Lahm is massively overrated. I would like Criscito to come but it isnt happening.

Get Santon

and Criscito is so much better than Lahm?

Santon is a dream... he is immense talented

I'm back but not that way I expected it. I said I was going to return if I saw the team doing ok but this is not the case.

Gabriele Marcotti wrote an excellent article on CNNSI:

Read it ... this is the truth.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writ...drid/index.html

I go away and disappear again ... I'm sick of Uncle Fester's and Berluconi's excuses.

Berlusconi ... SELL THE TEAM!!!

not gonna happen. The rest of italy will not allow him to do it, unless he sells to an italian and that is not going to happen.

Milan Should Buy Cesc Fabregas, Franck Ribery & Edin Dzeko - Ernesto Bronzetti

^^^



Yet...he doesn't really mention Milan in any of the comments. He says big clubs...

I hate Ernesto Bronzetti, why didn't he found some new talent and offer to Milan, i could give Milan few names too that would rock in the first 11, players like Serdar Taşçı from VFB Stuttgart, Miralem Pjanic from Lyon or Milan Badelj from Dinamo Zagreb...

We are a big club

I know...but not the only one...look at what the title says...

[quote name='CHU-LIP' date='Mar 12 2010, 05:51 PM' post='243483']
Kjær (CB) and Lahm (RB/LB).
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DIEGO ALVES (GK) RAFINHA (RB) KJAER AND ASTORI (CB) VARGAS OR CRISCITO (LB)

KRASIC AND PASTORE (MDF) DZEKO OR TORRES IN (CF)
THIS WILL BE SPLENDID

I think it's Salvatore Landolinas error.

Does Bronzetti actually have a job? It seems he just talks... and most of the time, what he says is completely useless or is proven untrue.

And he almost always states the obvious. my dog could see having Ribery, Fabregas and Dzeko would be good for any team.

THIS WILL BE not the case

that too.

Tuttomercatoweb is trying to get even MORE vague.

They've got 3 articles stating that Braida was at the Marassi yesterday to observe Genoa-Cagliari. But the articles don't agree on which player he was there to watch. One article suggests it was Astori, one suggests it was Sokratis (sorry, i still can't spell his surname), one suggests it was Mesto.

Greek?

Yep!

Balotelli, he's obviously having problems at Inter, and I dont think Mourinho likes him. He most definitely has an attitude problem but he also has some skill. We know he's a Milan fan, and I think Leo would have the ability to control and coach him where Mourinho probably doesnt. Do we pick him up?

Inter are not going to sell Balo to us. We all know Pirlo and Seedorf came from them but it's only because Inter thought they were not good enough. This is not the case with Balo.

If I could, I'd take him, he's worth it. If he maintains this attitude we can just sell him to the next club.

So, the rumor mills are kicking into overdrive in Italy. Last week after Balotelli's poor performance in their draw was excused away as 'he has a fever', Mourinho said 'he didn't have a fever, that's a lie'. This after various other snarky comments about Balotelli (many of them well earned) this season.

But this time, Balotelli's family has apparently had enough. His brother issued a statement saying 'it's gone too far' and stating that Balotelli has engaged the services of Mino Raiola as agent.

Mino Raiola is one of the heavy hitters among Italian agents; his most recent big client was Ibrahimovic - whose wages he got increased from 2 million to 12 million and then he helped smoothe out Ibrahimovic's transfer to Barca.

Well, this afternoon Mino Raiola went to Via Turati for a meeting. In response to the journalists who asked him what was up when he left, he denied that he'd discussed Balotelli and stated that he /did/ after all have other clients (which is true). However, the rumor folks are already frothing at this.

(see, variously, eurosport, gazzetta, mediaset, and tuttomercatoweb over the past 10 days or so)

we have approx 20 Million to spend plus sales. Make a list from that.

So out of curiosity...who are the people who Raiola represents? Do you think we might actually buy Zlatan!! Let's face it, he hasn't set the charts on fire there...

no i'm guessing were going after youth italian players.


We'll probably bring back astori and sign a few young italian players around the age of 20-24 who are similar to Abate in potential. We'll ofcourse make one big signing like we always do and I hope thats Dzeko.

We'll also probably offload a few players:

Dida
Kaladze
Favalli
Huntelaar
Jankulovski
Oddo (maybe)
Zambrotta (maybe)
Inzaghi (maybe)

And finally we'll bring a few primavera up like Verdi/Zigoni/Albertazzi to sit on the bench and get some minutes.




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The bottom line is don't be expecting major shifts unless we win the scudetto which will give us 20m Euros and even then don't expect major shifts.

The thought today about Raiola's visit is that it has to do with bringing a Brazilian player over.

really? I wonder if its neymar.... Braida has talked about him for 2 years now, but he'll be really expensive...

I'd take Balotelli over Dzeko any day of the week.

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You would take a bad educated boy before a big rossoneri fan and knowing that Dzeko much better than Balotelli .
Surprised

Balotelli's just as much of a fan as Dzeko. And I think he's a better player. He's also even less mature than his coach, which is saying something. That's my big concern with him (aside from the minimal possibility that Moratti would sell him to us).

FYI, there was an article intoday's gazzetta -- apparently one of the things Balotelli's done in the past week or so to really piss off his teammates and management is to come into the dressing room at Appiano Gentile (their training base) humming the Milan hymn (oh, and he was at the San Siro fro the Milan-MU game too).

Not sure how much of it is him geniunely being a fan of the club and how much is deliberately designed to provoke them so they'll sell. I suspect it might be a bit of both.

If Balotelli wants to come, no one can stop him, not even Moratti. I know about him this much! and I'd take him instead of Dzeko. he's a future Italy international and an immense talent - also younger and cheaper than Dzeko (who is definitely overpriced at 40 million). awful attitude, true, but that's about the only fault I see in him.

I don't think its a matter of whether or not Moratti will sell him to us, more its a matter of whether we are likely to pay for him....

Why not? I think Galliani would snatch him.

They said the same thing about Seedorf, Dinho and Ronaldo when we got them. All have been/were professional at Milan.

I think it's the Inter environment that allows players to behave in such manner. Same goes for players at Real.

I would personally jump at the chance of getting Balo. Imagine an attack with him, Dinho and Pato for next season.

Galli would def. snatch him, just would he snatch him for probably 20% more than he's worth, because thats the only way Inter would sell him to us, I'd think.

I'll take just about anyone right now, Balo, Dzeko, whoever. Our strikers have not scored in....3 games? Maybe more.

balotelli isn't going to happen guys. Thats like us selling Pato to inter.

I honestly wouldn't want Balotelli unless he came in cheap; not that he's bad, but we can do better.

I'd like to see Luis Fabiano but I think he's nearing his thirties and lord knows we need fresh legs...

Not really, Pato loves it at Milan, as far as I can tell. Balotelli is causing Inter some inner turmoil, like a cancer. If Inter believe him to be a cancer, why would they not sell him to us?

LOL it's nothing like that. Pato isn't an Inter fan (unless we're talking about the other Inter).

He's got a contract till 2013. There's no chance he can leave before the contract is up. Inter wouldn't sell. The fans see him and Santon as their response to the Inter has no quality Italians thing.

Of course if Mou were to win the CL, he'd have enough clout to sell Mario off. Even then to a foreign side...probably for 18 million+.

Dzeko is much better? Really? I've seen Dzeko play a few times in the CL and I was never impressed. Maybe I did not catch him on his night... but I was impressed with Balotelli the first time I saw him play. He is more raw but he is a big talent.


Well if he says we can have him for 50m that's like saying he won't sell him...


For how much? He would not sell at any price we'd buy.


I don't think anyone at Inter really cares about what the rest of Italy think. Not that much to stop Balotelli or Santon from leaving anyway.

Milan also needs to buy a new medical staff.

You've all the right.

P.S. I like your posts

Torres / Balotelli / Dzeko

I'm just hoping for of them to come! i won't get picky (though i would take torres first, balo second and dzeko third choice)

i dint know they had one

So everyone agrees we need a FB, a CM and a forward.

Could you all just list your choices (max. of 2 only).

Please keep in mind we have little money. Probably a max of 30 million (not incl player sales).

I'll go last or somewhere in the middle.

Def:???
Mid:???
Fw:???

Anyone want to take this up? Also toying with the idea of opening a seperate thread for this, so each person goes back and edits his/her wishlist. Every week a new post saying we need player X and Y is a bit confusing to keep track of.

This will be our first signing of the summer. He'll move on a free transfer on 1/2 year deal.

several sites indicate that the deal may be done sooner rather than later. However, there is a disagreement between them on the wage deal. It ranges from 500k-1.5m.

Mediaset's report says the final meeting will take place today and that it'll be a 2 year contract for 1 million each year.

Yepes has been strong for Chievo in defense, not necessarily a bad signing given that Favalli is retiring and Kaladze is almost certainly leaving.

Great another 34 year old...

Well he's younger then Favalli that's a positive...

The management already starting to make their ambitions clear for next season

this is a very good deal imo. We need a solid cb with experience and yepes has been def been solid for chievo this season.

Favali out, kaladze out= 5m saved on wage bill. Were def progressing in the correct manner.

+1. Though tbh, I have no clue how good he is. I suppose he's not bad as a 3rd/4th choice.