I wouldn't be surprised if it really did happen in real life...



This I agree with! I haven't forgotten his mistakes in Bayern, Man U games. and of course his blunders in many other games in Serie A as well. he was perhaps lucky in not getting us eliminated from the CL, let alone helping us in it... only in Athens he had a good show IMO.

Well, it was so obvious during those closing days of last season .. Buffon was completely undecided about his future. The press kept asking him and articles were published every other day about his future with Juve (and yes his reason was CL football, he had to have one to leave Juve anyways ..).

But as we have all come to know Milan, the management are faithful to those who do good things for the team and the club. Now whether it was Galliani/Berlusconi/Carlo/or Dida himself .. We can only speculate .. In the end, it comes down to this .. We won the CL, Dida stayed and Buffon signed on for Juve.





Which part doesn't make sense?

When did he help us loose? Last season Dida was a bit above the averange keeper, with some bad goofs but also some brilliant saves. That's normal,...We seem to forget to rate our players not only by their perfomances but also for their behavior in the team. And from what I've seen and heard Dida is an essentil part of the Milan team.

No, Milan is not Liverpool. I don't care if they shipped off Dudek. I don't care about Liverpool and maybe I'm arrogant to say this but Milan is above all that and really does not have to look for examples. We are strong enough with our own methods. And what if we are in a crisis right now? For the past 7 years I (we) had so many good moments with our team and I really wasn't so hard to be a fan. Imagine how it felt to be a Fiorentina fan? Or even a Liverpool fan. They had in their last 7 years many black periods. So whatching Milan right now playing bad and doing not so good is not that hard for me. It makes my love to the club even stronger,...

do i really have to elobrate? two blunders vs. bayern and two vs. united in the late stages of the competition, we we're so close to not winning the only trophy we won last season because of dida it's as simple as that.

an thats fine you have ur opinion about liverpool but dont forget we about at the same level as liverpool 7 years ago and going thru a dark patch as well playing uefa caup and all..

Our dark period was an intermezzo between the great Capello-Sacchi era+the confusing Zach era and the Carletto era. While Liverpool, they came out of the dark with Houllier. Not to compare,..

Very succinctly put. We complain that Milan places too much sentimentality on players and blah blah, how we shouldn't really show gratitude for services rendered. Well it's this Milan's attitude that meant, players in the midst of the calciopoli, said they'd stay on even if we were relegated.

Baresi stayed on in Serie B. You think it was coz he wouldn't have any takers outside Milan?

I admit, sometimes we are lost for the reasons why some players still stick on, but as a club we have a tradition for valuing loyalty, even if the player concerned is no longer at his peak. This for me is a huge reason why I support the club, and while you can deal with one season of poor performance, a shallow act like a knee jerk dismissal from Milan would be a little harder to digest.

Dida renewed his contract two and a half months before we won in Athens.

I do agree with you there. But the Dida situation is different in my view. It's not just one bad season, it's plenty of them. And a player that makes his team look like a joke, and disgraces it's name does not deserve to be honoured by his club, he SHOULD be made an example of.

Check BigMac's post...

Thank u for clearing that up. But fact remains, Berlusconi was ready to take Buffon and Juve couldn't have done anything. Since we won that CL, as a tradition in this club, we remain faithful to our players.

And when you look at a club formed in 1899 and sure to go till 2099(touch wood), it is things like this that are ingrained into the DNA of the club and it's history, not the fact that a player made an @ss out of himself in some group stage match in 2007-08.

Like my HR head is fond of saying, sacrifices have to be made for the bigger picture to be realised.