[Rossoneri7]

Tomorrow is a unique day for all Milan fans, where the celebration will be at the San Siro which will display the 18 trophies that place Milan as the number one ranked club in the world.

Gazzetta dello Sport took this important date and had an exclusive interview with President Silvio Berlusconi, who talked first about Pato, saying: "With him I remember Gullit and Van Basten, I know that there is still a long way to go and that tomorrow is his first match and he must remain calm when taking the pitch. But he will be available for this team for the next ten years, as we don't have any reason to sell our players, and as everyone now knows Shevchenko was a special case".


Q. Will you not sell Ronaldo ?

"Why? I have a lot of confidence in that he will come back to being 100% fit, and for that I think Ronaldo will remain with us for a long time to come. Because with him, we have a very strong attack as we have three big attackers, and as Galliani says 'if we play in front of Napoli with all three of Kaka', Gilardino and Pato we will have the youngest attack force in Serie A'".


Q. Are you still interested in bringing Ronaldinho to Milan ?

"When we think of Ronaldinho or other strikers, we ask ourselves the question of who is best suited for the team, and not who he may be. And the answer now is rather difficult, as we are content with Pato".


Q. This means that you will concentrate on Zambrotta ?

"Zambrotta will be a helping hand for us in the future, as he is able to integrate in several positions. At the same time, we want to concentrate on our young players, where we depend on Gourcuff, Kaka' and Pato. And without forgetting the youth players who have shown a lot of promise: Marzoratti, Matri, Borriello, and Pozzi".


Q. The speculation surrounding Dida ?

Let's not forget that we won the Champions League in 2003 because of him, and even in Athena he produced a performance that is of the grade of a Milan player. Still, unfortunately he is suffering from an injury in his shoulders, and if it was another player instead of Dida, he would have stopped playing. Still, in spite of this Dida continues to play, through the pain. And Dida has our complete faith and trust.


Q. What is more difficult from your point of view, the fourth place finish or the Champions League triumph ?

"In football everything is difficult, because it depends on 50% skill and 50% luck, like Galliani had said, we have reached 2nd place 16 times. We are Milan, and we want to continue winning and we will fight to reach fourth place and Moscow".


Gazzetta Dello Sport

[misha]

"When we think of Ronaldinho or other strikers, we ask ourselves the question of who is best suited for the team, and not who he may be. And the answer now is rather difficult, as we are content with Pato".

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[Zed.D]

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[milanista1899]

Q. The speculation surrounding Dida ?

Let's not forget that we won the Champions League in 2003 because of him, and even in Athena he produced a performance that is of the grade of a Milan player. Still, unfortunately he is suffering from an injury in his shoulders, and if it was another player instead of Dida, he would have stopped playing. Still, in spite of this Dida continues to play, through the pain. And Dida has our complete faith and trust.

This is true and I think this should be taken into account before we bash him, it could even be a reason as to why he's made a few mistakes. Leeds will always be an indelible black mark but I think he deserves our support.

[I_Rossoneri]

This is true and I think this should be taken into account before we bash him, it could even be a reason as to why he's made a few mistakes. Leeds will always be an indelible black mark but I think he deserves our support.

Could also be Don Silvio's way of covering up for Dida's mistakes (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[kurtsimonw]

1 or 2 mistakes a season? Fine. But this is happening way too often. Top clubs need solid keepers who just do their job. Not ones that can pull of the odd fantastic saves but let in stupid goals. Otherwise Ricardo would be playing for a top club. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Good news about R10 and Zambrotta as well. One doesn't look like he'll be coming, the other does. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

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[Tennie]

Good news about R10 and Zambrotta as well. One doesn't look like he'll be coming, the other does.  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

(IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) Kurt and I agree. Given recent...discussions...this is perhaps somewhat surprising.

I also found it interesting that Don Silvio made a point of mentioning the former Primavera players playing in Serie A. Perhaps after Maldini's earlier comments, more attention will be paid to the Primavera. (Today's Primavera game was postponed, by the way, due to a waterlogged pitch).

[han2503]

1 or 2 mistakes a season? Fine. But this is happening way too often. Top clubs need solid keepers who just do their job. Not ones that can pull of the odd fantastic saves but let in stupid goals. Otherwise Ricardo would be playing for a top club.  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Exactly

[bigmacmtl]

Let's not forget that we won the Champions League in 2003 because of him

it really annoys me when people speak of the 03 final and say dida won it. dida did score all our goals on route to the final or something, like the one in injury time vs. ajax? did he have any amazing outstanding games in goal? not really. i mean i give him credit for the penalties he saved but come on the juve players choked (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) poorly taken penalties like the one that struck his leg ( i belive 2 were saved that way) i mean i dont deny dida was once world class, one of the best keepers in the world.

and even in Athena he produced a performance that is of the grade of a Milan player.

again dida performances are over hyped. he did well in the final but in all honesty no good keeper in the world should allow any of those shots. if he allowed that gerrard shot we'd be talking about dida as the goat, and another final were allowed weak goals that eventually made use lose.

Still, unfortunately he is suffering from an injury in his shoulders,

then why the **** is he playing? an injured dida starting games/ now thats a scary tought (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) why cant we go out and get replacement, since he's injured?

and if it was another player instead of Dida, he would have stopped playing. Still, in spite of this Dida continues to play, through the pain. And Dida has our complete faith and trust.

i'll give credit to dida in did in that dept. but sadly the world of sports isnt always fare, we arent going to throw a whole season away because the management have a soft spot for dida.

This post has been edited by bigmacmtl: Jan 13 2008, 09:17 AM

[Zed.D]

Q. The speculation surrounding Dida ?
Let's not forget that we won the Champions League in 2003 because of him, and even in Athena he produced a performance that is of the grade of a Milan player.

And let's not forget we lost the Istanbul final because of his slumber on Gerrard's header that led to a bloody 6 minutes... [Buffon would probably save that header!]

I would trade that rather boring Manchester final, and maybe even Athens final, with an Istanbul win anytime. because in that game we produced one of the best games in the history of football, while in Athens and Manchester we did not. that's my opinion at least...

[han2503]

And let's not forget we lost the Istanbul final because of his slumber on Gerrard's header that led to a bloody 6 minutes... [Buffon would probably save that header!]

I would trade that rather boring Manchester final, and maybe even Athens final, with an Istanbul win anytime. because in that game we produced one of the best games in the history of football, while in Athens and Manchester we did not. that's my opinion at least...

Don't forget letting Smicer's shot go through him when it was easy to save (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[Zed.D]

Don't forget letting Smicer's  shot go through him when it was easy to save  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

Could he? I've always thought that was a great shot... (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

[milanista1899]

it really annoys me when people speak of the 03 final and say dida won it. dida did score all our goals on route to the final or something, like the one in injury time vs. ajax? did he have any amazing outstanding games in goal? not really. i mean i give him credit for the penalties he saved but come on the juve players choked (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) poorly taken penalties like the one that struck his leg ( i belive 2 were saved that way) i mean i dont deny dida was once world class, one of the best keepers in the world.
again dida performances are over hyped. he did well in the final but in all honesty no good keeper in the world should allow any of those shots. if he allowed that gerrard shot we'd be talking about dida as the goat, and another final were allowed weak goals that eventually made use lose.
then why the **** is he playing? an injured dida starting games/ now thats a scary tought (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)   why cant we go out and get replacement, since he's injured?
i'll give credit to dida in did in that dept. but sadly the world of sports isnt always fare, we arent going to throw a whole season away because the management have a soft spot for dida.

Probably because we had an amazing defense that season, especially when you compare it to the one we've got now. He might not have "stood out" in your opinion but I think he made a vital contribution to us winning that year. Obviously though he didn't win it single handed that would be impossible, football is a team game you win & lose together.

Well you know what we're like when it comes to spending money. I agree though.

You can't seriously think if we don't get at least 4th place it'll be down to 1 or 2 errors from an injured Dida?

[kurtsimonw]

Could he? I've always thought that was a great shot...  (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

He tried to push it past the post, and made a complete mess of it.

[milanista1899]

And let's not forget we lost the Istanbul final because of his slumber on Gerrard's header that led to a bloody 6 minutes... [Buffon would probably save that header!]

I would trade that rather boring Manchester final, and maybe even Athens final, with an Istanbul win anytime. because in that game we produced one of the best games in the history of football, while in Athens and Manchester we did not. that's my opinion at least...

Did we fvck! That was a great header, noone would've saved that. There's no definitive explanation of why we lost that night, I think it was fate & we were supposed to beat them in Athens - it's too much of a coincedence for me. But this is just my theory. We played great apart from those 6 mins, even in extra time. You can't blame Dida.

You'd really only want us to have 6 CL's instead of 7? (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) And have lost to the zebras even though we deserved to beat them. If that's your opinion fine but mine is that that's just stupid. Even if we didn't play amazing football there are only 2 teams in a final & I'm glad we won them (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/king.gif) & think we deserved them both if not all 3.