Bluesummers
Mar 19 2009, 04:53 PM
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Milan Coach Carlo Ancelotti: I’m Not A Good Guy
As speculation grows over Carlo Ancelotti's future, the Milan boss has discussed a variety of topics in an interview with newspaper La Repubblica, seemingly hinting at his desire to continue his relationship with the Rossoneri.
“There are a few things that I cannot stand and if I get mad I could turn into a beast,” said ‘Carletto’.
“Who says I’m a good guy? Am I too condescending towards the club? No way… I love it here at Milan and I have a special rapport with several players, such as [Paolo] Maldini, [Gennaro] Gattuso and [Andrea] Pirlo.
“I know full well that [president Silvio] Berlusconi likes winning by playing good football and I have no problem with his views.”
Milan are essentially out of the title race and Ancelotti’s job could be on the line if he fails to secure a top-three finish.
“I have no doubts that we will finish in third place, but I want to keep a low profile,” he explained.
“Then again, whatever will be will be, but I am very calm…”
Bluesummers
Mar 19 2009, 04:59 PM
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Adriano Galliani: "Kakà is not for sale. Our fans should remain calm. AC Milan do not need more reinforcement than other clubs. Speaking of the market, in addition to our strong defender Thiago Silva, we will be looking for another defender. However, the Milan's market is closed with this transfer.
BS to the max. He is a liar to the core so take this as a joke. We will sign a defender guaranteed but we definitely will not stop there. I'm sure of it.
kurtsimonw
Mar 19 2009, 05:04 PM
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"Kakà is not for sale. Our fans should remain calm."

Maybe you should say this BEFORE you accept a bid from Man City.
Zed.D
Mar 19 2009, 05:29 PM
QUOTE (kurtsimonw @ Mar 19 2009, 08:34 PM)


That's Galliani for you. always BSing!
Bluesummers
Mar 19 2009, 05:31 PM
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The agent Marchetti, William Gabetti has declared: "Tomorrow I will be in Milan for Milan to speak with Federico and actually see if the company is interested rossonera or not my client." The serious injury of Abbiati and the need to have a reliable goalkeeper and first enrolled at the beginning of next season has done to make the list for the next market rossonero name Marchetti, who is a big dispute season debut in A .
The agent of goalkeeper then added: 'It is logical to want to Federico stages are important and I believe its the same but now has a contract for three more years with Cagliari and Cellino will decide whether to sell it or not. "
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For those of you who have never heard of this goalkeeper, let me give you some background:

Federico Marchetti
Age: 26
February 7, 1983
Height: 186 CM
From what I have seen personally his greatest asset is his reflexes and his shot stopping ability. He goes down like lightning. But I think he lacks in positioning, ball handling and experience. He also often misplaces his goal kicks. Overall he isn't bad and has the potential to be our first place and Italy's first place. I would prefer Kameni, or mandanda or akinfeev. However, he will be extremely cheap for us and who knows he could develop into a great goalkeeper.
He has 99 saves, and 9 clean sheets in 27 games. Abbiati has 28 games, 11 clean sheets and 107 saves. In my opinion, he has very good stats. (stats are from espnsoccernet)
various saves 1match against milan
Zed.D
Mar 19 2009, 05:39 PM
I wish we go for Akinfeev or Kameni. Akinfeev would not be cheap but everyone is aware of his potential, while Kameni is a good keeper (IMO) and could come for free this summer, if he doesn't renew.
Marchetti.. I don't really know how good he is but I feel he will turn out another Storari for us.
Tennie
Mar 19 2009, 05:43 PM
Uhm. The Marchetti stuff was discussed yesterday. Any reason for the repetition?
Bluesummers
Mar 19 2009, 05:46 PM
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Andriy Shevchenko will not be be bought by milan and will most certainly will return to London once the summer window begins. This decision has come from several issues that have arisen: first the technical, looking at the former football ability, he has yet to prove himself useful in minutes that he has been granted by carlo this season. He has been in inzaghi's shadow all season and cannot break free.
Also the economic factor plays a huge role: as our Squad's wage total can be reduced with his exit (we currently play him 75k a week, the same wage as seedorf, pirlo, gattuso etc.). Shevchenko is part of the financial waste that is occupying the club as underlined by Galliani. Sheva's stay at the sansiro is no longer acceptable; a trip to London is on the cards.
Then Chelsea, can wave goodbye as he arrives and ship him off to Dynamo Kiev club or some of Major League Soccer teams, which have been showing interest in the number 76.
from milannews.it
Truly sad, I almost feel sorry for him.
Bluesummers
Mar 19 2009, 05:47 PM
QUOTE (Tennie @ Mar 19 2009, 10:43 AM)

Uhm. The Marchetti stuff was discussed yesterday. Any reason for the repetition?
Sorry, I didn't see the posts further back. You can delete it if you like.
Bluesummers
Mar 19 2009, 05:49 PM
QUOTE (Zed.D @ Mar 19 2009, 10:39 AM)

I wish we go for Akinfeev or Kameni. Akinfeev would not be cheap but everyone is aware of his potential, while Kameni is a good keeper (IMO) and could come for free this summer, if he doesn't renew.
Marchetti.. I don't really know how good he is but I feel he will turn out another Storari for us.
+1 I agree with you. I would rather us by a good replacement than go through replacing goal keepers every 2 seasons.
kurtsimonw
Mar 19 2009, 06:14 PM
QUOTE (Bluesummers @ Mar 19 2009, 04:31 PM)

akinfeev.
He seems really over-rated..
I don't watch the Russian league so I can't really say what he is like generally, but at Villa Park he was a joke. He flapped at every cross that came his way, pushed pretty much everything out for a corner.. doesn't he know how to catch? Then he conceeded a goal that would have embarassed me. May have been a one off but God was he poor.
Zed.D
Mar 19 2009, 09:15 PM
Akinfeev was really good at the Euros so perhaps his bad performance at the Villa Park was a one-off. and remember, he's really young. few goalkeepers have been this good at 22.
Jack Sparrow
Mar 20 2009, 05:17 AM
I dunno Bluey. Our holes are in the dealing with crosses thingie. Esp with Dida's recent worries. But in any case we can only purchase him next season so...
Bluesummers
Mar 20 2009, 06:01 AM
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Today we had a meeting between the leaders of Milan and the staff of Federico Marchetti (assisted by William Gabetti of the International Football Bonetto). "Marchetti moving to Milan? Needless to hide the player like a lot of teams. Something is moving, but it is premature to talk about it now."
source: milannewsI think its just down to the exact figures. We have him pretty much in the bag I assume from this. Galliani is a great liar
I knew we were going for a keeper. It's illogical and very risky to wait for abbiati to return (if he returns at all) in september and find form by october/november.
Were probably either losing kalac or dida. Take your pick.
Bluesummers
Mar 20 2009, 06:14 AM
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AC Milan and Arsenal are the two clubs that are most interested in signing the defender (LB/LWB/LW) wildcard of Paris Sanit-Germain, Mamadou Sakho, 19 years old that has expressed his desire of moving away from the french capital.
The young Parisian had been approached by Juventus before, however the negotations seemed to have failed and the pole positions were immediately overtaken by Milan and the Arsenal. However, the gunners seem to have a slight advantage over AC Milan for the young defender's signature.
If we sign him, which I doubt we will; I will have the utmost faith in silvio and galliani again. He is one of the most promising and talented young Side backs in europe right now.
MizNelson
Mar 20 2009, 06:17 AM
QUOTE (KakaIlCapitano @ Mar 19 2009, 04:05 AM)

calciomercato writes that Carlo will leave if we don't buy Alex with Eto'o or Adebayor!
Don't bet the farm on it. Carlo hasn't made any such ridiculous demand in the past and it's hard to fathom him doing that now.
Bluesummers
Mar 20 2009, 06:19 AM
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There are rumours in the Spanish Press that Real Madrid are preparing a £70m bid for Milan ace Kaka.
In July, Real will appoint a new President to replace Ramon Calderon and Florentino Perez - the man who build the original Galacticos side - is expected to take charge.
Reports suggest that Perez has his eyes on Milan hero Kaka, who has been a target for the Merengues for a long time.
Spanish newspapers Sport claims that Madrid could spend £70m on luring the Brazilian superstar to the Bernabeu.
The story also states that Kaka would be in line for a world-record salary of nearly £12m per year.
However, it remains unlikely that Milan will be tempted to let Kaka leave having turned down a £100m bid from Manchester City in January.
BS, there is no way we will sell him.
dst
Mar 20 2009, 11:06 AM
I hope Ancelotti does not get his demands... seriously, Alex and Adebayor!?!? I want him to demand things but beyond that, he should leave the choices to Leonardo!
If Real truly come, I fear they'll leave with Kaka.
Habitant
Mar 20 2009, 09:24 PM
QUOTE (Zed.D @ Mar 19 2009, 04:29 PM)


That's Galliani for you. always BSing!
it's not even BS, he's beyond a joke...
i should write a song: "the cuntification that had a tw@t face" try and guess what thats about
MizNelson
Mar 20 2009, 10:07 PM
QUOTE (Bluesummers @ Mar 19 2009, 10:01 PM)

Were probably either losing kalac or dida. Take your pick.
I'm hoping for the former, as he went from #1 to completely useless in less than a year.
If this story is to be believed, the new guy shouldn't just walk in here and be the first or second goalie right off the bat. He has to earn his stripes. Plus, he'll (hopefully) have a well-experienced veteran in Dida teaching him the ropes, shoes that our favorite follicularly-challenged fascistic journeyman likely couldn't fill.
Bluesummers
Mar 21 2009, 09:33 PM
According to milannews, Barcelona and juventus have entered the race for maxwell along with us. Now it will be harder to sign him because inter will look to sell him to barcelona as a first choice.
Tennie
Mar 21 2009, 09:48 PM
Interesting bit of news in (i think it was) Mediaset.
Apparently the Marchetti transfer is bubbling along. Milan may buy him and as part of the deal loan Paloschi to Cagliari (loan, NOT sell). Cagliari are losing Acquafresca to the cugini at the end of the season and need a striker.
CrazyMilanFan
Mar 21 2009, 10:18 PM
QUOTE (Tennie @ Mar 21 2009, 08:48 PM)

Interesting bit of news in (i think it was) Mediaset.
Apparently the Marchetti transfer is bubbling along. Milan may buy him and as part of the deal loan Paloschi to Cagliari (loan, NOT sell). Cagliari are losing Acquafresca to the cugini at the end of the season and need a striker.
so we will buy paloschi ( half)then hopefully loan him not co-owe him and if we will be able to get the GK i will be ok with the deal as for maxwell dont know if we really need him there are better options
Darunia
Mar 22 2009, 02:15 AM
Sakho? I only know him from FM and he's good!
"On the next transfer campaign, he said: "[Adriano] Galliani talked about a defender, and on that we agree, there won't be difficulties getting a good, young one like Thiago Silva, and [Palermo's Simon] Kjaer is a very good one too. We will also have to discuss about a striker.""
I don't know much about Kjaer, but he's young and supposed to be good! I wouldn't mind a Kjaer-Silva pairing in CB.
Tennie
Mar 22 2009, 02:17 AM
Kjaer has been quite good in the games I've seen him in for Palermo.
(Kurt, if we get him can I use the viking smiley?)
kurtsimonw
Mar 22 2009, 02:21 AM
I must admit I don't know him.. as long as he's from Scandinavia it's fine!
Tennie
Mar 22 2009, 07:20 PM
So, according to Tuttomercatoweb, Braida was at Chievo-Palermo today, ostensibly to observe Kjaer. I wouldn't mind the transfer at all, but Kjaer is a Palermo player and Palermo president Zamperini is a few fries short of a Happy Meal and does NOT like Milan.
CrazyMilanFan
Mar 22 2009, 08:06 PM
QUOTE (Tennie @ Mar 22 2009, 06:20 PM)

So, according to Tuttomercatoweb, Braida was at Chievo-Palermo today, ostensibly to observe Kjaer. I wouldn't mind the transfer at all, but Kjaer is a Palermo player and Palermo president Zamperini is a few fries short of a Happy Meal and does NOT like Milan.
we must be close to him bcoz it was mentioned by carlo aswell and now brida was at the match
gal_kenny
Mar 23 2009, 01:13 AM
With the way things are going, do u think we'll get a striker in the summer?
elcordobez
Mar 23 2009, 06:35 AM
QUOTE (gal_kenny @ Mar 23 2009, 11:13 AM)

With the way things are going, do u think we'll get a striker in the summer?
I made a long post regarding that before but i still think even if we didn't buy a striker but we fixed our defense we'd probably put up a decent challenge for the Scudetto + CL.
I might be wrong but i think i heard a commentator say we're topping the team goalscoring tally and we've only had 2 scoreless encounters with Borriello being out for most of the season + we've had Kaka unfit for a few games.
So i'd predict Galliani to come out and say we're alright for strikers.
RE: Kjaer how much better is he than lets say....Bonera?Like would he be less mistake prone?better technique?
Fillipo Simone
Mar 23 2009, 03:50 PM
QUOTE (dst @ Mar 20 2009, 11:06 AM)

If Real truly come, I fear they'll leave with Kaka.
Real will leave with Ibrahimovic or Mourinho in the end.
But maybe, if Perez will be inaugurated, we'll get a chance of picking van der Vaart.
Bluesummers
Mar 23 2009, 06:10 PM
If we are really signing Kjaer, who is 19 years old and was just intergrated into Serie A for our starting CB role, i would be very surpised as to what galliani is drinking these days.
We need someone like lucio/vidic not a school kid CB
CrazyMilanFan
Mar 23 2009, 07:19 PM
i think the latest interview with krajer agent suggests that he will be staying...
dst
Mar 23 2009, 07:23 PM
I don't think anything's been decided yet. I believe we are waiting to learn more about Nesta's future to decide on the level of the defender we're going to get.
whoarethepatriots
Mar 23 2009, 07:42 PM
If we do make a move for Kjaer, i can see our stupid board and their greedy owner swapping Darmian, Paloschi and half of Albertazzi, plus a stupid figure like £14m
We cannot negotiate anymore, and Palermo (read Zamparini) know how to f^ck people over
Fillipo Simone
Mar 23 2009, 09:42 PM
QUOTE (whoarethepatriots @ Mar 23 2009, 07:42 PM)

If we do make a move for Kjaer, i can see our stupid board and their greedy owner swapping Darmian, Paloschi and half of Albertazzi, plus a stupid figure like £14m
We cannot negotiate anymore, and Palermo (read Zamparini) know how to f^ck people over
That would really be a s-t-u-p-i-d thing..
MizNelson
Mar 24 2009, 01:19 AM
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No Milan move for Kjaer
Monday 23 March, 2009
The agent of Palermo defender Simon Kjaer has ruled out a summer switch to Milan.
Kjaer is hot property at the moment and there have been rumours that he could arrive at San Siro as part of the Rossoneri's defensive restructuring.
However, representative Mikkel Beck, who was a Danish international in the 1990s, has dismissed transfer talk.
“Milan aren't interested in Kjaer and I will repeat that Simon will be staying at Palermo for next season because he is happy,” he told MelitoOnline.it.
“Aried Braida was seen at the Chievo-Palermo game? There were lots of players there. I really think Simon will stay put.”
Kjaer, who is just 19 years of age, joined Palermo from FC Midtjylland last year and has been called into the Danish squad after impressing at the Stadio Renzo Barbera.
Tennie
Mar 24 2009, 11:09 AM
As (Spanish paper) is reporting that Milan will sell Borriello and Gourcuff to buy Kanoute from Sevilla. Take it as you will.
Mediaset is reporting that Roma is having serious financial issues and that if they don't make the CL, there'll be a sell off (including, probably, Mexes to Milan).
CrazyMilanFan
Mar 24 2009, 11:24 AM
kanoute is 31 why him woudl prefer luis fabiano from seville
Tennie
Mar 24 2009, 11:42 AM
Don't think it's a real story, cmf. 'As' is known to be...really unreliable. They were behind the Kaka to Madrid rumors the other year, for example.
CrazyMilanFan
Mar 24 2009, 11:45 AM
some important meeting regarding yoann today according to milannews
Jack Sparrow
Mar 24 2009, 12:43 PM
Bring him back. He's 10x the treqqie for our formation that Seedorf is. If we must insist on playing Zee as sole treqqie that is.
il_diavolo_mtl
Mar 24 2009, 04:01 PM
Since you mentioned Seedorf's exit, Reports out of Juve say they want a straight-up Trez vs Sleepdorf. This is probably to have a cannon-legged midfielder to serve as a stop gap till they are fully committed to giopicollo.
RinoIlCapitano
Mar 25 2009, 12:53 PM
QUOTE (Tennie @ Mar 24 2009, 11:09 AM)

As (Spanish paper) is reporting that Milan will sell Borriello and Gourcuff to buy Kanoute from Sevilla. Take it as you will.
Mediaset is reporting that Roma is having serious financial issues and that if they don't make the CL, there'll be a sell off (including, probably, Mexes to Milan).
this is unbeliveable, kanoute is not so better than boriello that we need to sell Yoan too. We need Yoan for the next season, he have played a great season in france and i think he is totally ready to replace seedorf and make our new younger midfield with flamini, kaka and maybe rino us a experienced one, with R80, Pirlo, Ambro and maybe also Janku to use everyone in a rotation. Its a midfield of 8 great players and i think this is enough and we must spend nothing, maybe we can also sign Obi Mikel (contract expiring at the end of the season) and that will be a really great midfield... So we can concentrate on the defense and attack and make a great milan again with mexes, maxwell and maybe some other defender to win everything... it's not easy but is not unreal, Spend 20M for Mexes, retain Yoan, Buy some great striker for 30M, 8 for maxwell Obi mikel 0... it's 60M, we will be in champions league so we can do that....
il_diavolo_mtl
Mar 25 2009, 02:34 PM
the kanoute rumor is Bull-manure there is simply NO way that i see this happenning
Jack Sparrow
Mar 25 2009, 03:57 PM
EDIT: Sorry..thought this was the Kuffkuff thread...
Tennie
Mar 25 2009, 04:01 PM
Well, the rumors are that MIlan are after (variously) Clichy, Alex, Mexes. The Kanoute thing is still bubblign along but given that the first article appeared in As, I'm really skeptical.
gal_kenny
Mar 25 2009, 06:16 PM
AC Milan Plans for the SummerWe really have to bring back Abate and Gourcuff...so that when Abate plays milan would realise that they need Beckham and Beckham wouldn't have to come bak or what not b/c he plans on doing dat
Tennie
Mar 25 2009, 06:29 PM
Thanks for posting that link, kenny. I'm not so sure that the write of the article really knows what he's talking about, but I do agree with you that Abate should be recalled.
whoarethepatriots
Mar 25 2009, 06:49 PM
Bring back Matri? That is surprising news (if its credible)
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