[han2503]

Berlusconi: Pirlo is sellable

Milan patron Silvio Berlusconi has not ruled out selling Andrea Pirlo and insists Ronaldinho will be important next season.

Pirlo, who is currently on international duty with Italy, is being strongly linked with a move to Chelsea.

“We'll see what happens. I was the first to say that Pirlo has to stay, but then they made me look at the accounts,” Berlusconi said.

He then moved to reassure Milan fans, telling them that the club can go forward without Kaka.

The Brazilian was sold to Real Madrid earlier this month for £59m.

“Kaka did not invent the game of football. Alexandre Pato can substitute him even in that role [behind the strikers],” Berlusconi explained.

Later on, he endorsed Ronaldinho, the two-time former World Player of the Year, who joined Milan last summer.

The 29-year-old endured a poor first season in Italy and often appeared as a substitute.

“Ronaldinho will have a great year,” Berlusconi declared.

He then turned his attention to the amount of money Real Madrid are spending in the transfer market.

“There are figures in football that are pure folly, figures that bear no relation to the normal economy.

“They are outside of common sense and decency,” he added.

Finally, Berlusconi expressed his confidence in Milan, who he expects to do well next season.

“This year we have a great team. We could have already won something last year, but it didn't happen because we lost points in the dying minutes and made mistakes because we didn't hold on to the ball,” he concluded.

[A.X]

yea you're right ... but we need young players ... like about 25 years old players ... or we can get from our youth... look at messi in barcelona he is the best in the world ... pato with milan ... i beleive he is better then cristiano ronaldo at least ... jesus navas is good ... On defence we have thiago silva ; senderos ... and if we get cissokho is would be nice .... im not sayin we need 17 years old players ... we need young and talented players ... that's it ... and the last two seasons IMO were bad because of ancellotti ... he played seedorf more then flamini ... and didn't play thiago silva ... and his tactics were too bad ... we could at least have won uefa cup ... whatever ... and btw now nesta needs a lot of time to recover ... !!! hope we will be a competitive team next season ... because we can be it !!!

[Milan Are Brilli...]

yea you're right ... but we need young players ... like about 25 years old players ... or we can get from our youth... look at messi in barcelona he is the best in the world ... pato with milan ... i beleive he is better then cristiano ronaldo at least ... jesus navas is good ... On defence we have thiago silva ; senderos ... and if we get cissokho is would be nice .... im not sayin we need 17 years old players ... we need young and talented players ... that's it ... and the last two seasons IMO were bad because of ancellotti ... he played seedorf more then flamini ... and didn't play thiago silva ... and his tactics were too bad ... we could at least have won uefa cup ... whatever ... and btw now nesta needs a lot of time to recover ... !!! hope we will be a competitive team next season ... because we can be it !!!

If only Pato were better than Ronaldo, although he is a very good player, he's not upto that standard... yet.

I do get what you're saying but I think there are plenty of players in our current squad that are just there to pick up their wages and should be gotten rid of well in advance of Pirlo.

[Zed.D]

If only Pato were better than Ronaldo, although he is a very good player, he's not upto that standard... yet.

I'm confident he'll get there. he's been much better at 19 than Ronaldo was at the same age.

[Milan Are Brilli...]

I'm confident he'll get there. he's been much better at 19 than Ronaldo was at the same age.

I knew you'd be around with the mentioning of the 4 letter name!

It's good to see you've stuck by him, and yep you have proved me wrong when I was rather pessimistic about his potential a few years back!