[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 hope we won't play the xmas tree to be honest, but from Carlo's comments i think this will be his proffered formation for this season. i just hope we have the ability to be able to break the teams down that defend deep and with 1 striker this is more difficult....maybe a crazy idea but perhaps we should try and play with wingers...but it's t late in the transfer market to bring in players to change the shape of the team

We all know this is Carlo's favourite formation and it will be the one the will be mostly used.

That's why I'm more in favour of Ronaldinho rather then an out and out striker. With R10, the formation would be more flexible, where as with a striker it would be the same thing we've done the last 2 seasons, which is basically constantly running into a brick wall

---------defence-----------
-Seedorf--Pirlo---DMF----
---------R10--Kaka--------
------------Pato------------

with a pure striker it would look like this

---------defence-----------
-----DMF--Pirlo---DMF----
-----Seedorf--Kaka-------
--------------ST------------

With the second formation we would see the same old tactic of trying to go through the middle over and over again and not succeeding and in the end revert to long balls and hoping that someone (Kaka/Pato/Pirlo) will pull a miracle out of their @ss

With the first one we would have Seedorf instead of the DMF which would already be a big plus and Kaka and R10 floating around behind the striker. And I'm guessing that Pato could really come into his own with those 2 behind him

i know that it wouldn't be bad to sign a striker, but it's not our only problem that we don't get through the other team's defence, if we don't have a strong defence.

i know we had a lot of problems with goalscoring the last season.

the only transfer rumours in last time were about adebayor, drogba and ronalidinho.
i think we should not only try to buy new strikers, but also do something for our defensive, like looking for another gk and one more defender.

I think we all here know that Milan is in desperite need of atleast 1 WC CB and a good if not great keeper, but it has been made very clear that those purchases will not be made so I think everyone has given up on the idea, even though we all know we're in desperate need of both players.

A striker is a problem that Galliani has adressed, so we're all basically taking what we can get atm