I don't like speculating on the transfers much because usually what i hope for never happens lol so it's like yeh buy whoever i'll still support Milan as long as we keep the chemistry we have in the dressing room,but I don't agree with having a complete overhaul,like selling our established players cos firstly it won't happen unless the player has asks to leave and secondly we generally don't do that we our core players even if they're old,But perhaps we could "overhaul" gradually but definitely nothing drastic as alot of people have mentioned.

I think our attacking game is fine we can score plenty of goals with the players we have.Inter put on their best defensive performance with a full strength squad and we still managed to break them down numerous times,without Kaka.

Borriello might not be worlds best striker and probably never will be,but honestly we don't need one.We just need his characteristics as a partner for Pato.
Watch the goal we scored against Inter,look at what Inzaghi did,he took away 3 of Inters defenders simply by being there,giving Pato loads of space.That's all we need Borriello to do and of course he's completely capable of knocking a few in once in a while and could be someone to aim for apart from Ambro in freekicks so that's all fine.

What we absolutely mustn't do is let Borriello play up there on his own like vs Atalanta,he was missing alot of routine finishes but gave Kaka an assist in the end to redeem himself.On his own our attack is definitely weaker.

So my point there is we don't have attacking problems and we shouldn't waste resources on that department.Our midfield although aging are fine too along with our wingbacks Antonini and Mattioni coming through.OH btw i just realized Mattioni has only played 1 season of professional football ALTOGETHER lol!!...Our scouts must've seen something special in him.


So we just need 1 quality Center Back.

If we go for experience Lucio would be my pick.Now i know he's gonna be 31 when he signs etc..But he has decent physique he'll give us a good 4 - 5 seasons and he won't need time to adapt with Thiago Silva because they're training together with Brazil and wouldn't be too expensive,he'd be keen on joining too since apparently Bayern aren't playing him.By time Lucio is done,or nearly done with his career,Darmian would be old enough and experienced enough to take over and partner Thiago Silva.

I've always envisioned Lucio in a Milan shirt,he's got great character,personable etc...above all solid defender i reckon he'll fit in really well.

My wishes...

Out - Emerson, Kalac, Favalli, Maldini(both - retire), Sheva, Boriello(if he will continue pick up injuries).

In - Cassano, Mexes, Akinfeev, Zhirkov(both - only dream), Gourcuff

I got 'em in Football Manager

I don't follow the Russian league much - how is Akinfeev doing these days? Is he fully recovered from his injury? I rather like him.

i do believe the overhaul needs to be done in 2 years but starting next year our elder players must resort to be backups...

in time you will come to understand her humour

hehe sounds good

Yep. Maybe that one. Not many of those around 25 avaible + good IMO. That's why we go for youngsters or old veterans.


What can I say other then I've always enjoyed hearing people/my friends make fun of Milan. That only gave me a few motives more to think more positive. You have to switch does bad-vibrations into good ones. Trust me, it's the only reasonable way that also works from time to time.


Ade I don't rate really highly, Balotelli IMO is also overrated,...but Drogba is a big yes for me. The ideal type of striker Capt'n Jack wants!


Most likely...

I think he's a great player, better than Mexes or Vidic to whom we have been linked today and he'd surely also cost us less as it seems he wants out.

Or maybe Santacroce. He's less experienced than those guys but he has a few years on his back (also in Serie B which is a very tough league) and it'd be great if he could develop even more with us!

Santacroce has a distressing tendency to pick up a lot of cards. That's the only real negative I can think of with him. He's quite good and does show potential.

Fishdoll is stubborn in wanting Chiellini at Milan, however unrealistic that might be.

Chiellini could come, I don't think he's unsellable especially with Gigli in charge but they'd never let him go for less than 30m which is not worth it in my view.

I find Drogba works best alone as he is a presence in the box and commands attention. Unfortunately he may follow the special one to Inter where mou can finally play his 4-3-3 with a very imposing Adriano/Zlatty/Drogba forward formation. I like Adebayor for the simple reason that he is good in the and a one kick finisher, he demands tight defense which opens up pat underneath( who would be playing as our secondary striker). The only issue i have with Ade is yes, granted that wenger said he would be open to sell Ade, he would command 20Mil+ which isn't easy to take a chance with these days. I LOVE the balottelli move for many reasons:
-Pippo can groom 2 players (boriello & Balotelli) while staying another year with milan, perfectly there technique and hopefully teach them how to be onside hehe
-Balotelli and Boriello are very solid in the air alowing pato to stay a bit farther behind to make plays.
-Competition breeds the best out of players and if we we're to sign Ade, boriello probably would see his star in milan fade a little. If him and Balotelli grind it out for every start we will see amazing performances from either
- During the derbies i would find it hard to believe that anyone would play more angry and passionate the super mario lol he would hopefully wreck inter while throwing grass at Mou
-And on a much lesser note, Juve has taken the title as the team with the most italian talent it would seem and adding a all-star italian youth product could make sure that the team knows where it comes from and doesn't take too much of an inter approach.
- We have the potential of having both pato and boriello for a long time, a feed that most european teams would sell their souls for!

I find when you look at it deeper then us hiring a whinning teen that can't find his way onto a star-studded offense, you come to realise this makes TOO MUCH SENSE........
that being said, it will never happen

unfortunately he will be harder to bring over then say a santacrocce who i feel should play for the national team ahead of lettogracie

Wouldn't want Balotelli anywhere near Milan. He's got a really bad attitude problem both for club and country. If we're going to sack Rome, I'd prefer a Vucinic. If we're just picking Italians, I'd pick Rossi even if he's not the power forward type we all seem to agree Milan needs.

I know myself to be biased (except for Aston Villa and a couple of other odd individual players, I don't particularly like English football) but I'm surprised that so many of you are only picking EPL players as possible transfer targets.

tossing the bias aside, do you think that, like me he can be reborn in milan, and utterly make sense to this team?

My bias is against anything having to do with the EPL. Not against Balotelli.

Balotelli is one of those guys with tremendous potential and talent. But he's getting bad advice and making bad choices. If someone relatively strict like Mourinho can't get him to behave, I don't see how he'll do much better (and could do worse) at Milan. Then there are his NT antics -- for the recent U21 internationals, Balotelli was called up. He went out partying at Hollywood (the cool nightspot in milan) til 4am. And slept through his alarm, missing the U21 team flight to Trieste. He had to drive himself there and explain himself to Casiraghi, who was not at all amused.

So in short...no. Unless he himself changes, I don't think Balotelli would be a good option no matter how talented he is. One thing Milan has traditionally had is a strife-free dressing room. Don't want to see that change.

Russian league starts in March...and last season he was great as always...and he was gewat in Euro 2008. So solid, talanted and so young keeper.

We have georgian, ucrainian,,,why we can't buy russian?))

i guess your right i always thought he "behavior was in result to not playing i didn't know he was hit by the Brazilian Curse:S

non-eu

but akinfeev is my no.1 choice for goal.

i heard that he is very overatted and have not found alot on him... he is worth the hype?

Akinfeev would be my non-EU keeper option (for an EU keeper, my pick would be Leverkusen's Adler). I think Akinfeev is quite good, personally. Thing is, I suspect CSKA is going to ask a fortune for him.

my dream goalie would be Amelia

Because they're not Brazilian!

I really like Akinfeev. I think he proved his talent in the Euros. he has a nice style, is good-looking, and last but not least, has a great goalkeeper's name "Akinfeev"... I really hope we sign him when Dida and Kalac leave.



Except for the last part, agreed with everything.

It'd be kinda embarrassing and uncomfortable if Lucio came (having too many Brazilians-wise). there has to be other options, right? I think if we manage to sign Mexes, we'll be fine. Mexes, Thiago, Bonera, probably Nesta, Darmian and Kaladze as the 6th choice CB should be enough!

why are we talking about goalies lol
Abbiati love him or hate him has been in Great From recently
he's backup is arguably one of the most accomplished keepers in history in Dida
and behind THAT lays a man that could be confused for air traffic control tower

Yeh i dunno he just seemed the most likely and could do the job fairly reliably.

Mexes,Chiellini,Ramos,Vidic etc...would all be better but we have a slim chance of getting them if any.

Out of them Mexes is the most affordable. I don't see Man U breaking the best defensive pairing of the season for 20 million. Ramos is Madrid's attempt at the next Hierro. Chiellini..for obvious reasons. Secco is silly, but only by that much. Chiellini would be a long courtship, and he'd have to leave on a free/not renew his contract for us to get him.

Nice.

The air traffic control tower gets decommisioned this season I think. Along with Fiori. Not certain though...

Sacchi is in the news at tribal...



I have to say I kinda agree with him. Milan really lacks someone with some tactical knowledge in club management. Can we get him back, into some kind of advisory position.?

Leonardo is great at picking talent, and Carlo is great at playing with what he's got, and keeping people happy. But we need someone like Sacchi as director who can really build a great team. It's the secret of Napoli's success for one. But I don't know if Mr.B wants to have Sacchi back after they fell apart.

Carlo's not getting any input with Tassotti as an assistant coach. Probably just a helping hand.

Boy, I like you already!

Lucio is obviously a great defender. had we not signed Thiago and Mattioni, I would've been all for him; but imagine a Milan with 8-9 Brazilians... that's ridiculous!

That however doesn't mean I think Milan won't move for him in the summer! I see him as a very likely signing to tell the truth!

If it were up to me I'd replace Kaladze with Santacroce and bring Mexes [to fill Maldini/Nesta's empty place]... but as far as Galliani is concerned, that's fantacalcio.




He has already undergone a medical?!...

Don't know. Maybe Maldini? Or Capello after 2010? I'm not sure what Tassotti's job really is, so I can't say anything. Sacchi had some medical problems, that's why he dropped out from coaching. But he was at Parma and Real..so probably he could do it for Milan as well.

What does he mean with "too many duplicates"?

I'm not sure Lucio is "that" great. All we see of him is some Bundesliga action and that's it. Oh yes, and CL. Not sure, not sure...also, he's 30 years old.

That's probably bull but who knows knows? So... Agger and Silva will be our pairing. Agger is solid and Silva looks so too. It seems like a good duo... I just wish they were Italian.


Too many players with similar (not identical) capabilities is what I understand. Our midfield surely has that problem.

National team. CL. Bundesliga.

Great is a relative word anyway. Lucio is great. Nesta is great too. Nesta is 2 times better than Lucio [IMO].

Thank you! Just because someone is not Italian doesn't mean he sucks. Or can't be as good as them. Sure guys like Maldini and Nesta are born once in a lifetime. But I fail to see why a 30-year-old Lucio can be termed not great, while a 35-year-old Panucci is. The one can give us a good half decade, while the other 2 years at best. Yes, the later has Serie A experience, which Lucio lacks, but a quality defender is a quality defender is a quality defender.

Nationality does not a great player make, be it Italian, Brazilian or English.

Probably not. He will stay attached in some capacity but I don't think as a coach or director. Personal opinion, of course. IF he retires this season, then yeah, he's pretty much want a bit of a rest first.

So Tuttomercatoweb is reporting that Milan want Eto'o.

He is neither a man, nor a woman, but you sure guessed right about the funniest part!

Why do we have to stuck with our transfer objectives? I don't wanna see a Barca 06 reunion! Plus the man is ideal for a new Milan Lab product.

Of course, a Pato-Eto'o pair would be tempting but no thanks.

IMO Panucci (prime) is better then Lucio (prime) and that has nothing to do with nationalities. I don't rate Lucio that high. Ask LaPalma...

Eto'o is probably a better sole striker than Pato. He's an upgraded Anelka in every respect including attitude. But I don't want him here now. It would be just more of the same.

Now I understand Sacchi. Duplication.

Precisement. I was gonna quote Sacchi there, but since I had already posted the original link, I figured it would be 'duplication' again.

This is what Sacchi meant, when he talks of balance etc. What you need is someone who can bring something different to the table. Not someone who can do the same thing with an extra 10% for 2 times the cost.

That's why I rate Beckham...

He has been a transfer masterstroke without any question. I think his performances mean, we might have earned even more money than we thought we would from his jersey sales.

Last summer I wanted him....not Dinho


Just watch some games....

He was last year 8th world best young player....in Russia he is really named 'New Yashin'(I'm not sure that I wrote it correctly, but sure you know who was Lev Yashin...)

Yashin = Number one! Everybody knows Lev Yashin!

Wow, Rivaldo. That's quite a compliment to Akinfeev!

Yep, I think so. His debut with CSKA was at age of 17(!) and with Russia - 18(!). Now he is only 22....

But this is only dream...with him we might forget about goalie for 10 years...but I can remember Galliani or Braida said smth like that - 'Akinfeev great keeper, but he is small for Milan. We are looing high keepers'.

Huh....

P.S. in Russia I support Zenit)) but Akinfeev and Zhirkov from CSKA both might be great trasfer for each top club in Europe....

I think they said that about Boruc...not sure though...

Gee, I'd really like we'd had a german keeper. Give us Enke, Adler, Neuer...so many good choices.

But with Dida-Abbiati we don't need one. Summer will be a defender shopping...