Of course he can do better but I think today he was not bad too.

I said: "pathetic what he did to himself" (Leaving Milan for Chelsea..)

You said: "Time will tell"

Now that's something I would expect to hear from a Chelsea fan or something...

Whether his move pothetic or not (for him) time indeed will tell.

I'm sorry to disappoint you but if you cannot accept different opinion that is your problem. I don't find it pathetic and guess what I'm a Milan fan. Not all Milan fans want him to fail and not all Milan fans are happy every time he has a bad game.

You're not making sense... but whatever... You like Andriy, I don't as much as I used to... Let's leave it at that!

Really? It's make sense to me

Too bad. Try to understand him.

Nah... I did... or I used to think i did... But then the truth came out... And I trust Ancelotti more than him... So there you have it..

Oh please guys, stop it !!
It's boring what you do here, you're just saying the same thing just from a different point of view !!

let's sey that he did lied and came to the managemet saying in the middle of the last season that he want to leave because of the family reasons. Of course they said what the f@ck do you need to move to the f@cking Chelsea team because you are like a king here... but he was persistent (wife ,kid and another on the way) and they said let's talk about this again after the season will be over. Think what would have happened if he had said: "I'm leaving" when the team still has to deal with CL and seria A. It would have been a sircus, especially from press and stuff making impossible for the team to focus on playing. Not to mention the fans. Of cource the managment said to him to shut up until the season will be over and hoping that he will change his mind.

Maybe he found out about the match-fixing scandal beforehand and didn't want to be involved with the team anymore.....?

It's just a thought, cos Learning English? - that's a totally crappy reason to leave a great club like Milan

I don't think that has anything to do with him leaving at all, if that is the reason then why haven't players like Kaka, Nesta, Pirlo, Seedorf left the Italian league also.

We will never really know why he left, but you have 2 options to choose from, you can either be gullible and believe he laft for "family reasons" and "to learn English"

Or you add some sense to your head and actually see that their was much more for him to gain by moving to Chelsea, be it financially (I think Abramovic definately offered him something that he couldn't say no to)

Come on mishale ... you're a smart man !!
You really think he could have dealt with this in only two ways ?? Did it have to be either "I'm leaving" or "I want to be a Milan legend like Maldini" ??

NO.

He could have just said "I'm not thinking about leaving" or something like that why did he have to make us believe he really wanted to be a Milan legend ?? I really can't get it why you still support him on this part, I know you love and respect the guy but this has nothing to do with it: He lied whether you can accept it or not, you're only closing your eyes before it !!

And it hurts cause it reminds me of this whole situation ...

Hey, hey ! It was just a thought - maybe even a totally dumb one.I still support him too (Sometimes)

I think it would be better if this topic was closed for a while - can't u see it's making dst cry

Okay guys .. Take it easy ..

He is a potential opponent of ours in the CL .. He is no longer our player .. I thank him from the bottom of my heart for the past 7 yrs as most (if not all) of us do .. But it is time to move on .. This is going no where

It's pointless to keep repeating the same thing over and over again ..

I didn't post that as some sort of an attack, I know what you meant by your suggestion, but come on, we can't really believe that.

As I said, we will never really know for what reason he left, but it is naive to thnk that he left for "family reasons" and "to learn English"

You're right.

And if we ever face Chelsea in the CL even though I am thankful for what he did with us, deep inside I still would be secretly wishing for someone from our team to break his legs. But that's just the childish part in me

ofcourse ... I mean it's probably Scottish he went there to learn.

I think money maybe was a factor but definitely not the main one. He has enough.

Family reasons it's not only learning english. When your wife telling you all the time that we need to move to another country because she wants that the whole family will speak the same language and their kids won't be dealing with 3 different languages at such young age and she's making ultimatums then you start thinking about moving. You and me don't know what is like to be in such situation.

Probably.

I definately can't see any improvement in his English, he is still speaking Italian all the time, you'de think since he wasn't even scoring atleast he would put some extra effert into the reason he moved there after all My God even Gourcuff and Oliveira talk a bit of fluent Italian already

There are things about it that we don't know. He wouldn't say it without a reason

I'm glad that you can atleast acknowledge this



Ok so that could be a reason to leave, but I mean come on what type of b!tch would actually force her husband to move to another country because of language issues? (which I think that ifthe real reason he left was because she forced him to then I don't think it was because of language, but more because she wants to establish some sort of celebrity status in England, since they are more crazy about this stuff over there rather then in Milan)

If this was the case, then I can admit that I would also have left, seeing that she is pregnant with there child and I wouldn't give up my family for the team either. But this scenario still sounds far fetched to actually believe

He said it to distract us from his possible Chelski move which is what he should have done but by saying something less concrete !! I see you still play blind man's buff, you really like him ... Please don't answer to this post, I honestly don't feel like talking about it anymore !!

Money always a factor but in this case I'm sure it's wasn't one of te main for sure. There isn't much difference between what he got here and what he getting there.

Edit: if it was about money, Sheva would have been gone much sooner
Sounds very logical to me.

Serie A Diary: Milan Missing Andriy

Four Serie A games and just one goal: who would have thought that Milan would miss Andrii Shevchenko so much? Well, most Milan fans actually.

How could it be any other way? In seven seasons with the rossoneri, he scored a fantastic total of 173 goals helping them to a league title and a Champions League success when he scored the final penalty as the beat Juventus at Old Trafford. Incidentally, during six of those seasons he was Milan’s leading scorer and he also became the club’s second all time goalscorer behind the legendary Gunnar Nordahl..

So it was always inevitable that Milan were going to miss him once he said his goodbyes and asked the fans to forgive him for being enticed by Abrahmovic’s mo…er…wanting his children to grow up in an English speaking country.

What was surprising was the club’s reaction or lack of it. Distracted by their involvement in the Serie A scandal and the legal proceedings that followed, they seemed to forget that they had to find a replacement. It was only when the summer transfer window was coming to an end that they found some urgency.

At first they fleetingly focused their attention on Ronaldo, a player that has long been one of Silvio Berlusconi’s favourites. Eventually, after a couple of trips to Madrid, even they realized that the portly Brazilian is way past his best so they turned instead to another Brazilian in the form of Ricardo Oliveira.

If you find yourself thinking that you’ve heard the name but just can’t recall seeing him play, there’s no need to torture yourself. Oliveira is the player who Spanish side Real Betis this summer wanted to recalled from his loan at Sao Paolo just two days before the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final. Oliveira wanted to play in that game, refused to do so and was fined repeatedly.

All that was irrelevant for Milan. They were happy to have bought a striker, probably too much so to determine whether they had got the player they wanted. Carlo Ancelotti tried to build him up, insisting that Oliveira was “going to surprise a lot of people”.

People are still waiting. A goal against Lazio on his debut apart, the only interest he has been attracting has been for a couple of bad misses. He could yet turn out to be Shevchenko’s successor, but it won’t happen overnight.

It wouldn’t be too much of a problem if there was someone else to score the goals. But these have dried up lately. Alberto Gilardino has never replicated the splendid form he showed over two seasons at Parma. The pressure of playing for a club like Milan seems to be getting at him with the once confident striker who could score from anywhere and twice kept Parma up virtually single handedly looking increasingly lost.

This has meant Milan turning once again to ‘Super’ Pippo Inzaghi. Now 32, he retains that frustrating ability to be in just the right spot to scramble the ball home. Yet even he hasn’t been getting much luck which, seeing that this is Inzaghi after all, is quite something.

On Sunday they played Palermo and lost 2-0 at home. The Sicilians are currently second so despite the historic differences - this was only their second victory in Milan – it wasn’t out of form. Milan were, however, the third side after Chievo Verona and West Ham not to score against a defence that has so far shipped 16 goals in the league.

To be fair, Kaka and then Clarence Seedorf both hit the woodwork, but that was virtually it for Milan. Just as Andrii Shevchenko scored his second goal on English soil and his first at Stamford Bridge, Milan were missing him more than ever
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That thing is filled with stupid little errors... And doesn't bring anything new to the table... Just stating some facts... with errors...

watching sheva score his goal this weekened reminded me of why we miss someone like him so much. somehow, he always manages to be at the right place at the right time. it's like the ball is magnatized to his foot.

i think, given time, the guys we have will soon fill that role...i just hope it happens soon.

I never thought I would say this but...I want my Sheva back...

I know the feeling, but Milan is bigger than him .. This is just a phase, in time you will see

What R7 said...exactly what he said....I hope!

i think it will too...but his timing is just amazing

Of course he's right!!

Milan overcame the end of many eras, and for me Van Basten was a much bigger loss for the club, but we overcame it. And we will definately overcome this, it's not going to happen over night but it will happen sooner or later

And as R7 said, Milan is bigger then any player, sure it will effect the club in the SHORT run after we lose someone as influential as he was but noone and is bigger then the club

Oh what happened when Van Basten left Milan? Who were we left with? and how did sheva fit into his place? I did not have a chance to see Van Basten play

When Van Basten left (1993) we still had Massaro and Simone. And afterward (1995) we bought Baggio and Weah. Sheva came later in 1999 to pair up with Bierhoff.

Even though everytime he speeks, pure sh!t comes out of his mouth he has got a point though.

If this is really true, then it is sad, funny, but sad

It's Bullsh!t.

he speeks his mind IMO !!

In every interview Chelsea players are backing him up and just look how they celebrated his goal. Or it's press bulsh!it or more likely Eto'o saying sh!t like he always do.

I laughed at your first reaction cause it was full of arguments !!

But it was right though

I wouldn't know ... our world is full of illusionssss ...

This article also appeared at www.gazzetta.it
And tribalfootball (*yeah* i know... but still)
I think that Eto'o really said this.
but if it's true or not, i don't know

Holy $hit!!! He scored a goal in a 4-0 victory? NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WAY

Not to mention it's in the CARLING CUP, probably the most prestigious piece of Silverware you could win in your playing career

Inter would disagree

Sheva scored a goal and gave two assists in 65 minutes

Damn I miss him so much. When Berlusconi was talking about him phoning today, I remembered the old times and nearly exploded in tears. I dunno about you, but he and Ricky are still my favourites, I won't stop cheering for them until they finish their careers.