[arivanjj]

Massimo Oddo is set to leave Lazio despite being contracted until 2008, with Milan his preferred destination.

Reports are claiming that the world champion had a heated argument with President Claudio Lotito after the Coppa Italia match lost against Messina on Sunday.

Oddo has made no secret of his desire to leave the capital and has been courted by Milan since last spring, but Lotito insists that no firm offer has been presented by the Rossoneri.

The 29-year-old, on international duty with the Azzurri at Coverciano, is preferring to not pass comment on his situation.

“I am not going to speak about the summer market until August 31,” he stated. “However, you all know that the best signings are finalised at the end…”

The main obstacle to the defender’s transfer now seems to be an economic one for the San Siro side.

Milan, still trying to sort out a fee with Betis over Ricardo Oliveira, will have to meet Lotito’s £6m asking price.

The Rossoneri, however, are allegedly willing to include 23-year-old winger Pasquale Foggia in the swoop.

Coach Delio Rossi is in desperate need of a replacement for the injured Valon Behrami, who will not be available until November, and has already approved the operation.

Biancocelesti chief Lotito could accept a fee of almost £3m for the right-back if Foggia arrived on loan as part of the deal.

Oddo has also been courted by Liverpool, Monaco and Real Mallorca, whose bids were all rejected, and is liked by Milan boss Carlo Ancelotti given his offensive nature.


source: Football Italia

[han2503]

Well Lippi has his doggedness like all of us I think ... Del Piero played most of the matches ... what a joke; I wouldn't have picked him up in the first place!!!

Well DP wasn't that much of a big surprise that he was ther, he was always Lippi's favourite, and I did think he deserved it a bit, he had a good season at Juve, even if he almost never played, and from the friendlies he had played he had proved that he could still be useful to the team. The big joke I think was Iaquinta, how many goals did he score last season? And they where all from penalties. And Lippi always played him OVER PIPPO, that should be reason enough to question his ways

On the Serginho issue; I'm not saying he is not useful to us. All I'm saying is that we can't field both Silvio's boy and Cafu at the same time no more. It has to be one of them and you know Serginho won't be benched (and rightfully between the two - Oh Janku's gonna have another miserable year).

Yeah that is what I was saying a few days ago, those 2 can't play with eachother, I think the best solution would be to play Bonera when playing Serginho and Janku when playing Cafu', we look at the team we are going to play against and see where their week spot is, if it's their left side we use Cafu, if it's their right sied we use Serginho. Simple as that. Like for example in bayern game, it was so obvious how week their right side was, Serginho was tearing threw them and making a lot of dangerous crosses which resulted in 2 goals.

Oh and Oddo ... I meant he's young for Milan  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)   (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

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Real are going nowhere ... don't worry (or hope?) about them!!! Not with Capello they don't!!!

So good tohear that someone else agrees with me that Cappello isn't useful anymore, too predictable, too defensive, the serie A teams even the minnows managed to figure him out after 2 games, I'm expecting the same thing to happen in Spain