Also this one is Leo's pick so hopefully he'll turn out good. Galliani signed him strictly based on Leo's wanting of him at the club.

The only good kaka's sale did us is the 65 million in the bank and the 9 million reduction from our wage bill. Footballing wise, we have decreased severely in terms of team skill. Kaka is a difference maker and can change a game on his own. Whether he is injured or not on form, he still was one of our key players that was essential to the side functioning, like pirlo is.

At least he's young.

Can't say Milan will really get the footballing world talking in terms of this transfer though.

Anyone seen enough of him to make a good judgement? He looked reasonable against Man United in the CL, that's all I've seen of him though.

I'll wait for Portys word on this one, I've only seen him less than a handful of times.

No idea about him, we'll have to wait until Porty talks. But....


Players In:

Cissokho 15 million
Oddo free
Thiago Silva 10 million

Players out:

Maldini retirement
Senderos loan
Sheva loan
Kaka 65 million
Gourcuff 15 million
Beckham loan



Total Spent: 25 million
Total Sold: 80 million

I don't think you're understanding the concept of this at all. I'm not talking about getting high transfer fees for selling these players. I'm talking about getting these players off our wage billls, which is our biggest problem. Kaka earned a high wage but he merited all that he was given. These players who have become mediocre at best and nearly earned as much as Kaka did is what's ridiculous.

Any mid table team in Serie A would jump at the chance to sign Seedorf, Ambro, Dida, Janku, Kaladze. But they're not good enough for Milan anymore, especially if they're not willing to accept the bench and take wage cuts.

We need to look ahead. Galliani says we're starting a new cycle? I don't believe that for a second as we've still got the major problems of the squad intact while we're getting rid of our best players one by one. It's ridiculous, and you've really got to start questioning their motives with the moves they're mayking.

You say Kaka has declined? I agree, but you also cannot overlook the fact that even if he has been playing like cr@p on and off for the past 2 seasons we still played like headless chickes when he was not on the field. The fact that we relied on him so much is what we have to look at here. Kaka's form? The Milan medical staff practically ruined Kaka, he was playing when he was injured 75% of the time, he was always pushed into games before recovering because we needed him so much.

Anyone can say what they want about this transfer. On the financial aspect I think Milan did a good deal, he's going to turn 28, soon he'll hit 30. He isn't the player he used to be just a short couple of months ago. The sum we got for him is justifiable taking all of this into account. But when looking at it from the footballing aspect, I think it was a major mistake. Who are we going to find that can replace Kaka and do what he did for us? We've lost the player that has single handedly draged this team on for the better part of 3 years no matter what form or fitness state he is in.


I think he's pretty good, better then Janku that's for sure. We needed something better in that left back position and I think we got it. We still need another CB though, lets wait see...


Finally a coach that is willing to demand the players that he wants, and not be willing to accept whatever cr@p the management throw at him.

So far Leo has asked for Dzeko and this kid and the management look to be delivering.

Source? And Goal.crap doesn't count.


I don't think I ever will, either, since I'm in the distant minority here in regards to the Kaka issue. I think I'll just quit talking about it altogether.

He's got balls i'll give him credit for that. But we'll need far more than some random LB and Dzeko for us to be competitive again so I hope he doesn't stop there.

Apparently, Porto announced in a release (not on their website) that Cissokho was leaving.

Yeah its official pretty much.

Another Italian signing, awesome.

I think that we are really making a step forward with signing young players, cisokho is very very talented, i think he is a great signing and a real reinforcement for our defense because he will play in a LB where we have really sucked this year.

I think he will be a great signing, we needed youth at LB and someone with energy and pace and Cissokho will fit that bill. I don't know how good he is but I wish him all the luck. Hopefully Cissokho will be like Clichy or Evra.

the problem is we just splurged 15 for a club thats constantly complaining about money, it's so hypocritical. just think about it... this was our gourcuff money... LOL i cant see us spening more than 30-40 m this transfer window. opfully we dont spend 40m on dzeko caz the way things are going just about anyone can f us over.

well if you look at it this way we didn't use any of the kaka money and our transfer budget we used gourcuff's money and they never said that, that money was going to the club so i think its logic we used that money, so that would make us able to use our transfer money and maybe half of kaka's money the rest would go in to the club

+1

what?

Realistically we have about 40 million with the champions league and 15 million with gourcuff's sale to spend. If we spend say at least 15 million of kaka's transfer, we'll have about 70 million euros to spend, which will give us 2-3 more players.

sacrasm blue


40Mil
So much?!

a year in uefa cup and you forget everything trini

So true. Its been a while...

Report: Milan offer 10 million plus Jankulovski for Mexes.

Oooo Interesting

It would be great if it went through.

Although Roma will want more money

if this go thorgh it will be a good deal for milan

i think we should go till 15 million at max

I would love to see Jankulovski out of Milan, Mexes is OK to come but i prefer Zapata or Santacore...
Galliani BRING Dzeko he wait for the things u promise in Sarajevo...

from goal.com

Valencia Striker Nikola Zigic On Wolfsburg Radar - Report
The Serbian forward could be heading for the Bundesliga...
15 Jun 2009 14:48:44

According to a report in Superdeporte, Bundesliga champions Wolfsburg are closely monitoring the situation of Valencia's Serbian attacker Nikola Zigic.

The 28-year-old joined his current team from Racing Santander in the summer of 2007. However, Zigic failed to make an impact at Valencia and scored only once in 16 league appearances.

The Primera Division outfit opted to farm him out on loan to Racing Santander this term, where Zigic rediscovered his scoring boots. The Serbian international has scored 13 league goals in 19 matches.

The tall forward's excellent performances haven't gone unnoticed in the rest of Europe and Zigic is being linked with clubs such as West Ham United, Everton, Stuttgart, Hamburger SV and now also Wolfsburg.

The fresh German champions are in the market for a new striker due to the expected departure of Edin Dzeko to Serie A powerhouse AC Milan and have reportedly made Zigic their primary transfer target.

The striker's current Valencia deal is due to expire in 2012, but Zigic could be allowed to leave the club if the price is right.


welcome dzeko

It's not done yet bro, 99% Dzeko will sign contract at Wednesday, that's what reporters in Bosnia are saying.
Any way after Dzeko we need to bring some fast wingers, Keaper and defender, what u ppl think about players that are on transfer lists:
WF :Robben, Van Der Vart, Malauda, Kalou, GK: Amelia, Landrau Def : Mexes, Santacore, Zapata??
i think that some of this players (Robben, Malauda, Mexes) would be great adition to our club.
Our game is too slow, we lost explosion in mid after selling Kaka, if we are looking to be competiv squad next season ( I MEEN LOOK HOW BARCA PLAY) we have to speed up the game or we don't have a chance. Leonardo is great m8 for the job, he have a nose for good and young players and i think he is next Arsen Venger.
One more thing i have to ask u guys that are from Italy, any one watch primavera and under 18 Teams? I mean dang Milan spent so much money FOR YOUTH DEPARTMENT and for the past 5 years we didn't get SINGLE PLAYER THAT PLAY IN REGULAR 11 (exept Palochi but he will stay in Parma one more season)?

This is what Papers in Bosnia just posted :


President of A.C. Milan Adriano Galliani, Sports Director Ariedo Braida and Coach Leonardo have sit on the table with Wolfzburg managment so they try to negotiate details and to lover the asking price that Germans set up.

This is how we work in Milan: Almost a year we wanted Cissokho, and we have Thiago Silva. Our primary target now is Džeko and we just wait on Wolfsburg. If Wolfsburg reconsider, we will look for some one with the equivalent abilitis, spoke Galliani.

Player Manager Irfan Redzepagic said that agrement beatven player and Milan heve been signed so it's onlly Wolfzburg left to accept the price. Irfan told too that Dzeko expresed desire yesterday to the President of Wolfsburg to go to Milan. Irfan finally concluded that just few days are separating Dzeko and Milan.

Latest Milan transfer news.

Galliani commented on the transfer market, said that Thiago Silvo and Cissokho have already arrived and the only other objective is Dzeko.

Which is total BS as we need at least 1 other defender and a replacement for Seedorf.

The Janku-Mexes switch has been denied by Galliani. Although some of the press are still insisting on it

Thanks for the update

And welcome to Milanfan

I want my CB. Unless Milan Lab has suddenly reconvinced everyone that Nesta will be injury free.

I guess if this is all, the plan is to pair Kaladze with Silva in the centre defence. It could work. Even Rio made mistakes, but with Vidic he was great.

But where are the wingers, Leo was talking about? I think it's crap though. How can you have wingers in a 4-3-1-2?? Unless it was actually a 4-5-1. Pato to do a Rooney and play on the left. Ronaldinho left free.

seems good news and BTW is ur name Dzeko or r u just a fan

yay, like this, I think he will be

i dont think wings are being considered we would have got abate back if not for first bt as a backup to wings

Dzeko is not the only other objective...Chillax Milanfans, the transfer market hasn't even opened...so we still have time

According to Galliani he is...

how can even dream of comparing ferdinand with kaladze? kakha has had a couple of good seasons with us, but has been simply pathetic for 3 years now.

after dzeko we NEED TO GET A cb, and a min. of 1 creative mid. we did just lose kaka and the idea of bringing no one to help out with the loss would be suicidal.

Mexes and Dzeko would be great signings - we clearly need another CB. If only Gourcuff came back and Seedorf left

As for wingers, Janku and Abate can play on the wing


Abbiati
Zambrotta Nesta/CB Thiago Cissokho
Flamini Pirlo Ambrosini
Ronaldinho
Dzeko Pato

or

Abbiati
Zambrotta Nesta Thiago Cissokho
Abate Flamini Pirlo Jankulovski
Dzeko Pato

Leonardo did not actually say wingers, did he?

Anyway, I truly hope we don't bring in any wingers, I truly dislike such a system.

if were gonna get a new CB we should think about dumping some deadwight, getting ride of kaladze would be like a new signing

lolz funny way of putting it but yeah _ kaladze could get some extra cash for the milan board who love to save money and flash it _ not splash it

kaladze and janku should get sold but then again thats probably wishful thinking _ there are some rumours we are to sign mexes but i wouldnt bet on that mexes is a roman _ and a half

We'll sign about 5-6 players this summer, so everyone relax.


We have signed 2 players with the third soon to arrive this week.


If we sell more players then more will arrive.


Remember transfer market starts july 1 with the players returning to training july 6. If we sing Dzeko this week, I think we have done great so far.

Dida should probably be penciled in people's speculative lineups for the time being (assuming there's no change in our GK department between now and the end of the transfer window), simply because Abbiati isn't expected back until after the start of the upcoming season and I doubt he'll just walk back into the starting lineup, especially if Dida continues from where he left off.

milannews are saying that now itlians clubs will look at rossi including milan rossi,pato,dzeko,pippo/paloschi will be really good attack linup

Rossi! YES!

NICE !!!!!!!

villareal will not let him go for anything under 30 so lets not get too excited guys. Besides he can also be bought by manu at any time for a very low fee because of the clause in his contract.

Dida had a couple of ok games at the end of the season, but he still managed to screw up. Let's not forget the Roma game.

I just don't think that Dida is good enough anymore. And I don't think it has anything to do with his age. We've given him more chances then he deserves imo. Taking into account the high wage he gets, I think it's high time we put him on the market for any ammount that is offered.

Regarding the Rossi rumours. I would absolutely be ecstatic if we managed to snap him up. He's a really talented player, and I'm surprised that no Italian club has been interested in him sooner, especially after he practically revived Parma on his own in 07...

And I think I remember him saying that as a kid he was a Milan fan, so if we're really interested in him we might be his first choice of destination.

An attacking line-up of Pato, Dzeko, Pippo and Rossi would be top class imo. We haven't had that kind of attacking line-up since the old Sheva days. My only worry is Dinho and his fitness, because I'm pretty sure we're going to be playing a 4-3-1-2 system, and we only have Dinho as a pure AM (please don't mention Seedorf here).

Although with Pato and Rossi we could easily switch to 4-3-3 with Pato and Rossi in support of Dzeko.