AC Milan turns down Everton bid

Everton manager David Moyes is in the transfer market at the moment trying to sign a quality defender with experience from playing in Europe.

According to Daily Star a Moyes bid for AC Milan defender Dario Simic has been turned down by the Italians.

Everton is a bit thin in the defence line after Gary Naysmith left for Sheffield United and David Weir left the club in January to join Rangers.

This is the second request for him in recent time - didn't Lyon (or Marseille?) ask about a trade earlier this summer?

Oh so now everyone wants him  

He is a great sub ! Always motivated, always giving 100%

always loses his the guy his marking    or forgets his a defender. sometimes he gets confused and thinks he's a spectator lol   but yess i dont mind him staying as long as he doesnt play lol

Tomasson

Our season would be so different if we had him. Now he could play SS.

always loses his the guy his marking    or forgets his a defender. sometimes he gets confused and thinks he's a spectator lol   but yess i dont mind him staying as long as he doesnt play lol

Simic: No Need To Panic 

Dario Simic has rejected all Milan crisis talk and says that there is a long season ahead for the Rossoneri to prove their worth. 


The European champions have drawn their last three league games and travel to Sicily tomorrow night to face Palermo in a match they may need to win in order to keep pace with the leaders at the top-of-the-table.

“Against Palermo for us it's an important game. We go there looking for points,” said Simic. “Even though we drew three consecutive games against Fiorentina, Siena, and Parma, and we are not in a good position in the league, we know this competition is still very long, there's a lot of time to recover.

"We can still do great things. We have to think about last season, when we were in a much worse position than now, but we stuck together, we never gave up and ultimately lifted the Champions League. We have to do the same now, never give up. We are a strong, united group, which can win something important this season as well.

“When necessary, this team is able to show character, especially in games where the difference with the opponent is small. That's what happens in the Champions League, where after the group stages everything is decided in two-legged ties.”

The 32-year-old Simic joined Milan in 2002 from local-rivals Inter and has been mainly a bit-part player during his time at the Rossoneri. The Croatian stopper, who has played 91 times for his country, began his career way back in 1992 at hometown club Dinamo Zagreb.

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This is the type of motivation we need !!! This is the type of team that you need to win something this season

This is the first time Dario speaks out since,...ever...

Well, he doesn't have much to say really

Well, he doesn't have much to say really

He has more "to say" than Kaladze...

Going or staying, doesn't make much of a difference really

Now imagine Kaladze knowing he's the only alternative! How bad would he be then...

I prefer him over that dumb Kaladze. I hope he stays and fights for his place.

IzvrÅ¡ni dopredsjednik Milana Adriano Galliani otklonio je svaku mogućnost da Dario Å imić, koji ima ugovor do 30. lipnja 2009., napusti klub prije sljedećeg ljeta. Iako Juventus, kojem se ozlijedio Andrade, želi iskusno stopersko rjeÅ¡enje, a i naÅ¡ nogometni reprezentativac viÅ¡estruko odaÅ¡ilje poruke da će u zimskom prijelaznom roku tražiti odlazak ako će i dalje biti daleko od terena, Å¡efovi u Milanellu, poučeni lanjskim iskustvom kada se nakon nove godine ozlijedila cijela obrana, ne žele se odreći Å imićevih usluga.

I wouldn't diss Darmian yet. dst thinks he's got something.

I wouldn't diss Darmian yet. dst thinks he's got something.

I do. And if Simic's departure means he's going to get a rare chance then I'm all for it... even if I'd be much more delighted to see Kaladze go... 

I don't know. We don't seem to have that direct link we used to with the primavera. Now they all seem to be there just to make up the numbers.

I don't know. We don't seem to have that direct link we used to with the primavera. Now they all seem to be there just to make up the numbers.

Or they might just be to make up the numbers as they don't have the quality to add to the team.

And you don't find this strange? This sudden dip in quality? All in a space of 5-10 years.

I wouldn't say dip in quality, rather to test them out in the first team. And see how they respond. Who knows, u might find a Costacurta or better yet Maldini in there (God knows we need a left back )

They will get their chances, there is still the Coppa and several other opportunities that they can play in.

Galliani had made it clear that Milan would focus on bringing in those young players into the first team (a UEFA regulation that was passed last yr ..).

like?
Since when has Galliani become a man on whose words you can trust in? And we already have in our team the two youth products that the new rule requires... it's Oddo and Brocchi!!

I guess if he gets sold we can bring in Canini or promote a Primavera player (Darmian possibly? or maybe a recall for Marzoratti who has played well for Italy U23)