http://goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=731365

though i dont really like ade, team with him would look awesome...we need one striker of that "qualitiy" (even though, you can find tall players everywhere)




that's 4-5-1 when defending, and awesome 4-3-3 when attacking

The thing is neither Pato or Kaka can offer anything when defending. So you don't really get the benefit of a 4-5-1 when defending.

Galliani explains transfer troubles

Wednesday 11 June, 2008

Milan Vice-President Adriano Galliani is struggling in his search for a new San Siro striking star.

The Rossoneri had to rely heavily on a resurgent Pippo Inzaghi for goals last term and are looking to galvanise their arsenal ahead of next season.

The Diavolo faithful are eagerly anticipating the arrival of a big-name marksman, but Galliani has found it far from simple to snare his man.

“We wrote to Arsenal to ask about Emmanuel Adebayor, but we didn’t get a reply,” [] he explained on the Milan Channel.

“We are waiting to see whether Chelsea let us know the price tag they have put on Didier Drogba over the next few days.

“As for Samuel Eto’o, we have spoken to the player and opened negotiations, but the figure is high at the moment.

“Dimitar Berbatov and Mario Gomez? Our interest in those two has declined and I think if a great striker arrives he will be one of the first three I mentioned.

“It absolutely won’t be Andriy Shevchenko given that he is not for sale, while Ronaldinho is very difficult,” he concluded.

Milan have already brought Azzurri hitman Marco Borriello back to base after his 19-goal haul with Genoa last term.

They might be playing this one similar to the cloak and dagger they did for Pato. Then again they might now.

So Adebayor, Drogba and Eto'o with Carletto wanting Eto'o the most.

Maggio signs for Napoli

GALLIANI YOU MOTHER ******!

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Thats just ******. At this moment in time, were going to be in the same boat once again. I have no idea what management is thinking. This team is old. Yes its capable of a phenomenal performance when its fresh. For a whole season no. For half a season maybe. DISGRACEFUL. Even though the market isn't officially open, that means nothing. And secondly you can't place your hat on passed glory. Its about now. F*cken do somethin galliani, not only are you not bringing in quality players, but your giving other players a reason to leave.



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We need a new transfer director. Napoli have Pier (something) Marino(!), who has bought Hamsik, Lavezzi, Gargano, Santacroce and now Maggio. Even the Viola are doing a better job than us, Gila for example. We have bought a freebie (who is actually good for once) a fading Italian star and a bunch of ex Primavera players. For once i was hopeful that we would have a good mercato, but loosing Maggio has seriously p*ssed me off

Fresh Prince is right. We are going to end up in a mediocre position again if only a "Top Class" striker is bought

Maggio singed for 5 year for 8M€. I just want to say something about him, did you guys ever think about the fact that he didn't want to play for us? His agent said several times that Napoli would the perfect club for him, so maybe Milan couldn't do anything about it ...

Anyhoo, Galliani said that the striker will be Adebayor, Drogba or Eto'o (Galliani said about him that he's too expensive!). I want Eto'o but Drogba is the kind of player we miss ... I'd consider it a catastrophe if Adebayor ever wears Milan jersey! (Thank God wenger doesn't want to sell him)

There's a rumour about a swap between Oddo and Sagnol, and Frey's rumour is coming back. Apparently Abbiatti will be loaned again to Atletico according to a Spanish paper and Frey could join Milan, Simic would be a part of the deal.

R.Palacio snubs the SS and wants Spanish football, he's waiting for other offers to decide if he'll play in Serie A or not!

Oh, and Gomez is linked with both Bayern and Barcelona!

Maggio, yet another missed target.

Who said Maggio was a target?!

We Can't Afford Boruc - Ancelotti

Italian giants Milan cannot afford £10 million for Celtic goalkeeper Artur Boruc, according to their coach Carlo Ancelotti...


The Rossoneri - also in the hunt for a striker such as Samuel Eto'o, Emmanuel Adebayor or Didier Drogba - report that they do not have the money to swoop for Celtic stopper Boruc, despite Ancelotti even admitting he wanted the keeper a year ago.

“I wanted to bring Boruc to Milan about a year ago, but now the price is too high,” Ancelotti told the Daily Mail. “Milan cannot afford Boruc. We made some efforts but it did not happen and now I have three goalkeepers in any case.”

It is suspected that a certain amount of money is being put aside for a striker - who will be the priority signing - and only leftovers will be available to purchase a goalkeeper, should Ancelotti look to briing in more quality to back up his highly criticised current crop of keepers.

Milan's general manager, Ariedo Braida, has hinted that Boruc is still a possibility. “Boruc is a wonderful goalkeeper, he has been incredible for the past couple of years. We are going to lose Dida, possibly Zeljko Kalac, so we need to bring in a new one.

“Boruc has a big price tag, £10 million is a lot of money , but I cannot exclude anything.”

What can be read into these contradictory statements remains to be seen, particularly as speculative rumours from Sky Sport Italia this morning alleged that Emmanuel Adebayor has agreed to sign for the club.



So Dida out , Kalac out , Boruc in , ? in ?

I have a proposal...why don't we all open a Milanfan fund for transfers and donate our own money for transfers?

http://www.milanfan.com/forums/index.php?s...c=5780&st=2670#

Yeah, that's what I wanted you to understand, it's the media not once a Milan official said that Maggio was a target, so ...

Oh, and buy the way, 10£ is a looooooooooot of money

Anyway, Vucinic will soon be a 100% Roma player!

Yup, plus, Milan did make an offer, it's just so obvious what type of a role Milan offered him in comparison to Napoli .. I mean he would have been on teh bench most of the time at Milan, while at Napoli they might have given him a starting place.

Still, he is a promising lad, but no worries .. The midfield is the least of Milan's worries at the moment, its the defense and attack that I am interested in.

big deal, chill out guys. Maggio in most cases would be just a bench player, its better to let him go to napoli so he can improve. Its june 11. There is about 2 months and 20 days and you can't let the media getto you. I'm very certain that we'll sign another midfielder and attacker. Right now the big problem is in the CF department. Drogba is too expensive,sheva isn't forsale, were not interested in benzema/gomez/berba, and eto is too expensive, and adebayor wenger wont sell.

The fish doll looks up from his bowl of sangria and suggests David Villa for the striker position.

(course, his price has now tripled after that hat trick)

hes a good choice but i think he wants england. I say we go for gomez but somehow we dont want him.

Have you seen Maggio play? i guess you havent otherwise you wouldnt have said that. Maggio was one of the stars of Serie A last season. He is easily better than all the full backs we currently have

Zambrotta included?

No. Zambrotta is a little bit better than Maggio

and how many good seasons does he have left? zambro is no cafu or serginho he isnt going to play on till he's 35...

Any source about Milan's offer for Maggio, I personally never read any official interest in him! Oh and Maggio is a WB.

I posted it in this thread ... or the Serie A Anyways, I remember posting it not long ago .. The source was either Tuttosport or Controcampo ..

I don't care. But I'd say 3 at least. That's enough.

we have oddo/bonera/zambrotta/favalli/janku for SB. When was he gonna play? Under carlo he would be on the bench like bonera.

Right now our biggest concerns are a striker/Am and possibily a goalie. We really dont need any other players. Unless we get rid of players there is no point bringing players in.

Where would he play?

This is a club that is so desperate for fullback depth we had to rely on a centre back and 34 year old Inter reject.

Maggio is superior to all those except Zambrotta. The way Zambro has been playing recently it wouldnt be long before Maggio surpassed him. 9 goals in Serie A and countless assists would command a starting place.

he might have a season or two left in him, but 3 at least?!?!?he will be 32 in Feb so i'm taking nothing for granted.

the point is we've reached the end of the cycle, hence we must rebuild. and we arent going forward if we continue these quick fixes. we NEED younger players.

this is what got us in this mess in the first place. this whole mentality that milan only sign old players has only been around for the past few season, it wasnt always this way.

Good ol' same habit of getting freebies or +30 yo's...

I wouldn't bother if we had a fresh and young/mid20's team but the problem is like last season OUR TEAM IS SO OLD that we run out of steam by the 60th minute.

Against Arsenal that was obvious. We're old, slow and need a revolution. Thinking this way is just pathetic and I'm more than prepared for another season 30 points behind the leader being humilliated by Inter, Roma and Juventus once again.

ya and two of the following have to be on the field, leaving only 3 on the bench one of them not even being a fllback (bonera) the other only good enough as a reserve (favalli), janku is so injury prone, oddo has been terrible... not any room for maggio?....

how many of the following can you count on supplying consistent widtch? zambrotta and thats about it... because all the other have disappointed (bonera has been ok as a sub but thats about it, he'll never take on an important role)

the mistake ur making is only looking towards next season, we must look beyond this.

I"m considering things you are not.

1st of all:

We are not in champions league an attracting players is very difficult. It is no longer like 10 years ago where name is everything. Now money and cl talk and history of the club is looked as 3rd string.

2nd of all:

We dont have a huge budget. We signed zambro which was needed. Lets not waste our money on areas that are covered. I would rather save our money for signing wc striker than having little cash and forced to do an oli style transfer.


3rd: When we get into champions league next season, we'll start thinking about buying amazing players.

our budget is approx: 60 million euros for the year is my guess.

we've spent 10 so far.

yes and maggio is not a star, isnt expensive and he isnt gettign CL with napoli. him and zambro would be our main fullbacks so he wouldnt be benched. and if 7-8 players are coming in, we could easily get two fullbacks as we are very weak in that position.

Chill out bro ... Nothing is gonna happen over night, there is still well over 2 months to go!

^^ It's all about our transfer budget to be honest. It seems like Berlusconi is done spending his own millions for this club, so we are left with low transfer budgets in a time when we are in the middle of a transition of eras... The new one needs reinforcement, but with one world class striker, nothing is gonna change. We need players like Maggio, Thiago Neves and Lloris/ Adler to start the transition and also give us much needed depth.

This really is true. I hope it will happen at least to certain degree this summer.

corrie is saying adebyour wants to be a rosseneri

They are fanciful! I hope we don't sign him!

I know I said, I'd welcome it if we signed anybody...but Adebayor...

I hope we do just to irritate Monsieur Wenger

and now scolori want kaka why cant they jsut stop this non sense

Scolari as a new wide mouth can say anything !

I cannot believe for one second that Berlusconi is going to let Man City take Ronaldinho from under our noses. The "he's too expensive" line has been played out time and time before, but nearly always ends up with the same results.

As for Ade - he wouldn't be my first choice. A decent striker, not a great one. I could see it working if Pato and Kaka played just behind him, but that would push Seedorf back into midfield and I can't see Carlo doing that again.

The Italian media is reporting that the Spanish media is saying that Abbiatti wants to return to Atletico. If that happens, there's space at Milan for a new keeper, so the Frey rumors have started again.

Mediaset is reporting that Scolari wants Kaka at Chelsea. They're also reporting that Guardiola wants Pirlo and that Barca are prepared to discuss a Pirlo-Eto'o trade.

Ok, so tell me, what is Milan's transfer budget ?! You guys talk as if you know the ins and outs of this club ...

All that is happening, is that when Galliani talks to the media, he is not necessarily talking directly to us 'fans', rather he is sending a message out to those clubs that wanna take advantage, summing up publicly that Milan wont be hassled.

Another thing, none of you listen to a word that Galliani says, and now all of a sudden his words are like the final testament.

Bottom line is, no one outside of the Milan upper management knows how much Milan can spend. Yes, Milan is in the middle of some sort of transition, but, tbh, Maggio, Neves, and Lloris are not what Milan needs right now. Milan needs proven players who are used to the pressure of playing at a top club .. This is not Arsenal, this is Milan!

There is still two months left, and I am convinced that before the transfer window closes there will be at least 3 players coming in!! I say this because this isn't the first summer that Milan has been on such a rollercoaster and it wont be the last !

3 players are coming in? You guys talk as if you know the ins and outs of this club ...

Bah...

What happened last summer and the one before that was that what Galliani said actually happened. He said we were going to get 1 striker and that was it, and we got one striker for January and that was it.

How do I know the transfer budget is low? Didn't you hear what Braida said? Why Dani Alves wasn't a target? Why aren't we after a world class keeper and even consider 10m euros for Boruc too much?

Chelsea are admirers of Cigarini it seems. We need to make a move for him, as he is the only Pirlo replacement in the world that can come for a reasonable price

Well, all I am trying to say is that this is the off-season, where the 'sport' media have nothing to write appart from the transfers (thank God there are the EUROs, or you'd be fed BS after BS ..)

What Braida, Galliani, and co do, is a method that has been used for so long now ... They've been using it since and before the Madrid-Perez era ... Whereby they don't get drawn into the crazy figures that clubs would like to collect off of Milan's back ...

Last season and the one before it ?! What about them ? You know exactly what Im about to say here, so please spare me ..

10M for Buroc is not too much, 40M for Ronaldinho is not too much and 50M for Eto'o is not too much ... This is Milan after all, but also this is the difference between this management and the rest (this is the longest standing management of any successful club out there and it has been boosting healthy funding along with healthy results for the past two decades) ... What you need to understand, is not what Galliani, Braida or even Silvio says per say, rather understand that this is not a message to the fans ...

Milan have already addressed the fans .. And told us that there will be changes to the team, and that is what I am expecting ... With that said, it is still too early to speculate !!

Past? Good. Philosophy? Good. Recent transfer windows? Disastrous.

I know what you are going to say about past couple of seasons? I really don't. For all I know, it seems like this coming season will be a continuation of the past two...

Anyways, there is a long time still to go. So basically anything we say is just opinion. Let's drop it here and wait until the end of transfer window.