What I ment was, I'm not here to discuss how much and how expensive; I'm here to demand a fullback

Lotito wanted 7mil in the summer. Now he want twice as much. He will do everything in order to not sell him.

Hell, if there's the chance I would go directly for Ilsinho. The guy's 21 and would probably solve our RB problems for a while. But if things go as planned, like han said, Oddo should come in January and Ilsinho in June.

If we signed 34y.o Favalli then I won't be too surprised

What a player Favalli is

What? I like Favalli....in fact I like all merda who have seen the error of their ways and wish to do penance on the right side of the San Siro.

I would prefer them to do a penance when they younger

Like it or not, Iaquinta is much better than Borriello and it's actualy better than nothing. So I wouldn't mind him signing for us, cause like you've been saying, we need all the help we can get. But I agree that players like Suazo or Di Natale would prove much more useful to our current situation than Iaquinta.

I dunno if this is the right thread but... Dani Alves just renew with Sevilla FC until 2012. His buyout clause is still 60M euros.



He scored a great freekick on the last match vs. Deportivo (4-0). His club ends 2006 as the #1 in the Spanish La Liga.

that was a great goal

And anyway at least it's not Barca or Real that are finishing top

After Barcelona in 2004 and Betis in 2005, Sevilla are my new favourite spanish club. I really hope they win La Liga this season.

They're impressive. Not only the results but the way they play. A shame that they're in UEFA Cup.

They're without a doubt in the 7 best teams in Europe nowadays. In fact, I think they can beat anyone at the moment, no mather if it's Inter, ManUtd, Chelsea or Barcelona.

Sevilla has been improving, this season .. Very attractive football .. I think they'll get crowned again w/ the UEFA cup

When will the transfer window open ?

1st of January

DO u know of any potential transfers other than Oddo ?!

There are so many rumors flying about right now I'm not even sure the Oddo thing will even happen.

The only names I keep hearing are:

GK: That Carizzo (don't know anything about him basically)

RB: Oddo (if this can't happen some are suggesting we might go for Zebina ). Then there is the Ilsinho connection, but I think that will happen in the summer with Cafu heading in the other direction

CB: Alexis from Gatafe (their president has confirmed on numerous occasions that Milan want to sign him and that he might even come in January, but hard to tell if it will happen)

There isn't much talk about any midfielder accept for Barusso who plays at Rimini but if that will happen it will be in June

FW: This is where the headache of rumors is, with Boriello's situation now we will definately HAVE to get another striker (which is good) #The Cassano rumors are all over the place so are the ones linking us with Di Natale and Iaquinta (hopefully the thought of Iaquinta doesn't enter Galliani's mind ) Then there's that kid Pato who has been heavily linked with us and our management haven't denied having interest in him and even pointed out that the fact that he doesn't have an EU passport things could still be arranged for him to come in January.

So that is basically a summary of all the rumors expected to be flying around for the upcoming month. So we better hang tight it's going to be a looong ride

Zabina .. That sums it up

Though Galliani did say something about a cb .. Alexis, might be the lucky kid

As for the attack .. I don't know, Cassano is cup tied, and what about Udinese's players, arent they cup tied too?

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About the rumors; I wont believe anything from the press till it's official, but I wanted to know what the club was looking at for options .. Pato, yeah I read a while back that Milan are scouting him ..

Oddo didn't play Lazio's last match against Parma. Officialy Lazio announced he was injured, but it's also a big assumption he might have already signed for us. We'll see...

No. They haven't played in Europe this season.

REALLY???

I hope this happens.

The udinese players aren't cup tide.

And the ones that are rumors are the Cassano, Zebina, Iaquinta and Di Nata;e, the others have all been hinted at ny our board. It's just a matter of if they will make it happen or just sit around and wait till the last moment like they did in the summer

If this is true... 8M euros + Foggia for Oddo? I think it's way too much.

And come on SIMONE INZAGHI??? aka the sorry excuse for a footballer.

This is tribal after all

Simone Inzaghi han you forgot that Sampdoria player with the weird name

Oh Qualiarella (I think I got it right )

He's just said that he will stay with Samp for this season but doesn't know where he is going to be playing next season because he is co-owned by another club (forget which it is I think it's Udinese)

And he only came about once, the names I mentioned are the onse that have been the most persistant.

I think it's a fair offer, Oddo is not some random defender y'know. If Lotito won't accept even that offer then he can go f@ck himself.

SImone Inzaghi !!!!!!!!!! What, now we r retiering brothers !!!!

definately

Simone Inzaghi is basically the same as Pippo only he is weaker, slower, less consistent and overall miles away from Pippo himself.

Exactly

Googd analysis

Simone Inzaghi is good for Treviso. Pure b/s.

I know Oddo is good. But he is 30... 8M/euros?

I'd give 20-25M and get a 23 or 24 yo like Dani Alves... but this is just me.

Isn't Alves cup tied

And... ?

No. He is playing in the uefa cup not the CL.

R u seriouslly saying that !! It's the same thing .. uefa cup and uefa champions league; same organization, uefa.

I.e. cup tied

And r u planning on going through the CL stages without a fullback ?!

Cuz consider us out in this next round, if we don't get a fullback eligable for CL

The rule is that we can sign one player that played in different competition - uefa cup

Do you really think we can win the CL this year? We may beat Celtic... even the 4th or 5th best team here in Portugal could, but then on the 1/4 finals... against Chelsea? FC Hype? Manscum? Inter? Real? We'd have no chance...

So this transfers for me... I think we shouldn't even think if "he can" or "not" play the CL. Simply, it doesn't matter.

The way Milan is, not even a "big-transfer" like Torres would change anything. We should think on 2007/08.

Porto, your living on another world .. If Carlo doesn't give Milan's managment the CL, the bench will be dusted for someone else next season .. Whether Milan kick him out or he resignes by himself; if in may there is no CL glory. He will walk.

By saying that we need at least three players eligable for CL ..

You don't think this team can make it, huh ??

Well, not a tiered team like the one that just had to play prelimenaries and WC finals and all that .. Maybe a fine tuned Milan can make it to Athens this summer !

Why not we have the key elements of any winning team .. I wont go into a lengthy discussion about who is better than who, but let me tell you this, if Porto could do it in 2004 .. So could Milan

and also arsenal last year.. they were doing so sh1t in the prem-ship and made it to the finals in CL..

Cause they got Real Madrid, Juventus and Villareal, easy stuff. Look at us last season, we faced Bayern, Lyon and Barcelona. Just compare our opponents to the ones of Arsenal or even Porto in 2004. We definitely got the most difficult ones, and although we still made it to the semi-finals, and even deserved the final because of Sheva's disallowed goal. The team of this year doesn't have many differences from last season's. We may miss a goalscorer and leader in attack like Sheva, but still I think with confidence and a bit of luck we can make it to Athens.

Another world? No. The real one.

All I'm saying, and for long time... is that Milan doesn't need 1, 2 or 3 good and young players for some places. Milan need 5-6-7 quality players not only for the first 11 but for the bench too. Look at the entire squad and check their age. And that you don't do it in January-market no mather how much $$$ you have. You need 1-2 Summers to do.

Milan killed itself last Summer: Stam, Rui Costa and Shevchenko. 3 world class players with no decent replacement (until now).

Oh, and R7, I admire your optimism (about the CL) but pal, let's face the truth. We're going to be kicked out sooner or later. If we didn't make it last season (Markus Merk... never forgotten), we have no chance to make it this year.

Maybe in 2-3 years.

Carletto won't be fired that easily... Unless we end up without CL and lose to Celtic then, definitely. But here is how I see it. We will make it to 3rd place this year and will reach the semi-finals in the CL and next year we will win the league. I'm pretty sure next year we will have a really great team. Many younger players will join us.

you read my mind

Why not ?!

Anything is possible .. Carlo has always taken us up into the final rounds of this competition ! And looking at how Milan has performed in the first half of the season, they will want a change .. They will go for this .. Maybe not this same team that played the first half of the season, but a modified team ...

2 or 3 players is all we need. More would just give us headache.

If you plan to dissolve a team, you don't do it in one setting, i.e. in the summer. It's a proccess, it takes time.

Arsenal for example, were SH!T in the EPL .. They were suffering w/o their captain Viera. During the winter transfer season, they bought 3 players eligable for CL .. Abadayor, Diaby, and Walcott .. Out of the three Diaby was being chanted as the 'new Viera' .. And where did ARsenal go ? I forgot

So, as I said b4, if porto could do it .. Why can't Milan

Great post.

Totally agree.

Getting a lot of players at once will definately not help, getting 2-3 players that are the RIGHT ones to fit in our team is the answer.

Oddo or another good fullback is a MUST, same goes for a forward and a CB or a DMF.

Looking back at our team during Carlo's reign especially the last 2 seasons we haven't always had a team that is on par with Chelsea's or Barca's or even Real's, we won the CL playing a narrow formation without any fullbacks, that should speak a lot.

In my eyes I think we even over achieved last season in the CL considering the age of our squad and the injuries we had to carry through all the way. And still we had to be knocked out by dodgy refereeing. And also looking at the team other big guns had to knock out on their way compared to us, we had Bayern, Lyon and Barca, not to mention one of the toughest groups of the competition and we did all this while cathcing up to Juve in the league.

Simply because that 2 or 3 quality players you won't get them on January. Well, ok... maybe there are 2 available: Oddo and Suazo. But knowning our directors... we're probably not going to buy "that quality" that surely we need.

I'm not expecting Milan doing "a Real Madrid" spending 30-40M/euros in January.

You have a point there also, cause considering our recent track records those 2 signings will probably come out as being Zebina and Iaquinta

But IF those 3 QUALITY sigings were to arrive then I would say we have about as much a chance as anyone of going for the CL