The difference is that Dida still has something left to contribute.

It wasn't until he signed his extension that people became so frickin' obsessed over the players' contracts.

Of course it became a big deal. He got a ridiculous wage increase while playing like cr@p and during the time when the financial out cries started to come about from Galliani and co.

If only Inter focus on the CL. yes Juve have a great midfield, but Inter have a great defense, a great midfield and a great attack!

funny cuz our only strength was in midfield and now without kaka and possibly pirlo it probably isnt even in the top 4 midfields in serie a

what do you guys think of Diego Forlan?

just read an article about how strange it is that he was the top goal scorer in La Liga last year, yet no one seems to be looking at him.

i haven't seem him play that much.

Pretty underrated. he's scored so many goals in the past few seasons but somehow I get the feeling that he's made for Spanish/Latin America football. he didn't cut it in England and I doubt he will be any better in Italy. it's probably me being wrong though...

You may be wrong, but I agree with you. He was terrible over here and I just don't see him making a big impact in Italy. Spanish/South American football is the place for him.

Theres our ultimatum. If we do NOT find an agreement by that date, the transfer will be abandoned. Thats in 4 days. Not looking good, now I know why Galliani is not going to usa. I hope we sign him, we need a good foreward. Galliani also came out and said Huntelaar is not an option and Pirlo will stay.

I think Galliani needs to realise the price is set by the selling club, not the buying club. If Sevilla feel he's worth £25m to them, then we'll need to pay £25m, it's really as simple as that.

Yeah true that. It seems sevilla are not a club that will panic and reduce the price at the last minute. They don't need to afterall they are a big club.


I think at the end we'll pay what they ask for sadly. I could be wrong and we could not sign him, at this point I can't predict anything. Galliani has not been his usual self this transfer season so its hard to predict what we'll do at all.

Laporta is truly and idiot hahaha! Wow they ended up paying 70 for ibra hahaha! 40+eto(30) hahaha.


Thank god this happened, Eto will flop in Serie A, inter will be much easier to beat next season.

they way we are progressing I hope we will be able to finish in top 4 bcoz imo we are already out of top 2 spots

Yeah its scary isn't it, how much juve and inter are spending compared to us.

yea every time u check the sites it gets depressing and depressing among all the big clubs among europe it is milan who is having this issues all we can hope rite now is that people they are signing flop or do not cordinate well

inter got a steal here eto plus hlep and 40 million and they have milito aswell shite!!

It is depressing but personally I'm not that worried.

Football is more than just whose got the big wallets. But we have to win something if we want to spend. Look at inter they have been serie A champs for past 3 seasons+ and that money eventually adds up. Juve are taking a huge risk by spending so much and if they dont' do well they will pay the consequences next season when they will be forced to do what we are doing right now.


We have to take our priorities in order.

1) Juve didn't spend huge after spending 2 seasons outside of the CL. They had to first pay off their debts and now they can spend. We are in the same situation. Yes right now we are not strong but next season we'll come out flashing cash as well. Its just the markets are crazy and in order to sign anyone good we gotta spend redicioluos. Look at Ibra. Do you really think hes worth 40 million and eto? I personally think hes worth 50 million max and thats pushing it.


2) Our squad right now is in a strange situation. We don't even know what kind of players we need because we don't know how milan will play. Maybe in leo's new system, we will need completely different players than we are used to with carlo. Thats why personally I think that we are a little hesitant on paying alot in fear that the player will not be able to adapt to the system.

3) After the freindlies in the USA. We will be able to really evaluate our situation and we'll be able to see what kind of players we need. Right now Fabiano is our target because Leo asked for him. He wasn't even on Galliani's wish list at the beginning of the season. So relax by August 1 we will be able to see who we will sign.

4) When the time comes down to it this season we will either sign our desired CF or we'll sign no one. No point wasting money on someone who could flop and hurt us later. But I think we'll sign someone good if we don't sign Fabiano.


We still have 30 million at least to spend, that i'm sure of.

Nice. Inert dump one egomaniac and get another in return. Fair trade, I'd say.

OMG someone stop Inter

^^

LOL why cant we get Toni instead

What makes you say that? has Eto'o played in Serie A before or something? it's obvious it would be much harder for him in Serie A but to say he will 'flop'? I'm ready to bet he won't!

I may be the only one here who likes and rates Trez, but yes, we're going downwards. our next targets will probably be Toni and Lucarelli.

i wouldnt have minded if we just had Paloschi and didnt go for Luis Fabiano , Trez , Adebayor and all the rest but thats me

Eto needs a team like barcelona to flourish. He needs to be surrounded by players who create openings for him by occuping players into wide positions and opening he centre up. Secondly he also needs a good passer in order to deliver him the ball. Ibra is not the same. Ibra creates 90% of his chances himself. He doen=n't really service from anyone and that is what made him the best striker in Serie A because he wasn't dependent on players like Pirlo in order to work.


Eto is not the same. He can create chances for himself but the majority of the time he waits for the ball and then he can quickly turn a player and score but apart from that he can't do much without the delivery. Now Inter do not have players who can do the delivery he is used to. He goes from Xavi, messi, iniesta, henry to cambiasso motta, stankovic, muntari. The difference in quality is enormous.


Also lets not forget who they just signed, Milito who is the same thing as Eto. One of those guys will be forced to play the SS role that Ibra played and I have a good feeling Milito will be doing that. But the problem is milito cannot play that position either and at genoa he excelled because like borriello hes a pure CF who needs good delivery.

Mourinho already knows this so i'm guessing Inter have more signings or a new tactical set up on the way.


Its like Playing with 2 Inzaghi's up front. Its not gonna work if you know what i mean. Now Ibra at barca working is another story in itself because he can't play taht box striker they want. Eto's weakness was heading and winning aerial battles. Ibra can do that but he can't play the single striker by himself.

So its gonna be interesting how this will work out. I have a feeling that Barca will use him messi and henry in a free flow moving formation where they can move around the field and not have a set position.

If Eto had come to milan, he would have had the same or higher scoring tally he had last season. Since he would be recieving 100% of the passes and hes a great finisher, he would easily reach 30 goals. But oh well we'll see how he does at inter. I don't think he'll do as good as he did at barca, i'm sure of that.

well lets cross mancini out.

adriano
fred
fabiano



sigh.... what a dissapointing list. Inter sign eto and we are looking at has beens.

I know what you're saying. but there's quite a distance between him turning out a flop and not just being as good as he was in Spain. it looks much easier to score goals in Spain. there's so much space given to strikers. and when you're at Barca, there's so many perfect assists coming your way. so, Eto'o won't score +30 goals but I'm sure if everything goes normal, he will get +20. and that's not a flop's record in Italy.

I dont think he'll reach 20. He'll get double digits but I doubt 20. Milito will outscore him. We'll see though I could be wrong and he could turn into serie A's best striker. It all depends on what mourinho does. He is a genius so i'm sure he will make Eto work. But i have my doubts.

official website of inter:



http://www.inter.it/aas/news/reader?N=31718&L=en

All this situation about Milan make me despret, we should bid 25 Mil € for Dzeko and finish story about that, i spoke with Edin, he will sign new deal with Wolfsburg that will alove him to go on January for 20Mil € if they don't qualife for secound stage of CL... He have signed preagrement with Milan and he will go in the next transfer window 99%...
Adriano is good option as he have Italy passport i hope we will find some solution as we are werry werry weak at the moment...

Regards
Damir

i really agree with having paloschi back, i don't fancy the idea of him developing at parma and then we go rushing back to buy parma's half of his ownership for 10mil euros like we did we marco b. call him back and who knows maybe he'll mature as rapidly as pato is doing.

swapping oddo for trez at this point in time is a good idea to me,
why??? -oddo's not gonna add that much value to the overall squad strength, trez hasn't got age on his side but fabiano's also officially 28/29 & he won't come cheap+ trez gives aerial options and won't demand a starting role as i don't think we gotten anything out of borriello yet, he's also serie A tested&trusted, so let's go for him& save up for hernanes(if recent reports are any thing to go buy we'd get him for a fair price) i say all these with an unbiased view.
forza milan!

+1

The Brazilian seems to be working overtime as he tries to get back to his best...

AC Milan athletic coach Daniele Tognaccini has given Ronaldinho's work rate in pre-season the thumbs up after the Brazilian came under heavy criticism from players and club officials.

Rossoneri chief Silvio Berlusconi got the ball rolling after telling the Brazilian to make more of an effort. Clarence Seedorf then followed by telling his team-mate to work harder. It appears as if 'Dinho has followed their advice as Tognaccini gives his views.

"Ronaldinho is working well and in line with the others. He has been working hard and with intensity in all the training sessions," the coach told the club's official website.

"The injured players, [Daniele Bonera, Christian Abbiati and Kakhaber Kaladze] are continuing with their special programme of recovery."

The squad took part in their last Milanello training session today and they are now expected to fly to the USA later tonight for their summer tour there.

Salvatore Landolina, Goal.com

I don't recall hearing anything about Milan's financial woes two and a half years ago.

In the end, Kaka proved a bigger financial burden with all his contract reworkings (9 mil a year, over twice as much what most of the others were making) despite his mediocre play, and he wound up sold.

If Kaka was mediocre I wonder what the rest of our players (except Pato and two-three others) were...

Yeah madrid wanted him and they were willing to pay a ridicilous price for him. I doubt any club in europe would pay 1 million for Dida. I wouldn't mind if he stayed another year but you should remember his place on this team. He is a second string goalie to an average at best first string goalie. If we had the funds i would garuantee Dida and Kalac would be both shipped off before you could say Marchetti.

Dammit! I was hoping they would keep him and try him out!!


note: just loan, not co-own so breathe easy guys. He'll play serie b next season.

complete market activity so far.

It's not on amilan.com yet

its just a matter of time lol. Also a deal like this is not going to have any break ups in the middle of it. He didn't leave for the usa with the rest of the squad so it was pretty clear he was going on loan.

Next are viudez and cardaccio who will be leaving either on coown loan or sale.

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