From what I've seen and read, he fills one important gap. He is good in the air. He is also good with the ball at his feet, so he can play sweeper.

On the flip side, he loses concentration at times (my opinion). And often he has to compensate with some sort of wild move, which when it comes off makes him look spectacular but otherwise - but if he'd had his head screwed on right he wouldn't need to have made it in the first place.

In other words, I worry we've got another Mexes. As long as they don't both lose their heads at the same time, it could be a potent combo.

EDIT:
Here is an interesting article on him. Click

as long as we are eying valencia players we might as well go for ever banega too

Thanks for that link. It gave us a little peek into the kind of player/person he is. Seems he'd be a bit better than Mexes/Zapata, but nothing special really. But we need someone to shore up. So now we can boast of 6 average CBs in our team. Great

Before I got to the bolded part I was thinking; "hmm, so Mexes 2.0"

Anyway, they played together for Fance apparently so it's not something completely foreign to either of them. Hopefully they can form a strong pairing, because Zapata is seriously pissing me off this season

I believe Rami is almost final.. he will start training with Milan from next week..

Done deal apparently.

I think it's a good move, him and Mexes will form a solid partnership together considering they've played together before. He looks good from the vids I've seen, of course you can't tell based on just that, but I'm hopeful.

Honda, Rami and maybe a CM/DM in January will really give us a boost.

But we need to sell some players as well. Niang should be loaned out ASAP and maybe Nocerino should also be sold

You haven't factored in the injuries, bub. And the suspensions. And Allegri. And Muntari. And Matri.

at this point abbiati is unacceptable for me..

We have managed to get cheap deal for CB, and hopefully Midfield (Honda). I think we need to spend big for long term keeper solution.

Assuming that we tackle our injuries then with these three above transfers we are good to go.

Agreed. It's not like he's of an age where he will improve, he's making a lot of mistakes and needs o be replaced.

Yep, but it probably won't happen till summer.

Fixed it for ya!

Well, I was just posting the best possible line-up we can field in January, without taking into account any external factors.



I know man, he needs to go, or at least we need to find a better keeper. But I can't see that happening this winter.

I know, and I was just letting off some steam. Far too many factors influence the club at the moment, and well, I'd be surprised if I see this team selection for two straight weeks, if I see it at all, that is.

Rumors are that we are looking at Casillas and Forster...

just read on football-italia news paper thread that according to tutto sports Milan is looking for a buyer in Abu Dhabi

Meh, I'll believe it when I see it. This selling rumour has been going around for a while now but nothing ever comes of it

Casillas rumour been doing the rounds for some time, but the Forster story broke yesterday.

As a Rangers fan this one has me somewhat torn.

there is somehting about allegri future at milan on milannews. the google translator is not that good on .. I beleive x-offender or anyone else who understands italian can look into it and hopefully tell us what is it

http://www.milannews.it/primo-piano/accord...l-ritiro-125696

My Italian is shabby at best but I don't think that's about his future but more about the team's future

damn it

It's about the team spending the night before the Udinese game at Milanello. It's called 'ritiro' in Italian, and Allegri along with Galliani have decided it as a punitive measure for the poor performance against Caen.

Lol, just ridiculous. What a joke we are.

Well, a lot of teams actually do it in Italy when they have a consecutive strike of bad results. Inter's done it, Roma's done it. But I agree, it's stupid.

Yeah, I know, but it's a complete joke because it's an obvious case of major denial. Going into a ritiro will fix jack sh!t. The problem is the coach and until he is removed we will continue to play as we currently are

So apparantly Kaka could go to LA Galaxy in January if we get Honda...i don't think we're that lucky...

Not happening.

I think this is a recycled rumour from when we got him.

As i said, we're not that lucky


i know...but one could hope

Why?

We really haven't seen what Kaka can bring to the table for us, and if Allegri is really going to switch to a 4-2-3-1 BECAUSE we have BOTH Kaka and Honda then why would you not want him to stay?

I think Kaka still has a lot to offer, he's been unfortunate so far but I'm still expecting him to make a mark on this side, we need a leader in this team, and Kaka can be that for us for the next few years.

I was watching the training vids on youtube yesterday, and he's still the fastest sprinter in this side, plus all his other technical abilities are still intact

Yes, let's get rid of Kaká and make Birsa a starter. Champions League, here we come!

It's his master plan...

you forgot the point where we sign Ilicic, Matavz, Kurtic and Handanovic and dance around mid-table forever

No but i just remembered Kaka's injury=no pay pledge and have changed my mind... For the amount of dead wages spent (money spent on the injured) i think Kaka is too likely to burden us then not and the sooner we learn to rely on more stable fixtures in our squad and rely less on hot heads (mexes, Balo...), injury prone players (well....everyone...) and the overall triangulated cohort of purposelessness (zaccardo, Matri, Muntari), the better.

So long as he tries his utmost to rub off on our squad (SES, Saponara and Niang could certainly all pick up a few tricks playing and training alongside him. Not only that but we might see less overall injuries if Kaka plays regularly as i'm convinced half of our injuries are bullshit and players may miraculously heal and try harder in practice if the prospects of starting a CL game side-by-side Kaka became available.

Sorry, but I find your post confusing. What exactly are you trying to say?

Ahhh, ain't gonna happen anyway, so why bother?

What ain't gonna happen?

Kaka going to LA in January...?

Oh, right.

Yep, this.

Under the right direction that could be really something special

Key words: "under the right direction".

SES - Kaka' - Honda will be one of the most overrated AM groups in the football World.

Who's going to overrate them, nobody watches Milan games.

Like dst said, who will be overrating them?

I think as players they're all pretty underrated atm. Everyone believes Kaka is done for, Honda is someone who's stayed under the radar for years because he was at CSKA and not at some English club and SES is slightly overrated as a young player but certainly not to stratospheric proportions

I wanna see how Saponara develops in these months. If he manages to show promise, I'd prefer him over El Shaa on the left.

ElSha is definitely overrated, I never thought highly of him and I'm pretty sure he's never going to be a special player.

For all we know he may just be shipped out come January. So there's that aspect of it.

If we can get +20 million I'd sell him on the spot.

Yeah, that would probably break us even, I was hoping for 30 million to 40 million. We shall see, either he goes or Balotelli goes, because really, with the arrival of Kaka and more players incoming, Balo is back to his slacky and lazy ways again. Had we Ibra instead of him, we'd be sitting in fifth, if not third.

But yeah, 20 plus million, and he seems to me a goner, agreed.