani can do in this market ? I believe he can do a lot as the ball is in his court, there will be more players coming in and this month will be the month where it all happens.

Exactly, you're saying it yourself that Italy has been in dept for a long time and in his previous tenure as prime minister Silvio didn't mid all that much spending the ammounts he did on players like Rui, Pippo, nesta and so on. So I don't get how you are basing your argument around the fact that Italy is in dept and Silvio is the prime minister, since this is not a new thing and in the past with the same surcumstance (dept, prime minister) Milan spent huge ammounts of money

Well, hopefully you're right, because I believe that Milan still need more then R10 or a striker, we need a keeper and I'm not even saying a Buffon or Casillas, just a keeper that I and other fans can trust to play, and not waite for his next screw up. And another center back would be ideal, but personally I can;t see it happening, we're already struggling to get a striker so I can't see how we can manage 2 other players

No one expected Milan to break up after the CL win, but people did expect Milan to re-enforce what was a squad that was in dire deen for some new fresh signings. We might have been successful in the CL but our league form was terrible and it pointed to another struggling season ahead of it if we didn't bring in anyone new, and that's what happened. After the CL win in 2003 we made some great signings but still managed to keep the backbone of the team intact, we should have done the same on 07 but we didn't, and now we're in the UEFA cup

I agree about letting Stam and Rui go and I fully respect how Milan handled it. It showed how classy we can be. What I didn't like is the fact that they weren't replaced by adequate players.

Again, I'm praying you are right about the 3 signings thing, but again, I can't see it happening.