Calm down. It's not done yet.

http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/controcampo/a...olo372806.shtml

TGcom says Leonardo is flying to Brazil Monday to talk with Pato's parents and offer a 2M/euros per year contract. They say his mother would like him to be near Kaka', such a religious player.

It seems that Milan already agreed with Internacional a deal about 20M/euros for Pato. Now it's up to Leonardo to convince the player and his parents.

He'd come only in January.

Wasn't he supposed to fly to Brazil on Friday!?...

Anyway, I'm sure Milan will not have any problems with Inter on financial details. it's only the player's choice. I hope it is Milan.

Hopefully we see that sweet official announcement before January. as long as I see the confirmation of signing Pato, I don't care if he comes right now or two years from now!

http://globoesporte.globo.com/ESP/Noticia/...60-4410,00.html

Pato's father said some ours ago:

"There are no offers for him, but if they appear... it's up to Alexandre to decide.
"One thing is clear: he's not going to Europe to be on the reserves or any kind of experience.
"He's going there to play."

Pato only has eyes for Milan (Sunday 29 July, 2007)

Chelsea, Inter and Real Madrid have targeted Alexandre Pato, but the young Brazilian says he only has eyes for “fantastic” Milan.

The Under-20 sensation is lighting up the transfer market and has already been labelled the new Kaka at the age of 17.

“Milan are flying over to Brazil to sign me? That is fantastic,” he told Spanish newspaper ‘As’ and several Brazilian media.

“I won’t be meeting with their emissaries unless Internacional and my agent Gilmar Veloz give me the go ahead. All I can do is wait and hope.”

It’s reported that on Monday consultant Leonardo will fly to Porto Alegre for negotiations with his club Internacional.

This weekend Coach Carlo Ancelotti stated that Pato would most likely arrive in January, as by that stage he would have turned 18.

The offer Milan have prepared is said to be in the region of £14m to beat competition from rivals Inter, Chelsea and Real Madrid.

It would be a similar scenario to the capture of Kaka in 2003, when Leonardo also acted as their representative to broker the deal.

In fact, Kaka’s presence is an important factor for Pato, as his family is very religious and wants to ensure there is a positive role model when he flies to Europe alone.

Pato will be given a five-year contract starting out at £800,000 per season, rising to £1.3m by 2011-12.

(channel4.com)

WOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

He'd come only in January.

Moratti today spoke about Pato.

He said he's still an option for Inter and he's one of the 5-6 top young-guns around.

SU REPRESENTANTE TAMBIÉN ANUNCIÓ UNA OFERTA DEL INTER POR EMERSON

El futuro de Pato se decidirá en dos semanas
El jugador brasileño Alexandre Pato sabrá el futuro de su carrera "dentro de un par de semanas", cuando se decida qué club es el "más adecuado a su juventud", dijo hoy su representante, Gilmar Veloz, en declaraciones a una radio romana. El representante de Pato sólo reveló que el próximo club del jugador será europeo "y que llegará o en enero o en julio de 2008".

Según los medios de comunicación, estarían interesados en el delantero del Internacional Porto Alegre, el club italiano Milán, el español Real Madrid, y además el Inter de Milán, que también, aseguraron, envío un emisario para negociar su traspaso. El agente también habló del futuro de otro de sus representados el brasileño del Real Madrid Emerson, que admitió interesa al Inter.

La marcha de Emerson al equipo milanés "dependerá sólo de la decisión del Real Madrid", con el que el jugador tiene todavía dos años de contrato, añadió el agente. Respecto al compatriota en el Roma Alessandro Faiolhe "Mancini", que negocia su contrato hasta el 30 de junio de 2009, Veloz afirmó que no hay "ningún problema en renovar" con el club italiano, donde el futbolista "está trabajando y se encuentra muy bien".

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/...lo/1022173.html

http://mediacenter.gazzetta.it/MediaCenter...ed-0003ba99c667

As you can see in the video, the kid asked Galliani: "So, what's the big transfer? Pato or Ronaldinho?"

Galliani: "More chances on the first one [Pato] than the second [Ronaldinho]."

Well, TBH I just posted the video because of that girl next-to Galliani. What a lucky b*stard.

Milan Giants Front Runners In Pato Race 

Milan seemed to have the upper hand to get the Brazilian wonder kid, but Inter's interest could complicate things for the Rossoneri...

Kaká is not moving away from Milanello, and that alone can be considered as a reinforcement for the Rossoneri fans (), considering the rumours of a strong interest by Real Madrid for the Brazilian champion. The mysterious "Mister X" which Carlo Ancelotti referred to some time ago is still just that, a mystery, but a great player will almost certainly join Milan, if not this summer then in January: Brazilian wonder kid Pato.

However, with Inter also interested in the player, it will not be an easy operation to carry out for the Rossoneri. Perhaps the player's will can prove decisive, as he expressed a desire to play alongside Ronaldo, and he will meet many other Brazilian countrymen at Milan.

"Playing with Ronie is a dream I have since childhood", Pato declared. Meanwhile, the player's agent Gilmar Veloz denied that any deal has been sealed yet: "Pato is being followed by Milan, Inter, and Real Madrid, and we will only decide which club is most appropriate for him in a few weeks ."

There is a kind of Milanese derby going on for the 17-year old. While Galliani confirmed Milan's interest ("Pato is a great player and we are always interested in great players", he said), with transfer guru Leonardo allegedly flying to Brazil to try and close the deal, Inter president Massimo Moratti was more formal:

"We are interested in Pato, a very young but highly talented player. I don't know if Milan hold an advantage over us to get him. Milan's advantage is that they have Leonardo (), who is a very experienced and intelligent manager, but only Pato himself, his father, his agents and his club know who is closest to getting him", the Nerazzurri's chairman said.

DP

YouTubs:

A Milan fan already made video as "The new Milan wonderkid": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVm4eiv-LI [Too soon... too soon  ]

Amazing one-touch play: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoljSW1H9Y

HIS STUNNING GOAL 3-4 days ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9HzWbYCaGk

http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercat.../galliani.shtml

Galliani stated some moments ago:

"Leonardo is in Brazil but for holdays.
"It's Braida who'll fly today for Pato-deal.
[B]"If we get Pato, then it's OK. If not... he'll go to R.Madrid, Inter, or any other club and the life continues."[/B]

Don't worry, we've never won the UEFA Cup before. We'll have plenty of opportunity now.

It's always good to see Inter clinch their 16th scudetto next year... (we've 17).

So it means that in 3-4 years... we're doomed. 

We can only hope Juve keep winning it. 

Milan WILL BE front-runner in every single competition. the championship, CL, Supercup, World Club Cup.

Milan WILL BE front-runner in every single competition. the championship, CL, Supercup, World Club Cup.

You are all being too cynical just because we haven't sign some stars, and that's unbelievable!

Not exactly. The problem is that we don't have depth in our squad. Just that.

And a team that have 14-15-16 good players for 90 matches and 5 competitions, can't be competitive in all of them. It's impossible.

We'll probably going to get the 1 or 2 cups and that's it. We do not have depth for a league.

Milan WILL BE front-runner in every single competition. the championship, CL, Supercup, World Club Cup.

You are all being too cynical just because we haven't signed some stars, and that's unbelievable!

By the way, one more month to go before the transfer window closes. who knows what will happen?! 

ِDepth? I don't believe in it that much. last year we were unlucky with all these injuries which were most a result of World Cup and starting pre-season without enough rest. and worse than that, an 8 point deduction that handed to Milan and immediately killed off Milan's competing spirit in Serie A, but not in Europe. and you did see how we performed in Europe compared to Serie A.

This year will be a whole different story. I know winning Serie A will be more difficult than the international competitions, but I believe Milan will succeed at least in three of them which are: Serie A / World Club Cup / Supercup.

CL is a different story and sometimes even the best teams cannot win it.

they only fuss all over 1 year nothing , in 1 year they won that kicking @ss scudetto with only one team ready  in competition , yes this is always true about moratti and inter : they did nothing special and they will not , with a one like moratti you can always go to sleep but we did it in 5 years , it was moggi who destroyed our 3 consecutive scudetto so we could now say we get 3 scudetto , 2 champions league with only 14-15 good players . with out of rate and date players . Congradulation poor Milan . How wonderful and lonely you are and how wonderful your management is .

OMG it's because we havent SIGNED ANYONE. galli-fck-face-ani and carlo even admitted we need more players to cope with the extra matches.  many of you spoke about injuries being a one off thing like we were unlucky. WAKE UP CALL!!! thats one of the downers for having half ur squad over 30!!! so expect the same Sh!t this years as well, thats why it would be sane sign players.

umm sorry but i dint know we were the only team in europe to have players at the world cup? everyone had the same problem.

we won our first 3 games and inter only had 3-4 more points than us and then we started to play **** and we start to fall behind because we werent winning, not because of some retarded 8 pt deduction. besides i thought that was supposed to be 'extra motivation" thats what milan refered too it as. it was obvious BS. lesson? dont believe much of what they say because most of it is BS. just like the BS they are talking now.

We may need a few reinforcements, but we don't really need STARS. I'm sure you wouldn't say these words if we had signed a mega-star by now. I'd love to see R10 or Eto'o in Milan as much as you do but as you know it, that's just a dream.
Yes we were the only team that went all the way to the World Cup final. Oddo, Pirlo, Gattuso, Inzaghi, Nesta. it's true that only Gattuso and Pirlo played in all matches, but the the others had heavy trainings till the very last day and didn't have much time for rest, just like Pirlo and Gattuso.

Who did Inter have apart from Materazzi?! NOBODY. Argentina were eliminated in 1/4 so its players had at least 10 more days (or maybe more) to rest than Italian players.

Juve also had a situation like us, but they played in Serie B and no CL. so you can't compare them to Milan either.

From other Europe's big clubs... you name it: Real? Barcelona? Manchester? Chelsea? none of them had these kind of problems... injuries, fitness problems, lacking motivation because of point penalty, losing the best goal scorer, etc. last season was

really a fvcked up one for Milan. I still wonder how we went all the way to the CL final.
We didn't do anything special when we were three or four points behind Inter. we just won a couple of games. it was Inter who took off slowly (and Mancini nearly got fired for his results). but they got better and better and that's it. "extra motivation" was BS. it was more like "fvcked up motivation"! if we weren't winning it was only a result of that 8 point deduction and lacking motivation.

If what I say is not true, then how can you justify our European glory?! we had the same team in both competitions. right?

in the end we won the CL 90% cuz of kaka, and we cant rely on him doing this again if we wanna have any chance of winning anything this season.

We will have R9 this season, which will help alot. But there's 0% chance of us retaining the trophy. Look at the other teams that made the semi's and the players they're bringing in.

We can't even compete with Liverpool in the transfer market anymore. Milan need to start being serious in the summer. We seem to think we can get anybody we want, when that's very far from the truth.

Back to topic...



Rumours about a 22M/euros deal to get Pato.
What do you think? Too much?

TBH I just don't want to hear Galliani saying "We should have got him when he was in Internacional" in few years. 

Not exactly. The problem is that we don't have depth in our squad. Just that.

And a team that have 14-15-16 good players for 90 matches and 5 competitions, can't be competitive in all of them. It's impossible.

We'll probably going to get the 1 or 2 cups and that's it. We do not have depth for a league.

they completly dominated serie a and beat the record for most pts, now if that isnt special then i dont know what isnt. dont be ignorant just cuz we're dealing with inter. they are an even better side from last year and us we'lll we've only gotten smaller which is a (boriello and oli gone, billy retired). 3 scudetti? thats being presumptious. Juve cheated but if i'm not mistaken milan we're in involved too wheter any of us like it or not. you think a team like milan with all the power and ressources it has cant cheat? i'm sur einter cheated too but thats not up to us to decide. in the end juve deserved those scudetti more than us because they were more consistent than us, even tho we outplayed them when it was 1v1.

Who wouldnt want stars? big clubs sign stars or up-coming stars, thats just the way it is and we havent signed a legit star since nesta (ronaldo was surplus was not a star when we got him and he wont be, he is a very good player) and thats a long time for  a club like milan. and now we have been promised a star for some time now and our management has fVcked up royally in that department. we dont need stars, but a new star + average signings.

ur telling me that milan was more tired than inter cuz italy played 2 more matches than argentina 

milan had janku (played 3 matches only), nesta (played 1 games), gattuso, pirlo, gila (barely played), cafu (played 4-5 matches), simic (played 3 matches), kaka (played 5 matches) we dint have many players that played much besides rino/pirlo

and inter had vieira who played all the games + argies @inter who played till 1/4s

not a huge diff if any....

we won the CL because of the following reasons:

-we had by far the easiest group so it was impossible not to qualify
-celtic was probably the easiest or 2nd easiest team we could of played for the round fo 16
-bayern was probably the 2nd easiest draw for us after PSV
-we got 2 away goals which is because of kaka
- san siro display was a collective effort so we coudl get revenge
-our win in the final was a mediocre display by pretty much everyone except 2 moments from kaka which inzaghi skilfully finished + liverpool couldnt finish their chances
-Overall everyone underestimanted us till we reached the finals

in the end we won the CL 90% cuz of kaka, and we cant rely on him doing this again if we wanna have any chance of winning anything this season.

Pato sets decision day 

Wednesday 1 August, 2007 ::: channel4.com

Highly-rated Brazilian striking starlet Alexandre Pato has set an August 15 deadline to decide whether he will join Milan or Real Madrid.

The 17-year-old, nicknamed ‘The Duck’, has been tracked by a host of top European sides including Chelsea, Liverpool and Inter, but is now ready to join either the Rossoneri or the Merengues.

Internacional of Porto Alegre have reportedly demanded £15m for the youngster’s signature, but his rescission clause is set at just £9m.

“My dad is on his way back from a tour of Italy and Spain where he got to know the set-up at Milan and Real,” Pato told website globoesporte.com.

“Pato will decide in the next few days,” his father confirmed. “Things surely can’t continue in this unsure manner so we have to decide one way and end this saga.

“We will resolve this before August 15 once and for all as there is no point in renewing his contract at Internacional.”

Pato will only leave the newly-promoted Colorado when the Brazilian Serie A season ends in December.

His coach in Internacional:

"I've worked with Robinho in Santos and I can say, without a doubt, he's at the same level."

He also coached Ronaldo (R99) early in his career and compare both:

"They're similar. The difference is that Pato is not as strong as Ronaldo but he's more skilled and has better 'dribble'.
I'd say he's kinda a mix between Ronaldo and Robinho."

____________________________________________________

Iarley, a Internacional player, his teammate said on the first day he saw Pato training:

"I've been to many places, I saw many players "appear" in the profissional football... but nothing compares to what I just saw.
"It was like... looking at Ronaldo [The Phenomenon] in the beginning of his career."

http://globoesporte.globo.com/ESP/Noticia/...72-4410,00.html