[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]

I don't think that boriello will be played often alongside pato. we will most likely see the christmas formation more often with pato as a lone striker. and if R10 comes than he'll be the second.

i don't know what galliani really wants to reach with his transfers....

on the one hand he buys new forwards like boriello and perhaps ronaldinho but on the other hand he knows exactly that we have have quite enough strikers like pato, inzaghi, paloschi and so on.

and than he says that we don't have anough money to buy anyone else, and that we should be confident with who we have.
he doesn't care that we could need a gk more than another striker...

I personally don't see how having Pippo, Pato, Boriello and Paloschi as enough, Pippo will most likely be out for 3/4 of the season with another injury, Boriello, let's face it, isn't good enough and has already proved that more then once in the past when he was given the chance at Milan, Paloschi as much potential as he might have he's still a primavera player and shouldn't really be counted as someone that could lead Milan's attack. And lastly we cannot expect Pato to do everything, score, assist and stay fit for an entire season, because lets face it, with the other choices we have for the attack, that is what the poor kid will have to do.

Another striker is simply needed, we can't stay as we are it won't be enough, just like it wasn;t enough last season and the one before that.

mo R10 is the best solution for this, because with him we can play bothe xmas tree with him and Kaka as the trequartisti or the 4-3-1-2 with R10 acting as a suppoting forward, and it will leave us with many option if players need to be rotated because of a tight schedule