[B]Collovati: Milan Need Strikers[/B]

Former Azzurri defender Fulvio Collovati believes that Milan blundered in the transfer market during the summer and are in desperate need of some strikers.

The Rossoneri have been badly struggling for goals this season and due to the injury of Ronaldo, currently have just three fit strikers in their first team squad. These are the brilliant but ageing Filippo Inzaghi, the hugely disappointing Alberto Gilardino and the rookie French youngster Willy Aubameyang. 

“Milan have few alternatives in attack,” said Collovati. “I looked at the Inter team against Sampdoria and they had Ibrahimovic and Crespo on the field. Then I looked at the bench and they had three forwards in Adriano, Julio Cruz and a player that Milan blew the chance of buying, David Suazo. 

“I think there is no doubt that Milan had the wrong transfer strategy in the summer. They should have also purchased an alternative to Dida in goal and a younger centre midfielder than Emerson who can represent the future of Milan.” 

Collovati was a World Cup winner with Italy in 1982 and played for both Milan and Inter during an illustrious career. He also won a Scudetto with the Rossoneri in 1979 and later represented Udinese, Roma and Genoa in Serie A.

I hope this could turn into the same motivation to lift it again

We don't need any extra motivation to win the CL, but we do to win the Scudetto.

It's not a target for Milan. I am confident it will be next year, but not this year for sure. It is very obvious, ever since the start of the season.

What he said is true! Like it or not.

I see no reason to prioritise things like the Club World Cup over the league.. It's only 3 games, how can you make 3 games more important than a whole season? That's just silly.

It's not a target for Milan. I am confident it will be next year, but not this year for sure. It is very obvious, ever since the start of the season.

I don't like these conspiracy theories but,...maybe there is a purpose in our so obvious policy of giving up the league. Ever since Calciopoli. Hmh,..

No **** sheriff!

Currently all our hopes are in Ronaldo [returning] and Pato [making a uber-duper-super debut]

No offense, but if anyone honestly thinks Pato will make a noticable difference this season, they're kidding themselves. No 17 year old kid in todays footballing World is going to change anything.

As for Ronaldo, he can change things, unfortunately his withdrawal symptoms kick in and he becomes desperate to return to our injury room.

Yes we won't win it, but I don't believe it was planned. Maybe last year with all the Calciopoli mess. But this year, after winning the CL? To decide to go just for CL is stupid and shameful for Milan if so. They want both but just with minimum resources. It's not like we had poor summer just this year it's a tendency.

i didnt say I believe it, I said that's where our hopes/possibilites/chances are/lie!

TBH, I mainly agree with you! 

I know,  I know. I wasn't saying you believed it, you were just the one that mentioned that's who we are relying on which is true. And it's a mistake!

Maybe we as fans are relying on him, but the team isn't.

Maybe we as fans are relying on him, but the team isn't.

I doubt the management or the coach thought they could go for both with the current players we have on the bench. That is why I say it is obvious.
Then another thing on people who say Milan don't invest in the transfer market. Give me one team in Europe today that has the amount of experience, cohesion, and team spirit as this current team has ? I think we can beat anyone on our good day .. But we don't have enough depth to go the distance of Serie A, still that doesn't mean we wont reach a CL spot. hell, I think we will reach it comfortably, taking into consideration our comeback last yr.

I don't get why everyone is complaining ? Sure the team has only won one game out of a possible 5 till now, but that doesn't mean anything in the long run. We just have to accept this team as it is. They have proved their worth, it is just another season!

I wouldn't be so sure about that. In the league, it was R9s introduction that turned us around last season, we seem to be waiting for the same thing to happen this season, too.

As for Pato, I don't think anyone is relying on him yet, just hoping.

Yeah, we have all that but the fans want a competitive team that won't give up at the start and leave the center stage for Inter. Other teams at least try to win both. CL is great but it shouldn't be on the league's expense. Just CL spot is not good enough for Milan in the league!! and people complain because winning the league twice for the last 11 years is unacceptable. And they are complaining because all the problems were predictable and still the opacity of the board is pretty damn frustrating. Instead of building a balanced team that can go all the way in both, we are concentrating only on Cl in which we gonna get far but can easily fail too (couple injuries or bad shape of some players). If Milan not going for both I see it as failure even if win CL. We are not Liverpool.

trust me, I agree. But what I am trying to say, what is the point of all this talk ?!

People have been saying exactly the same thing u have in almost 70% of the threads in this forum. Addressing the same issue time and time again .. We all get it, we all know that misha .. What I am saying is, let us look at what the team is actually targeting. Cuz the season already started and all these talks have no relativity now, except by u saying that we have failed.

If so, then shut off ur tv, cuz we wont win the Scudetto ... That is for sure.

What else can you write about in the middle of all this league games. The season just started, the CL spring is month away and people are super frustrated with all this mess. Now we need to see Inter happy all year long and to pray for a the smooth ride in the CL.

p.s.2 When we beat catania tomorrow we wont be in such a bad position, we would be 5 or 6 points off the top, which IMO isn't bad considering our start

We are the only pretender that had such little success out of such week opponents.

Yeah, we have all that but the fans want a competitive team that won't give up at the start and leave the center stage for Inter. Other teams at least try to win both. CL is great but it shouldn't be on the league's expense. Just CL spot is not good enough for Milan in the league!! and people complain because winning the league twice for the last 11 years is unacceptable. And they are complaining because all the problems were predictable and still the opacity of the board is pretty damn frustrating. Instead of building a balanced team that can go all the way in both, we are concentrating only on Cl in which we gonna get far but can easily fail too (couple injuries or bad shape of some players). If Milan not going for both I see it as failure even if win CL. We are not Liverpool.

@R7

Yes, the league may not be our priority this season. but if we continue like this, we won't see any CL games next season!
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As for Pato... I think he can be far more useful than Pippo and Gila "in the league". personally I have a lot of faith in him. for me, he has the potential to surprise anyone.

Since when did Milan turn it on against the weak sides  

Come on R7, you know that if we were to face either Roma or Inter right now they would tear us to shreads, just like they did last season.

Let's face it we haven't been good enough this season, the only good performances I saw from our team were against Sevilla and Benfica. And I'm not saying that we haven't played well in other games because we played great against Palermo and Fiorentina, but despite how good those perfomances where they weren't complete performances because we couldn't finish any of our chances.

We have somthing missing, now whether that is Ronaldo or the team just simply doesn't give a cr@p about domestic game is yet to be seen, but right now I can't see us going up against a big team and winning.

Have faith. Hasn't Milan always taken up the challenge? Hasn't Milan made the impossible, possible over night

What do Roma and inter have that we don't have ?! a good bench  And ?! Well that is about it. Other than that, they would be motivated to play the Great Milan! This is a team that every player envies ... Every player wants to do good in front of Milan!

Last season, the team were broken in Serie A, which is why we lost both derbies and the Roma games ... The team was broken because inter were on a run away train and it was an unjust season.

IMO we are much stronger than inter or Roma. We can beat anyone. We are only lackinga  striker that scores!

And this season is turning out to be like last season

What do Roma and Inter have that's different?

Players who actually want to win the league and don't go out there to stroll games. They actually come out to play no matter the opponent or the players that the coach puts out, that's the difference.

And when have Milan stepped up to the challenge lastley in the league? Because I remeber us last season not being able to beat either inter or roma once. And let's not continue to make the same excuse we did last year, so far we are getting worse results then we did last season and this season we don't have any points penalties, we're actually supposed to start on a high from the CL win.

So I can't see why you still have hope that if we were to face a big team tomorrow like Barca or Inter that we would still win.

Until we get our acts together we won't be winning these types of games anytime soon. And yes it's partly the issue of the strikers but who's fault is that?