I wouldn't hold your breath.

Balotelli, i dont know. the guy has great talent, but severely lacks discipline.

We used to be a retirement home. now we seem to be becoming a home for egotistical maniacs. but i am very surprised to see cassano behaving well. hope it continues.

.. That might be gramatically correct, but considering it literally im confused ?

You never heard that? Maybe it's a British expression.

Just something you say when you don't think somethings going to happen - like Balo being mentally stable any time soon in this case.

I've hurd as Don't hold your breath.Not wouldn't xD

You holding your own breath (or not) is one thing .. But you holding someone elses breath ? Now Im confused literally.

He got you fair and square, Kurt.

He meant to say 'I wouldn't hold my breath', which is a perfectly fine expression. Give the guy a break.

Exactly,funny though he didn't notice the mistake after reading it for a 2nd time.(your in the place of my)

I kid .. I kid

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F@ckin grammar nazis! Ruining my chi!

I believe it. We'll make some big signings forsure this summer. Pato is on his way out and his transfer will pay for it.


And I will say I think its a good decision to sell him, he's been for 5 years; its time to move on. He's clearly lacking the motivation to play for Milan and bringing in competition hasn't changed his attitude.


I'd rather sell pato for big bucks and bring in balo and ganso then keep pato and make no major signings at all.

just my 2 cents. *waits for X-off to flip out*

Why would Balotelli be cheaper than Pato?

I think more than a new striker...we need some creative box-to-box mids to reinforce our attack. An Arteta or someone. Who'll cover some serious ground and has an eye for a pass. If Pirlo is injured, and Ibra is out..we're done. Robinho does not have the physicality to play deep...and Boateng is too raw.

You better learn to count first!

dont know how relaible this is, but we may swap ibra with balotelli

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Oh great, yeah behave like a d!ck, throw all your toys out the pram, don't try, blatantly going to cause friction as soon as he gets here. Yeah, Milan the classy club with potentially MvB, Zlatan, Cassano and Balotelli, don't make me laugh.

Damn right I'll flip out. There are more chances of Messi signing for us than Pato leaving. No clue where you get all these funny ideas from.

He's a jedi knight, don't you know that?

Blue used to be quite reliable not long ago. Now he just fires duds at random.

Balotelli has all the talent in the world, but his behaviour is atrocious. The fact he's acting like this would suggest that even if he gets his wish and goes to Milan, who's to say he won't do it again. NO ONE, THAT'S WHO!

And I'd rather have Ibra anyway, even if he goes awol during the big games.

So many names related to Milan these days - Yarmolenko, Zaccardo, Balzaretti, Mavuba,...

Mavuba is pretty good actually...
also i feel that pato will be sold in 3-4 years to finance our team. we must remember milan loses money every year, and that we rely on these big sales to keep us afloat, if i had the choice of selling thiago or pato, it would be pato, he can get alot more money then Silva IMO.

Nah, I meant what I said. It's short form for "I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you". "I wouldn't hold my breath" wouldn't have made sense since it was X-Off that made the comment, not me. Just people trying to be clever and, well, failing.

Then what you say is simple: Don't hold your breath. "I wouldn't hold your breath if I were you" makes no sense. But hey, what's a Persian doing teaching an English, well... English.

It's not Crazy English for nothing

OMG, this should stop here, enough offtopic talk.

That was awesome!

hope its rubbish. that said, there are a couple man city strikers who are self-proclaimed milanistas. Id swap Ibra for the one that DOESNT suffer from bibitis in a heartbeat. :-)

bibitis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW8coTJuXSs

non-bibitis:




my moneys worth:

i truly appreciate ibra's contributions to our season thus far, and dont want to sound unappreciative of the lift hes given this team. i do recognize it. and while i rate him as one of the most talented players in the world, he is not one of the most dangerous. i want our center forward to play simple when outside the box, and bumrush the 6 yard area as often as possible with off-ball runs looking for simple finishes (something boateng does better than our current CF). not pick up the ball outside the area and try and complicatedly thread it through for on-rushing (sub-par finishing) midfielders like ibra does. cf runs into the box make space for pato to find dribbling room in behind. ibra's static movement tends to create too much clusterf*** outside the area, leaving pato to either pull off a world class dribble or disappear. ive watched almost every match this season, and only remember the pato goal against udinese as being easy for him. everything else hes seemingly earned the hard way.

in 2011-2012, lets leave the creating to an attacking midfield rotation of ganso and cassano, the dribbling to one of pato or robinho, and the finishing to dzeko and pato. unless the team truly has no creativity in midfield, creating is not in the MO for a CF in my opinion.

#stillpro-dzeko

You don't post much, but when you do, you're always spot on. seriously, consider coaching

Now I'm beginning to realize why Ibra couldn't find a place in Barca. you can be either static, or a Barca player. not both.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL-0ysMzHN4

LOL

haha, i wish. there are a lot of excellent posters in this forum. I don't always post, sometimes i go on little posting binges, but quite often when i read the exchanges regarding tactics, there are a lot of people with good points (aside from the occasional egregious blasphemy that blue spews every now and again ). I just think a CF as the primary creative force on the team is not how to win champions league, and i was posting from the perspective of a fan who values achieving that as the highest honor a club can win.

That tottenham goal occurred because Ibrahimovic picked up the ball outside the tottenham box, played a lazy pass directly into the feet of a tottenham defender when we had just sent almost our entire midfield forward in a flurry of pressure to score, and look what happened. That passage of play very much informs my opinion on tactics now. The truth is ive seen ibrahimovic every year in champions league, and thats always what happens! look at barca last year, and how they were too clustered outside the area against inter, and could NOT thread their beautiful chip passes into forward rushing players...Ibra was static, and wanted the ball outside the area, and didnt create anything when he got it. Same thing happened when Inter were dumped out to Man U before that.

I never liked him, but when talking about a player of his talent, I refused to agree with people who said Ibra can't do it in Champions League. I always told people, write off a player of that kind of talent at your our peril. But after this season, I think i see what all Ibra's critics have said all along. That, coupled with his general disposition? I want him out.

Sorry to say it but I don't think I'd take Dzeko now. He's been an expensive flop in England so far. He and Torres, for a combined total of about £80M have been such wastes of money for their respective clubs.

I'd give Dzeko more time, he's only been in England for what? 2 months, getting used to the climate, culture, moved his family I presume. Footballers are human too, I think some forget that. I'm sure he will fit in eventually. City just need to get rid of Balotelli now that's an expensive flop and a grade-a clown and we will probably snap him up, oh joy.

As for Torres yeah he's not doing it at the moment, but then again neither is Drogba. As soon as Lump-it Lampard comes in the team strikers get less goals, funny that.

Ganso's agent gonna visit both Milan clubs today. I'm getting a little tired of this saga.

He should go to Inter.

I don't like how Ganso is playing ball.

No. At this age, I mean at the beginning stage of his euro-career to pull off such a licitation game. I don't like it at all. That smells trouble for the future also. We need a patient playmaker for the future, someone who'll be happy to stay with us and not just count the secons till he jumps the wagon.

@ X-Off and Fillipo

I think I missed something. what exactly has Ganso done [wrong]?

Apparently he still hasn't signed on the dotted line on the page that Braidi gave to him. Almost all players do this now days, they weight their options. Pato did this a few years back, when he had to choose (primarily) between Real and Milan. Even established stars do this.

^ That's what I thought.

I fail to see what's wrong with a Brazilian kid evaluating his options before making such a huge and important step forward in his professional career.

Exactly. Loyalty and grace died the day Paolo left the field. And that's the cold, hard truth. I suppose it's just the fans sentiment speaking, he could just have blindly signed up for either inter or us, and supporters of each club would be singing his praises (if he performed at the required level, of course). But even though I think Ganso is whoring it up a bit, still that is his right.

He's playing with both sides, to see which one gives him the better deal. Not cool at all.

Indeed. There are some limits.


I don't think we need to sell that to people as a fact. Maybe it really died, but then it's tragic more then everything. We must never reconcile with that.

I don't think Ganso will sign with AC Milan.

I'm pretty sure that he already knows that he will be sitting on the bench for a looong time before he even gets a chance of getting some playing time.

I don't think the wants that.

He knows that we have a crowded midfield with some par and sub par players that seem to be unmovable.

He will go to a place where he gets playing time.

He'd probably start immediately.

Yeah. Crowded midfield?? Next season, the only people from midfield guaranteed to be still here are Rino, Urby and Flamini.

EDIT: Hold that thought. I think Rino's contract also expires end of this season no?

Yeah, our midfield won't be anywhere near what it is at the moment. It's time to part ways with a number of our old stars, they've served us well but they are just not up to the level nowadays and need to make way for some younger blood to come through. I do hope this is the summer where we clear out, we really do need to, to progress in the future.