Sokratis Papastathopoulos and Mario Yepes can fill in the central defense positions very well, but not like Thiago Silva does. Did he really say he doesn't rule out Real Madrid? What about his words he was staying at least until 2014 or so?

Nah, don't worry folks, Thiago isn't going anywhere.

You shouldn't believe what you read, these news bits often twist the words so much that the complete meaning of what he really said is gone

call me crazy, but I would love to see this guy played at attacking mid! did you see that run from defense towards the end of the first half against Juve, when he took on three defenders, proceeded to nutmeg a player, and play Borriello forward with a backheel!?

I'd bet he'd be a beastly center forward!

Zambro, Nesta, Sokratis, Antonini
Ambro Pirlo Seedorf
Pato Dinho
THIAGO.

FOR THE WIN.

^ Crazy.

He's obviously more technically gifted then most defenders.

But it would be a total waste playing him as a striker. His positional sense, awerness and tackling ability make for a great defender.

But sticking him up front as emergency CF at the end of a game where we're behind might not be the worst of ideas, especially if one of the fullbacks we field is more defensive than a wingback.

Agreed. So crazy it might work.

Are we seriously discussing this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdvUR67nZs0...feature=related.

Happy Birthday Thiago. Best wishes.

Good going, there, d'Arc. September 22 is the day. Happy birthday, Thiago! Hoping for an injury free season, and here's to another fifteen more such days in the Milan shirt.

+1

Oh, I meant days as in birthdays. Surely years, it'd be great if he stayed and won everything with Milan!

A thread about Thiago Silva was started on the Villa forum I use (not by me), thought some might be interested to hear the responses.









The above is mixed in with the usual "He is pretty great, he's nearly half as good as Paul McShane" comments whenever a defender is talked about.

Interesting. thanks for sharing.

Hope he plays against Madrid

Didn't look good. I'm very doubtfull.

Dang it all, this injury kills the fun.

Yea.. Get well SOON !

I don't even know how and where he got injured.
These days I hope Luiz played for Milan.

My greatest fear is Bonera as CB. And I know Allegri won't surprise us all and put Yepes in for a change.

Agreed, Thiago Silva or Bonera as CB is the difference between day and night. Good thing is that it's a group stage match, and we are playing away. It's the game getting points is the least required.

While it's true that in theory this are the hardest points to get, they're also the most valuable since we'd be making Madrid drop them.

I hope Sokratis gets in as CB.

Yeah,I hope to see Allegri taking a risk...His weakness is that he doesn't have balls.

Taking a risk would be playing Bonera, not Sokratis. I don't like how he's playing favourites with players

Well, he seems to be stubborn, but unlike Carlo, who knew the team better then anyone in the world, Allegri's judgment is based on a few months, or even worse; he gave Sokratis only one match, Yepes not even that.

Well Yepes is our 4th choice cb or so.
And Han I argue that if allegri wants to take a risk,he should pick Sokratis.From what I've seen Sokratis is a better defender than bonera.I kinda see him as a young thiago silva(don't know why),he's got great qualities when playing in his natural position.I don't know if you we're being serious but I responded as so

Sokratis should be on the bench tonight, not Yepes.

ACID! Good thing you didn't jinx him or anything!!!

Oh, skittles.

ESPN SoccerNet

Thiago Silva is currently in my top 3 Milan players!

He's my favorite when it comes to the new series. He still can't challenge the greats still among us.

silva could be out for six months this could be another turning point for our season

Well...people were saying Sokratis deserved a chance. Let's see what the Greek's got. He's gotta earn his money now!!

i blame shitlegri for this injury

Wow,we lose a world class player for 6 month.We're in deep trouble now.

Also,I would prefer Yepes in the Italian league but him and Nesta are too slow off a cb couple.Better play Sokratis,he has potential.

+1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

X-Offender, put back your anti-Allegri sig RIGHT NOW!!!!!

Well done Allegri,with probable Nesta injury we gonna play with Yepes-Bonera in the middle of defense,we are screwed guys!

Source? Or did you invent that out of the f*cking blue?

Naah, c'mmon, it was bound to happen, if not against Ajax, it would have happened against Bologna or Roma. I don't think it's fair to blame Allegri so fast.

You can't say that for sure, you also cannot predict that the incident which lead to the injury will happen again ie, when he fell awkwardly after defending that corner.

Fact here is Thiago had no business being on that pitch yesterday, Allegri rests Ibra? Thiago is just as important, if not more. Just ridiculous.

I had my gripes with Carlo in the past, but some of the ametourish management Allegri brings to the table makes me long for the days when we actualy had a competent coach behind the team that wouldn't make such ridiculous mistakes

The fact that it was bound to happen makes it even worse imho. O'monstro often pushes himself to the limit EVERY game. Are we supposed to assume he'd take it easy this time around? And Allegri, knowinh how often he gets injured as does all milan fans STILL plays him???

Seriously I'm not sure about this guy. Also Ron wasn't at all given a fair shake at all. If anything Al set him up to fail. Ambro, Pirlo GATTUSO AND Seedorf? What the ****? Exactly who was supposed to make the offensive runs? Not Robinho who was miles away on the other side I hope!

Not a Dinho fan by any means and I'll feel nothing if and when he goes but this is rather unfair. If he's being given a chance it should be real. Also what about Odu, Merkel, the guy assaulted by iBra, Verdi and beretta? Not to mention papa and Janku? Seriously Barca won the other night with guys I'd never seen in my life. THAT is how a big club operates. Not the way ooooooh let's run down to the corner flag shitlegri does

Im speechless really. This really will hurt us big.

Reviewing your arguments; yes, it was a stupid and amateurish move. But one has to learn from something. We chose Allegri, and we all knew what we get. Now we have to stick with him and not do a Leonardo again (even if IMO Allegri is better then Leo).

leo had a fraction of Allegri's assets and got us to third and to the CL quarters. iBra wins 90% of Allegri's games for him. Imagine we got a coach who had iBra AND got the best out of Dinho!

Leo vs Allegri?


The question is do you want a coach who is very strong tactically but lacks in other deparments or do you want a coach who is very strong in motivational techniques but lacks in other departments.

6 weeks is not a disaster. he could be back after the January break just like Pato.

But 6 months? ****** big difference. if it's true I will ******* cry!

PS: it's laughable to blame Allegri IMO. in football **** like this could happen ANY time.