[Danny]

Every club has this, but as we know, Milan are not every club.

Basically the most illustrious teams in any club's history are usually what fans would describe as a class befitting the club's name. The standard they expect.

For Barca they will always expect Messi/Iniesta/Xavi/Ronaldinho/Eto'o type quality. Won't settle for less now. Man Utd expect Giggs, Van Persie, Ferdinand etc.

For us it's clearly the quality of Maldini, Baresi, Boban, Pirlo, old Kaka, Gullit, MVB etc etc.

Question is will we ever see 'Milan class' again?

Right now we have debatably one player who comes close to being uttered in that kind of breath, Balotelli. And truth is he isn't the finished article, his attitude is often disgraceful and that's now 5 matches we've lost him for through poor conduct.

We have very good players like De Jong (imo arguably one of the top 5 DM's around), Monto (out of form at the moment admittedly) and Kaka (nowhere near convincing anyone he's back to the old Kaka) but other than Balo we basically have no 'Milan class' players at all.

Right now this Milan is a new breed, a team we're not familiar with. We're having to be content with Abate, Mexes, Zapata and DS when it used to be Cafu, Maldini, Nesta and Jankulovski.

Times have changed and it may be decades before the true Milan class returns.

[acid911]

Hot diggedy, I missed threads like these. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif) There was a time when the forum was filled with such threads, and members discussing things. We even had individual threads to discuss news circa 2007 and 2008. Keep creating them, Danny, feels like a forum. There hasn't been much to go around, save for disappointing performances.

As for Milan class, I blame Galliani for the bulk of our problems. He and Berlusconi are two senile old fools, old models that they have stopped making parts for. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) Legal streaming, you say? I bet they'd never even have heard of such a thing.

How about having a dedicated website and a local warehouse for the major markets in the world. People can order official stuff from there, and it gets shipped once a month. It will require what, a bit of local franchising, a small team of official reseller in each country where Milan wants to stake a name and gather some foothold.

Heck, they haven't even focused correctly on two of the most important markets where the club is already insanely popular - the Middle East and Far East (Japan, China and countries). Heck, even getting a foothold in these markets could help generate a few extra millions every year that could be put to good use.

I still stand by my hunch that AC Milan a front for their shady activities and under the table deals. They just want the club to remains on the fringes, self sustainable, not really going down below the fifth place, and keep things as they are. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif) If they wanted change for the better there were several players we could have signed.

I can count the affordable quality options we missed out in the past 3 years on my hands and I'd run out of fingers. And that's without even bringing into play the absolute duffers we signed instead of them. Heck, we can't even rectify the goalkeeper situation when it costs us around 10 points every season.