I thought Guardian would be no 1, but second isnt too bad

Times is alright but Independant was dissapointing. I get alot of info from the Guardian so everything is alright

Where do you live CMF?

Nottingham

The Milan management has agreed to sell Abbiati to Palermo. According to studionews.it .. Palermo have reach a basic agreement with Milan, the only obstacle is a fiscal one between Atletico Madrid and Milan. They will meet him his agent in the coming days to sort it out.

Gilardino - Fiorentina, official at the start of the week !!

Mediaset is reporting that the deal has been ironed out and that all parties have reached a common ground, only an official notice is what remains.

Gilardino will go to Fiorentina for 15M euro and will be on a 1.5M/season contract for the next five yrs. The bonuses on the contract are by the number of games that he plays and the number of goals that he scores. He will also get a sponsorship deal with Della Valli (@Tennie spell) .. Which ultimately would get him 2M/ season in total. This deal, is said to resemble the one Toni was on.

Would have preferred to loan him out... Gila with Mutu...sounds dangerous. We better get Ronaldinho.

Plus he will be with Prandelli again .. Meaning he would kick start his career. I think it's better for him, and I wish him luck

Definately

Yep, it seems that the Gila deal will probably be announced on Monday or Tuesday. I do wish him well with the Viola.

Two keepers are set to be sold very soon too. R7 mentioned the Abbiati-to-Palermo bit. In addition to that one, Cagliari want to buy Storari (he's currently on loan to them). The sale of these two (plus the unfortunate knee injury Coppola picked up a couple of days ago) should clear the way for the official purchase of a new keeper.

cheers for the update m8 overall good news hopefully we get a new keeper

Good news is that we started early negotiations. That's a clear break with the tradition started 2-3 years ago. The early Flamini deal, Zambro negotiations, clearing the squad...all good news.

EDIT: Gilardino will play CL. How ironic...

http://sport.es/default.asp?idpublicacio_P...ticia_PK=512495

Sport says Barcelona have a done deal with a Milan player.

Any bets? I wish it was Kaladze.

Dida... Oddo maybe too.

Get Kaladze! He can playat CB AND LB! He's great!!!

(except for when he forgets he's in a football field)

My bets would be Gourcuff or Kaladze..maybe Dida.

We can't afford to loose Oddo. Who's gonna be the primavera player then? With Palo loaned out and Brocchi exiting...

EDIT: Could it be Ricardo Oliveira?

Yes, Oliveira seems to be the most realistic one.

[ Oliveira + £15-20 million ] = [ Zambrotta + Ronaldinho ]

Zambrotta claims that he has a contract running till 2010 with Barca and that he is fine in Spain. He also confirms that there arte talks between Barca and Milan and if he was to weigh it up, he wants to return to Italy.

He also wishes Milan luck in getting the Scudetto next season, with or without him.



When he comes in .. ohh my oh my !! An all Italian back four !!

Oddo - Nesta - Maldini © - Zambrotta

They'd all need to improve though! Oddo had a very poor season, Maldini looks past his best, made alot of mistakes - notably in the big games (Inter & Juve) - Zambrotta was fairly poor at Barca.. Nesta was one of our better players last season, but still not up to his own standards.

Italian papers are claiming that Borriello is close to a return to the Rossoneri. In fact, it is only a mere detail that separates this junction; a 6M euro deal, which Milan will pay without any hesitation.

Then there is a new contract that awaits Borriello; 3M/season till 2013.

I didn't expect this. I thought we'd sell him/use him in a deal for another player.

The Borriello deal apparently also includes Luca Antonini (okay by me) and Davide Di Gennaro (not okay by me, I'd rather we kept him).

Also...I'm watching Abate play for the U23s. I hope we bring him back -- he's been very impressive. (he wears the yellow DUCK boots too).

..that wasn't expected! Bad news...

Not really .. He needs to get Serie A experience. Let him go play, if he is good enough, Milan can haul him back in

(There's nothing official on acmilan.com about any deals, by the way. Just looked).

One thing is a loan deal or a co-ownership. But to ship him off...hmh,..

Anyway the Croatian newspapers are suggesting that defender Dario Knezevic (Livorno) is up to a move. Apperently he's wanted by Lokomotiv (M), Milan and Chelsea.

Other news report that Marco Amelia is negotiating a Bayern move..

Well, as much as I wanna see our Primavera break into the first team squad. I also think, he should be given a chance to perform in Serie A. At Milan, he wont get a chance, he doesn't have a chance atm. Loaning him, co-ownership or selling him .. I believe the board know what's best when assessing these things. Who knows, maybe he would turn out to be as good as Broochi

Quick clarificaiton re: Di Gennaro. Mediaset's reporting that he'll be going to Genoa as part of the Borriello deal, but on LOAN only. In this case, I'm all for letting him hang with the Grifone for a year -- he's got a lot of talent (I actually saw him play last year) and he apparently didn't get a whole lot of time at Bologna - though he got consistently good marks when he did take the pitch (average somewhere around 6.5, which is very good for a sub).

Fillipo, what can you tell us about Knezevic?

Talking of Chelsea, whatever happened to that Ivanovic that they signed. I remember they signed him for around £10m, and I've yet to see him play.

oli is not a milan player anymore, good to see Milan actually doing some work.
i just hope they start buying some players instead of selling

how much money we get for him?10 milion?

where did he go???

oh ok zaragoza

It's still early

It's gonna be a loooong summer of tug-o-wars going on

In his debut for Croatia scored against Hong Kong. Also made a excellent match against Italy in our 2-1 win. He's 26 years old, but has not much international experience. He's aerial strong and makes excellent headers (frequently scores goals) and was overall one of Livorno's best players last season. His tackling is fair, but he could be more pacey. He's a good prospect and a classic CB backup. I'd rate him a bit below Å imić and over Kaladze.

Zaragoza is buying Oliveira (10M/euros) to sell him some weeks after for a bigger price.

It's not Oliveira, 'cause he just signed to stay at Zaragoza on a permanent basis. It won't be Dida either; remember all the rumors that he was going to Barca from last season before he signed his extension? The Barca brass eventually shot those down.

this makes no sense if it is true than we suck on transfers

Not if Zaragoza had that clause in our loan-deal to them.

EDIT: Zaragoza bought him for 10m, according to their site.

Correct. There was a buy clause in the loan deal. Zaragoza just used it. The money is partly going towards buying back Borriello i assume

EDIT: £10m or 10m Euros?

The Italian press is reporting 10m Euros.

-We bought Oliveira for around 25M/euros and sold him for 10M.

-We bought Gilardino for 25M and sold him for 15M.

It is annoying. Especially when we have so called experts working on our transfer dealings.

Oliveira was a bad buy. He's good in La Liga but...not so much in Serie A. It happens sometimes.

Gilardino was a buy that also didn't work out -- on the face of things, it should have. He was immense for Parma, but I think the pressure of playing at a place like Milan got to him. As an Italian friend says, 'the jersey was too heavy for him'. Better for us (so we don't pay his wages and see him perform poorly) and better for him that he goes somewhere else.

Let's just hope that Borriello (assuming that one goes through and he's not just sold on to Napoli or something) doesn't turn out to be another Gila.

i have no hopes on borrillio may be he can score those overhead kicks and volleys in coppa

The only thing I like in Borriello is that he's from our youth-system.

I think we played more than we should have for Gilardino but I believe it was a risk worth taking... it's too bad it didn't pay out in the end... but Oliveira's transfer is one of the worst in the history of football!


Same for me! We should offer him and 25m to Napoli for Hamsik and Santacroce! Yeah I know it won't happen...

There are moe stories tonight linking us with bringing Sammarco back from Samp.

Also, apparently Shevchenko is due to meet with Abramovich in coming days to see if Abramovich will let him return to Milan for free (that's Galliani's condition and for once I don't mind Fester being cheap).

We bought him for £12m so its quite a loss. Im sure if we whored him out we could of got more

Surely a bad move before a new manager comes in?

I still think if this guy gets given the chance and gets played week-in, week-out he will score. He scored against Bolton what happens next Belletti gets preferred to him to take a penalty, yeah good confidence boost...

Anelka's just as, if not more useless still he's not getting that much stick.

I don't particularly care if it's a bad move for Chelsea.

Insisting on a free is, I think, a GOOD move on the part of Milan.