[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

[han2503]

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.

He didn't desrve a contract then either, and especially for the ridiculous wage. And saying that is Milan won't make the situation better. Because Milan might keep guys around just for sentimental reasons only but if that were the case then he wouldn't be getting the ammount he's getting.

Fact is Galliani ******(sry Tennie remove this later for me pls (IMG:style_emoticons/default/friends.gif) ) up big time on the Dida sitaution. He only gave Dida a new one because it would save him having to go out on the market for a top class keeper while blidly hoping that Dida would regain some of his old form back. But it back fired big time on him. And not only does it give him further reasons no to buy a new keeper but it also requires Milan to keep throwing away money on a player who is probably only going to play a handful of games next season if that.

This whole thing with keeping players for sentimental reasons and not for the good of the team is ultimately coming back to bite Milan in the ***, and Galliani will never admit it but we all can see what's happening and what has been happening because of this very reason for the last 3 years.

Naughty words removed, per han's request.

This post has been edited by Tennie: Aug 1 2008, 12:09 AM