I agree with Blue
And Im loving that Braida is friends with everyone

Funny how one incident can effect you guys. Affelay a jerk? He is one of the most modest players around The Netherlands. Do i need to search for the things Ibra does? Or Boateng? But off course they're very much loved.

Hee. I get your point...but seriously are you suggesting that since we have a lot of jerks in-house it's alright to add in one more??

Excert from Galliani's press conference today. I like.

http://www.acmilan.com/en/news/show/130193

He said it like gazillion times,but people always tend to believe rumors...

Galliani also said we wouldn't be signing anyone this summer a million times, how did that turn out? I just ignore him now, he talks for the sake of it.

As much as I want to believe him, as Kurt mentioned, it's his usual BS talk. he can't be taken seriously. I'm pretty sure he'd said the same things about Kaka as well, before suddenly coming up with the "we can't afford to lose 60m every season [by rejecting Real's bids for Kaka]" talk in the summer of 2009...

EDIT: the fact that he's talking about Pato's future is rather worrying!

He was asked, Zed.

No, actually I don't like Ibra, but does that have to mean we should sign another?

I have never liked Zlatan until now. Still, even though I find him one of our most important players he is far from my favourite (Milan) player.

About Afellay. Even though I don't like him, I am not against him joining us, since he's cheap and has enough quality to be in our squad and what he offers we lack.

He pissed me off tonight, in the second half. Useless tricks and ball possession instead of serving his peers.

Zlatan pissed you off tonight???

I am in LOVE with Zlatan+Pato right now.

Totally agree. The 2 assists were superb piece of work, but his nonshalant style made us look silly in numerous occasions and meant no break for the defenders as most of his tricks ended up with Chievo regaining fast possesion.

madrid 70m+kaka would do it for me



j/k

Pato+Ibra duo,who said it first ?


Although I agree with the others about his useless tricks...

I have always been in love with Pato But Zlatan has never been a favorite but he helps Sweden and love the way he plays but Gosh, he has allways had that bad temper so it's like get used to it But the Netherland- Sweden was Hit Van Bommel like 3 times.. Wow and yelled at the ref, Gattusos old days..

Aly Cissokho for 10m .. great.

This. Also, i'm sure this was mentioned in the match thread, but that two footed tackle was one of the most inexplicably idiotic things i've seen before. He exhibited all his class when went past those several defenders only to deliberately NOT play Roni or Robi in on goal, and instead strangely pull the ball back towards the defenders just for the sake of that shocking two footed lunching tackle. I was stunned to see that.

It's stuff exactly like that why I still to this day which it was Edin Dzeko and Pato.

Btw Fillipo, I hope this finally puts your doubts of his class to rest once and for all. No more 'is he really that good?' questions!

Pastore v. Bologna (Viviano)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-6ad1HBZo

Can anyone tell me (who watches Bundesliga) if you think Nuri Sahin might be a good purchase for us as a Zee alternative? He seems good on both sides of the pitch and can pass well.

I'd like to choose between one of Nuri Sahin and Man U's Anderson. And then get a nice fullback.

Sahin is a good player. I would not mind him. Sahin, Kagawa and Barrios are going to win the 1. Bundesliga.

Ok..he's good...but can he replace the Zeemeister? The Superman from Surinam, The AssKicker from Ajax, The Mage of Milan, The Magic Turtle, The Wonderful Willy Wonka... can he??

Sure.

you are outrageous. lol. but ffs we already got a seedorf replacement. He's a soulful African Prince, not a mechanic German machine. He comes from Pompy with Passion and Promise. He bashes Ballack for fun. A Bat, waiting to be shot out of Hell by the great Milanese Red Devil. He's the Unstoppable Train. He is KEVIN. PRINCE. BOATENG.

*mumble* *mumble* He looks like some hip-hop star with a bad *** name...and that's all that's required to win your approval. Next you'll tell me to sell Rino so we can have Markie Mark as DM.

I like the idea of Busta Rhymes as a Pirlo replacment

haha, nice! im thinking Ice-T as our next manager.

Heck no! Jay-Z to replace Galliani and Kanye West to replace Braida.

"You Mourino..I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish...but Zlatan is the best forward in the league ever!!"

If you're having back problems, I feel bad for you son... I got 99 problems but a left back ain't one! Hit me!

LOL!


99 problems hmm..


I got some problems:

1)jack
2)jack
3)jack
...
99)jack

Hey hey, I said back problems, not jack problems!

Anybody who shares his rum is not a problem with me

HAHAHA

I deserve this and more. This is what I get...

I threw up a little in my mouth after reading this. Nice work, Michael Buffer.

Anyone following this player:Coutinho.He's been really great for inter,and I think he has great potential.His weakness though is his finishing and shooting but he plays good on the wings,and is a very fast player.He also is only 18,and has recently started extensive strength training.I think he's a player that will become great one day,although I hate the team he plays for ;p

He's a great talent, in two years time he'll be awesome.

As I've said in the CL thread, he's indeed a great talent. I think he's quite lucky to be playing regularly in a team like Inter though. Benitez showed great trust in him and let him make mistakes (and there's been many of them tbh) cause that's the only way you learn. you can see he's greatly improved since his debut. especially against Tottenham he was immense.

That said, he's a little fellow and doesn't possess great physique. I don't know much more he can grow, but if he doesn't, in the future he will start to struggle in this league where defenders usually employ the simple method of "kick hard, left and right" on gifted players. in La Liga he could be as good as Bojan or maybe even Messi.

Another thing, Pato in his first 2 seasons could dribble past defenders and show samba skill quite easily but nowadays he struggles with that. same could happen to Coutinho.

Well that could also be attributed to the fact that he was still a little known kid back when he first started for us, nowadays defeners don't really let him out of their sights. So obviously it gets harder when you're being so tightly marked. Yes he's bulked up a lot but skill just doesn't fade away, he's still got it, just trying to find his feet in the positions he's playing, the extra attention he gets from markers and his new physique

He'll grow, you'll see. He'll probably reach the same physique of Pato nowadays.

Yeah I meant he's struggling to use his skills for the very same reasons you mentioned. I remember 2 seasons ago in one of the games at San Siro (maybe Siena) he dribbled past 5-6 players - it was amazing. these days he can't do that. I hope it's a passing phase and he will find it back.


I don't think so. Pato is ~180cm. Coutinho is 172. how much taller do you think he will get in 2-3 years' time? it definitely won't be 6-7cm.

If by grow you mean "muscles" and all, yes, of course he will get bigger. but I can't see him having a Lavezzi/Maradona kind of physique either.

But I repeat, he's definitely very talented! if not Serie A, he will be a star somewhere else.

Coutinho is a nice talent and however he is more assist man. Pato is great player, i dont compare him with anyone.

Regarding what we need;

A world class GK who is better than our goalies.

World class wing backs.

World class one box to box, offensive also who can track ball well.

Trequartista someone like Pastore or someone like Honda...

Then, a vice ibrahimovic consideirng inzaghi is old and will retire very soon...

Then a solid CB Nesta's long term replacement...

^ That's being too much unrealistic. We only need a CB, fullbacks and AM.

Putting Pastore and Honda in the same sentence should be illegal. What's happened to that guy these days. We haven't heard anything about him since the middle of the summer, after all that World Cup hype.

Pastore would be a dream, but it will never happen.

Anyways, imo all we need are FBs for both sides, another CB instead of Bonera and Onyewu, an AM instead of Dinho and bring Paloschi back instead of Pippo and maybe another CM

Maybe because he plays for a club / in a competition you don't follow at all?

So for you: not hearing about = sucking ?

Come on now CHU, Honda might be a really good player, but Pastore is on a whole other level.

I was commenting on the part Han probably thinks he just got hyped. There is nothing wrong with mentioning both Pastore and Honda as players who would be good for us, even though one is obvious better. I never meant to say they were alike. Both would be great options to replace Ronaldinho with, the sooner the better.

No way is Honda a better option then Dinho. If he was as good as you say he is, then he would be in a bigger league/team by now.

Now a better option to Dinho is Pastore/VDV/etc, not Honda. That's a major step down. and if you prefer quantity to quality then sure go for it, but that usually is something Juve live by not Milan

Honda may not be a quality option to replace Ronaldinho, but IMO he's good enough to replace Seedorf. He's talented, he can play DM, CM, box-to-box, AM and even striker. But the best thing about him is, he helps the team out. He helps out the defence if needed to. I still remember watching a friendly Japan against Argentina recently, Japan won 1 - 0, Honda was lively throughout the match.

We already have Boateng who can replace Seedorf. Out of the four midfielders, we need mostly an AM. The rest can be Boateng-Pirlo-Flamini/Gattuso/Ambrosini, even though a new quality DM wouldn't be that bad.

But what is the point of bringing in a player who is ok at playing many positions when what we want is a top quality AM?

Honda is probably one of the better AM in europe right now. Saying no to him at this point would be very stupid. I am very confident we'll sign him this summer.



If we don't pay for him; our sponsors will. He is a great player, left footed 24 year old versatile midfielder. Very intelligent. His vision and tactical awareness are very high and here he will undoubtedly reach pirlo's levels.


Only problem is that he's non eu so were really going to have to becareful in the market this summer, which worries me.


There is also the possibility of Kaka. If we sign kaka then I don't see him coming but who knows. I'd welcome Kaka over anyone though

I actually wouldn't be shocked if Kaka came on loan with option this January. It would also mark the end of Ronaldinho in Milan....but the XMas tree would be back in operation with that.

Don't forget Kaka is one of the best SS in the world though recently he's been playing more of a CAM role. I wonder about his injuries though.