COMUNICATO UFFICIALE A.C. MILAN
15/01/2009
L' A.C. Milan comunica di aver acquisito il calciatore brasiliano Felipe Mattioni in prestito con diritto di riscatto.


[AC Milan communicates that it has acquired the Brazilian footballer Felipe Mattioni on loan-with-option-to-purchase.]

Welcome, amigo! Now, only of Mattioni gets enough chance to play regularly so we can see what he's made of. If he has speed, then that alone will make him go places. Anyway, good signing.

hope his good dont know much about him there saying on goal.com that his the new cafu ?

Welcome boy!

Welcome to Milan! Hopefully he can make the RB spot his own in a couple years. Or he can play RB, Zambro LB, and Janku in midfield or the bench

Hope we'll get a glimpse of him soon...

if he's half as good as Cafu then we should go look for that factory they produce them in... Alves and Maicon is too much as it is!

We could in theory see him Saturday, though I suspect it'll take a week or two of him training with the team.

He looks like someone..

Bluey ?

I hope he gets a appearence on Saturday !

His number?

most likely 88

not exactly

He looks like Kaka in a way

His number might be 2. He played under 2 in Gremio and #2 is free at Milan

Could very well be. Beside Cafu had the number 2 as well, and they say he's a bit like Cafu. Then again, he can also take the number 22, if it gets vacant. Oh, my!

Here's hoping he will be more useful than Zambro and Favalli

Provided he plays. Regularly.

(Favster hasn't been totally useless.)

True, that. And so has been Zamborghini. Of course, not his best, but no way near his worst either. That's why I said it'd take something really special from Mattioni to displace them both.

I think Jankulovski should be more worried. His last two games where horrible.

Jankulovski has and always will be a weak link in the defence. he is a winger not a full back. He should not be relied upon defensively in the big matches where he will be exploited when he darts forward. Much like Serginho he was okayish in defense but his strength relied on Seedorf, Gattuso and Ambrosini tracking back and covering. Beckham will not track back and is too poor defensively as is Seedorf and Pirlo, who do track back but are not good enough defensively. A shield like Ambrosini or Flamini is needed to protect our defense and to track back and cover our roving fullbacks

Can Mattioni play both LB and RB? If he can, it'll be awesome, but I think he's primarily a right back a la Cafu. A speedy one, yes. Agree on the Janks part though, he's been out of touch for too long. Pity. Because Zamborghini can and will take the left spot, if Matt becomes a regular.

Jankulovski is IMO like every versible player - he can play LB, LM, WL, RM, RB, RW...but none of it really classy. There are just a few versible players (alltime) that were more then just good at one or two positions.

Yes, he is my favorite player too. All round king of the hill. Pity we don't do wingers.

According to today's prematch press conference, Mattioni has chosen the #2 jersey (previously worn by Cafu).

To inherit Cafu's #2 Milan jersey must be a great honor for him!

Getting such an important number could be an indication of the possibility of his staying beyond the loan spell. otherwise they would have given him the #88 or something!

(Is he on loan til June, or next January btw?)

It's a 4 1/2 year loan. Weird contract thingy. His economic rights are owned by his manager, sort of like Tevez. So technically he's on loan but for all intents and purposes he'll be a Milan player.

I hope it dosent become as complicated as the Tevez transfer saga

Me too, whoarethepatriots.

BTW, Mattioni's got a metal mouth - full set of braces. They had an interview with him on Serie A weekly program.

Thanks for that. I didn't know it!

We are playing a dangerous game by not signing him permenantly now. He may become a superstar like Alves and we may struggle to buy him outright after 4 1/2 yrs or may be extorted. Or someone else will just buy his contract from the manager, or he may decide he wants to play for a better team and there will be nothing we can do.

Tennie do you have any more details of his contract? can we buy him for a specific fee after his loan is up?

I don't have any more details, whoarethepatriots. All I know is that his manager has economic rights, like the deal with Tevez. Don't know of any buy out clauses or similar in his deal with Milan.

It's weird for Milan to deal with an agent who works this way. I've read the management detest working with agents [like Pini Zahavi] who ask for full or part of their clients' rights.

why is he not yet on acmilan.com in the players list??

Have anyone watch some of his fixtures? Is he really a world class player like cafu used to be? Or will he become like cafu is maybe a better answer? Can we use him this year as RB so zambro can play LB so janku can sit on the bench forever? Is he a better choice than janku?

well he does noot seem to be in plans at all rite now more of a grimi rather than cafu i am afraid

Yeah, looks like we got ourselves another Cardacio/Viudez/Grimi/etc.

I belive in Felipe and belive in Acelotti. He knoes how to work with young talanted brazilians))) I think he'll give Mattion chance. Hope it will be soon.

And he is in playerlist))

He needs to be an exceptional player for Carlo to work him. Carlo dosent do the Wenger - turn promising players good - approach

Let's give both Carlo and Mattioni some time..

even better, we dont need someone like wenger without any result! He didnt do nothing with arsenal!

I have some pics of felipe from fan sites...I just need to find them

^ Nice sig Ro,..

Thanks, you wouldn't believe how long it took me to make that.

He's now going to say you've got amazing talent... he's hitting on you!

You got an amazing talent! Did a very good job!

(Fishdoll DID warn you, Ro.)

It's a great sig!

Yeah, fishdoll did...I walked myself right into that one unfortunately.

and thanks