In fairness, Belletti did score his penalty!

The best thing that can happen for Chelsea is Drogba to leave and Sheva to play more. Drogba goes missing too often, he has great games like against Liverpool in the semi, but where was he in the EPL this season? 8 goals, what a joke! Even Lampard scored more than him, and he missed 18 games in the league through injury!

OMG controcampo said that we are looking for Mancini from Rome


another nightmare is coming ! this would be very better that they buy a whole squad of a Serie B team and make us happy than link us to these names as TOP players !!

Please...!! Borriello and now Mancini??

If we really want Mancini then **** it!
If this is just the newspapers linking us with him then you understand where we're at...

Hrm. New rumor. According to Le Parisien, Milan are interested in Manchester United left back Patrice Evra.

In Sammarco related news the bosses are keen to get rid of Emo and Brocchi to make way for him. A brilliant step in the right direction for me

Sammarco himself said he would rather stay another year with Samp, but wouldnt resist a move back home

The transfer window isn't even open yet ... Everything is being thrown around. Even a 'Drogba+Carvalho+cash=Kaka' BS .. What are you gonna comprehend and what are you gonna let loose ?!


The thing is, you guys need to ease off a bit and enjoy the summer ... Borriello, Mancini, Flamini, Shevchenko (there might be more, there might not be a Mancin, still ..) etc; these guys would just add the much needed depth to the squad. As for BIG name signings, Zambrotta, Ronaldinho, etc ... They will come through, it's just that it's too early.


All I know is that Gilardino will be replaced with a world class striker and a really good center back will be brought in. And if Dida leaves, there will be a replacement. Now who will those replacements be, the club must evaluate, and such things rarely happen overnight.

you mean wouldn't!??

No he means...he would. If I were a young, upcoming mid-fielder, I'd certainly pick a team that didn't have Gatusso, Pirlo , Seedorf, Kaka and possibly R20. The idea is you want to stand out of a crowd for all the right reasons.

Oops. First misstep of the transfer window. It would seem that Hugo Lloris is about to sign a contract with Lyon. Someone screwed up.

So Braida gave an interview to a radio station in which he said that Eto'o is more useful to Milan than Ronaldinho. He also said that acquiring Eto'o would be harder as more money would be involved. Finally, he said that the Zambrotta deal is basically done and that it was only a matter of fixing the final price.

link to article on Sky sports. It reflects what the Italian articles are saying.

Not sure whether this is another gambit to get Barca to lower their price for Ronaldinho or not.

great... let the transfers begin... and Milan watch.

The interesting thing about our transfers is that although we had 2 years of (a serious) transfer-silenzio we still keep bringing up comments like no way in Milan, he is shite, not Milan-class, etc. (me included sometimes)

I get it, we all want only the best players to be here and defend our colours. But isn't that a bit out of the picture by now? We easily say no to Ronaldinho, Eto'o, Drogba, Mancini, Shevchenko and probably every name someone could bring up. Everytime we bring up a new name, there's like 1/2 of the people here yelling NO. In fact, IMO - all those players are very good and would eventually be an enrichment and supplement to our current squad. But what's the deal? Is there any player in Europe we could all agree for a concensus? Any player that transfer would be supported by 80% of us? Hmh,..

R7 made a good point - he separated 2 missions: a) getting the world class players who bring the flavour and make the core and the additional players for rotation and depth (like Flamini); maybe even c) the kind of player that would give us security in Serie A.

That's why I think we could use Shevchenko or Mancini. They are tested in Serie A and that is what we need most - players who won't wait to adapt; players who can easily start again from where they stopped last season. Cause after all, there's no CL next season and the best thing that could happen to us is a solid early league start that would ensure us between 1st and 4th place.

I'm for Brocchi exiting but I'd rather we keep Emerson. You never know when there's a extra DM needed...

Yeah sorry typo

Edit: FFS we cant afford to miss out on Lloris

I wouldn't be surprised if this was our squad come the end of summer

GK: Kalac & Fiori - Kalac will be told he can start for the good job he did in the 2nd half of last season.

DF: Oddo, Bonera, Simic, Nesta, Kaladze, Maldini, Favalli, Jankulovski, Zambrotta, Grimi. - That's 10 defenders, Galliani will say we're more than covered at the back, only Zambrotta coming in.

MF: Gattuso, Ambrosini, Seedorf, Flamini, Gourcuff, Brocchi/Emerson (I believe only 1 will leave), Sammarco, Kaka' - Flamini was great for Arsenal last season, we don't need anymore midfielders, that why we can afford to sell one.

FW: Pato, Sheva, Boriello, Inzaghi, Ronaldo, Paloschi. - 6 strikers is enough. Will give us the chance to loan Paloschi out and we'd still have 4 fit strikers, even with R9 injured. Pato is like a new signing as it's his first full season, Boriello is like a new signing and did well last season, Sheva IS a new signing, out big signing of the season. Inzaghi showed that he's still World class at the end of last season, then we have R9 in January who will be like our January purchase, why would we need anyone else?

^^ Gosh. Lots of pessimism. The market hasn't even officially opened yet!

FWIW, I really doubt Grimi will return. He seems happy enough in Lisbon and it sounds as if Sporting want to keep him. As for homegrown talent, we might see Marzoratti return or see Darmian/Bruscagin bumped up from the Primavera. Not sure if Albertazzi is still considered too young (he's 17) but he's an option too.

I also expect more than just Sammarco and Borriello to show up in the first team from former Primavera players. Not sure who it'll be but I believe there'll be 1-2 more than that (this is where we get part of the depth for the league that Fillipo's talking about).

As for the traitor (sorry, I know alot of you like him, but I...don't, after what he did), I'd rather not see him in a Milan jersey again but we'll see. There could be worse fates.

If we don't make at least 5 or 6 more very good transfers on top of what I put, then we'll be going nowhere in my opinion.

man lloris going to lyon that is a dissapointment

we need to buy : zambrotta, lloris,eto,boriello,sagnol,canani and zapata and we are done for this year (and if emerson were to leave then bring in semarco)

Now that isn't a bad idea - Sagnol will be free. That's ideal Milan or Juve stuff..

is this true what i'm hearing about lloris? sooo typical of milan

this has happened countless times over the past 2 years

C'mmon, it's not like we've lost Buffon. Maybe we got a deal with Coupet? Or someone better. But nothing's official yet, so take it easy..

Braida just said Eto'o would be more useful for Milan than Ronaldinho and that our interest in him is real.

5 days ago Galliani said Eto'o is not our target.

Geez.

Probably Gourcuff told him how much Carletto likes the French...


You should not have gone there... unfortunately we did lose Buffon... (according to Berlusconi)

I think it's about time we had a bit of a reshuffle at the top. It's not good enough anymore. To begin with it was just annoying, now it's becoming pathetic and something you'd expect at a circus.

no we already did that last season...thing is we need these types of young propects if we are going to rebuild.

the point is we struggle to finalize the smallest of deals... this is getting pathetic. and it's not because we're not after players, we are getting owned on the transfer market.

coupet? the guy is 35.

After Zaccardo, Barzagli will probably end up in Germany too (Wolfsburg). He's been offered a 3M€/year contract (Fiorentina gave him the half).

And Deschamps is linked with Chelsea. It would be very good for them.

You're right. Obviously Champions League football plays a bigger part in transfers than Galliani first thought.

The transfer market isn't officially opened and none of the rumors have yet been made official yet. I don't think there's a reason to worry just yet.

thats the frustrating part...this would not have been a problem had we made proper signings last summer when we had CL football and certain players were available.

I agree with you there. Can't tell you how many times I've wished that Berlusconi hadn't vetoed the Ribery transfer, for example.

Ribery is nothing. Next year his performances will drop heavily in the Bundesliga. He did the same thing in Turkey and France, he impressed for his first year and then laid back and stopped performing ...

still i'd take him any day. he's still considerably young.

No, we don't need a young keeper, that's why we have our primaveras. We need a quality first keeper, and Lloris would be a gamble.


Exactly. Why all the talk about not finishing up the small deals when the window's still aren't open? And we did secure Flamini and Zambro, haven't we? Well, that's something to start from...

right now we need we a decent keeper, period. i dont care if he's young or middle aged, as long as we have someone for long term and not another quick fix like milan has done recently. i mean would it be the end of the world to have a young keeper? it's not like kalac is any better, he's had plenty of blunders and so did dida. it's not like experience always makes a difference.

sorry to say we dont have any primaveras that could join the first team and make an impact, but there are plenty of young prospects out there that could.

anyways it's not so much the finishing deals off but more other clubs swooping in at the last minute and stealing our transfers, it's getting tiring.

If the Amantino Mancini deal is an exchange with Borriello, then... it will be lovely.

I always liked Mancini. He can be useful as he can play in almost every single place in the attack.

IF we lose Lloris that would be very bad. Coupet would be a very stupid transfer.


There is still other keepers on the market though,

amelia
akinfeev
ochoa

in terms of keepers we can target.

there is

hildebrand
enke


....

lol its so funny thay we think we know so much about football
"If we buy ... we will win every single competition there is to win"
I think we should just calm down and let the big kids do their job

fixd.

Time for a new one since it seems Zambrotta will come.

BRING US ADLER!

Okay, realistically I know it's a long shot but he has been and continues to be my first pick for keeper if we get someone young. And it's NOT just because he's cute. This guy's really really good. I doubt Leverkusen would let him go easily, though.

Yap. It's very unlikely to sign him. He has signed a new contract with Leverkusen just half a year ago. Plus Leverkusen want to build a team that can compete for the Meisterschaft. And for that they need the (atm second, Lehmann is slightly better) best German goalie.

I'd rather we bring back Foggia than buying Ribery. He's young and a youth product, but since Carlo is staying another 2 years we won't use any wingers

Oh and about Lloris I think if Lyon are making him their number one, it means a lot about his quality in my opinion ... anyway we'll have the chance to see him perform next year ... in the CL!

One must give Ribery credit. I can't stand him or his team (the latter I really hate) but he's been amazing. He scored 11 goals which is wworth even more considering Bayerns midfield isn't the best and he lacks support.

Sure, he's been great for his team this season and deserves the credit. Don't get me wrong, I'm just saying that next year he'll probably perform less, exactly like he did at Marseille, of course I could be wrong but only time can tell ...

If we are going to bring in a winger we should be looking at Abate, he has been very impressive for Italy recently

^^ +1

What whoearthepatriots said. Abate has REALLY impressed me.

From what I was of him, I think he's great pace but no particular dribbling or crossing skills and for a winger it's more than necessary, but I saw only one match so I can't really have an opinion about him ...

i'm sorry we've sold oli...he deserved another chance, with all the problems he had at milan (in that time...)