Gotta give the Daily Telegraph points for creativity. They're reporting that Ancelotti-to-Chelsea is a done deal and that he'll bring Kaka and Pirlo with him.

Yeah , just read that , really funny indeed.......

Oh goody...then I can support Chelsea too. I've always wanted to support Chelsea, but I could never find a good enough reason. I'm bored of supporting relegation contestants. I can't find a common ground in discussions.

A bit of news for the conspiracy theorists....

As folks might remember, Ajax and MVB parted company. So Ajax are looking for a new coach. They've approached Frank Rijkaard - and Rijkaard said no. His agent is quoted as saying that Rijkaard is currently more interested in coaching somewhere outside the Netherlands.

Yeah, he said he was always interested in Brondby.

Hey, Brondby is a very posh suburb of Copenhagen. I sure wouldn't mind living there!

Me neither, for that matter.

just read about a Gourcoff/toni swap
Personally i think this would be good for both teams
Gourcoff&Ronnie for Ribery+10M

Gourcuff... Toni... get me the shotgun!

Seriously, I will consider a suicidal action too if we exchanged Gourcuff for Toni. it better be just a rumor.

We all should stop crying for a Seedorf replacement/alternative, because even if one arrives, Ancelotti will always play Seedorf anyway, so the hypothetical player would be wasted/mistreated and then 'do a Gourcuff'

New rumor!

Milan are apparently looking at Shakhtar (I think it's left)back Ilsinho.

Ilsinho sounds familiar, last i remember he was a right sided player, who could play fullback or winger

I'd rather Bruno Alves with Flamini as wingbacks, But of course, Flami would have to accept the permanent change in position for that to happen. Zambrotta has been just getting by IMO aand that's saying alot as someone who was his number 1 fan back when i was playing RB AAA lakers 5 years ago!

In news that will surely cheer some folks, France Football is reporting that the coach of Bordeaux has said that Gourcuff wants to return to Milan.

Undying love!!!

If he returns I hope he proves us all wrong by performing much better than we all expect him to!

YAY

Please let this be true!


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If the gourcuff rumours are true, could it be that its looking more likely its carlo's end? We'll just have to wait until next weekend to find out.

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Hes returning just so he can move to another big club.

Okay, close enough, back's we need, now please switch the term "left" with "right" and everything will be more then just perfect.


Haha! Open a Napoleon brandy! We have a solution in midfield now! Let's hunt down Seedorf and Ancelotti just to be sure...because...Seedorf will always play.

I see someone's a bit pissed off that Gourcuff might return

Naah, after the goals against Sedan and Stade Reims,...I'm sure we need him. Didn't you see them?

You're absolutely right!

For what it's worth, Marco Van Basten is in Milan today - ostensibly to participate in a golf tournament but....who knows what else he may be up to?

Have you read what Berlu said today?

Which statement, zeddie?

That they'll sit around a table and see what to do at the end of the season AND that there are young coaches who are ready to lead Milan (if I've understood it correctly!)

It's on Milannews, Mediaset, etc.

Yep. There's also the bit where he stated that Ronaldinho was a good buy and that there are a lot of good coaches around who can coach a big team.

Ah so he's said those. despite saying Carlo is one of the family I think their relationship is pretty tense at the moment. Carlo calling Berlu the Saint (although denied today), Berlu saying these things, etc.

Yep, things are tense enough for it to leak through the 'one happy family' facade. Fishdoll stands by his statement yesterday that the farewell notice has already been written.

How I want to agree with Fishdoll

I'd rather keep Ancelotti till 2029 then appoint Marco van Basten. What exactly did he do to deserve such attention and Milan link? Got eliminated with Holland in WC round one / EC round two, or eliminated with Ajax from CL, or managed to lead Ajax to 4th place in Holland?

+1, Filip. Marco Van Basten will always be my alltime favourite Milan player but as a coach? Not so much. Of the current lot of alumni who are available, I'd prefer Rijkaard. (Of the alumni who aren't available, it'd be a tossup between Capello and Trap. Trap's press conferences are absolute classics.)

There are coaches who are qualified for the job, Rijkaard for example. as for MvB, it may or may not work, only Nostradamus could tell!

+100000

I'd prefer Rijkaard too, cuse he has more experience. But you never know, maybe Marco can prove himself too.

I wouldn't want Rijkaard nor Marco Van Basten to coach AC Milan, and I doubt that we're seriously considering it. Marco Van Basten is a great milan champion, no doubt, but his coaching history speaks for itself. I really doubt Rijkaard is tactically good enough to coach an Italian club. Taking over a Barcelona side, that only knows how to play one way, is different than taking over a Milan side, that is far more versitile. Also in Barcelona he only ever played a 4-3-3, and that wont work for us.

If we need to change coach now, then I think we would be better off picking up some of the new stars from Serie A, Allegri, Prandelli, Gasperini etc. What I would prefer though, is to have one more year with Carlo, and then pick up Lippi after the WC in 2010.

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Hm. Speculative comment in a piece on tuttomercatoweb indicating that Milan may be taking a look at Riccardo Montolivo of Fiorentina.

i hope we sign montolivo. His passing is like running a hot knife through butter. Absolute class.

Too bad he's the only one who actually believes that.

I wouldn't mind Montolivo at all but right now I think that if I had to pick one member of Fiorentina to poach, it'd be Jovetic.

Lippi was recently quoted as saying that he has no desire to return to club football as a coach. That rules him out as Milan's next skipper.

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What a shock that such events have taken place...
Not sure whats my take on this as yet tho.

Couple of things.

1. Marco Van Basten had dinner last night with former teammates Mauro Tassotti and Filippo Galli. Could just be coincidence but..
2. Berlusconi announced that there will be a couple of purchases, hinting that the club will buy a defender and attacker. Current speculation says the most likely candidates are Mexes and Adebayor.

Time to raid Roma!

The english tabloid, the Daily Star, is reporting that the dirtyrottenscousers are interested in Kaladze.


(zeddie, Fishdoll would be thrilled if we were to raid Roma for De Rossi).

So much for success next season...

Yeah, I'd say so. Mexes was in awful form for Roma more often than not this season.

I see no point in keeping Becks around, either, since we didn't exactly turn into world beaters with him. It's his stint in L.A. all over again.

I'm not sure who I'd want (that's a realistic target). Hard to decide who'd really best add to the team.