[Shidan]

Just a few thoughts for you guys...
well, i agree with some of you, the team is good still, we have a few new players and we can probably try to acheive something this year...
now, my problem is this. i dont believe in milan anymore, the promises they've made are not coming true.
ancellotti said sheva would be replaced by another champion, braida promised a big surprise. nothing at all. i've gotten to the point of accepting sobis, ronaldo and oliveira and actually would have been happy.
Now, nothing is happening in the transfer market and i wonder why.
I watched a video the other day of oloverira walking into the airport with braida and galliani. braida looked so nervous and annoyed, and also galliani.
It struck me, and i came with a realisation. We have a horrible image. With everyone. No body really wants to make deals with us, not even freaking betis.
we need to change galliani first of all, he lost it, its been a few years he's lost it. Since the summer where we got nesta i cant recall a good investment on his part. Kaka was braida's and leonardo's move. Galliani did the gilardino thing, but he payed too much. I think there is need to change galliani. Berlusconi is too good to him, football has changed, we need smart people that now how to make business quickly.
we wont be getting no good players guys, not now not next year...

[han2503]

ancellotti said sheva would be replaced by another champion, braida promised a big surprise. nothing at all. i've gotten to the point of accepting sobis, ronaldo and oliveira and actually would have been happy.

You are totally right, especially here, I think when we finally heard about Oliveira everyone was extatic, and over what? An unproven player who had just recovered from a serious injury, but more importantly we were all relieved to finally have some assurance that we don't only have Gila and Pippo as our strikers. I think this just shows how desperate we have become to at least have a life line to hang on to for next season that we won't be starting with just 2 strikers who can't even play together in the same formation.

Interesting, and I too share your concerns as to the farce that has been this summers transfer market. Witht he relation and exodus from Juventusm, we should have been making hay, instead, we have lost ground to our biggest rivals continenatally, Barca and Madrid, and at home, Inter looks like they will be more than competetion for us this year for best team in Italy.

Transfers have been lacking, and I totally agree that when we're promised a 'surprise' and an equal to Sheva, we expect one. Wr should be going for the future superstars like Tevez where they can make their name here at Milan. Instead, all we've had is some chat about 2 unknown Brazilians. In my view, i we're going to get a new striker in, lets do it properly, not some cut-price mid-table Spanish side outsider. I agree with the image thing too, I think Milan has been tainted more than we might acknowledge by the CalciopoliMoggi Gate rubbish, and the fact that we SEEM to have escaped, more or less unharmed, has further made us seem llike we used our size and influence to avoid the justice we deserved. Hence I think your right, people arnt too keen to come here at the moment. And our transfer board, I don't know why Ancelotti seems to have so little to do with transfers, but he should be given a chance to soend the cash since my fiath in Galliani is dwindling fast too. I still think he is an outstanding footballing statesman, if you know what I mean, though perhaps that is a reputation built on his skilled oratory, rather than his actions.

Dark days I fear.

What you said here is a perfect analysis of what we're going through right now.

Just want to answer what you said about Carlo and why they don't let him get involved in the transfers. If we were an English side then yes the transfers would be up to him, all the board would have to do is askhim who HE wants and they try anything in their power to get him, that's why in England coaches are called managers, because they actually MANAGE the team. In Italy however Carlo is just the coach, he might tell them we need a new right back, but the board are the ones who try to find that RB and bring him, Carlo is not the one that chooses who to bring.