(He should be wearing a Georgetown sweatshirt, darnit!)

Nice!
Hooray for Ambro!

Good girl. She reminds me both of Paolo and Pola. No one's ever done that before!


Baby? As in? Weren't they expecting a baby in June? Or is it June already! Oh, my!

I always thought Ambro would be a Duke fan

No but good for him to 1) Have a long relationship before, and 2) not date a model. I'm glad he is thinking with his head (the big one), although she is a looker

I trully love Ambro as one of Milan players with the most strong charisma after Paolo. A love him as our next Il Capitano and I hope everything will be Ok in his life

I have to confess...
I never used to like Ambro a few good seasons ago, even though he would win us games now and again with those timely headers.
Its only recently, over the past couple of seasons that he has been mostly injury free and has been playing regularly that he has begun to grow onto me, and I now see him now as a very useful player.

I even once denoted him as our worst player
...But that was in the past!!!

When does Ambro's contract run out? I heard some time ago that Milan are not so keen on renewing it, I hope it's bull cause it'd be a shame!

Ambro's contract is through 2010.

I think he renewed till 2010, so he will probably get an extension at the end of the season. Ambro not recieving an extended contract would be a slap in the especially after Maldini got countless extensions, and someone like Dida got an extension, even though was left to die on the bench from that point onwards

Ambro is not charismatic IMO. he easily loses his temper after every small incident... I think he doesn't have what it takes to be a real captain like Maldini. but of course he will be our next captain since he's the most senior player in the team.

Agreed he wont be a captain in the Maldini mould (cool, calm collected) however he sets an example to others. He is an incredibly hard worker and never gives up, plus he probably controls a fair share of the dressing room and is very highly respected

I completely agree with the bold part.

Massimo Ambrosini Kept Waiting For New Milan Contract
Ambrosini admitted that his future is uncertain as his contract will expire in 2010 and no-one from the Rossoneri’s directors has called him up to start negotiating a new deal...

Milan midfielder Massimo Ambrosini wants to extend his stay at the club, but so far he has not received any signs from the directors.

His contract will come to an end next year, therefore if he is not offered a new deal by this summer, he will have the opportunity to leave the club on a free transfer in 2010, even though his desire is that of ending his career with the Rossoneri.

"I have a contract which expires in 2010," affirmed the veteran player to Eurosport.

"I hope that sooner or later, someone from the club calls me up.

"I will put my will to remain, but we must always be in two to do things, therefore..."

Bar one season on loan at Vicenza in 1997/98, Ambrosini has been at Milan since 1995 where he has played a total of 247 league games and scored 22 goals for his team.

(Goal.com)

Gosh. Fishdoll's almost tempted to give goal.com a cookie. They translated something accurately.

link to article on tuttomercatoweb.

If Ambrosini is not given a new contract, i will shoot every single person associated with AC Milan

why? He's 32 next month... You want him here until 40?

I agree with whoarethepatriots. Ambro should be given an extension.

+1 hope he extends soon !!!

I agree too.

We need a player like him, no question. In Italy, not many reach his level (for the job he does). Also, he's now our future captain, and the one with the most Milan time.

I think he will get an extension soon. With Paolo retiring, Milan needs a flag bearer a person who has written history with Milan.

Exactly. Our board wouldn't miss that out.

I hope not. They were very slow in offering him a contract last time round in 2007, supposedly he considered leaving for Fiorentina due to his lack of playing time, but once he was given a first team spot, he signed a new contract

He deserves an extension and is still a very good player. I cannot imagine Milan not extending his contract.

Doesn't his contract run out in the 2010 summer? I mean, why so much rush?

Ambro agent welcomes Napoli talk[/b]

The agent of Milan midfielder Massimo Ambrosini has refused to rule out a transfer to Napoli.

Ambrosini is still waiting on a contract offer to extend his current deal, which expires in 2010.

Milan are expected to make some sweeping changes to their squad this summer and Ambrosini could be one of the men making way as recent reports suggest that Napoli are ready to pounce.

“Anything is possible for Massimo,” representative Moreno Roggi said on Radio Kiss Kiss.

“All doors are open, but I do think it is unlikely that he will be leaving Milan because he has another year on his contract.

“It's nice to hear talk of Napoli - the more talk the better - but that isn't a possibility right now.

“However, Napoli are a great club and Ambrosini is a great player - so why not?”

Channel 4

IMO if they were to offer £5m they can have him.

Exactly. We have too many older players and need to trim the squad down. Get some quality younger players in with something to prove.

Disagree with you guys who want to ditch Ambro. Course, I'm one of those crazy people who thinks he's better than Flamini.

Okay, let's arrange a planned exodus for all above 29 year old players. Let's buy 13 year old talents!

At least we'd have some hunger back in the side, something we drastically seem to be missing with all the 'over 29 yo's' we have.

Let's be fair here, being old doesn't necessarily mean one is not motivated or hungry anymore. (remember Nedved when Juve played in the CL?)

Having too many winners and champions is the real reason for the lack of motivation IMO.

Not many young players have 'won it all' though. We have too many players who have won it all and have lost their hunger, to refresh the squad we need to be ruthless and not sentimental.

In far too many matches over the last two years Ambrosini has been the only player to give a damn. He cannot be replaced on and off the pitch at the moment, and we are really gonna need him next year when Maldini has gone

I perfectly understand what you mean. Ambro is not the problem though, as long as Seedorf stays at this clubs and starts week in week out

I mean sure extend his contract and all, but in reality he isn't going to be playing much with Flamini around. Thats why I said is there really a point to keeping him until he's 40?

haloo, ambro is our captain next year, or at least his 1st substitute, sure we have to extend his contract, he's in milan since 1995 so after maldini is gone, he'll be in first place for "how long in milan time..." or so i think )

I personally prefer Flamini (when he's on form) to Ambro but come on, we need depth in the squad. if we let Ambro go we will have to look for a replacement and knowing the management, we won't sign players of Sissoko or Essien's caliber; we will sign another Emerson. do you want that?

If we have any sense then Ricky will be our captain next season. Ambro, at best, can warm the bench.

Personally speaking I think he's a liability. I agree that he has scored some important goals and he has been at Milan since '95, but for the majority of the time he's been injured and hasn't really first choice and he is 32. I would probably offer him a 1 year extension and use him as a bench warmer.

Fishdoll and I agree with whoarethepatriots on this one.

I'll go personally a little further and repeat that I much prefer Ambro to Flamini.

Whats the point of cardaccio being at milan then? Is he just here for the fun of it?


I have no problem with Ambrosini staying, hes a symbol of milan and a great player.


If we get a new coach next year do you think any of these above 30 players are realistically going to play? If we have carlo for another year than sure. But if we get Rijkaard, it would just be a pointless move for their careers because logically they are not going to play.

I don't care, Ambrosini's next years captain and that speaks for itself.

he's one of our most consitent player, i think he always playes at same rate, trying his best, good in air, i dont know what all of you see as bad in him...i understand it for kaladze, but ambro, c'mon...wake up !!



if we have any sense, ambro, gattuso and pirlo will be infront of ricky for captaincy...

Well if that is to be the case then it will be yet another backward step and will also show a real lack of ambition.

Lack of ambition? Backward step? He's our captain man! It's tradition!

lack of ambition would be keeping maldini and favalli as our main defenders...you're really missing the point here

Sorry but i think you're missing the point. You would rather have a 32yo who has been constantly injured throughout his career, lacks technical ability, is a liability whenever he tries to tackle and hasn't been a first team regular over the third best player in the world! We need to be ruthless in our clearup and if that means goodbye to ambro then so be it. If he is to stay then it should be to warm the bench. That is the only way we are going to progress.

Our tradition recently has been to struggle to qualify for CL, I would rather a tradition of winning the Serie A and the only way we're going to do that is to give the younger players a chance to prove themselves.

You mean 1 season?

No I mean the past few seasons, last season we didn't even qualify.