the spainish press claim today that Antonio Cassano is ready for a january move to Milan after the arrival of River Plate striker Gonzalo Higuain.

Cassano's time at the bernabeu seems to be over with the new arrival plus his recent out burst against Real coach Fabio Cappelo, with Milan still looking for a replacement for Andriy Shevchenko a january move looks on the cards for the ex-Bari starlet


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maybe the right move for both parties, i'd welcome him to the San Siro

YESSSS!!!
i think cassano is just what we need!!!

He is no Sheva equal !!!

He is younger, and if he learn to grow up he has the talent to become close to Sheva, I think.

But this is only if he learns how to mature.

And anyway, isn't Cassano illegible for CL play?

Still wouldn't say no to him coming here though, we need all the help we could get. And maybe, just maybe, having Paolo and Billy around him will be enough to help him overcome his issues

NOO!! I don't like this guy i think Oli is much better than him.

He's not Milan quality IMO. He's as troublemaker as Zlatan but he has no 10% of the quality of the bosnio-swedish.

Cassano has been maturing lately. Just read his recent comments. He wants a new start and he wants to prove himself. I think he would be the perfect signing. He is a fatastic player, technically, and I'm sure Kaka, Billy and Maldini will make good friends with him which will definitely help him grow as a person. Cassano is sorry about his past behaviors, which is a good thing.

He said the same in the beginning of this season. But if he can't even respect "his father" Capello...

Still .. He is no equal to Shevchenko, he is just a good player, nothing more nothing less.

As u said a 'all the help we could get' .

oh I don't know.
It would be a waste of talent, when he would stay at RM,
but on the other hand he is a troublemaker, and
I don'T want disharmony in Milan's lockerrooms

I think not, he played with real 150 min in the champions league , so i think by the rules , he cannot play with ac milan

Cappello is a ******* of a coach... A bunch Juve players also came out and said how aweful he was in that manner.... Remember what he did to Alex last year?

oh yes... poor naive higuian and marcelo who signed with RM...

I never said heis Sheva's equal. Just that if he learns to mature he will come close since he has the talent.


Well still. We still need another forward and considering that we have been finding it the hardest to score in the league I wuld still appreciate any contribution he would guve.

And he might be a trouble maker but with Paolo and Billy I think he will fit in perfectly at Milan and won't be any trouble. As Donandoni once said he's a simple kid and if you treat him well he will treat you the same. If anyone thought he would actually get his act together in a messed up Real locker room then you've got another thing coming. There is just no way that that would have ever happened.

And Higuan will just be another wast of talent at Real just like Robinho, under Cappello there is no creative freedom. He wants his 2 strong strikers upfront that will be efficient and nothing else ie. why he insists with Van Nistelrooy and Raul

DP

Well but i would prefer suazo , i mean we need a player thet can help us in the ucl , and also in the serie A, but well, seeing the lack of goals, well cassano could do , he;s a good creative striker, not as fast or strong as suazo, but he's good, i do really , but really hope they make some transfers in the winter market, i was reading also , in calciomercato , that lolito is waiting for an offer for Oddo, to be transfered this winter, so lets cross our fingers, and even the toes if possible..

It may work. He just need to get his head straight

I would like Suazo also. But I think they have different qualities, Suazo is lightning fast and strong, Cassano is creative as hell. I think we should get both
Suazo would be better since he can play in the CL but he will cost more and we all know how much our management have been keen on spending lately

Well , that's right , we should get both of them, nevertheless i know that they wont come together in the transfer window, but that would be awesome, i hope this dumbs have the brilliant idea to get them together

Well han ...

What I ment was, he isn't his equal .. and we cant afford to sit and wait for a developing player, such as 'Cassano' to come about .. We dont need another Gila on our hands ...

We need someone proven, plz ppl dont criticize when I say this, but R10 .. Would be the Sheva equal, not that we are missing a super star .. But because Milan depended so much on S7, that only a player of his calibure could fill the gap .. R10 has proven that he could handle the pressure.

.. Not necessarily R10 ... We could go for any player who can give us confidence whenever he takes the pitch !

Waiting for a player to mature isn't what we need right now

What rossoneri is trying to say is that we need a crack, not a youngster to develope.

I know what you're saying and I agree with you completely, but what top rate player is currently available for transfer. Let alone in January. It just won't happen.

Cassano is not neccissarily 'still developing' what I meant is, if he matures then he will start putting his talent into good use.

R10? we can all just forget about him, Barca will not let him go and I doubt we would be willing to pay for him the ammount of money Barca will ask for when he would be 28. It's just not logical

For god sake, he INSULTED Capello! INSULTED! Then he said sorry... but you know... on big teams like Real, respect is a must. He's on his way out of Madrid. I hope he goes far away from San Siro.

Del Piero is just a fat c_nt. Trezeguet and Zlatan were the best for the 11 and everybody knows it.

Last season Zlatan only had something like 6 goals, he was just plain AWFUL none of the Juve fans wanted him as the starter.

DP actually saved their @ss a couple of times.

Cappello is all about his favourites. Zlatan was one of them. He was probably having one of his worst season's last year and Cappello was still playing him, when DP was clearly the one in better form.

Capello likes tall fowards.

And Del Piero is old. Not the same as some years ago.

And Ibrahomobitch is a jackass... so what? Del Piero was clearly the better player last season.

R10 .. ? No I don't mean him coming to Milan, what I ment was a player that has instinct in both creating and scoring. A player that the team could depend on, as we did with S7 .. Not any player, a player along the lines of R10 and S7 ..


I don't think a player of that sort is available on the market, let alone this winter


Cassano is great .. I like him, honestly, I secretly wanted him at Milan b4 he moved to Madrid. But with the situation we r in now, he wouldn't be a benift for our side. Cuz we already have problems w/ our attacking department ( we dont need anymore, probs .. Whatever they are ) .. And, most important, he cant participate with Milan in CL.

p.s. He is strongly linked w/ a move to Milan btw

ADP is a great player!!!!

what's up with you boys? lol

why you like zlatan ibrahimobitch?

Scoring freekicks and penalties (all given)? Please... Zlatan assisted 5890455909 times Trezeguet. He, Zambrotta and Nedved assisted a lot.

@mchanna: Ibrahimovic = 6 goals this season | All the Milan fowards = 5 goals. Enough?

hmpf... some of those were lucky goals *wails*

Yeah. I wouldn't say some... but all, all the goals and assists to Crespo were lucky...

Specially that time when he owned Nesta and Dida some months ago.

Ohh Porto, quit it .. It's getting old reallllyyyyy old ...

Since he turned a merda ... Tells u so much about a player that doesn't mind wearing the Badge that all the Juve players claimed to be so rightfully theirs, while he was supposed to be one of them, now look at him. What a disgrace, even if he scores 100 goals this season he'll still be a merda=sh1t

I don't care about the team.

I hate Barcelona but I like Ronaldinho as a player, so what? Everybody does that. Or don't you like any player from Roma, Inter, Juve?

I like Totti, De Rossi... Stankovic, Zlatan... Nedved... the team doesn't mather.

(I know what merd_ means... the italian way is the same as in portuguese )

Yeas but last season it was clear who was better. And it definately wasn't Zlatan. Assists or no assists. When I mention assists to defend Gila's contribution last season, everyone tells me he isn't there to assist, he's there to score.


Agreed.
I personally don't think that Cassano will be a problem. And if he comes I would be happy, cause he's the type of forward we need. Oli is that type of forward but he is finding i difficuilt to adjust since he is used to Spain. What I'm saying is that I wouldn't say no to Cassano's possible arrivle that's all.

Totti has all my respect; for one, he is the symbol of Roma .. De Rossi is an amazing ball player and a Roma faithfull ... R10 comes w/ no introduction


But Zlatan ?? At Juve last season, I didnt like him much (u of all know the reasons ) .. He's a good player though .. But to play for Inter, with that Italian badge on his chest I mean what kind of a person is he, two things comes to mind, no self-esteem and zero honour ...

Imagine we were in Juve's spot and Inter got the scudetto from us, would u think Kaka would play w/ that badge on his chest ?!

wow ..

Cuz it aint just changing teams

MMMM changing the subject....
For how much $$ u think we can get CASSANO for?

10 m

His current value... I believe something between 5-10M.

But if he was on his top... he'll be something like 20-25M easily.

Would be a good buy for Napoli.

capello loves tall forwards cuz of van basten all and the success he had. in fact when capello was at juve he was trying to mold ibra into van basten's imagne. it was pretty cool on tv they showed a marco goal then they compared it to an identical zlatan goal. but we all know va basten was a class act, a genius, and a milanista. zlatan is a cheap prostitute, who isnt even swedish, with no class, and will never be great, just a nother flashy player.

If Zlatan is all of that what can we say about Borriello or Oliveira?

how on earth can you compare them 2 with zlatan??
borriello a product of our youth team and oliveira only in his first half a season with us way to early to make a judgement on. neither flashy or self indulgent unlike your good merda friend

Cappello is just hard headed and trying to even put Zlatan in the same sentence as Van Basten is an insult to the sport itself. Cappello likes efficient forwards more then anything though, that's why he liked Trez so much at Juve and why he likes Nistelrooy so much at Real. And why players like Robinho suffer under him, also he will probably ruin Higuan and he probably won't get much playing time. Shame.

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Milan duo chase Cassano
Thursday 11 January, 2007

Milan and Inter are both ready to make a summer move for Antonio Cassano, according to the latest reports in Italy.

The former Roma striker is set to leave Real Madrid and has been paired with Inter over the past few days, as confirmed by sporting director Predrag Mijatovic.

Coach Roberto Mancini had recently stated that he would be happy to have the player on his team.

However, club official Marco Branca denied that there had been contact to bring the Bari-born striker to the San Siro immediately, although it seems they might be planning a summer move.

In the meantime Milan, who were one of the first Italian clubs to be paired with Cassano after his problems with Merengues’ Coach Fabio Capello, could join Inter in the race to sign him.

The Rossoneri’s need to sign a new striker might have increased after Filippo Inzaghi’s declared that he might request a transfer if he felt he was no longer a first team player.

The Milan Coach believes that he would be able to manage ‘Talentino’s’ intemperate outbursts and the club might soon make an offer for Cassano, who joined Real Madrid a year ago from Roma in a £3.5m deal.


channel4.com

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Hopefully we do the right thing and sign cassano. Better be some foundation to these rumours.

think it is basically recycled news .. Same players being linked, but different story everyday

The sad thing is, the story is the same everyday too...


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... It's the same if u dont consider Inter being linked to him

Cassano... only in the Summer? Is he going to stay 6 months in Madrid... benched? I don't believe.

Cassano won't come to Milan. Not now, not ever. In fact no attackers in january.

Yep. Galliani confirmed it today.