[bigmacmtl]

Livorno president Aldo Spinelli has admitted he will allow star striker Cristiano Lucarelli to leave the club.

However, any interested parties will have to meet Lucarelli's release clause - which stands at €9million (£6.4million).

Lucarelli has clashed with Spinelli over the sacking of coach Daniele Arrigoni and he has stated that he wants to leave.

"My history with Livorno is over. It is clear that Spinelli is trying to force me out of the club, I do not want there to be any doubts," explained Lucarelli.

"The president told me that with my behaviour I am influencing the atmosphere and the team.

"I thought I could only influence the club with my goals, having scored 85 times in this shirt. I wanted to stay here for life, evidently I was wrong,"

Spinelli had reacted by stating the 31-year-old can leave.

"I cannot block him and if he wants to leave this club then he can go," said Spinelli.

"He has a clause and if there is a club willing to pay that price then I will honour our deal and let him leave.

"In January Palermo were interested in Lucarelli, but they didn't want to pay enough. Obviously I would be sorry to see him go as I would like him to stay until 2010.

"I don't know if Cristiano really wants to leave Livorno, even if I understand that at the age of 31 he could have the wish to try a big move."

-Skysports

[Bluesummers]

He's 31 and isn't worth the effort IMO

For inzaghi he is the perfect replacement. His shot and positioning are absolutely perfect. I adore lucarelli and i think he is better than inzaghi(only this season). But right now there are no young strikers in the market who will move so its better to settle for leftovers than nothing at all. With the diver, oli, ronaldo we dont have that much force in the attack. inzaghi looks like he is done, and boreillo should not be mentioned.

[misha]

For inzaghi he is the perfect replacement.  His shot and positioning are absolutely perfect.  I adore lucarelli and i think he is better than inzaghi(only this season).  But right now there are no young strikers in the market who will move so its better to settle for leftovers than nothing at all.  With the diver, oli, ronaldo we dont have that much force in the attack.  inzaghi looks like he is done, and boreillo should not be mentioned.

That's why we need world class forward for next season (R10, Eto'o...) I don't think that Lucarelli will agree to be 3/4 striker after being symbol and idol of Livorno (also politically) .

[bigmacmtl]

That's why we need world class forward for next season (R10, Eto'o...) I don't think that Lucarelli will agree to be 3/4 striker after being symbol and idol of Livorno (also politically) .

well if he's a true competitor he'll make the jump, i mean only he has control over how well he does. if he plays well enough he could be a starter. besides where else will he go? to giuve where he'll be in the same position?

[misha]

well if he's a true competitor he'll make the jump, i mean only he has control over how well he does. if he plays well enough he could be a starter. besides where else will he go? to giuve where he'll be in the same position?

He will be 32 next month and never played in the big team before. It's very hard to make adjustments at that age and I don't think Milan is the club for these experiments

[bigmacmtl]

He will be 32 next month and never played in the big team before. It's very hard to make adjustments at that age and I don't think Milan is the club for these experiments

we'll we seem to like to do it with with unprooven brazilians for nearly 15 million... (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) . lucarelli is a prooven goalscorer in serie a. i dont see him playing lots of CL with us, but he would be a great sub , and start serie a matches right before CL games.

This post has been edited by bigmacmtl: Mar 24 2007, 06:47 PM

[misha]

we'll we seem to like to do it with with unprooven brazilians for nearly 15 million... (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) . lucarelli is a prooven goalscorer in serie a. i dont see him playing lots of CL with us, but he would be a great sub , and start serie a matches right before CL games.

He was top scorer in Spain and 26 years old (not 32) and the time was running out for obvious reasons.

There is a difference scoring for Livorno and scoring for Milan (see Gila who was a prooven goalscorer for Parma too)

[bigmacmtl]

He was top scorer in Spain and 26 years old (not 32) and the time was running out for obvious reasons.

There is a difference scoring for Livorno and scoring for Milan (see Gila who was a prooven goalscorer for Parma too)

1 good season is not prooving ones self. thing is gila was always played a lone striker at, the whole attack revolved around getting gila the ball in the box. i mean i couldnt care less about how old oli was when he was top scorer (it was the same situation with him at betis and santos, he was always deployed as a lone striker) and for all we know oli might turn out to be a very good player 4-5 years down the road but we dont have time for this, we arent going to wait this period of time to get a decent striker. i'm not expecting lucarelli to come in and lead our attack just some some solid play from a prooven serie a scorer. look at his record in the past 4 years: 76 games, 53 goals. the way oliveira has been playing for us is like this attitude that he has nothing to proove. all i know is 9 million isnt a lot for a solid serie a forward, all i know i'd rather have him playing than some 15 million euro mercenary bum that had 1 good season and in another league.