QUOTE (Jack Sparrow @ Jun 16 2009, 05:32 AM)
I absolutely appreciate the refershing change in opinion. It's been a long time since we had one, without it turning into a flaming match.
I just feel your order needs to be reversed to Berlusconi e Galliani..who are incompetent and disinterested.
I actually like Galliani. I'd prefer him a 1000 times over people like Denis Wise/Peter Kenyon/Parry.
I still think that Sheva deal was a masterstroke of business. So was Pato.
As for Berlu. I don't see too much of a difference. It's been 20 years. I don't think Roman Abramovich will be funding the club 20 years from now. Remember the 'self-sufficient' by 2014 tag for Chelsea.
When Silvio was as 'young' at Milan as Roman at Chelsea...he was still splurging. I think it's a business thing. You pump in money for only so long, before you expect returns.
Madrid is a little different. It's an institution in itself with superb credit rating.
Let's not forget in Italy, the laws are different. Clubs can only run with a certain percentage in debt, not more. To my understanding, this law does not exist in Spain or England.
I agree with you that Galliani does take the brunt of it, when it's mostly Silvio that's making the decisions. This is what really gets to me, when things are going bad you'll see Galliani coming out to face the music, but when its a moment to celebrate, you'll see Berlu coming out with his stretched face simling at the cameras. I'm just basically sick of it. If he does not want to invest then he should let it go. It's not justified to think that he will expect returns out of Milan, this is not a cookie factory. Football is not a profitable business, unless you're Real. Billionaires buy football clubs as toys to splurge on, Berlu used Milan as a political gimmick and it worked for him and we benefited with him. But now that he's gotten all that he can out of it he's not willing to spend his money on it anymore. Milan cannot be sel sufficiant, especially not in the country and economy its in. If Berlu does not care anymore, he should do the club he claims to love a favour and sell up.
Regarding our management and how capable they are, I do think that the Pato deal was a very good one. The Sheva deal was also good, but what happened to the money that we got out of it? It was wasted on flops like Oliveira, buying a previously owned Boriello that we wanted to get rid of like the plague a couple of short months before we bought him again for 10 freaking million. Paying sky high wages to players tht either site on the bench for 99% of the season or are cr@p yet still play because Carlo likes them. That's the bad management we've been under. This is why Kaka was sold. Because of that awfully bad decisions that cost us millions upon millions.
You know I was ok with the Becks and Dinho deals, I didn't even complain about the million friendlies we played last season. I always said that it was to recover what we lost in the CL and to keep our best player. But now, its total BS, Kaka was still sold in the end. And you know what> The only reason we were not playing in the CL was the management's fault in the first place. The squad had gotten so bad and unmotivated that we coouldn't even manage to make 4th in a league were Inter were the only team with a top class squad. That's what the management did for this team.
@ Stefano Di Nardo
You can think and say what you want about Kaka, but had the club not wh@red him out to the first willing bidder then he would still be a Milan player. Kaka might have wavered during the years, but who wouldn't when your club is getting involved in calciopoli, not even managing 4th spot in the league, getting knocked out in the UEFA Cup...
But the fact of the matter is that he always stayed. At the end of the day he was always happy to wear the Milan shirt. He did really want to be captain after Paolo and had the club not betrayed him he would have been happy to refuse offers and stay.
Kaka was badly mistreated for the past 2 years, first in the whole Man City fiasco for Silvio's political boost and now being sold to Real for the money. If I were Kaka I would have left a long time ago.
And what do you expect Kaka to say now that he's a Real player? "I hate that I'm a Real player, I only came because they made me" ??? He's a Real player now, accept that, he's only going to say positive things about the club he's playing for now. If he doesn't do that, he'll get hell on earth over there in Spain where fans don't coma anymore fickle then they are, especially the Real Madrid ones.
You're exited about the future? I'm not because I'm sh!tting bricks over here, because I don't see a Brazilian CB a French LB (that people are laughing at us for getting btw) and 1 striker as enough to revive Milan from the pit they have dug themselves into. It will take much more then that. People have to look at the big picture here. Thiago is a replacement for Paolo??? Were is the replacement for Nesta? Who will be injured for another big portion of the season. Were is the replacement for Pippo who also will be injured or off form for the big portion of the season. Why do we still have a half @ssed Seedorf as a starter?? Frankly with all these things concidered, Milan are nowhere near ready to compete next season.
Zzzzzz.....
Gibberish is always fun...
