Not sure I'd agree about the 'too soon' thing - Oscar has JUST turned 21 and was a slightly 'unknown' quantity at Internacional when Chelsea fired 20M at them for him. He'd just had a brilliant season aged 19/20...

And El-Sha is in a much stronger and higher-profile league than the Brazilian one...

As for riot in Milan - not happening. We just keep selling our best players and the fans keep taking it. Only sign of objection is lower Serie A league attendances.

Not sure I'd agree about the 'too soon' thing - Oscar has JUST turned 21 and was a slightly 'unknown' quantity at Internacional when Chelsea fired 20M at them for him. He'd just had a brilliant season aged 19/20...

And El-Sha is in a much stronger and higher-profile league than the Brazilian one...

As for riot in Milan - not happening. We just keep selling our best players and the fans keep taking it. Only sign of objection is lower Serie A league attendances.

Danny, I don't think you're up to date with the financials of this club (please, don't take it as an offense).

Mark my words, I would not be shocked if a 20M bid comes in and he's off.

Fact is half a season is a long time in football, and as far as clubs are concerned this guy is the real deal. We know he's very good and he's probably the most in-form striker in Serie A.

So how did I come up with that? The fact we're vulnerable, a selling club, and repeatedly shed our best players.

I admit there's not been any speculation but it just doesn't seem that far out to me.

There is 0% we sell SES for 20M. That's pretty much what we paid for him. If we get offers in the 35-40M range you might have to worry a little but I think you're just being paranoid.

Danny, I don't think you're up to date with the financials of this club (please, don't take it as an offense). Yes, we did sell Thiago and Ibra solely for the money, but it was a necessary move since we had a €75 million deficit for the 2012 fiscal year, and the FFP regulations allow the owners of a club to cover a maximum of €45 million of losses, until 2015, when the acceptable deviation will be further reduced to €30 million. Also, we managed to substantially cut our wage-bill from €156 million to €96 million this summer, which was the main cause of our deficit. This doesn't mean that we can finally start purchasing stars again, but it will allow us to breath some fresh air for a while and not be enforced to sell our best players.

Not sure I'd agree about the 'too soon' thing - Oscar has JUST turned 21 and was a slightly 'unknown' quantity at Internacional when Chelsea fired 20M at them for him. He'd just had a brilliant season aged 19/20...

And El-Sha is in a much stronger and higher-profile league than the Brazilian one...

As for riot in Milan - not happening. We just keep selling our best players and the fans keep taking it. Only sign of objection is lower Serie A league attendances.

It's always funny when you say this, X-Offender. Always.

Where does you username come from anyway, X-Off? that Blondie song?

Mark my words, I would not be shocked if a 20M bid comes in and he's off.

Fact is half a season is a long time in football, and as far as clubs are concerned this guy is the real deal. We know he's very good and he's probably the most in-form striker in Serie A.

So how did I come up with that? The fact we're vulnerable, a selling club, and repeatedly shed our best players.

I admit there's not been any speculation but it just doesn't seem that far out to me.

There is 0% we sell SES for 20M. That's pretty much what we paid for him. If we get offers in the 35-40M range you might have to worry a little but I think you're just being paranoid.

We aren't a selling club, just that we cant afford the wage packages that Chelsea, Madrid, City.. are offering. Moreover, by April our new financial statements will be out, and we'll know if we are still a selling club or not.

We aren't a selling club, just that we cant afford the wage packages that Chelsea, Madrid, City.. are offering. Moreover, by April our new financial statements will be out, and we'll know if we are still a selling club or not.

You say Oscar but amongst strikers, Neymar is more exciting and IMO higher than SES on top clubs' wishlist. yet he's still at Santos despite being 20 (that's too old for a promising Brazilian striker!). some clubs seem to spend money like maniacs but they can't sign everyone out there. personally I'm not at all worried about SES being sold any time soon.

Danny, I don't think you're up to date with the financials of this club (please, don't take it as an offense).

Yes, we did sell Thiago and Ibra solely for the money, but it was a necessary move since we had a €75 million deficit for the 2012 fiscal year, and the FFP regulations allow the owners of a club to cover a maximum of €45 million of losses, until 2015, when the acceptable deviation will be further reduced to €30 million. Also, we managed to substantially cut our wage-bill from €156 million to €96 million this summer, which was the main cause of our deficit. This doesn't mean that we can finally start purchasing stars again, but it will allow us to breath some fresh air for a while and not be enforced to sell our best players.

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I completely take in what you are saying, I do, but do you truly believe if some rich club waved £20M+ at us for SES we'd keep him?

You can quote the reality of the financial situation all you like but we ARE a selling club.

We'll see who's right come January should a bid come in. I hope it's you.

Which makes us a selling club.

Recent history shows otherwise. Whether it's a wage or sime other thing - we can't afford the big stars anymore and even before Zlatan and Silva - like it was with Kaka - we sold to a more financially capable club. We are not Ajax type selling club off course but we (recently) aren't Real Madrid either.

We sell because we make losses. We make losses because our wage bill is 90% of our Revenue.

We sold Kaka, Sheva, etc to cover the losses. We sold TS, Zlatan, and released Pirlo because we are forced to reduce our wage bill pending FFP compliance.

We paid 10M Euros I was under the impression? I just double checked the price.

I completely take in what you are saying, I do, but do you truly believe if some rich club waved £20M+ at us for SES we'd keep him?

You can quote the reality of the financial situation all you like but we ARE a selling club.

We'll see who's right come January should a bid come in. I hope it's you.

Whoever believes we sold Silva and Ibra because we couldn't match their new wage demands MUST read all of the evidence that has come out against such claims, the strongest of which is the players themselves categorically rejecting such notions and giving their explanations as to why. It has been made clear on multiple occasions.

10m to Genoa for HALF his co-ownership last season, and I think we payed somthing else this summer plus handed over Merkel. The kid didn't come cheap and selling him for anything below 35m would be terrible business.

Yes we would, as like I said, it's not enough to tickle Galliani's fancy.

Look at our previous sales of stars. All of them were huge fees, and we won't get anything less then that for SES when the time is right

In fact I am 10000% sure that he'll be a Milan player come February.

Whoever believes we sold Silva and Ibra because we couldn't match their new wage demands MUST read all of the evidence that has come out against such claims, the strongest of which is the players themselves categorically rejecting such notions and giving their explanations as to why. It has been made clear on multiple occasions.

And because we can't cover the losses like some other clubs can we become a selling (the top earners) club. It's the bottom line that counts.

Merkel is worth a sardine. But as for terrible business, selling Kaka to RM and losing out on 40M was pretty awful business if you ask me! It was good business in effect of getting £56M for a rapidly-declining player, but we could have got way more.



Seem to recall you saying something similar about Juve not being champions last season

Claims are based on the club's financials and the club's compliance with FFP. However. if it is your belief that B&G want to sell our stars to piss off the fans, then that is your right

or if you like refer to this blogs for an example of what our finances looked like previously Rossoneribog .. The reason our squad looks relatively weak in comparison to the Shevchenko days is directly affiliated with our financial ability to maintain such a team. Taking all external factors into consideration.

Yeah, agreed. He'll stay with us. If we sell him, that means we're even worse then Parma and have absolutely no development strategy.

No we will just become like most clubs these days a feeder team.

I don't think so. We're too big for that. If this really is what lies ahead, I'm positive that someone will buy us out.

FFP is still as BS a notion as it was before. Berlusconi's support has been dwindling for a while now. These are facts of life. FFP is just a very good excuse for Galliani to use. However Silvio has been pulling away from the club for a while now, especially in terms of monetary support. He was doing the bare minimum by covering the losses and not much else.

This is why i want Milan to get more raw talent , we have to start acting like most of the other Serie A clubs and European clubs have been acting in the transfer market for a while now bringing in raw talent and giving them a chance ofc mixing them with experience. After seeing SES blossom this season its rejuvenated my faith in the younger generation, giving players like SES and co the breathing room they need to expand there game. As i said most Serie A clubs have been doing this for a while in other formulas and have had great success. This does not mean we will become a feeder club to the other big clubs like Barca , Man City, Real ect ect we just won't be spending stupid amounts of money to bring in ready made talent. I mean seeing Merkal leave genoa made me cringe we kind of need a player like that atm.

El Shaarawy: "I still have a lot to learn, like Allegri also says. Like for example, off-the-ball movements and how to lose my marker."

El Shaarawy: "I've gotten my driver's license, so now I don't have to rely on Antonini to take me to Milanello anymore!"

El Shaarawy: "Who has taught me the most at Milan? In terms of football, I will say Ibra and Thiago Silva."

El Shaarawy: "Seedorf, Inzaghi and Ambrosini have taught me the most from a human point of view."

El Shaarawy: "But I've learned from everyone at Milan by observing them train, and how they behave with the media and the fans."

El Shaarawy: "Ibra used to yell at everybody, not just me. It all comes from his desire to win."

El Shaarawy: "I've never had a quarrel with Gattuso. His declarations were about youngsters in general, not me specifically."

El Shaarawy: "After we beat Udinese last year where I scored the winning goal, we were in the changing rooms and Galliani gave me his phone and said that it was Berlusconi. I was speechless. I couldn't say a word while he was complimenting me."

El Shaarawy: "When we have lunch at Milanello I sit with the senators in the squad. It was also like that last season."

El Shaarawy: "I get along best with Ambro, Abate, Antonini and Bonera."

El Shaarawy: "I live in the San Siro zone. Last year my father was also with us, now my mother is here. My brother visits us sometimes."

El Shaarawy: "If I know how to cook? I know how to make one pasta dish, but I always clean up after we have dinner at home."

El Shaarawy: "What I do in my spare time? Playstation, watch tv. I watch all the football that I can."

El Shaarawy: "I like watching and playing snooker which is a kind of billiard. I'm going to buy a billiard table soon."

El Shaarawy: "I still haven't been inside the Duomo in Milano or seen Castello Sforzesco or The Last Supper painting."

El Shaarawy: "Ambrosini will also pay for my vacation during the christmas break. I will go somewhere in the mountains."

El Shaarawy: "The best defenders that I've faced are Gerard Pique and Carles Puyol. They really impressed me last year when we met them."

El Shaarawy: "The player that has surprised me the most is Denis from Atalanta. He has strength, technique and an eye for goal."

El Shaarawy: "The nickname Il Faraone? It was given to me by a Sky commentator 2 years ago during Genoa-Empoli (Primavera final)."

El Shaarawy: "I like the nickname Il Faraone, because I'm also part Egyptian due to my father."

El Shaarawy: "If I believe that Milan will return to being great again? Milan are already great."

El Shaarawy: "I'm still the same person as always. Only thing that has changed is that I pay for the pizza when I'm with my friends."

El Shaarawy: "The strength of a true champion consists of never settling or being satisfied. You must always improve."

El Shaarawy: "What I fear? Sometimes I think that it only takes very little to hit rock bottom."

El Shaarawy: "I have always been more of a goalscorer than an assistman."

El Shaarawy: "Allegri is not the type who speaks a lot. He has always given me good advice, both about football and about life."

Roman Abramovich eyeing his new signings.