Ambro and Gattuso are our future captains. It would be mostly unwise to sell both and in addition part with Maldini. Who would then take over? Kaladze? Abbiati? Are they captain material?

I'll take chances and make my own IN and OUT story.

Ambro and Gattuso are our future captains. It would be mostly unwise to sell both and in addition part with Maldini. Who would then take over? Kaladze? Abbiati? Are they captain material?

Gattuso won't be sold anyway, after we rejected a good offer from Bayern, don't think he'll be on any wishlist soon.

OUT: Kaladze, Dida (if a good team wants him and he want's 1st team football), Senderos, Ronaldinho
IN: Panucci, Drogba, Giuseppe Rossi, Canini; big moves could be either Eto'o or Fabregas, maybe even Mancini (?)

In addition...I have one not so bright confession. Does Andrea Pirlo's story really started looking (on pitch) like Demetrio Albertini's?

No, I project the captain candidates based on the same logic Milan does for decades - seniority.

Oh i see. Do you think it will be the same even with a new a coach?

Yes. It's not a thing most coaches in Italy decide. Of course, if the coach sells or removes from the team Kaladze, Ambro, Gattuso, Pirlo, Nesta, Pippo and Seedorf, Kaka will be handed the chance.

Unbearable to watch When you're in Germany one day call me and I take you too a game of Preußen Münster. If yesterdays game was unbearable for you I'm sure you'll commit suicide after that one

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Kaka's turn will come - of course if they don't try to sell him like they did in the January transfer window. he's not even 27 yet... give it a few years.

There are a few players ahead of him in the line for captaincy which IMO are Rino, Ambro, Pirlo - Nesta, Pippo and Seedorf I can't see still playing in two/three years' time.

Agree on the second part, but when will you guys stop that "we tired to sell poor Kaka" paroles?

I too think we were going to sell him had he said accepted the offer but he said no and I don't think we put him pressure on him to change his mind.

However Milan and Kaka are going to accept a similar offer from Madrid, if it comes, in the summer.

I too think we were going to sell him had he said accepted the offer but he said no and I don't think we put him pressure on him to change his mind.

Remember Milan always said no to any offers for Kaka. they they all of a sudden accepted City's bid. that was in a way putting him under pressure IMO. it is like saying, we are ready to sell you, even if you were 'untouchable' just a year ago.

Remember Milan always said no to any offers for Kaka. they they all of a sudden accepted City's bid. that was in a way putting him under pressure IMO. it is like saying, we are ready to sell you, even if you were 'untouchable' just a year ago.

sadly i have the same feeling. Right now milan just doesn't look attractive at all. We look like a second rate club. Signing players in the summer will be hard if we dont make champions league sigh...

I don't agree. Surely someone who plays for another great club would not jump at the chance of joining Milan but I don't think we look second rate.

Braida-Damiani meeting to discuss Panucci

meh, tuttomercatoweb (or its milannews subsidiary) reports a lot of gossip. Some of it's reliable and some of it isn't.

The view from outside, at least my view, is that okay: Milan is a club of ups and downs, and recently the downs have outnumbered the ups, but if you stay at Milan long enough then you're 90% guaranteed a Champions League medal.
And every bad two-year period is followed by a good period; after those horrendous seasons back in 97' and 98' Milan bounced back and took the 99' Serie A title.
After a miserable 2000 and 2001 Milan came back and won both the Coppa Italian and the Champions League.
After struggling mightily in the league and expected to get trounced in the 2007 CL semi's Milan went all the way. And now I've left out the Super Cups and World Club Cups.

This club is a guarantee for big trophies, maybe not every year but there really aren't that long in between.

Who do you guys think our BIG signing should be?
Diego?
Benzema?
Adebayor?
Drogba?
Robinho?

well i guess what i din't write is that a lot of dead money will be cut.
leaving us maybe enough to sign a star or revamp the depth..

i hope we offload dead weight a la Emerson, kaladze, sheva + maldini is retiring so that's some decent money right there. Plus either portsmout or totteenham have expressed interest in Dida(goal.com). So i guess we will offloads players though i have no power,control, understanding of the administrative duties, as does the rest of us.

emerson will probably be sold, but max we can get is 5 million.

Kaladze will get us 10 milion max.

*gourcuff will get us 15 million.

**sheva doesn't belong to us.

***Senderos doesn't belong to us.

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so if those transfers goes thru we will have a sh*t load of free wage bill.

We will have 30 million euroes. Will we try to balance the books with that money? who knows.

* WE MUStN'T SELL HIM!!!!!!!!
** i had no idea he still was chelsea's
***i knew that and im sure arsenal would ROFL if we signed Senderos for 10+, who i actually feel can develop here if the price is right. I feel his size, anchor is pretty good and with some training, improvements he can be a solid backup. HOWEVER i feel most of his time starting is unwarranted.

Francesco Toldo has renewed with Inter until 2011. The Inter goalkeeper has signed this afternoon at the Palazzo Durini, a two-year agreement with the Nerazzurri club until 30 June 2011. "It gives me great pride to know that 37 years is a record for a goalkeeper in the history of Inter a two-year renewal," said the No. 1 Nerazzurri.

I don't think it put him under pressure. We'll just not agree for once.

Plus either portsmout or totteenham have expressed interest in Dida (goal.com).

United is known of their policy that everyone's for sale at the right moment and price. But I'm against it. Like Ivanovic, it only would mean another fail.

United is known of their policy that everyone's for sale at the right moment and price. But I'm against it. Like Ivanovic, it only would mean another fail.

I don't get it, why are you against it?

Because I simply belive that defending in Italy is different then the one Vidic already accomodated; and it is my opinion that Vidic isn't as good as a player to be able to jump one level higher (or, re-phrased to sound less offensive - to change habits).

Cote d’Ivoire Coach Vahid Halilhodzic Blasts Milan's Carlo Ancelotti
The current Ivory Coast boss has hit back at comments made by Milan coach Ancelotti concerning his interest in the African giants.

Confirming declarations he was reported to have made several weeks previously, when it was rumoured that Ivorian megastar Didier Drogba could be joining the Rossoneri, the Italian technician gave an interview to La Repubblica in which he voiced his enthusiasm to lead them into the World Cup.

"I will be free for them for the World Cup,” stated the coach. “They have great talent - we can surprise people. Nobody believes me, but it would be a great honour for me."

Adding that he would coach them for free, Ancelotti started creating a buzz and even got the international press speculating that a deal was already in the works for his dream to come true.

Contacted by French publication L’Equipe, current Cote d’Ivoire coach Vahid Halilhodzic, a man that has not been known for his diplomacy or his ability to hold back for anyone, came out with guns blazing and attacked his colleague.

“What is wrong with Ancelotti?” he lambasted. “Did he smoke too much or what? Or maybe he drank too much? There’s a rule among us [coaches] never to position oneself for a job when a coach is in place. This is total rubbish!”

The ex-Paris Saint-Germain coach otherwise didn’t seem too bothered by the idea of having his spot stolen by his more glamorous counterpart as Ancelotti has stated that he wouldn’t be interested in handling any national team on a daily basis.

Massaer Ndiaye, Goal.com

Guys i think we should make a riot or stance for Gourcuff to come back..Seriously cuz Carlo is a very wicked person..Even if Gourcuff didn't do well..he doesn't have to criticize him saying he had mental problems and wat not...I mean we do need his service but Ancelotti seem to make it worse!!!

Guys i think we should make a riot or stance for Gourcuff to come back..Seriously cuz Carlo is a very wicked person..Even if Gourcuff didn't do well..he doesn't have to criticize him saying he had mental problems and wat not...I mean we do need his service but Ancelotti seem to make it worse!!!

Sell Gourcuff and Emerson, buy Diego to take Seedorf's place in the starting line-up. Too simple.

Deco will be free to go this season. I think one of the tow Blues (Drogba&Deco) will end up in Milan, the other in Inter. Diego...I've kind of learned to dislike him at Bremen. He's very good, but there's something arrogant in him which defers from the typicall Milanista line Boban-Leonardo-Rui Costa-Kaka...

I honestly think Drogba is twice as arrogant as Diego. Deco is not very humble either.

Guys i think we should make a riot or stance for Gourcuff to come back..Seriously cuz Carlo is a very wicked person..Even if Gourcuff didn't do well..he doesn't have to criticize him saying he had mental problems and wat not...I mean we do need his service but Ancelotti seem to make it worse!!!