I think your completely mistaken on what i'm trying to say. So i'll take some time an explain to you what i'm trying to say exactly.

Cafu for us is like ronaldo, sergio, dida, kaka, emerson. Just another brazillian right? It is true he may be 38 and is no way a suitable back up for oddo, a child knows that.
But the reason we are gonna sign a contract extension with him is not necessarily his skills on the field; it's what he does off the field that counts. In brazil many consider him a legend. Its like de rasario for us or razidsinki(sorry for spelling). People look up to him for what he has achieved. He is an icon in brazil and an icon for milan, which is why so many brazillians come to milan in the first place. Do you know why pato chose milan, when chelsea and madrid were going to offer him more money? The atmosphere. His favorite players, ronaldo cafu and co are here. He can easily adapt.

Cafu like many of our other brazilllians, is a freindly guy and is the kind of guy who can persuade someone easily. Its the reason why neves will choose us instead of another club and other brazillians we get in the future. For that sole reason we sign an extension with him.

Now going back to what you said earlier, 95% are signed by club statement. Yes, that is true, however there is some exceptions to this. Our current coach will not put in a 22 year old in the place of oddo simply because of the amount of responsibility oddo has. He has to run up and contribute to the attack with amazing crosses and be fast enough to defend. Thats why cafu was so effective for us is because he could do both perfectly. Now your saying we should sign some young player to take oddo's role? Not gonna happen. It would be a waste of a transfer because at max carlo would give him 20 minutes a game. Thats not enough for someone to grow as you can see in gourcuff for an example. So signing zambrotta, someone who is already adapted to such responsibilites is the better choice than signing lets say some young 22 year old. There are some exceptions like lahm and alves but lets be realistic, were not gonna spend 30+ million euros to sign them. Were not madrid.


The reason we have been using cafu for 3 years is because he was still good. You can't say oh he is over 30 so now he is automatically trash and lets dump him. We aren't madrid (yes i dislike madrid). They have been holding off his replacement because he was still able to keep up with the world's best. hence why we were doing so good in the past.

I was guessing when i said he hasn't played for 5 months because he really doesnt play.

Now lets be realistic here. Galliani will not say oh we have cafu so we don't need another rb/lb. That won't happen. Its not fifa 08.


So if you get my point- cafu here as a player is horrible, as a brazillian icon=win/win.

SO I'LL SUMMERIZE IT FOR YA:

as a player i don't want cafu one bit. If he gets one or two games a season fine, but he should not be oddo's backup. Zambrotta will do that.


As someone who is a part of the club, i have no problem with him. He isn't the kind to complain because he isn't getting playing time. So let him stay, as long as he doesnt affect our transfers, which i doubt he will.

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Mar 20 2008, 06:28 AM

dont worry i know the importance of cafu

that said...

cafu isnt an icon of milan, he came at a kater stage of his career and gave his best for roma.



it's not like cafu is going to go to fellow brazilians and convince them all. besides having kaka and pato the future of brazils attack is enough to entice them to come.


i never said he would have th be young, i said he could be established and if he was young i wouldnt expect him to start. the point is cafu is taking up a valuable spot for a prospect.


of course he plays, hes oddo's sub. now it's true he does get much play but it's not oddo plays every minute of every game. and we can all see the arvse effects of always playing the same players as our team is burnt.

and yes i can easily say galliani saying that and then following thru, because thats been the trend recently.

I'd love if we offer another 5-year contract to Cafu, Maldini, Serginho, Ba and Favalli.

Exactly what he need. That'd exclude Milan from top-spots.

This is a bit silly really. And I don't believe much of the off-field stuff Cafu brings.

People are going to join Milan to play for Milan, they are not going to join Milan jsut because Cafu is there.

right so cafu does nothing as an icon for milan (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

This post has been edited by Bluesummers: Mar 20 2008, 06:21 PM

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I really don't think Cafu's contribution off the pitch is at any doubt. FFS he was the Captain of the Brazillian team. One of the best players of his generation, yeesh... I mean when he talks I'm sure any Brazillian player listens.

Maybe Cafu doesn't want to put his boots up, maybe he just has fun training with the rest of the gang. F@ck...I don't care what his reasons are.

And since we're most certainly going to have Zambrotta, Cafu isn't being used as an excuse to not buy players either. If you ask me, he's the best 3rd choice RB in the world. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I agree with you there.

I believe the likes of Cafu help once a player from Brazil has joined our club, but does he have any effect in actually attracting players to the club? Not at all, in my opinion.

If Beckham, Lineaker, Shearer, etc. were at a club, would it make me want to go there more than any other club? No. So if guys like these don't influence me, do you think Cafu really influences somebody who is already a professional? Nah.

I can understand the point of keeping Cafu to help with the Brazilian contingent and I am totally fine with that, as long as Galliani doesn't start with the usual "we have a winner at RB with Cafu and we don't need anyone else".

Edit: And for the record I don't even think Cafu is capable of playing 90 mins now, so IMO he can't be relied upon to play anyway.

This post has been edited by I_Rossoneri: Mar 21 2008, 06:52 PM

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pffffffff cafu this year turns 38 , i dont like this