[misha]

According to reports in Italy, Milan are absolutely desperate to sell Nelson Dida, but are finding it an impossible task due to the goalkeeper’s astronomical wages.

Dida’s 2007/08 season with the Rossoneri was nothing short of disastrous, and there have been constant reports in the press that he will be sold this summer.

The first half of the Brazilian’s campaign was ridden with errors, including a costly one in the Milan derby before Christmas. The 34-year-old eventually lost his place to Zeljko Kalac in January, and did not feature again for the remainder of the campaign.

This coming campaign, Dida looks likely to be third choice goalkeeper behind Kalac and the returning Christian Abbiati.

With this in mind, it is being reported in Italy that Milan have no space for the 34-year-old and are absolutely desperate to offload him from their wage bill.

Unfortunately, the club are finding it impossible to find a buyer because Dida currently earns an astronomical €4.5m a season, with his contract at San Siro running until 2010.

If the Rossoneri were to release Dida on a free transfer it could cost them a small fortune in compensation. Thus Milan find themselves in a sticky situation over what exactly to do with the former Cruzeiro man.

Roberto Rossi

[whoarethepatriot...]

Handing Dida that massive contract was a mistake, i am certain Dida would have left us (when his contract was running out) if a club of similar stature offered him a contract. Instead we stupidly gave him an equally stupid contract to concede goals, look like a fool and humiliate us infront of Italy and Europe. He does all this and earns a fortune, for what? warm the bench? get injured on the bench (which is so ludicrous that only Dida could accomplish this)

To me we lost Dida when he got hit by that flare, the two seasons prior to that i considedered him one of the top three goalkeepers in the world. Only Buffon was superior to him. There must be a way to force that fool out of the club. I find it unacceptable that Gila left but Dida stayed

I take no pride in attacking an AC Milan player like this but he should have been sold at the end of the 2005/2006 season or the begining of the 2006/2007 season.

4.5m a year, this can't be true, surely.

I am not sure how many euros it is, but he earns more than 3 million pounds a year (damn the lack of pound sign on an American keyboard!)

This post has been edited by whoarethepatriots: Jul 31 2008, 11:25 PM

[Rossoneri7]

Handing Dida that massive contract was a mistake, i am certain Dida would have left us (when his contract was running out) if a club of similar stature offered him a contract. Instead we stupidly gave him an equally stupid contract to concede goals, look like a fool and humiliate us infront of Italy and Europe. He does all this and earns a fortune, for what? warm the bench? get injured on the bench (which is so ludicrous that only Dida could accomplish this)

Although I agree with you guys that 4MM/season is a whole lot of money. But please remember that he signed that contract right before the United match back in 2007. That was when Galliani was parading it around in the media.

Fact still remains that this is Milan, and this is not new, Milan has always kept it's Champions .. And although Dida has not step up in a looong time, he remains the Dida that outdid Buffon on that night in Manchester, when he lifted our heads high! He gave Milan 3 years of his best and in those 3 years Milan won a CL and Serie A title, not forgetting that horrendous night in Istanbul.


Does he deserve this contract NOW, no. Did he deserve this contract for what he has done for this club, yes.




On Topic: @ MizNelson, I think he will make a comeback this season. I am looking forward to the match tomorrow against Sevilla. Many who saw the Goal4Africa match gave two thumbs up to Dida ... So I doubt he will be leaving, on the contrary I think he will make a strong comeback.