How much would you think they'd need to put up? They've been a bit more strict lately with their loans.

I think our midfield is fine as it is now with Nocerino and Boateng slowly regaining their last season's form. We didn't really lose that much quality in midfield as we did in defense and especially in attack. Zapata has proved to be a reliable CB so far, but Allegri for some strange reason doesn't play him. I think he and Mexes would form a nice defensive pairing. And Constant has been a real revelation on the left. Our attack, however, is very poor. What we really need is a quality striker. We went fron Ibra and Cassano to Pazzini and Bojan. Pato doesn't exist, and Robinho keeps getting worse by the season. We keep relying on El Shaarawy, but the kid can't do everything by himself. I say bring in Balotelli!

Problem is, we never had real quality in midfield to begin with, at least not for the last 2 seasons. And with Seedorf, Aquilani and Bommel gone, we really haven't found a replacement bar Montolivo. Naah, scratch it, we need quality on all fronts, but yes - I'd give anything to swap Acerbi and Bonera (maybe also Antonini) with a decent defender.

IMO we should do everything's possible to get Ogbonna and Balotelli this window.

With Hulk unhappy at Zenit and wanting away, that could be a signature we might be interested in.

They'll want to recoup as much as they can. I'd be amazed if he went for less than 30m or so.

I'd rather get Spaletti if one of them has to leave.

Not happening apparently:

AC Milan Interested In Bari Youngster

I don't really feel that the most important thing is a striker tbh.

Balo would cause problems in this fragile state we're in. Bojan is not a CF no, so it would be stupid to play him there and Robinho has to go in January

I think most importantly we need someone who's a pure trequartista. Someone who will provide the right balls for SES/Pato/Bojan/Prince. Right now that aspect of our game is one big mess!

How many clear cut chances do our strikers get in each game? Barely a handful. Bojan is usually played deeper, but he doesn't have that final pass in him like a true creative player does. Balotelli won't solve any of our problems because he's just like Pato in terms of relying on the support from his midfielders. He's not an Ibra or Cassano type forward. So at this point unless we get someone who can provide top notch service it's pointless to break the bank on strikers

Our line-up is already done, only the CF position is vacant:



If you want a trequartista, then it means Boateng out. I would have bene fine with that only a couple of weeks ago, but the guy has played well in the last two games, and if he manages to regain his last season's form, I'd rather concentrate our money and efforts on signing a CF.

Boateng is wasted there. And we'd have to revert to the diamond again, but it would be worth it if we could get someone in to play behind the front 2.

No matter which CF is brought in, he won't be performing to the standards that he's required to simply because our wide players are not good enough to create the chances for the central striker. SES is too much of a striker imo, he's not a winger. In a 4-3-3 you need skillfull wingers, especially if you want your CF to thrive instead of just being someone other players can ping balls off of.

So we either bring in a proper winger or we bring a trequartista and switch the formation. The point is we cannot keep going the way things are and simply buying Balotelli would leave us in our current condition only with a far more expensive commodity up front being wasted rather than Pazzini

I agree about El Shaarawy being more of a striker than an actual winger, but we still need someone to partner him with. And please, don't say that someone is Pato cause the guy cannot even be considered as an option anymore. So, it's either Bojan or the mediocre Pazzini. Personally, I don't like those odds. At least with Balotelli I know we're bringing a world-class striker.

Believe me, I'd never say no to a quality trequartista like Pastore or Götze, but when was the last time we were actually linked with someone like that? Have you read of any rumors in that regard? No, because signing a trequartista is not our priority right now. Maybe next season.

I agree that right now Pato simply cannot be considered a viable option, but I don't see that going out and buying an expensive player with an even more expensive wage is the answer.

What's up with you and Bojan today? It's like what you were doing with Prince just a couple of days ago. a few bad games and he's dead to you... And it's only been one bad game from Bojan mind you.

I think right now it's just pointless to splurge on strikers, especially someone with Balo's characteristics as well as bad temperment considering the mess we are right now

Nothing with me and Bojan. He's a decent player, but I think we need someone better to be more dangerous upfront.

Yeah, because he's not really a pure striker. He's not a focal point player, but more of a supporting cast player.

Yes we need more focal points and leaders in this team, but at this point we have to do it gradually. We can't just fire at the first nice name we think of. Because if that's the case then what was the point of selling Silva and Ibra if we're going to weigh ourselves down with another player with a large wage?

SMART buys is what we need to focus on. And right now we need to get someone in to cover for Monto because look what will happen this weekend if he's not fit. We're f@cked big time.

So right now, priority has be placed on getting a good CM and a winger if Allegri is staying true to his 4-3-3

News:


-Galliani is meeting with Gazprom officials today. There is also another meeting scheduled with chinese investors next week. It is over sponsorship, ownership and commercial links.


-Barbara: "If Milan is interested in Balotelli? The market opens in January."


-fernando llorente could leave bilbao in january


-hulk is looking for an exit


-we are preparing a bid for Arsenal de Sarandi defender Lisandro Ezequiel Lopez. We were linked with him last summer



-Di Marzio: "Allegri wants raja Nainggolan"



-Raiola: Balotelli costs as much as the Mona Lisa. In Italy there are no clubs that can afford him. "



-Milan are keeping tabs on fernando torres who could be on his way out in january.

-Both manchester clubs are interested in sneijder, however his wife does not want to leave milan. Inter are now stuck in a bad situation and could be forced to come to a mutual termination as they cant afford to pay 6m a year to him anymore. They are currently scrambling to meet FFP standards and will look to cut losses in january and more in the summer.


-We are interested in 16 yr old Neal Maupay from Nice


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Nice. And here we go again.

Naah, don't worry. 99% won't happen.

If we could get Sneijder on a free then I'm all for it! Listen to the wife Wesley!!

I personally think that right now, Balo is the last person we should be looking to get, I'd rather see if we can take Torres on loan and see if we can revive his dieing carreer. Serie A would be good for him I think...

At this point though Galliani needs to work on getting rid of the dead weight more than anything else. Acerbi, Traore, Mesbah, Flamini, even Robinho and his huge contract. They all need to go. Then we can start thinking about bring in 2 or 3 quality players, most importantly a CM, a CB that Allegri will actually use and a winger or forward depending on how we'll play for the rest of the season.

Btw, can you imagine Allegri the A-hole that he is and Balo butting heads?? It would not be pretty

Hopefully. It has happened before and ended up bursting like a bubble.

So as we are approaching the transfer market, i will be posting news more and more frequently. Once were in January, i'll try and update it a few times a day. Stay tuned


News:


-sneijder and his wife were spotted searching for another house in milan. Rumours suggest that he could be on his way to milan as he is good friends with and wants to play with boateng, urby and de jong.


-Most italian papers including mediaset are suggesting that sneijder is currently looking at ways to terminate his contract and join milan on a free transfer in january. Mediaset also reports that Galliani has been in contact with Sneijder and talks are serious. Milan would be willing to negotiate on his wage demands, but only if he is able to leave on a free transfer as they can't pay a transfer fee and his wage.



-Branca (inter director) and Sneijder also met today and no agreement could be reached as inter want him to take a significant pay cut and he is unwilling to do so. If an agreement cannot be reached in the next two weeks, a possible contract termination will be considered as Inter are in serious trouble financially and need to make significant cuts to comply with the oncoming FFP laws.








-We have signed a new deal with Persepolis (iran). It will be a joint venture.

QUOTE

Director of the Iranian clubˈs public relations department Amir Moshiri said officials of the two Italian and Iranian clubs in a long meeting discussed contents of the agreement and all aspects of joint cooperation.

The Italian side expressed hope Ac Milan would have good cooperation with Persepolis which is of the most popular soccer club in Iran and Asia.

-Guardiola is on his way to manchester city and that could push for a massive sale of city players like dzeko and balotelli.





Champions league:

-The 2016 champions league final is set to be in milan and the stadium will be seeing some major renovations in the next couple years.

-Milan has earned 15m euros from the group stage plus another 10m euro from the market pool.  We are one of the highest earners.







-Niang has recently impressed Allegri in training and also in the match vs the primavera where he scored 2 goals. He could feature for the first team very soon as Allegri is rumoured to have lost faith in pazzini. Niang is currently playing with the primavera full time as he is 17 years old.







-Gabriel is on his way to modena or empoli this january on loan. He will be their first string goal keepr.






-Pato: "I want to stay at Milan and spend my career here like Paolo Maldini did. I want to be a symbol for this club."

Pato: "In order to become a symbol for Milan, I need to spend my whole career here and win everything I can."

Pato: "Players these days move around a lot. I don’t want to do that."




-Balotelli is pushing for a move out of manchester city and has told his agent to get something sorted.


-Sportsmedia journalist and milan specialist Claudio Raimondi, has said that milan has been working on Balotelli for a while now and that the move is realistic but it depends on several factors. Milan first needs to offload about 9 players as galliani wants to get the roster size down. Balotelli will also need to take a pay cut to 4-5m euros.

Balotelli is currently unhappy at city and wants to leave.


-Berlusconi wants Balotelli in milan as he wants Balotelli and El Sharaawy lead milan's attack.






-Lucas Biglia (we've been heavily linked) has said that he wants to go to andrelecth in january but dreams of a move to milan in the future.








-Ariedo braida has returned from his scouting trip in holland and has identified two targets for the club.

Jordy Clasie (21) from Feyenoord and Siem de Jong (23) from Ajax. We could make a move either in January or this summer.





-Chinese investors are currently in Milan with Davide Lippi. They will meet Galliani and Berlusconi tomorrow and discuss possible sponsorship.




fi/cm/tmw/mn/sky/goal/http://fc-perspolis.com//sportsmediaset/larepubllica/gazetta

So, what we're look for January is:



I like.

I don't think we'll get ogbonna. If we get balo, we'll only get free transfers. I don't think we'll sign anyone else unless berlusconi pays for him personally.


But we could also see...

Some interesting development lmao, just checked it out inters site.



-Inter wrote that Sneijder is injured, but his wife Yolantha has tweeted that he is isn't injured. lmfao, welcome sneijder



-Guangzhou Evergrande's president, Liu Yongzhuo, will be at the reggina match with galliani. It will be a joint venture between our clubs dealing mostly with the commercial side. They will invest in our club, and we will help them grow on a global scale.

Nice to see you pay so much attention to detail, Blue.

ahahahahhahahahah i goofed up didn't I


my bad,

here's the source: http://fc-perspolis.com/



edit:


BBC NEWS: Silvio Berlusconi 'to run for Italy PM again'


now we know why he wants to get balotelli. balotelli= votes

Is that still the demographic of voting bringing a player in to secure votes? i mean i don't mind it at all i would love to have Balotelli at Milan for sure although the whole getting votes and to bolster the Milan line as Silvio sees fit is a tad annoying. Anyway in this climate its not as easy as Silvio would like its not as simple as buying this player , bringing this player for the votes simply because of the financial climate in Europe and Italy bringing a big player for big money, how ever you look at it can go both ways for him in the polls so it could just backfire..

Sneijder is more of an attacker than Boateng, so he'd naturally play behind the strikers with Prince retracted in midfield. Anyway, if Sneijder is coming for free, then I'm all for it.

Sneijder arriving at Milan i will believe it when Galliani denies it..anyway i'd rather we get Ballotelli

If we could get our hands on Sneijder then it would be amazing.

As for Balo, we'll see, he won't be coming in for any ridiculous demands we make to City, we'll have to pay up. Simple as that.

But first off we need to get rid of Robinho, Traore, Flamini, Mesbah and Acerbi, maybe even Pazzini as if we get Balotelli he would be even more useless then he currently is. We could get around 20 to 25m if we manage to successfully offload those guys.

If we do that we could actually see the line-up x-off posted!

Ogbonna, Sneijder and Balo, plus another midfielder would be ideal, someone who can substitute for Monto. Maybe a Cigarini or a Poli. Someone cheap who can do the job when we need him to

Han i think your thinking to far ahead with Balo we would likely have him on a loan to buy option the following season and then have to come up with the money if Man City are going to pay anywhere near the acceptable wages we need to balance the books having him one season and then back to Man City or we buy him out right depending on the season he has. Traore , Mesbah definatley have to go though. Sneijder is a pipe dream imo..firstly Inter from the outside look like they have handled the situation very wrongly that we know but if hes not getting the wages he wants at inter what makes him think he would get the same at Milan...when hes just seen TS and Ibra get shipped off to psg. I would love Ciagrini and Poli those are targets we can aim for and follow through on.

I never said that we'd get Balo, just how it can be done. And imo, City won't accept the loan with buy next year option we would want. They're not going to pay half his wages while he's playing for us. Our only option of getting him is paying the fee they want to be paid. City have the power here, they don't need to sell Balo, they're ok with him staying as far as I can see. Remember how they wouldn't even budge on Tevez last season and they were DESPERATE to get rid of him at the time.

As for Sneijder. I think he's mostly angered at how Inter are handling the situation and the relationship between player and club has completely dissolved, thus the contract termination is possible. If we get him for free then it would allow us some leeway on the wage we offer him. That being said, I think Sneijder would be happy with around 4 to 5m, he's just not willing to accept Inter's ridiculous terms and bullying tactics. I think for him right now it's mosly about the principle of the matter more then anything else. Also, if we manage to offload Robinho and get some decent cash for him as well, it would allow us to get Wesley on board as well as a few other players

Nothing to it, man. A truckload of news you posted today, most of it quite encouraging, so thanks!

Just to add to this, I've been following this and Inter are being horridly unfair.

So as I understand, Wesley Sneijder has something like a year left at 6 million a year. And Inter want him to extend to 2015-16 at the same 6 million. In other words, halve his wages just like that. And to boot, they're saying they're not even gonna call him up unless he does that. Stay classy cousins!!

I don't blame Sneijder for refusing such a ridiculous demand. Can we afford to pay him 6m a year though?

I'll wet my pants if we manage to get Sneijder like that. he's a crybaby and will always remain one, but there's no questioning his talent. we badly lack someone like him in this team. come on Galliani! you can always count on me as your b1tch if you pull this one

If we're getting him for free, then yes.

I don't think we can tbh. 6m is the reason why we sold Silva for the long run.

4 to 5m is in our price range though should Robinho go. I don't think Sneijder is doing this because he's money hungry but like I said previously, because of the principle of the matter. His pride would never allow him to go for what Inter are doing and I commend him for that.

I'm sure he'd be willing to listen to an offer we made should we stay in the 4 to 5 range. It's still good and close to what he was earning at Inter.

No I disagree, I think we can afford to pay him 6m. Everyone knows silva was shipped off because we couldn't get rid of Ibra. It had to be a package deal.


Ibra at 9m was the real problem.

News:


-We have made an official offer for Biabiany. 3m euro loan deal with an option for 7m buyout. Parma have rejected the deal. They value him at 15m.


-Galliani and Braida met with Pastore's agent two days ago about a possible move to milan. He is currently unsettled at PSG. Galliani has now contacted Leonardo and Ancelotti proposing a possible loan + buy deal. No news on whether its going to go through or not, but PSG so far seem open to a possible deal.



-Ancelotti: "Pastore is not for sale. Nobody will leave PSG." (the denial came right away so it is real)


-Manchester City have told us that Balotelli will not leave city for anything less than 35m euros.


-Torino's president: Ogbonna is followed by many teams, not just Italian, foreign but also very important.'ll decide with him, because the relationship with him is excellent, very close, almost family


-Inter have identified Honda as their replacement for Sneijder, who is set on leaving the club in January.



-United are ready to bid 15m euros for Angelo Ogbonna.





-Allegri: "Who I prefer between Balotelli and Pastore? There's no point in talking about the transfer market now..."

Allegri: "We have too many players in the squad now. The management will decide whether or not to buy players in January."

Allegri: "Ogbonna is a good player, but I don't like talking about players from other clubs."





Galliani: "The visit from Guangzhou Evergrande is just a courtesy visit. We haven't got any business going on with them."

Galliani: "Balotelli? I often speak with Raiola. He always goes around with his art pieces, and we're small art collectors..."




-Berlusconi: "There are no negotiations going on with @MCFC about Balotelli. We can't make these expensive signings anymore."

Berlusconi: "We’re all asking when Pato will return. I’m following the case closely and I’m worried - just like Pato himself is worried."

Berlusconi: "I want Robinho to stay at Milan. It's important for us both from a technical point of view and from a human point of view."

Berlusconi: "I hope that Robinho wants to stay. He has told me some things that make me think that he's considering leaving."




-Roman Abramovich has approached guardiola with a 20m euro contract per season deal. If he accepts he will be the highest paid manager in history.


-We are enquiring into buying jordie clasie.




-Inter want snejider to sign on an extra year for free and that is the main root of the problem. Sneijder will not play until he signs.




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'Balo Mona Lisa? Milan collect art...'
By Football Italia staff

Milan continue to drop hints they’re bidding for Mario Balotelli. “He costs as much as the Mona Lisa? Well, we are art collectors...”

This week agent Mino Raiola warned a deal for SuperMario was extremely difficult, as “he costs as much as the Mona Lisa.”

Vice-President Adriano Galliani spoke to Sky Sport Italia cameras today and was asked about this comment.

“I often talk to Raiola. He goes around with his works of art, but we are collectors...”

Today Italian newspapers stated that Manchester City have set a price tag of either €35m or €40m – equivalent to £28m or £32m.

However, President Silvio Berlusconi arrived for his now traditional weekly motivational session with the squad and gave a different view of events.

“My comment on Balotelli was misinterpreted. He is too expensive and it is no longer the time for certain moves.

“I am worried about Pato, but satisfied that we are climbing back up the Serie A table. Finally we are hanging on to the leading sides.”

Milan also progressed to the last 16 of the Champions League, albeit in second place.

“Whatever opponent we draw will make no difference. We’d like to face a big club, because this Milan becomes great against the great sides.”

Smart response

Also, seems like Robinho's gone for sure. Wouldn't mine seeing that happen with all the player's we've been linked with.I hope we don't end up with an average player though.I recall him saying that he wants to stay 10 years at Milan, just shows you how much crap players talk.

Well any player who declares he is Milan for life, is surely leaving the next transfer window.

considering Robinho is 28 having him at Milan for 10 years.....he'd be 40 screw that...hes no Pippo

Is this legal in Italy? Over here it's illegal to talk to a player under contact by another club. I think it's also unlikely that Inter would let a player leave on a free when they could get 20m for him.

It is my belief that the situation of Sneijder is very much linked with inter's outlook of reducing their wages. If the player agrees to reduce his wages he will stay, otherwise its a loose-loose situation for inter, as they desperately want to reduce his wages or cut him off.

As for the legality of him talking to other clubs, could very well be inter giving him the all clear to talk to other clubs. Otherwise, it should be illegal, let alone talking to a rival club.

Usually yes. But I think it being his last year of contract means he is free to talk to other clubs starting from January.

Isn't that only foreign clubs? Don't think you're allowed to talk to clubs in the same league due to a conflict of interest?

Galliani: "De Jong's replacement? We have Muntari and Ambrosini. Montolivo can perhaps also play that position. We thought about letting Strasser leave in January, but after De Jong's injury he will definitely stay here."

So predictable

Yeah, predictable = tells you nothing. But that's his job.