Ariedo Braida is one of our directors lol.



and nuuuuuuuuuu hes AQUAAA MAN

Can you post the link for this one please ?

gladly, its from gianluca tizi but here you can check it out.



http://www.rossoneriblog.com/2011/04/25/mi...n-from-ligue-1/




also:



-Galliani has said later in his interview that he tried to go for Thiago but Barca were not interested in selling him.


-More italian papers are saying that Kaka is our mr X and he'll be coming in the last week of august. They say perez and Galliani have already had an agreement.

MN

I don't think Kaka is enough, we still need a central mid who has the vision and is able to link our play, Kaka is a very direct AM and plays closer to the attackers then to the mids. Kaka and maybe Aquilani if we can lower Liverpool's price to 8m would be a really good step in the right direction. Even though Kaka does worry me a bit due to his injury issues...

And Aquilani doesn't?

Thank you

And why would Fiorentina let him go for so little which will most likely ruining the outcome of their season? To get that little cash in return? They are not Ajax, else they would have accepted 8 mio right now already and not asking for 10. Ajax, and any other Dutch side, are in a massive need for money.

Liverpool loaned out Aquilani to Juventus, he did not perform to expectations, he was good but Pirlo was better

Montolivo I rate to an extent, but I do not consider him Mr X, he would add fresh legs for sure. But from what I have seen of him at Fiorentina, he is not Rui Costa (Fiorentina tenure). Nevertheless, he is good.

Mega deals? Please, this is Milan not Real Madrid
You mean this list? Roberto Baggio, Marco Van Basten, Oliver Bierhoff, Zvonimir Boban, Christian Broochi, Marcus Cafu, Antonio Cassano, Marcel Desailly, Roberto Donadoni, Nelson Dida, Hernan Crespo, Gennaro Gattuso, Ruud Gullit, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Filippo Inzaghi, Ricardo Kaka, Patrick Kluivert, Alessandro Nesta, Jean-Pierre Papin, Andrea Pirlo, Frank Rijkaard, Robinho, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Dejan Savicevic, Thiago Silva, Andry Shevchenko, Jaap Stam, George Weah, to name a few.

I have to take into account their situations? Zlatan and Robinho are world class players, if Milan could take them and retain a Scudetto with them, I’d say it was a brilliant coup for Dr Galliani, considering he was robbing their respective clubs blind. Do you not see how this is a good thing? Clubs and players do sometimes have problems, yes they are human after-all, it’s a window of opportunity – a dream come true for many players. History is rich like that.

Of course next season will be different from the previous. Milan will be eager to prove itself once more … With that said, I expect the club to offer a player of quality in midfield to take the team to the next level - The only way we will be able to tussle it out in Italy and Europe

So what if I don’t rate them? I don’t rate them in the same category of say Pirlo and Xavi .. Rui Costa and Kaka .. That would be unfair to them, otherwise they are good squad players, nothing more. They do not present a must purchase now or gloom and doom situation to me - they arrive fine, they don't it doesn't change much.

Did I say we go into the season with no midfield reinforcements? Honestly now, is that what has been bothering you all this time? Of course not, must have been my illogical self for considering quality players ahead of your beloved Montolivo and Aquilani?

I know I agree with you, Kaka is not enough. We desperately need a quality center midfielder.

money is money at the end of the day. Getting 3m is better than zero, they're pretty close to replacing him too.

Kaka would make sense because we can move boateng to midfield and cassano/robinho up front.



But we still need a solid center midfielder.


Imo we could have done some serious damage if we had a line up like this:


Boateng-Van bommel-Fabregas

--------------Kaka-------------

-----Robinho--------Ibra


But its too late for that now.



We need a solid CM and there isn't many out there who are available

Aquilani mostly had problems at Liverpool, he was relatively injury free at Juve. Players go though difficuilt odd seasons where it's one injury after another. That doesn't mean they're injury prone. Kaka on the other hand has been having problems with his knee and hernias for years now. And that is even more worrying.


They still paid a huge sum for him after what he did at Roma, which imo was significant and what caught most people's eyes to begng with. Name one Italian player, aside from Zola who had a good playing career in England...

As for his Juve spell, he had good games here and there. But in general, Juve were a hot mess last season, so I don't really give too much weight to his season there.


The Mr. X thing is all Galliani BS to keep the media interested and the fans happy. There was never a Mr. X to begin with imo. I think you've been missing my point, as I've never, in this entire discussion, compared either Montolivo or Aquilani to the likes of Rui Costa or Kaka. I've always said that they'd be good, solid players which will give our midfield some much needed quality when on the ball. And that is what they provide, they might not make us CL winners, but they'll help us in retaining the title and going further in Europe.


Again, a number of those players came to Milan as relative unkowns, who most thought would be understudies to the older players. Yet all of them (bar Brocchi - what is it with you and this guy? He was always terrible, are you his agent?? ) turned out to either be top class players or good players who helped us reached the peaks that we did in those years. And this is what I expect Montolivo and Aquilani to do, they won't become huge stars, and they're not big names now either. Yet they'll inject that extra bit of quality we need.


Answer me this. Had Robinho and Zlatan not had the problems they had and Man City and Barca respectively, would we have been able to sign them?

I think the answer is fairly obvious, and this is my point exactly, Italian clubs nowadays cannot purchase top class players at their peaks unless the conditions favour them. Do you really think we ever had any chance of actually signing Fabregas? No way! And do you really think we have any chance of signing a big name other then Kaka? A player who is turning 30, is ravaged by injuries and looked over by his coach who would prefer to play a youngster instead of him. I think not

Montolivo and Aquilani may not be huge star names, but again, they're solid, quality players who offer the kind of qualities we need in our midfield, we have plenty of stars and leaders in the team, we don't need that. What we need is some creativity and a midfield that can actually pass the ball instead of lump it.


Yes, and other teams have strangthened while we added depth to an already strong department, while letting an already troubled area get worse by letting one of our best players go for free to a F'ing rival!! One midfielder such as Kaka won't take us anywhere, Kaka is a fairly direct AM, he's not going to link our attack to defence, we need a CM first and foremost, before even thinking about Kaka. And Aquilani and Montolivo are both CMs, they're both good, creative players and fairly cheap due to their current situation at their respective clubs. For me, it's a no-brainer, I don't get what the issue here is. Give me 2 other Central Mid names that you deem worthy of this Milan midfield, and ones that we can realistically afford to bring in...


As I've said millions of times, I don't rate them on that level either, but they're certainly not as bad as you're trying to make them out to be. And imo, they are a must purchase, there aren't many top class CMs running around, and that is the position that we mostly need to fill. The AM position can easily be filled by Robinho, Cassano or Boateng if it came down to it, while our central midfield area is full of muscle players who cannot do anything with the ball, this is our most crucial area. And I don't see any other names cropping up who can fill this slot.


That was the first thing you mentioned in your first post in regards to this subject, and it literally made me flip the lid over my head Because imo, our midfield cannot stay as is going into next season, because I believe we'll be in for a big disappointment if that is the case.

Montolivo and Aquilani wouldn't have been my first choice, I mean really, who wouldn't have wanted Fabregas???? Personally I would have wanted us to keep Pirlo and go for someone like Montolivo or Aquilani, but now our midfield is left with nothing but the fading Seedorf. That is the reality, not talking about dream signings such as Fabregas or Xavi. Also you're considering the impossible, as I've asked ou above, give me 2 realistic CM names that can come in and take us to the next level and are better then Montolivo and Aquilani. And PLEASE, for the love of God and my sanity, DO NO mention Cesc, Iniesta or Xavi

I disagree Han, we have more money and financial power than you give us credit for. We could have signed fabregas, we had a deal agreed but it was cesc who chose barca at the end of it.


Hamsik and Pastore were never realistic targets because of their price tags but we can sign someone in the 20-30m margin.

sry dble post

Exactly! Without a CM we can lump in 10 Kaka's up there. We need someone who will move the ball up to Kaka/Ibra/Pato to make things happen.


Fabregas was never really going to happen, I don't get wy you're getting yourself down over it. Also, why would you want "miss the target Robinho" starting in attack? Pato will get that spot next to Ibra on most occasions, Robinho is best left to take up the AM spot, keep him as far away from goal as you can is what I believe in

Personally my ideal team for next season would be (midfield and attack only, the defense is already set)

1st pick



2nd pick


I think that's a great line-up and we'd steam roll through the league, plus do a lot better in Europe. It's good mix of leaders, stars, and craft

Fabregas went for a lot more then 30m And Galliani just came out and said that Fabregas was way too expensive for us to sign. So that debunks your theory that we're financially strong enough to battle it out with Barca on any day of the week

The truth is that we were never really in it to begin with imo. The whole Mr. X thing was a good play from Galliani to keep things rolling while he does what he needs to do without too much pressure and to keep the attention away from the Fininvest deabacle, by leading people to believe that we don't have problems and are an OK away from a mult-million deal to sign Cesc Freakin' Fabregas ahead of Barca

I don't think we'll stream roll through anything, truth be told. Serie A will be stronger this season, the top 5 being very competitive. Sure we can say we are still the best, and fingers crossed it shows, but inter, Juve, Roma, and Napoli are there for the blood. Quote me on this.

To somewhat seal the league we'll need all three of Kaka, Monty and Aqua. Or some similar solution.

Damn you!!

That's why I posted those line-ups. We'd be able to do well in Serie A, BUT only if we had those players. That has been the entire point of this argument, where have you been?

I think Kaka would be more a bonus though. We have players who can fill in the AM position without too many troubles. It's the central midfield area that is worrying and needs the most attention imo.

However if we had those 2/3 players, you can quote me on this, we'll win the league

You're welcome.


Sorry, don't read monster half-mile long posts.


Can't disagree with this even if I tried. That's our biggest problem I believe, maybe even bigger than all our other team issues combined. It's that missing piece that will keep the engine running, we're well covered in other areas from defense to defensive midfielders, and whatnot.


Oh don't you worry little Han. You can be sure I will. I just believe the 2nd year is the hardest in any sports. It's hard enough to get at the top, but to stay there is a whole different ball game. The other teams figure you out.

we tried for him, raiola was spotted with the arsenal board on several occassions and your right we don't have money but berlu does and that could have been his transfer.


cesc deal was 29m cash +10m incentives. Not 39m straight up, same with sanchez who was 27m +10m incentives.

twitter accounts:

acmilan: http://twitter.com/#!/acmilan

emannuelson: http://twitter.com/#!/Urby28

robinho: http://twitter.com/#!/oficialrobinho

boateng: http://twitter.com/#!/KPBofficial

acmilan news: http://twitter.com/#!/Milanello

Hah, I currently follow every single one of those. Great minds think alike.

We never had the money to back up any of those meetings. And have you been living under a rock blue? Silvio has got more financial trouble then Greece atm

You still have to cough up those 10m one way or the other, whether that is today or tomorrow it will still add up to a hefty sum that we simply couldn't match

Doesn't berlu have 8 billion or something?

NEWS:



-Media in france have said that were looking to bid 25m for schweinsteiger.


-Genoa want both Cassano and Gilardino


-Fabregas has come out and said that there were other offers on the table but he chose Barca because of the challenge.


-Ibrahimovic: "I will remain here until they'll kick me out"


-Juve have completed the signing of Carlos Eduardo from Rubin Kazan for 18m.


-We had basically signed Xavi,” Vice-President Galliani told Sky Sport Italia.

“However, the operation was not completed for family reasons – his mother got in the middle of it.”


MN/TMW/FI

9 actually

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2010/10/billio...amily_EEPT.html

But the ruling will be a huge financial hit for him, throwing money around for Milan is not something that he'll be doing at present


Sometimes I wonder why Galliani even bothers to open his mouth

I just hope we sign someone soon. I want a solid signing and there isn't much time left. The media is also pretty much out of ideas on who we can sign.

Its pretty much just montolivo and aquailani stories.

9, declared, actually. I wouldn't be surprised if he has a whole lot of extra dough stashed somewhere. It's practically impossible to have a few billions these days and not grow it. Practically impossible. Metal, technology shares, logistics, and whatnot. Rich people very often hide (or not declare) some of their money to avoid heavy taxes.

OK.... So the French media know what an Italian team is doing about a player in Germany... God what a fantastic job.

Milan will sign Montolivo in the final days and everyone will have a sigh of relief and thus Galliani and co will fool everyone into hailing our mercato as a one brilliant feat by master geniuses when in reality it was mediocre and disappointing.

Milan will sign 3 champions my @ss. So now they just straight up lie.

a politician and his partners lying... would you believe that?

Schweinsteiger in Milan link

Milan are again being associated with a summer move for Bayern Munich ace Bastian Schweinsteiger.

The Rossoneri are expected to sign a midfielder before the window closes and the 26-year-old could be their Mr X mystery signing.

According to reports, the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza outfit are ready to offer €25m for the German international.

“Milan are a great club,” the player is quoted as saying. “Never say never, so we’ll just have to wait and see.”

Milan’s other midfield options are believed to be Fiorentina’s Riccardo Montolivo and Alberto Aquilani of Liverpool.


source : http://www.football-italia.net/aug16k.html

Crosses fingers

No one would really be happy with just Montolivo, as he's certainly not enough. We'll see what happens, but for fans to be happy 2 or 3 mids would need to be brough in


Never going to happen either. Same thing as the Cesc deal. Bayern would never accept 25m for Bastian. They don't need the money and he's tied down to a long contract

I also find it hard to believe Schwein is coming, though since the Cesc deal fell through the ground, we might be desperate to spend big.

Our only hope with that transfer is that the player pushes himself out of the door.

Milan have again made it clear that re-signing Real Madrid’s Kaka is virtually impossible due to the costs involved.

The Brazilian has been constantly associated with a return to Milanello, pretty much ever since he left the club in 2009 for close to €70m.

"When he went to Madrid I was moved," Vice-President Adriano Galliani told Sky Sport 24 on Tuesday.

"But his costs are too high for Milan. He would have to take a much bigger wage cut than Cesc Fabregas did to go to Barcelona.
The official added: "We would have to sign Kaka permanently, otherwise, due to the Spanish fiscal system, a loan move would create huge cost problems.

“Kaka can only move on loan within Spain. For us to sign him would mean doing so permanently and not on loan.

“I'm sorry to disappoint the fans, but the Kaka hypothesis is unfeasible.”
The attacking midfielder spent six glorious years with Milan after a switch from Sao Paulo.

Football-italia

For my money (and the club's) i'd rather go with Kucka or Montolivo as our next signing...

things are just getting more depressing by the minute lool

News:


-Eto is done and will be official friday.


-Forlan has come out and said hes been contacted by inter and its his dream to play there.


-Adebayor is going to tottenham, done.

-Inter are going after macherano.

-Reports are coming out indicating that milan have a 20m budget for signings.


mn/cm/tmw/fi/u know the rest....sighhh






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All the transfers we try and go for are not happening for various reasons. If kaka doens't happen ill be so depressed. Montolivo will probably be our only transfer at this rate

Isn't it just.

Schweinstiger (sp?) would be fantastic but if he plays tomorrow night in CL (which he will) it wont be worth it

Come on uncle Fester get the finger out! We want......AND we need somebody!!! (or 3)

Like I know our summer plans were fabregas and we gave it an honest shot, but we have to have a plan B. Fabregas to montolivo?



I say if no one is available lets just go splash the cash and sign someone like Eden Hazard; at least we have mini ronaldo in the making.

Sign Hazard and continue the season with a poor midfield? Nice thinking, Blue. There are players available. Both Aquilani and Montolivo are more than available. And probably more are. We're just trying to get someone better than them first, and if we fail in that, we will sign an Italian midfielder.

montolivo and aquailani are terrible. I honestly don't see them as that much of an improvement over playing boateng there.


At least with Hazard we know hes gonna be worldclass one day like pato

Wow, talk about an over statement!!! Have you actually watched them play in the last couple of years??

Also, what would we do with Hazard exactly? HGe doesn't fit into our system, while our problems reside in the midfield area. A position that could be perfectly filled with Montolivo and Aquilani

Montolivo had a poor season last year and there were problems all year long. Aquailani well he was on loan but Juve didn't finish well and they didn't buy him out because he was not that good in the first place.



You honestly rate montolivo and Aquailani better than boateng?


I'd rather we keep the money and play this:

flamini-bommel-boateng

---------binho

-----pato-----ibra




I'd rather keep the money honestly.

With that spirit you can create a squad with 10 world class forwards, and 0 players who can defend, for example. Let's sign the type of player we need. And Montolivo and Aquilani are not terrible. They just aren't world class, and you are just being spoiled which make you prefer a player we don't need as much as them just because their names doesn't sound as good in your ears. The biggest mistake you can make as club is signing a player just because he's good without looking at your own squad and its flaws.

Montolivo and Aquilani offer something different to our team than Boateng does, so there's no point in calling one better than the other. And once we can't play Seedorf, I prefer to play Montolivo or Aquilani a zillion times over Boateng. I actually rate both higher than Boateng to be honest.

I want to win Champions league, your standards are too low. How can you win anything with a guy like montolivo in the starting line up? He's a good bench player, but thats a bout it.


I'd be happy if he came as a sub but not as a starter.


and no boateng would be the playmaker or seedorf.

Van Bommel as our playmaker?

Both Flamini and Boateng offer close to nothing extra in that midfield. In Van Bommel you got also a DM, like Flamini. Just like Flamini and Robinho, Boateng adds pace and movement. But who's going to receive the ball and make the play? We're not PSV. We need someone better for that than Van Bommel.



Boateng can't be a playmaker.

And Montolivo is better than Flamini easily (and also Boateng in my opinion).

the middle spot is the DM, why would you put your play maker there?


montolivo better than boateng? your dreaming