Both Mediaset and tuttomercatoweb are reporting that Milan are taking a look at Hamburg's Guy Demel. Demel is Ivorian, but with a French passport (so EU) and plays both as CB and as RB.

I would prefer to wait until the end of the season to being back Astori. He is more likely to play with Cagliari than with Milan at the moment



Same as above, Paloschi should wait until the summer, bringing him back now would not be beneficial to his development as he is a regular for Parma but wont be for us

Never heard of that one.

He's talking of Hottor. That deal is still some time away.

marchetti, rafinha, criscito, kjaer, veloso, krasic and dzeko most of them are not quite xpensive. milan will be unstopable with those players.

I myself think Veloso, Krasic and especially Dzeko would (/will) in fact be quite expensive! Rafinha would not come for little either.

But people would have to FIND Rafinha to make an offer for him. Last I heard, nobody knew for sure where he was.

Forget Krasic, if we sign anyone from CSKA I hope it's Dzagoev. I've only seen him a dozen or so times, but he looks fantastic. He tore Villa apart last year and I think he's only a teenager still? Might be 20 now.

HERE is the link to the official transfer page on the Lega Calcio website. This is where they list contracts that have been deposited with the league.

Note that both Beckham's contract (temporaneo = loan) and Adiyiah's contract (definitivo = permanent) have been deposited.

Not quite expensive? We'd have to pay at least 30 million for Dzeko alone!
About Rafinha: He made it to Schalkes boot camp in Spain and awaits Felix Magaths punishment

according to l'equipe, we offered 25M + klaas to wolfsburg... that seems like much but dzeko seems to be the next ibra, and i'd love for us to have a new bandera

footballitalia.net

looks a possibilty that it won't be all that quiet a window!

That's only if you choose to believe Corriere, mishie. which is sort of like believing the Sun.

with boobs on page 3 as well?

Haha. I'm not sure! Could well be, mishie!

Another snippet from the Italian Sun type paper...............

For those who don't read Italian, the Corriere article states that a Milan representative has gone to Bosnia to talk to Dzeko's father, etc, taht the deal's 25 million etc. Same thing we've been hearing the last couple of days.

ooops soz to repeat old news

What kind of favour would it do us exactly blue? the kind of favour like the money from Kaka's transfer did us? To bring in guys like Roma...

And let's cut the cr@p, you were so sure that the Kaka money would bring in new guys to the squad, and just like I said we ended up with nothing but a panic buy in Huntelaar, who isn't even allowed to play. My God, we couldn't even spring 18m for Fabiano when he was the guy Leo really wanted!!!

Selling Pato would only mean losing a great player that is still 20 years old and not even at half his full potential. Selling him now would not only mean losing the player himself but losing out on a lot of money as Pato has still a long way to go in his development and could potentially cost twice that in a few years.

And right now, we can't really afford to lose him, he's our only hope for the future atm, selling him would set us back about a hundred steps from where we are now, and let's face it, we aren't in that good of a place even now.

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i've heard off several people over the last few months this expression...." yeah but we are Milan"
so at what point did the "Milan" these people quote sell their best players....to sell Pato would be football suicide the man is are future, and probably has a decade to wear the Rossoneri shirt and become a legend, more Madrid money...no thanks

I think Pato is great, and will be world class one day, but if we are offered 65m for him we should jump on that like a frog. We could buy 3 players on Pato's level with that kind of money

They covered the debt with the 60m from Kaka, so they would have no excuses not to bring in a ton of transfers to replenish the squad.

disagree with that, we can build a team around him and how can you progress as a team if you keep selling your best/better players?

There are millions of players out there that can have a team built around them not just Pato. I'm saying that if Pato is rated as an 85/100, and we got 65m for him, we could buy 3 other players also rated at an 85 and probably even have some change to get an 80 or 75 player. We could get the wingbacks we desperately need, a new CAM, a CB, Dzeko, Krasic, Hernanes, Ranocchia, Paloschi the possibilities are limitless. Don't get me wrong, I love Pato but I love AC Milan more, and with 65m in our pockets we could be a better team. Anyways, I hope he doesn't leave just yet cause I want to get a Pato jeresey for my birthday

exactly my thought.

Yes pato is amazing, but there are players out there who are or can be just as good.


If we could actually invest the 65-80 million in the market and buy decent players, i'd be very happy. The summer we bought Ronaldinho, we bought 11 players for 80 million. Ofcourse Silvio was investing us at that time.


We need to do what is best for our club to survive. With no real owner we are left on our own and yes we are going to have to sell players to survive; there is no other way. Arsenal have the correct mentality and we should be following a similar model. Invest in youth and in prime players who have potential but are not expensive instead of our current plan which is don't spend at all.

dp sorry

Silvano Martina is a market specialist who is quite close to the Dzeko family and has recently said this in the press.



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I think we'll sign Dzeko in the summer for 25 mil euros, we'll see. Hopefully he won't be like Gilardino.

The only boobs at Corriere are the guys writing the Milan transfer reports.

Golden bluey. Thanks a bunch. Saved me valuable time, hitting the refresh button on goal.com.

Thanks for the effort, even though most of these reports are pure crap.

Indeed, thanks for posting. But a good number of the items had already been posted by other boardmembers and so some of what was posted is repetitive.

Other news of note:

* Storari's agent is quoted by tuttomercatoweb as saying he will only go on loan
* Some papers have linked West Ham's Diamanti to Milan; he's quoted by milannews as being flattered but only being interested in West Ham
* Zaccheroni was interviewed by milannews and says he doesn't think there'll be any other January purchases.

Oh right...so now we need Zach to tell us when the market is done for Milan.

These list have been made before... People were creating World XI when they saw the Kaka money coming our way, but in the end look what we ended up with, a squad that has been weakened, no replacement for him and a panic buy to appease fans when they were too cheap to spring 20m for Fabiano after we recieved the sort of money we did for Kaka.

Selling Pato would be a mistake of massive proportions because we all know we'll end up with the short end of the stick as Silvio and Co don't want to spend money only cover losses. You can make those player lists that we can buy all you want but this isn't football manager. And with that ammount of moeny you would be lucky to buy 1 world class player with the sort of price tags that players have these days, let alone all the guys you're mentioning...

The Kaka sale should be a lesson to all, you can dream all you want about some spending spree as an outcome of a player sale, but that is never going to happen, not with the mantality the board has adapted for these past few years. Some were happy when Kaka were sold because they thought it would be another Zidane-Real-Juve story, where Juve went out and bought a new top class team after selling Zidane, but that is never going to happen, and if we sell Pato we would see the same thing happen. We'de end up losing Pato and bringing in another panic buy to appease the fans after they sold a great player, just like what happened with Sheva and Kak


We've never spent that kind of money in a single transfer window blue! I don't know where you get your figures from but the summer we bought Dinho we didn't really splash the cash either, 20m for Dinho was the largest sum we spent and that only happened because he was Silvio's personal conquest so he swooped in and oinjected the money needed from his own pockets. But other then that we didn't go all out, far from it.

Oh and the Arsenal policy? You mean become a feader club to the rest of Europe's top teams? Because that is what Arsenal are and I have no desire to see Milan become anything like that. Sure teir policy to scout their own talent is great, but after their youngsters become top players they end up losing them, and that is what you're saying when you tell me that you want to sell Pato.

And again, I'm going to remind you of the let down of the summer, you were so convinced after Kaka was sold that we would being in around 7 top players, and aside from the freebies and Huntelaar I don't see were those 7 have disappeared to. Again, this is not Football Manager 2.0, any sum we could potentially get for Pato would not be spent on a spending spree, simple as, we've already been burned twice over with this, losing both Sheva and Kaka and ending up with nothing in return and the massive ammounts of money earned from those transfers dissappearing, as we've never seen that money going into good use and actually rebuilding this ageing team. And what's really even worse about selling Pato compared to Sheva and Kaka, its that Pato is still 20 years old, he hasn't even come close to his peak yet. Wishing that he was sold in the hopes that the team is rebuilt is stupid imo, as that is something our managment is not yet willing to do, maybe when Seedorf and Pirlo and rolling around in wheel chaires and are strapped to machines to keep their lungs pumping maybe they'll buy a decent player....

The Kaka sale was for debts. We knew that. Anyway, we're arguing over trifles...Pato won't be sold anytime soon. We don't need to sell anymore...and the Kaka sale is too fresh in the fan's minds for Silvio to try something as stupid!

(Fishdoll doesn't want to open the debate up again but does not think that kaka's sale was ONLY because of debts).

So...telelombardia has a nice piece about Milan's transfer market. link

They've noted that with Adiyiah's contract being deposited, there can't be any more non-EU transfers. They also note that, barring major shocks, the January market for Milan is closed - at least for guys coming in.

The article states that there might be some departures, however. The first name mentioned is Kaladze, who is supposedly not happy at feeling marginalized and underused. There are supposedly a lot of offers for him. If he goes, Milan might try to bring Astori back this window.

The other unhappy camper is Huntelaar - but telelombardia seems to think he might be stuck until the summer market, when a deal involving Dzeko can be arranged.

No, we didn't. Where did you get that number from?

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Can't believe people are talking about how good selling Pato would be!!! clearly what we went through after selling Sheva and Kaka hasn't acted as a lesson... we're not that kind of club that sells superstars/great players and buys new ones! I thought every Milan fan knew that already!

I agree that selling Pato would be a bad idea. For the same reasons han already pointed out quite accurate.
About those numbers blue came up with:
As far as I know we roughly spent 50 million Euro in the summer of 08. Mainly for Ronnie and Zambrotta. But we also cashed in a significant amount of about 40 million. Almost 15 for Gila and 10 for Oliveira.

The future concept for the club? As much as it hurts me to say this. I think we should think about adapting Bayern Munichs strategy. Investing in the clubs youth, buying the best players from the national league AND improving the team with one or two international stars. Bayern are one of the few clubs with a very healthy financial record AND economic power.

Why shouldn't we spend the money? Its not silvio's club anymore really. If were made to stand on our own feet than why can't we spend the revenue we generate. I mean thats the whole point of having a transfer market isn't it?

Telelombardia had market expert Giulio Mola analyse Milan's transfer market. He seemed to think that the winter buys are over, especially since Adiyiah's purchase means no more non-EU players. He also seems to think that Milan are already working on summer buys, particularly Dzeko and possibly Gareth Bale, who he seems to think is one of the better fullbacks in circulation. And market guy Furio Fedele - on the same show as Mola - said he thought Milan's 2 summer non-EU buys would be Dzeko and Krasic.

Tuttomercatoweb seems to think that the following players may be on their way out now or in the summer, for varying reasons: Huntelaar, Abbiati, Jankulovski, Kaladze.

@ Blue

We're a club known for our unwillingness to sell our players, less so our stars. and if we do sell them it's either because they themselves want to go (Sheva) or we need the sale money to balance the books and that sort of blah (Kaka). we usually don't sell key players/stars for the sake of footballing reasons, IMO.

It is Silvios club. It doesn't matter how much he's willing to do for it, he still owns it. The other question is: Does the club really generate revenue? Cause, restructuring from a club which can rely on an owner to a club whih is supposed to stand on it's own feet takes some time. It's not done within one or two years.

Krasic & Dzeko would both be wonderful signings in the summer. Two defenders are needed as well.

Fishdoll votes to bring in Ranocchia from Bari and...someone who can play as fullback who can both defend AND cross the ball.

tennie? is that you?

Afraid not! It's just me, scales, whisky and all!

Judging solely off his performances against Milan, I like Amelia. Summer transfer for him anyone?

Nah. It's Milaniosis. It's a disease that affects most keepers, who suddenly choose to have the game of their lives against Milan. We've seen it quite a bit over the last seasons. Marchetti FTW!

Tuttomercatoweb has the following prematch quote from Galliani:



[Adriano Galliani spoke before the beginning of Milan-Genoa: 'Beckham? It's a deal that was set up last summer and we're very happy to have him with us. He's a very useful player who can play a lot of roles. He can play on the right, behind the strikers and in midfield. The market is closed even though we're still working on the youth sector. Hottor from Triestina, for example, will arrive on Monday. For the young, we're attentive, for the first team we're set. Tomorrow I'll see Huntelaar's lawyer, who's coming from Holland, but I'm not telling you what the response will be. Verdi? He's a good kid Leonardo likes. I think he'll get a run out in the Coppa Italia.']

Verdi? Is he a primavera midfielder?