I agree with R7.

Not every message is adressed to us and we should not react to quickly. There is much time left and no reason not to belive changes will come.

It's not as disastrous as last summer's transfer window though. at least Zambro and Flattuso are two good buys.

The headline really relates to the text...

I don't rate any of those all that high. Zambro used to be great, but he is on a decline. Flamini is solid, but is a DM and that was not an area we needed cover for.

GK, DC, SB, AM, ST

^^Those are our priorities. So far, we have sort of covered SB with Antonini and Zambro. The rest still need to be addressed.

Now that Chelsea have officially appointed Scolari (honestly I don't know if he's going to do well in the EPL, but I'm sure Abramovich signed him for the CL because he's quite good in the cup competitions) the market is going to start, I mean the huge transfers are going to start now and it seems that Scolari wants Deco and kaka, and if drogba goes, which is almost certain they can buy either Eto'o or Villa (I think it's going to be Eto'o and Villa will go to Madrid). I only question is Lampard, if Deco goes to Chelsea it could mean that Lampard will definitely leave.

About Adebayor, it seems that his agent is going to ask Arsenal the permission to talk with Milan, and Arsenal is now looking for his replacement, Santa Cruz is in pole ...

I hope Wenger does convince him to stay there, but I doubt he'll go to the clash, he's smart and if the player wants to go he'll try to make the most of it financially!

They are better signings than Ibrahim Ba and Emerson nonetheless

Zambro wasn't good at Barca, but he was great against Holland... I think the reason for his poor form over the past two years is that Barca's style didn't quite suit his. as soon as he returns to his roots he becomes great again.

But I know what you're saying... considering the purchases we have made so far, there's not much chance of winning the Scudetto for us.

I thought he was terrible. The left side certainly looked more threatening when Grosso came on, that's for sure. Zambrotta should either be dropped or moved to the right, Grosso is much better - at least for Italy anyway.

The headline really relates to the text...

Fillipo, don't worry we got it, journalists usually don't have any problems to lie

he'll play on the right for sure and grosso will start, thats another certainty.

i'm also sure chiellini will start, and i have the sneaky suspicion barzagli might get a 2nd chance, but then i again i can see panucci starting in the center.

midfield i'd like to see pirlo - der rossi - perrotta

and up front del piero will start for sure with toni and possibly cassano.

Terrible? I don't think that's just, but yes, Grosso did better in the left. overall Zambro had a good game imo.

^^^ the only ones with terrible games were barzagli and materazzi.

of course we had ambro-pirlo-gattuso who were spectators for most of the game and toni who was wasteful but besides that not everyone was terrible.

I didn't really focus on Barzagli but I think Matrix was the real problem that night...

he was caught out of positon sooooo many times, he looked lost. watch the 3rd goal.

there's one dutch player (kuyt i belive who gets the rebound ready to cross) and one dutch player in a position to score in 6 yard box, with 3 italy defenders (barzagli being the closest to van bronckhorst but leaving him completely open for a header

also on 2nd goal both materazzi and got caught on the counter. thing i i can understand marco going up for the corner because he's dangerous but there was no need to thro everyone in the box, andrea included and as a CB he should have been ready to run back.

Barzagli was awful. He needs a top player next to him to cover his many mistakes. But I don't think Chiellini would/will do much better.

In my view Pirlo and Grosso were the only players that really showed up. But Pirlo should play more deep, like with Milan, you listen Dona-l-doni!??

From www.foxsoccer.com

AC Milan more interested in Eto'o than Ronaldinho

Updated: June 12, 2008, 9:59 AM EST 7 comments add this RSS blog email print BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -

AC Milan remains interested in signing FC Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o this offseason, while Ronaldinho is no longer a priority.

"Eto'o forms part of the group of forwards who are priorities for us at this time," the Italian club's director, Umberto Gandini, was quoted as saying by sports daily Marca on Thursday.
However, Ronaldinho "does not form part of the first list," Gandini added.

Gandini's remarks echo those of Milan's general manager Ariedo Braida two weeks ago. Brieda said the Italian powerhouse needed Eto'o more than Ronaldinho but acknowledged a large transfer fee would be required to sign the Cameroon international.

Both players, who helped Barcelona win the 2006 Champions League, appear likely to leave soon. The Catalan club is undergoing a makeover after two trophy-less seasons, and coach Frank Rijkaard has already been replaced with Pep Guardiola.

Barcelona would reportedly seek €40 million (US$61.6 million) for the 27-year-old Eto'o, a three-time African player of the year who has scored 77 league goals in his four seasons with the club.

Ronaldinho, who has lost his status as the world's greatest player after a poor season, would likely command a lesser fee. The Brazilian, a two-time world player of the year, is also a year older than Eto'o.

At present, the club most interested in signing Ronaldinho appears to be Manchester City, which said this week it has held talks with the player's representatives.

Milan is seeking reinforcements after failing to reach next season's Champions League, the seven-time European champion only managing a fifth-place finish in the Serie A.

SPEND THE MONEY!!! BRING BOTH OF THEM!!!!

sorry...i'm starting to fall inline with some of the other people here who are tired about us not spending a lot of money. i understand debt and all of that, but signing players like etoo and ronaldinho will sell more jerseys and put fans in the san siro every freaking week.

it's an investment you can make money off of...i don't understand what the problem is!

are we seriously going to lose a world class player to Man City?? MAN FREAKIN CITY!?!?!?!?

No World class player would go to Man City anyway, so we don't need to worry about that.

i dont think that our board will consider selling kaka i mean acmilan.com was full of kaka and his family considering that I dont think kaka will be sold but this means that we will not get drogba bcoz chelsea will ask for kaka in exchange and hopefully Milan will simply say no....... similar situation is with eto barca want pirlo he is really importan to milan wont neotitate with that as the condition so i think that is why milan is looking towards adebayour in more detail

Simply because spending money you don't own will generate interests, and those interests will increase every year to make your debt grow, grow and grow, in the ned Milan will end like Man U!!! No thanks, I'll stick with Banera, Borcchi and Borriello!

(Wow juwt realized that I picked up 3 Milan players whose name starts with a "B", does that mean something?! )

That were a B-grade team now..

Leonardo To Scolari: Kaka Deal Impossible
AC Milan technical director Leonardo has warned new Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari that Kaka will not be moving to Stamford Bridge.



Scolari is reportedly set to be handed a huge transfer kitty this summer and the 26-year-old Kaka is said to be top of his wanted list.

Former Brazil boss Scolari, who will begin his new job on July 1, handed Kaka his international debut in 2002 and included the AC Milan star in his World Cup winning squad.

But Leonardo has said that despite the links between the Portugal boss and the playmaker, any transfer should be considered impossible.

"It's normal for a Brazilian coach to try to bring in Brazilian players," he said to BBC Sport.

"But signing Kaka is impossible, because he is here at AC Milan and will be here until the end of his career."

Leonardo, like Kaka, also played under Scolari when he was Brazil head coach; and has backed the 59-year-old to be a big success in England.

“Chelsea need an important victory - they are looking to the Champions League," added Leonardo.

"Scolari won the World Cup with Brazil in 2002 and then took Portugal to the finals of the European Championships two years later. So I think he is a good appointment.

"Chelsea were the nearly team of European football last season. They came so close to the Champions League and Premier League.

"I think Scolari can bring something more to them, so they arrive at the right result next time."


Nice read but these kind of stuff change every week but leanardo is a very gud source specilly when it comes to brazillian

Why doesn't Scolari try for R10? it's more realistic than signing Kaka. and if there's one coach who can help R10 revive his career it's Big Phil!

from what i've been reading a lot of people think that he is going to go after ronaldinho and that he would easily pick chelsea over man city.

the part that pisses me off is the he has said that he wants to play for milan

So true. I'm telling this for weeks but some of you still think Zambrotta is Sergio Ramos or Daniel Alves... when he's not even half of the good ol'Zambro.

And Flamini is a player that I never liked but yes, he can be useful.

I think Sergio Ramos is better than both Alves and Zambrotta myself. He's a good defender, and incredible going forward, he's more of a goal threat to thanks to him being superb in the air.

I think he's the best RB at the moment too.

Alves is not as good defending but better in set pieces (both are top top top going foward).

Zambrotta did that too. 5 years ago.

Seen Ramos play against Russia?

seen him for madrid when they lifted the title?

World Class post! I have come to believe the same thing. Media just creates a bunch of bs. I just hope we hurry and start negotations quickly or we'll have to settle for trash/seconds. If we dont get drogba/eto/adebayor:( then we'll have huge problems. WE cannot alone depend on boriello.

Right now we have:
Inzaghi 35
Pato 18
paloschi 18

this is a huge problem. At the minimum we need 4 strikers with 2 being world class and 1 being good off the bench and 1 reserve.

Actually:

Inzaghi 34/35
Borriello 26
Pato 18/19
Paloschi 18/19
+
{Ronaldo 31/32}
{New striker}

If the new "WC striker" arrives, we'll be allright with this department.

Why isn't anyone mentioning Cruz? He's been great for Inter ever since and could be avaible. Why not try to get him?

Personally it'd hurt less to see us losing him to Chelsea rather than Man City...

actully we are not losing him we are letting him go

Alves is an attacking RB. He's amazing going forward, can also play as RW and DMF, has great vision and is a good scorer. A ****.

Ramos is a defensive RB who is also good at going forward. Great in defense. Can play at CB but he's not good in that position. What I don't like about him is that he often has disastrous games! A huge ****. A ****-well.

If we can judge all RB's (defensive and attacking) on the same basis then in my view Alves is much better than Ramos. Much better than anyone else out there.

Edited to remove naughty words.

there are rumours that arsenal are redy to sell adebayour and gallaini will go to london next week hopefully he will not meet with chelsea official becoz rite now they are very irritating

This is Corriere, right? I still hipe it's all ********!

Edited to remove naughty words.

yea it is though it is on milannews as well i dont see milan negotating with chelsea or barca rite now bcoz of kaka and pirlo so that is why i think our first choice is adebouyr and we cant lose these 2 players for a stiker becoz without any of them we are a joke

According to SKY Italia ... The Gunners have replied to Milan and they have given the green light to Adibayor .. They are asking 40MM, 5yr contract worth 5MM/season is what is being rumored to be the contract.


Both Galliani and Carlo want this guy .... And I remember Maldini's interview last season, where he was commenting on Emanuel, he said that he was a unique player. Tall, fast, agile and can move in tight spaces (i.e. through Italian defenses) ... He is not a BIG name as Zlatan or Eto'o, nonetheless, if he signs for Milan I would welcome him



p.s. I doubt he will end up at Milan though .. It's just this time of the season, where you can't really pinpoint who the targets are

I wish Wenger really asks for 50m! Then we surely won't sign him!!

i think arsenal will sell him for less than 40 million i thin it would be abt 30-35

NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

Spending that ammount of money will be more then stupid!!! He's not even worth half that. If we are willing to spend 40M on Adebayor, then we should be willing to spend that on Eto'o, maybe he will cost just a bit more, but we will actually be bringing in quality, not mediocrity.

Sometimes I don't know if Braida and Fester even have a brain

This is pretty much what I was going to post. Adebayor is simply not worth that amount of money. I can see why he's liked by Carlo etc - he would probably form a decent partnership with Pato. But we could get better players for the money (Eto'o, Drogba, Gomez - even Berbatov would be available for 40m).


I think we should reserve judgment before we start insulting the management on this one. They've made it clear that they're interested in Adebayor, but they've certainly not said that they'd pay 40m for him. Which makes me think this has come from another bored journalist looking to stir things up a bit (there seems to be quite a few of them around at the moment!). We have quotes from Galliani saying that 20m for Ronaldinho is 'too expensive', and even Carlo said that Boruc at 10m was out of our price range! (did anyone see him last night? ) Adebayor for 40m is laughable.

Adebayor? I'd welcome him. But with that kind of money we could try for Benzema or Berbatov.

I personally think that both those would be available for 40M and are twice the players Adebayor is. Benzema especially is exectly the type of player we need, he reminds me of a young Sheva back in his day at Kiev

@Mike. I know it's harsh to bash them, but with the way that things are going I can't help but to feel frustrated, and if now we spend a ridiculous ammoun for Adebayor because we become desperate like we've done in the past (Oliveira) I can't help but to feel p!ssed off at them.

The reality is simple, Inter have Mourinho and a great team, and unlike Manicini, Mourinho is no idiot and will transfor that team of parrenial losers to winners. Roma have a great young team with a talented coach. Juve will continue to build from were they left off last season with some smart purchases and Fiorentina are undeniably building a great, young, talented team of their own, and they also have a great coach managing them.

If we don't do anything this summer then we will find ourselves were we've been these last 2 seasons, fighting for 4th

Seeing how desperate for a striker we have become and having in mind the goal shortage of the past two seasons I have to say one thing:

**** YOU KRISTEN PAZIK!


... stupid b...h!

OMG!!! If we Milan signs Adebayor it will be a sad day for me even for 10M€ I won't sign him, I hope Wenger ask for a huge amount of money and Adebayor will never be mentioned in the same sentence as Milan!!!

but true


If Wnger does that it would be the only time that I can honestly say that I like him

Ten Cate has been appointed as a coach of Panathinaïkos!

Is that £40m for Adebayor or 40m/euros? Either way it's far too much.

He's not good as a coach. He needs to be the adviser. When he was Ajax's manager I wished someone was there to hold him back!