[KillerMax]

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and love the Transfer Campaign

“We do not have a transfer kitty stashed away here. Despite failing to qualify for the Champions League, the club is strengthening the squad and increasing the wages. This means we’ll be £35m in the red without Berlusconi’s help.

“The fans should be happy, as all we’d need to do in order to wipe out or debts is sell Kaka and Andrea Pirlo. Instead they won’t move, so if that’s not a show of love for this side, I don’t know what is.

“It is incredible that the supporters are not celebrating the arrival of Marco Borriello, who scored 19 goals last season, the fact Alexandre Pato can finally play a full campaign, Mathieu Flamini from Arsenal and World Cup winner Gianluca Zambrotta.

“As a fan, I too hope something else will happen, but Milan have already reinforced their squad.”


The above quote is what Galliani said in response to the petition asking Berlusconi to sell the club. He can't make it any clearer than this.

The club does NOT want to be in debt. They don't want to find themselves in the same ****hole as most of the other big clubs. And they gotta do what they gotta do. We're a big club with limited transfer funds.

For this, I'm grateful for the transfers we already made. And I think Milan will keep fighting until they get their finances straight again. Can we win the Scudetto with this squad? Most likely not. But things will get better.

Now do I believe Galliani should be sacked? Probably yes. We need someone like Leonardo IN CHARGE of our transfers, not just as a scout. Galliani dropped the ball one too many times... And he has a thing for injury-prone oldies while Leonardo is into youth.

But should Berlusconi sell the club? That depends on him, and he seems to want to hold on and he might just have a reason. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[han2503]

well it's supposed to be a 90% done deal which basically means nothing!

the other thing that worries me is these statements about Kaka the debt and now Pirlo's wages..something tells me 1 of them is going to leave! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

I can't see either of them actually leaving.

What Galliani is saying is that because of player wages, we go in the red, so in return Silvio balances it out from his own pocket. But because of that no tranfers are made.

He only keeps mentioning that their have been offers made for Kaka and Pirlo so as to say to the fans to either stop complaining or we sell those players and get new ones in return because we can't afford to do both things (pay current wages and get the new players) so basically he's saying it's an either or situation

What really p!sses me off about this is the fact that we have Emerson, Brocchi, Dida, etc (but mostly those 3) getting high waged and not even playing more then 10 games per season

[Fillipo Simone]

I can't see either of them actually leaving.

What Galliani is saying is that because of player wages, we go in the red, so in return Silvio balances it out from his own pocket. But because of that no tranfers are made.

He only keeps mentioning that their have been offers made for Kaka and Pirlo so as to say to the fans to either stop complaining or we sell those players and get new ones in return because we can't afford to do both things (pay current wages and get the new players) so basically he's saying it's an either or situation

What really p!sses me off about this is the fact that we have Emerson, Brocchi, Dida, etc (but mostly those 3) getting high waged and not even playing more then 10 games per season

I'm sure Dida and Emerson deserve another chance at least (I'd say the opposit if only we'd sign a decent keeper and a fresh midfielder). Brocchi...why isn't he linked with some of the mid-table clubs jet? I hope he'll leave.

It'd be really ridiculous if Borriello turned out to be another overhyped flop [which I think he WILL]. though even if he does, Galliani will have his excuses... we're used to this ****.

Overhype zd?? I really didn't mention anyone even hyping Borriello. The only good words I hear about him is from the mouth of Galliani and Co. But what should they do after re-signing him, honestly? You don't expect them to say, and yes we've signed a crappy Milan-made Borriello who unintentionally scored 19 goals last season?

Sure our management is praising him. But that isn't hype, just the usuall confidence pep talk.

This post has been edited by Fillipo Simone: Jul 7 2008, 05:28 PM