Milan: We nearly had Henry
Tuesday 28 August, 2007

Milan Vice-President Adriano Galliani has revealed that the Rossoneri came close to capturing Barcelona’s Thierry Henry at the start of the summer.

The European champions were linked with a host of top srikers including Andriy Shevchenko and Samuel Eto’o in pre-season, but settled for Brazilian starlet Alexandre Pato from Internacional.

However, Galliani has now explained just how close the Diavolo came to signing French ace Henry from Arsenal.

“Thierry Henry could have come to Milan,” he told Sky Sports Italia. “ We were ready to match the figure Barcelona paid Arsenal and Henry would have happily come here, but Barca added 50 per cent to his wages.

“It was clearly impossible to lure Ronaldinho in this transfer window,” he continued. “Our business is done for now, but we will have to see in future.

“I still believe that Barca may sell him at some stage. If they do put him up for sale we will try, but we don’t want to risk Real Madrid coming in for Kaka.”

Despite regular Press reports that Milan representatives were in negotiations with the Blaugrana regarding Ronaldinho, the Spainsh runners-up’s President Joan Laporta insists that Eto’o was the main subject of discussions.

“We never recieved an official offer from Milan for Ronaldinho,” he mainained on Radio Catalunya. “Eto’o is the player we had most offers for and the Rossoneri were very keen on him.”


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It'll be exactly the same, we can not compete with Chelsea when it comes to money.

What makes Galliani think it will be any different with R10?

Next year it will just be: "We could match anything Chelsea offered him, but then they added 50% on his wages which we just couldn't afford." It'll be exactly the same, we can not compete with Chelsea when it comes to money.

We can compete with any team financially, but Milan don't go 'crazy' in that way in recent years.

Anyway, it's his lost. Here he had more chances to be a starter.