With this team we certainly won't win the championship. We can do well in cup competitions because... you know, it's about the night and not a series of games. It's quite clear though that the management do not target any trophies for next season. We are building a team that will be able to compete for trophies in a year or two.

I think we have had an unbelievably amazing transfer window and I say this with all my heart as I believe Ancelotti's departure is the best thing we could have had. For once after 3 or so years I will truly be looking forwarding to Milan's games as there will hopefully be something new to see there other than Carlo's sickeningly predictable formations.

I cannot disclose that information to you Jack


Even sooo

I think Leo needs another 2 players at least in order to help him out a bit. Becuase even if the coach and tactics will be different at the end of the day its still the same players, the same stale midfield etc

No it's not. With Seedorf out of the picture we'll be fine. The big gamble is Ronaldinho... if he really wants to earn a place in Brazil's WC squad we'll be fine!

You and I both know that its not a sure thing that Seedorf won't be a starter next season

And its not like the midfield plays any better when there is Rino/Flamini, Rino/Ambro, Ambro/Flamini both in the midfield

Well all I'm betting on is that Seedorf won't be there... you've seen how incredibly better we play without him... even with two dmf's on.

We are such hypocrites. We complain that Carlo didnt give the youth a chance and now we whine that we are focusing mostly on youth. I think that we should trde Borriello and cash to Samp for Pazzini. Next we should go to Naples and pick up Fabiano Santacroce give them 10 mil. Then we can go look for an out of box striker in the mold of Rossi. Finally bring in Cigarini or Aquiliani and we have a world class italian based side.
------------------Abbiati-----------------
Santa-----Nesta------thiago-----Zambrotta--
----------------Pirlo--------------------
------Gattuso/Flamini------Aquiliani------
-----------Ronnie----------------
------------------------Rossi/pato---------
---------------Pazzini/pato-------------------

Luis Fabiano is a very conscious striker in the last third of the pitch. I am of the opinion that he will be a great asset for us during the coming season. My only worry, if that Ronaldinho does not come through, if that is the case, then it is back to the drawing boards.

But, over and above, as several people already stated it will take two to three years to win something, so I am not setting my hopes up for anything now.

Actually we don't play better when there are 2 DMs, we're stale, slow and no creativity, that's why we struggle to score so much when 2 DMs are on the pitch. Last season when Seedorf was not playing it was usually a DM, Pirlo and Beckham, not 2DMs and Pirlo, that made a BIG differance.

I dislike having Seedorf on the pitch just as much as you do but if it comes down to choosing a 2nd DM or Seedorf I'd choose Seedorf any day of the week. That's why I want another quality central mid to come in just as much as a striker if not more. Because the midfield is now very limited in terms of creativity. We're full of defensive mids with only Pirlo and Seedorf that are good creatively and sadly Seedorf just does not cut it anymore.

Or who knows maybe next season Seedorf might just actually start playing agian under Leo, now knowing there isn't Carlo anymore to kiss his @ss

What the hell are we doing here exactly???

exactly +1

wtf who are these two lol! This is getting out of hand. A few youth is good but lets not go crazy here.

huh ?
where did you guys find this ?

Tuttomercatoweb, its listed as official.

Its not mentioned on the official site as I checked it out, so I'm guessing those 2 will only be added to the primavera roster

DAMN !!

they are primavera additions so won't be on the official site

http://www.lega-calcio.it/it/Serie-A-TIM/T...sferimenti.page

Thanks, just as I thought

why are we doing this why can't we just sign Fabiano and sign other GOOD players ?

Same reason Inter buy youngsters and Juve and Barca etc etc if the scouts see something then they recomend they buy them and hopefully become 1st team players...is building for the future

This is ok, as long as they are going to the primavera then its a good thing, when they start putting them in the first team roster is when it gets problematic

we havent won the primvera league for quite long maybe for that

We try to make every other team ineligible for the new rules...

^^ Galliani has a striking resemblance to the person above, whoever he is! (it isn't Uncle Fester is it?)


I think you got it wrong here. we didn't say Milan should start with 11 youngsters. we just thought our youngsters (2 or 3 of them) deserved more minutes on the pitch, that's all. or at least that's what I thought. I say neither too young nor too old. be like all other teams, NORMAL!

Personally, I think that we need to invest in our Primavera, as this is the way forward for stability in the future. I think in recent years we've been lacking that quality to come through our youth teams and I think purchasing players for our Primavera will provide a brighter future for Milan. By doing this also gives us some guarentee the likes of Leonardo, Galliani etc are looking to the future so I see this a positive for Milan. We're in the stage of rebuilding our squad and I think by developing our youth team and buying the best youth from around Italy is extremely positive.

Furthermore, there is still over a month left where the transfer window is open, and if we were to buy now we'd have to pay more than at the end when other clubs realise they won't get what they wanted. I think Onyewu is a good capture especially for free, even is he is just covering for T.Silva and Nesta next season , if his performances in the C.C count for anything he looks a far mroe capable defender than Kaladze.

I would prefer Pazzini to Fabiano myself as he is younger and Italian although Fabiano would provide goals as his records have proven. Also i'd be doubtful Pazzini would leave Sampdoria as he only arrived in January. Our midfield is still good enough to compete with anybody else's considering we've got Flamini, Pirlo, Gatusso, Ambrosini. I still wish we kept Gourcuff though. I think we need to purchase another midfielder to give back up to these players.

Regarding the Kaka deal I'm happy this went through, as we coped last eyar without him when he was injured and he hasn't looked like reproducing his previous world class form and I think we should take the money when its offered as we did. Also our wage bill has been dramatically reduced by this and the departure of Emerson.

I think we would have a competitive team if layers are fit and perform well( being the major point), if the rumours of Leanardo playing a 4-3-3 are truen I'd imagine a team like this.

Abbiati
Bonera-Thiago Silva-Nesta-Zambrotta
Flamini-Pirlo-Ambrosini (Only because he's captain but I prefer Gattuso)
Pazzini/Fabiano/-Pato-Borriello/Ronaldinho

I don't think we need alot of players to be competitive although you wouldn't go wrong with a good striker and an Italian midfielder.

Dr. Evil? You've never seen the Austin Powers movies?

It's really amazing how zed does not know who that guy is, I mean the Austin Power movies are just brilliant, aren't they?


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Watch your mouth when you're talking about some of the most classical movies to come out

I mutter something under my breath about them films complete garbage

I'm Shagadelic baby yeah!!

Anyways a final offer of €18m has gone in for Fabiano and also reports of Huntelaar joining German side Stuttgart for €15m...shame he could've been a good player for us i think

They were never really interested in Huntelaar so...

Anyway hopefully the bid will be accepted and we can go on with the transfer market. Not that I'm very excited about Fabiano but the other prospect of signing Adebayour for an infalted ammount scares the cr@p out of me

I think the loan situation would've have been a deal..but not a full blown buy.

As for Fabiano or Adebayor.....neither ring my bell to be honest.

We gotta stay positive, its better than nothing. Now Fabiano is not thattt bad as some people here make him out to be. He is much better than Borriello and can be a great addition to pato for our front line up. Now I know he is not worldclass but he deserves a shot and has at least 4 years of top class football before he is done.

Not saying that Fabiano is bad i meant out of the 3 i preferred Huntelaar
As for Borriello i don't think he is as bad as some would have you believe. A season wrecked with injury and a point to prove i think.
just as been mentioned before plenty of movement in the Italian market and some good players moving to just wonder why we are again hoping on 1 player and another Brazilian to boot.

Maybe we really are counting on Zigoni, Abate and Di Gennaro.

What if abate and gennaro step it up and dinho turns back his old form? I mean it could happen and yes the opposite could also happen. At this point we can't really judge the management's decisions.

Pirlo is gone boys,

Its more likely that the 2nd scenario will happen...

holy sh*t, carlo is f*cking serious. Also good to know that hes going after Ibra and not Pato. I can breathe easier Take Ibra carlo! F*ck the merda hard.

Sorry buddy, its a done deal. Have fun with kanoute

nah.

I think what the media are forgetting is that we can only buy 1 non EU player. Do either Fabiano or Hernanes have a passport?

If not we won't buy Hernanes, sell Pirlo and be left with a non playable player for the entire season. So I think its all BS. And I hope that Pirlo will stay, I think he knows that the EPL is not for him and he won't want to leave.

i think fabiano could be having eu status but not sure someone who has football manager game on his system rite now mite be able to confirm it though

On the question of Luis Fabiano being an eu citizen, I believe he already is. Considering he has played in Spain for four years now, as per his wikipedia page

His wiki page says he has an EU passport or that he has played in Spain for 4 years?

Its not something to take for granted as there are players on our very own team that still don't have an EU passport

Don't jump to conclusions.

Exactly!!

Pirlo ain't leaving boyz and if he did Milan still have Gattuso and ambro and flamini as dmf. For playmaker we got dinho and seedorf and up front we got pato and borriello sounds good to me plus we got a secret weapon...Leonardo! His new style of football and teamwork sounds brilliant more one touch passes and movements without the ball its a new era if we get fabiano gd if not watever cuz if we get new players then wait another year until the team get used to playing together...like this we already have players who somewhat understand eachother wich is a lot better. Football(soccer) is a team game...FORZA MILAN!!!

He has a Spanish passport. See here


Agreed.

I WILL jump to conclusions: Pirlo is going nowhere!

it might be better for us if prilo leaves