Thank **** for that.

Excuse my French.

This is an English speaking forum..you can't use French...f*****g Francophile. Go support l'Arsenal.

I know. Hence telling you to go support them if you must show off your French. Silly boy!

arsenal is a club name, it cannot be identified as speaking french or english.

He never said Arsenal though, he said l'Arsenal.

Surely that wouldn't matter anyway. My country is called England, it's the name of it, so why is it also known as Angleterre?

This may sound far-fetched to some but if we get a solid CB in the summer I'd try Silva on the right. He used to play there earlier in his career and you can see that he knows how to advance when he decides to take the ball up the field himself. All I'm saying is, it would not hurt to try playing him there...

Neh... with Bonera and Abbiati we got 2 good options for rightback. Thiago Silva will most likely develop into one of the best central backs in his generation, IMO. He's too good to put on rightback.

I hope we sign a central back, who has world class potential, and can replace Nesta when he retires. Kjær is my first choice. Although he is solid already, of course.

You mean bonera and abate lol

Neh... with Bonera and Abate we got 2 good options for rightback. Thiago Silva will most likely develop into one of the best central backs in his generation, IMO. He's too good to put on rightback.

I hope we sign a central back, who has world class potential, and can replace Nesta when he retires. Kjær is my first choice. Although he is solid already, of course.

You probably have not watched any other fullbacks if you really think Bonera and Abate are good options! You must be young too, you can't have watched Cafu and Serginho play for us...
Bonera and Abate are barely not bad at RB, it's not even their natural position. We desperately need new full-backs, these two just can't play in that position for a top team.

Sold to... inert you mean?

I also think Silva is developing into a great CB but good fullbacks are harder to find so my point is, if we sign another solid CB, why not try Silva on the right, at least in a couple summer friendlies.

I don't watch Bayern in the Bundesliga so I don't know how he's doing on a regular basis. I've seen him play some excellent matches though. He's good but not the type of FB I truly like.

Smiling before the Milan Channel cameras at Milanello. Thiago Silva looks at the first page of Marca and says: “Milan is my home, it is my family, I am staying here until at least 2014.”

Thiago Silva sat before the Milan Channel cameras at Milanello today and maintained that he was more than content at the club despite the rumours in the Spanish press concerning a move to La Liga. The defender said: “I feel settled here. I had a good season last year. It is the first time I have seen this newspaper and I do not know anything. The only thong I know is that I’m focused only and always on Milan and want to stay here until at least 2014, which is the current expiry date of my contract. I am here at Milan and I feel really at home, as if Milan was really my family, my second family. I am fine here.”

The Brazilian then turned to other issues: “It has been said that I am an idol for the Milan fans? I thank them, for me it is important to know. I think I did well last year but this year I want to do better and better. I’m fine now, I already started training in the last days of my stay in Brazil before returning to Milanello. I feel ready to do my first workout with Allegro. I will meet our new coach this afternoon, I am looking forward to this year because I hope that Milan will do well and excel. I believe that Milan this year is a bit stronger than last year’s because two or three quality players have arrived which can help us. We can and must do everything better, even as a group because we all have more experience than last year. ”

Thiago Silva also spoke about his first impressions of coach Allegri’s methods: “I saw that in London our defence defended pretty high, this is a good thing. If we have the ball as close as possible to the attacking midfield, we are actually closer to the opponent’s goal and our goal must always be to stay that way: to score. What about the World Cup in South Africa? Yes, I expected, and hoped to play more. But this is football and then Lucio and Juan were among the strongest central defenders in the world. Now I hope to be picked for the national team, and do well in Brazil. I hope that me and Pato play more for the national side. I must say that Alexandre has started the season strongly, he has been consistent and constantly improving, I absolutely want to be with him in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil with our national team.” - link

He's not worth half of that. He was great at th start of last season but regularly made mistakes in the middle of the season.

Wait, who is not worth half of what? Are you referring to Thiago Silva and 35 million euros? I thought I'd ask first before I get mad.

Yep.

I was a big fan of his wen he first joined and was very impressed by the start of his Milan career. He did go through a very poor spell last season though. If Silva is worth 35m, then other defenders like Maicon, Ramos or Puyol are worth well over 50m, which isn't ery realistic.

I don't think any valuations of footballers are realistic these days.

Without meaning to needle Kurt (too much), the 35 or so million being quoted for Milner is outrageous, to cite an English example. And if Real comes sniffing around, a club would be stupid not to add 25-50% to their asking price for a player. Because Real would probably end up paying it if they were interested.

The Reals and Citys of the world are skewing the prices to a ridiculous degree.

Sorry Chu, I'm gonna have to put it down to bias on your part. Silva isn't even in the same league as Puyol/Ramos for me.

What a ridiculous way to respond after I made some very good points like age (which you totally ignored and which made your previous post ridiculous on a very high level). Why should be my post bias just because I seem to disagree with you? There are enough Milan players who I will rate very lowly.

Do you really believe a 32 year old Puyol is worth more than a 25 year old Thiago Silva?

I agree. Milner is worth more £20m and Silva £15m if it were down to me. £30m or so should be for the real top guys. And yes, before I get any snarky comments, I do believe Milner is a better player than Silva.

Sorry Chu, I'm gonna have to put it down to bias on your part. Silva isn't even in the same league as Puyol/Ramos for me.

Either way if we sell Thiago it would be the stupidest move we've made in quite a while, forget Gourcuff and Kaka, this would be the one that takes the cake