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Mar 12 2008, 04:10 PM
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Primavera
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QUOTE Fernando Torres left Milan, rather than Inter, red faced in the Champions League. Antonio Labbate explains why (IMG: http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/blogs/torres460.jpg) Despite Inter’s Champions League exit, there must surely have been more than an ounce of regret amongst the Milanista faction of Italian society on Tuesday night. Sure, their eternal rivals had been dumped out of Europe yet again, but it was the fact that Fernando Torres played such a key role in Liverpool’s 3-0 aggregate win which should see certain questions being asked of the Diavolo hierarchy. It’s no secret that El Nino was a player who Milan had seriously looked at in the past. The story goes that Rossoneri stalwart Demetrio Albertini first alerted the San Siro giants to Torres in 2002 after his own switch to the youngster’s previous club, Atletico Madrid. The Spaniard was just a kid at the time, 18 to be exact, but Albertini had played alongside enough talent throughout his career to spot a star in the making. The former Italian international, despite being rudely shown the door by a club he adored, suggested that Torres would be an excellent investment for the future. However, Milan failed to make a concrete move. Even during transfer negotiations between the two clubs over other players, Torres never arrived at San Siro. It looks to be a costly mistake. Torres joined Liverpool last summer for £21.5m. Big money? No, a snip really when you consider that Milan handed over £15m plus the £3m-rated Johann Vogel to Real Betis for Ricardo Oliveira in 2006. While the latter is back in Spain with Real Zaragoza, Fernando is delivering goals and performances which turn good players into great ones. In the two clashes against Inter, Torres left his mark. He got Marco Materazzi sent off in the first leg and then struck the killer blow at San Siro in the return. And while Milan’s own Champions League campaign came to a lacklustre ending against Arsenal last week, Torres’ European Cup adventure continues. The Rossoneri have clearly invested wisely in the past by gambling on Kaka and, in all probability, Alexandre Pato, but there must surely be a touch of remorse about the one who got away. To some fans, Torres’ goal against the Nerazzurri will still make him a Rossoneri idol. The problem is that he became one wearing the red of Liverpool rather than their own mythical jersey. I never heard of this before. I mean Albertini advising Milan to get him... it could be possible. There have been rumors that Milan were following him but nothing concrete... if we hesitated then we can only blame ourselves... but I guess we "are fine as we are"... At least he is a Pool fan so I don't feel so bad about it. I'm not going to cry over this we should instead look elsewhere and learn to listen to what Albertini has to say... (IMG: http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) Also, for the record, Albertini was not shown the door, he opened it himself.
This post has been edited by dst: Mar 12 2008, 04:14 PM
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Mar 12 2008, 04:43 PM
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QUOTE (m1ke @ Mar 12 2008, 05:27 PM) It's easy to write something like this now after Torres has made a good start, but I'd don't believe even Liverpool believed he would have had this much of an impact in his first season. If I wrote articles about every decent player who didn't end up at Milan, I'd never have time to finish v2 (IMG: http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) The thing is, Torres is not just a good player that Milan did not sign, he is a player we supposedly have been keeping an eye on for quite some time now. Of course it's always possible that our scouts misjudged his abilties (which can happen, I'm not blaming them) but what makes this story sad is the name that's also mentioned in the article (or should I say blog entry?) above; Ricardo Oliveira. Now I'm never going to believe that our scouting team saw more quality in Oliveira than they did in Torres. I'm 100% sure that we signed Oli because his agent is also Ronaldinho's agent... he is not a bad player I believe we overlooked other players just because of that. And to make a sad story even sadded we have not even signed Ronaldinho yet! At least then I would consider Oli's transfer a successful one even if he did not deliver with the Rossoneri jersey... Anyway like I said, he is now a Pool player and we there's no logic in crying over that...
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Mar 13 2008, 06:24 PM
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QUOTE (redbabies @ Mar 13 2008, 05:32 PM) He's only one of lots of players we missed. We can't get them all... the problem is we're no getting anyone... we only now replaced Shevchenko...
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Mar 13 2008, 06:39 PM
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QUOTE (dst @ Mar 13 2008, 06:24 PM) We can't get them all... the problem is we're no getting anyone... we only now replaced Shevchenko... Thats what I'm saying. When you get a great player than you dont have the chance to miss the next great player because you dont even try to sign him at first. But we've been missing and missing... and finally Pato came, but we still need a striker because our "lovely" Gila has "impressed" everyone (IMG: http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
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