I'd never think Pato would miss a chance like that.

Well, it happens to the best.

Cutting ties. I wonder if there's a third party involved though.

http://youtu.be/13bxjC-C8m4

I wanna know how many muscle strains he's suffered ever since he left us.

So he's able to run on that sog-fest of a pitch without any trouble but one good sprint on the San Siro turf and he's out for 3 months...

No one can ever convince me that something wasn't wrong with how he was treated here by our medical staff. Just doesn't make any sense

@ x-off. I don't think I've heard of a single muscle related injury with Pato since he's been gone

True, he is yet to get injured like that again. I think he missed a whopping 1 game at some point because of [a different kind of] injury but that's about it. absolutely nothing like what would happen to him at Milan on a regular basis yet.

Former Milan striker Alexandre Pato spoke to SporTV about the injury hell that he experienced at Milan.

"I went through 18 months at Milan where I kept on getting injured. And now everyone can see what's happening there now: the players keep on sustaining injuries. It proves that the physical problems I experienced at Milan weren't my fault. I paid dearly for my injuries and I'm paying a price that doesn't depend on me. I was playing, getting injured, recovering and then going back in to see the physio. It's the fault of the doctors who were forcing me to return to the pitch too soon. The treatment at Milan is different to the one I get here. They work a lot on physique in the gym, swimming pool and physiotherapy. At Milan, they do 20 days of work in just a week, so it's only normal that the body can't handle it. I haven't had any injuries this season."

And to think some said he will never be able to play football again I'm glad he said all these. the more you embarrass the old fools that run the club, the better.

It's about time someone speaks out about what we're all thinking. Now we need someone still with the team to speak out.

I'm sure there's a handful on here who don't think that way

I didn't say who and certainly didn't mean you. what's with the thing?

I'm really not sure what you meant, I know this forum can sometimes appear as a battlefield - but I think on the topic of injuries we all agree. There are way too many of them connected with Milan.

Yeah but when it happened to Pato it was him being made of glass, injury prone, blah blah.

Oh, that? Yeah, agreed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydpxVYDS5dA

Oh dear...

Trying to be too smart, he's a terrible penalty taker

holy **** !!

Dida i thought he retired , rofl pretty bad pato... i wondered if he would end up in the premiership or la liga or even france or has his injury time at Milan scarred him too much , i would think he would join a team like Tottenham or psg.

It hasn't even been a full year since he joined Corinthians and he went there as someone so physically fucked up people thought would never fully recover. I can't see him staying in Brazil forever.

Awful miss btw

He can stay physically fit for the rest of his life, but he'll never be the same old Pato again. The injuries have destroyed him.

He won't hes still very young in football terms. 24 turning 25

I think Spurs were very close to getting him this summer, don't know what happened but I remember reading some headlines about it

It seems injuries were a temporary thing, I think his bulking up changed him as a footballer tbh. yeah he'll never be the Pato of Internacional/early Milan days that was quick and comfortable on the ball, but I still haven't lost hope on him being good in front of the goal yet (that doesn't include penalties!).

But again, it's hard to tell since we don't watch him play regularly. a good goal here and a bad miss there doesn't show you the whole picture.

Yeah, I wouldn't write him off completely as destroyed yet..

Pato always gets a lot of slack from press and fans... He had it here, he's had it in Brazil. Globoesporte did a piece on him today, noteworthy because apparently his coach reprimanded him in front of the whole team, calling him "irresponsible brat."

But Pato brings it upon himself. A gold nugget from the article:



If you don't know any portuguese, the paragraph says that the Corinthians fanbase was pissed at Pato because he left hurriedly after (losing) a match in order to go to a Beyoncé concert

Beyonce's booty worth it

speak for your self , Al jazeera shows the brazil league here and i'm always keen on what Ronaldinho and Pato are getting up to over there!

I didn't speak for you.

Well he's tone deaf but it doesn't mean he doesn't care just because he did that for ****'s sake!

Corinthians has one of the two largest fanbases in Brazil (the other one being Flamengo). A fair section of their fans are thugs, sorta like their version of curva sud. They usually don't tolerate lack of commitment.

Corinthians' ultra fans are threatening their club to sell Pato, now. Apparently they didn't forgive to him the shameful penalty kick against Gremio, which kicked Corinthians out of the Copa do Brasil semi-finals, and furthermore they don't appreciate his extravagant lifestyle. In a recent interview, Pato said that he's very attracted to designer clothes, sports cars and expensive watches, declarations which enraged the fans. One of the phrases they sprayed on the club's offices was "You go to too many parties, the peace is over".

Link

How can a striker be so bad at penalties? I only remember him taking 2 for Milan and missed them both.

Well well, now...

Pato elected worst player of the year (Pereba) in Brazil by Goal.com

Comment #1: "Nobody deserves to be called Pereba, but Pato has shown to be disinterested, arrogant and a has-been at 24"
Comment #2: "The worst investment of the year in Brazil"
Comment #3: "Like Uncle Ben in Spider-Man used to say: from great power come great responsibilities. Failure"

So glad we sold him.

I do feel really sorry for him.

Glad we sold him, sorry that we failed to take care of him. imagine if Man U and SAF had snatched him at 17 not us... he has to stat from scratch and if he doesn't, won't be a big deal, Brazil has had lots of wasted talents like Pato.

Not selling him to PSG for €35 million becomes a greater mistake as time passes by. I called this sh*t! Not doing the Tevez-Pato "swap" was one the most asinine things ever done by Silvio, yet people were actually happy that we kept the "talent" Pato and didn't sign the "rotten apple" Tevez. Right...

He's not interested in Brazil because it's a step down from Italy. He's gone back to one of the poorest nations on Earth with its backwater league.

He did have talent but sadly succumbed to the glamour of the football superstar lifestyle. Doesn't have the Beckham savvy to get away with it though.

Why is he still your avi?

Exactly. Most people blame it on his injuries, which is comprehensible, but the guy's behaviour outside the pitch wasn't exactly impeccable. First getting married at 18 only to file for divorce a year later, then dating the president's daughter, not to mention his going to parties and events even while he was injured. Personally, I believe that someone with a huge desire and motivation would have been able to pull through. Pato just wasn't strong-willed enough. Like you perfectly put it, he succumbed to the glamour of the football superstar lifestyle.

So, now that we have SES entering basically the same cycles Pato did, I'm interested to know. How many injuries did he have with Corinthians so far?

Too lazy when it comes to dealing with MF control panel I'd been wanting to do it for a year now if I'm honest. I'll gt that sorted out.

I would say one or two injuries.

But IIRC neither of them were muscular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZfyuPf1aao#t=17

Oh boy...

He is is a 34 year old Emile Heskey.

That last clip where he's trying to speak English is too hilarious.

Almost better then Mourinho?