AC Milan Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread

Moneymaker

GTR63 wrote: »

You reminded me of Jose Mari

And I haven't even mentioned Digao :pac:

GTR63

Rami being linked with January, can't say i'm that impressed. Wasn't he dropped for running his mouth & rotten performances?

http://www.football-italia.net/40380/rami-agrees-join-milan-report

Smithwicks Man

Underwhelming as usual but at least they recognise that a CB is a priority, they're only about 2 years too late though

Seaneh

Rami, on form, is a very, very good player.
Hopefully he comes straight away and spends the next 3 months integrating and getting fit so he can slot straight in.

Smithwicks Man

Yeah, he'll be an improvement, but why must we constantly go for other team's scraps

GTR63

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Yeah, he'll be an improvement, but why must we constantly go for other team's scraps

Because the club would never say we need a top player lets buy one its more searching to see who's contract expires soon, works for Montolivo but not for crap like Flamini or Onyewu. Look at the amount of plain utter crap we signed for "bargains" the last 5 years. I was thinking during the celtic game that our second string team from 10 years ago was probably better than our starting XI now.

Seaneh

Oh, please let it be true!

Football-Italia

Milan are targeting Real Madrid’s Iker Casillas, but face competition from Arsenal and Manchester City.

It is widely believed this will be Christian Abbiati’s final campaign as first choice for the Rossoneri, so plans are taking shape for the future.

Initially it had been suggested their favourite was Marc-Andre Ter Stegen, but reports suggest the Borussia Monchengladbach shot-stopper is closer to Barcelona.

Milan therefore turned their focus on to Casillas, who continues his battle of wills at Real Madrid and has shown appreciation for the San Siro option.

However, Manchester City and Arsenal are also thought to be keeping an eye on the Spain international’s situation.

There are too concerns that at 32 Casillas is perhaps too old to be making this move, so the Rossoneri should look for a younger alternative.

If he can stay fit he could easily play to 38 or 39 at the top level.
Would be a great signing for any team.

GTR63

Seaneh wrote: »

Oh, please let it be true!

Football-Italia




If he can stay fit he could easily play to 38 or 39 at the top level.
Would be a great signing for any team.

I wouldn`t get my hopes up too much. In a money fight we lose to both in wages & transfer offers. Both of them need a keeper aswell.

Smithwicks Man

Balotelli is suffering from gastroenteritis but is staying with the national team. He better be fit for Udinese!

Kaká should also be fit for Udinese

GTR63

http://www.football-italia.net/40559/allegri-unacceptable-milan

Got beat 3-0 in a friendly vs Caen. So bad even Allegri was pissed off.

Smithwicks Man

Missed the game but saw highlights, Gabriel with a few nice saves and Saponara looked promising. Slim pickings after that

GTR63

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Missed the game but saw highlights, Gabriel with a few nice saves and Saponara looked promising. Slim pickings after that

Gabriel was Forde to Caen's Germany was the way it was described to me.

Moneymaker

Rapidly reaching 2000-2001 levels of grimness for Milan. Sad, dark times for a great club.

GTR63

Moneymaker wrote: »

Rapidly reaching 2000-2001 levels of grimness for Milan. Sad, dark times for a great club.

Minus the impending Transfer splurge.

Seaneh

I reckon a few players will be added in Janurary, already have Honda and Rami coming in, who will both be upgrades.


Apparently we will be going 4-2-3-1 as well.

Abate -- Mexes -- Rami -- De Sciglio

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De Jong -- Monti

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El Sha

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Kaka

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Honda

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Mario

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That formnation gives a better shape, natural width, the dual axis centre mid covers the defence better and with the players we have on the bech we'd be a lot better covered in every position, any of the 3 attacking midfielders can be swapped out for Mario, Niang, Robinho, Saponara or (puke) Birsa, Any of Niang, Matri, Mario or Pazzo cna play as centre forward, etc.


It's a much better system for our current squad tbh.

GTR63

Seaneh wrote: »

I reckon a few players will be added in Janurary, already have Honda and Rami coming in, who will both be upgrades.


Apparently we will be going 4-2-3-1 as well.

Abate -- Mexes -- Rami -- De Sciglio

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De Jong -- Monti

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El Sha

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Kaka

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Honda

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Mario

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It's a much better system for our current squad tbh.

Honestly I wouldn`t have him in the Milan team.

Seaneh

GTR63 wrote: »

Honestly I wouldn`t have him in the Milan team.

Smithwicks Man

Seaneh wrote: »

I reckon a few players will be added in Janurary, already have Honda and Rami coming in, who will both be upgrades.


Apparently we will be going 4-2-3-1 as well.

Abate -- Mexes -- Rami -- De Sciglio

---

De Jong -- Monti

---

Honda

---

Kaka

---

El Sha

---

Mario

---

That formnation gives a better shape, natural width, the dual axis centre mid covers the defence better and with the players we have on the bech we'd be a lot better covered in every position, any of the 3 attacking midfielders can be swapped out for Mario, Niang, Robinho, Saponara or (puke) Birsa, Any of Niang, Matri, Mario or Pazzo cna play as centre forward, etc.


It's a much better system for our current squad tbh.

I'll take it you meant SES on the left, much better formation than 4-3-1-2 and I've been saying it for months.

The only upside to our woes is that the management seem to finally accept that there's something wrong.

Seaneh

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

I'll take it you meant SES on the left, much better formation than 4-3-1-2 and I've been saying it for months.

The only upside to our woes is that the management seem to finally accept that there's something wrong.

SES can play on either wing just as well, but I guess with them switching sides it gives them both the ability to cut onto their good feet.

GTR63

Balotelli is meant to be out of the Udinese game & a doubt for the Barca game.

Smithwicks Man

Saw that earlier, things go from worse to even worse

GTR63

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Saw that earlier, things go from worse to even worse

We have Barca at the San Siro next week & even without Messi we`d hardly take them we`re just the absolute drizzling shíts at the back now.

Smithwicks Man

With A full strength team I think we could take them at the San Siro without Messi but without the 2 lads up front we lack the firepower to make up for our shambles of a defence

GTR63

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

With A full strength team I think we could take them at the San Siro without Messi but without the 2 lads up front we lack the firepower to make up for our shambles of a defence

Aren`t we conceeding like 2 a game in Serie A, something awful like that. I dread that we`ll play 4-3-1-2 with Matri & Kaka`. Read that the primavera team beat the seniors in training too :pac: :pac: :pac:

GTR63

Milan squad for Udinese: Abbiati, Amelia, Gabriel, Abate, Constant, Silvestre, Vergara, Zaccardo, Zapata, Birsa, Cristante, Emanuelson, Kaka, Montolivo, Muntari, Nocerino, Poli, Saponara, Matri, Niang & Robinho.

Expect to see the 4-3-1-2 again with the speedless trio of Kaka, Robinho & Fatri.

GTR63

Birsa took his goal well but jaysus this is a poor watch. When did we become so bad to watch?

Moneymaker

Turned it off after 30 mins, awful, awful rubbish. Sounds like it's not gotten any better.

GTR63

At least we won.....mot bothering with the analysis no Mina Rzouki in the studio either

Seaneh

Glad to see the young lad get a start in goal and a clean sheet.

GTR63

Seaneh wrote: »

Glad to see the young lad get a start in goal and a clean sheet.

Didn`t get overworked but did well to tip Toto`s free onto the bar.

Here is a video of himself & Allegri.

Bit bored so was reading through Boban quotes:

Boban: "Milan did well vs. Udinese, but it wasn't a great performance. Milan don't have the technical abilities to play great matches."
Boban: "Montolivo was definitely the best player vs. Udinese tonight. I also liked Poli's performance."
Boban: "Niang has great potential, but he lacks composure. He always looks like he's in a hurry even when making a simple pass."
Boban: "The amazing Kakà that won titles with Milan is gone. He is at least 3 times worse than he was when he left Milan."

He`s right about Niang he needs to relax which isn`t easy with the jeers he was getting.

GTR63

Milan squad for Barcelona: Amelia, Coppola, Andrenacci (N.60), Abate, Constant, Mexes, Silvestre, Zaccardo, Zapata, Birsa, De Jong, Emanuelson, Kakà, Montolivo, Muntari, Nocerino, Poli, Balotelli, Matri, Robinho.

Please let Mario be fit I haven`t seen the other two link together once well.

Smithwicks Man

Rumours that Balotelli won't start which better not be true :mad:

There's also talk that we'll play 4-3-3 which is definitely the right decision but I wonder who will make up the 3 alongside Robinho who will definitely start.

Balotelli down the middle obviously if he is fit but what about the left? Birsa may be given a chance but in reality it should be Robinho on the left with Niang down the right flank

Smithwicks Man

Milan XI (vs Barcelona): Amelia; Abate, Zapata, Mexes, Constant; Montolivo, De Jong, Muntari; Birsa; Robinho, Kakà
Barca XI (vs Milan) : Valdes - Alves Pique Mascherano Adriano - Xavi Busquets Iniesta - Alexis Messi Neymar

They have a near full team (bar alba/does fabregas start?) and we have a half fit Kaká as our striker flanked by Valter Birsa and Robinho :eek: :rolleyes:


No Andrea Poli either despite the fact Allegri said Muntari was "very tired" after the Udinese game. :mad:

eagle eye

Balotelli on the bench and Messi starts for Barca.

GTR63

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

Niang down the right flank

He`s not eligible. Cause the muppet who turned in our CL squad fúcked it up.

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

They have a near full team (bar alba/does fabregas start?) and we have a half fit Kaká as our striker flanked by Valter Birsa and Robinho :eek: :rolleyes:
No Andrea Poli either despite the fact Allegri said Muntari was "very tired" after the Udinese game. :mad:

No Matri though

Smithwicks Man

Totally forgot Niang wasn't eligible until I saw the bench there!

This could be a really painful game to watch

GTR63

Smithwicks Man wrote: »

This could be a really painful game to watch

Behind the couch stuff, really don`t think people realise how bad we are at the minute. That Udinese game was absolutely terrible & that performance vs Celtic was humiliating, even with a win.

Smithwicks Man

0-0 at HT would have to be considered very good.

I think Allegri used the first half against Ajax to prepare for tonight. Can see us dropping way off in the first half and allowing them the ball, trying to keep it 0-0 and then hoping Balotelli can provide a spark when he comes on. Good tactics in theory but we don't have the defence for it or the supporting players in attack in the 2nd half either

Smithwicks Man

We'd be better off leaving Zapata on the bench and playing with ten :mad:

Dropped off too much after we took the lead and looked waaaay too laxy-daisy on the ball in our own half

Kaká has been brilliant! :eek: Robinho has been very good too.

Hoping to see Balotelli on for Birsa very soon but I get the feeling Kaká will make way as well which would leave us with a different attacking set up.

Montolivo has looked sluggish and I thought Zapata made several bad mistakes regarding positioning and making silly passes instead of just lumping it forward like he should when there's a man on.

Also, Constant pushes very far forward when we have the ball at the back, presumably to give us an unmarked option for switching flanks, but if we lose the ball inside our own half it leaves so much space open and that's exactly what happened for their goal.

Hoping to see us get more corners, Mexes should have scored from our 2nd one and they look clueless defending them

GTR63

Missed the entire first half panickly clearing my loft in an hour long job I thought would take 10 minutes. Jesus I cringe listening to the La Liga boys on commentary. Zapata has been MOTM according to them Oh Smithwicks!

GTR63

Not the worst result, Barcelona weren`t very good at all considering the state we`re in at present. Must of been due to them falling over the whole time.

Smithwicks Man

I laughed when I heard that! The amount of times they praised Zapata for a tackle that Constant made was a joke! :pac:

Zapata improved greatly in the 2nd half to be fair but he had to many small, silly errors that will (and did) cost a goal in the CL

Very good result considering Celtic won and we have to play them away but funnily I'm left feeling we could have won it

That Mexes header, Robinho getting clean through and missing the ball :eek: and Muntari getting tangled up when he could have played Balotelli clean through were all great chances. That being said, they could have had another few as well!

Don't fancy that Barca side to win the CL at all! Very average performance tonight against a weakened Milan team.

Seaneh

Zapata had the best game I've seen him have in a Milan Jersey, he was first to everything and made some extremely important blocks.

He wasn't at fault for the first goal either, Constant and (to a lesser extent) Mexes were.

Also think Kaka was immense last night, his work rate was ridiculous.

Seaneh

GTR63 wrote: »

Must of been due to them falling over the whole time.

I think they need to send some of their players to see an ENT, from watching their games I'm starting to think they might have some sort of middle ear problems, their balance seems to be really effected by it, constantly falling for no reason, worrying stuff really.

Töpher

Seaneh wrote: »

Also think Kaka was immense last night, his work rate was ridiculous.

Immense performance, looked ridiculously solid as makeshift left back in the first half.

Smithwicks Man

Seaneh wrote: »

Zapata had the best game I've seen him have in a Milan Jersey, he was first to everything and made some extremely important blocks.

He wasn't at fault for the first goal either, Constant and (to a lesser extent) Mexes were.

Also think Kaka was immense last night, his work rate was ridiculous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJH_HLZ03T8

Someone else said the same thing to me today! Skip to 1:22 and tell me how Zapata wasn't at fault for that goal? :eek:

He thought he was David Luiz and tried to walk the ball out of the defence when he should have played a simple pass forward, he then ran into trouble and played a terrible pass which led to the goal.

To be fair to Constant, I'm sure he was told to attack when possible and although he went very far forward, there was absolutely no danger with us having the ball in defence and not being challenged.

The commentators on Sky also praised Zapata on 3 different occasions for something Constant had done at LB which is ridiculous seeing as Zapata is Right Centre Back.

Overall I thought he played well though, as did the whole defence, and looking back I was quite harsh on him at HT but he was most definitely at fault for the goal!

Muntari played well, fantastic stamina. Thought Amelia looked solid as well! Montolivo is yet to find form, De Jong was reliable as usual, Birsa was non-existent and Robinho and Kaká in particular were very good

Smithwicks Man

BTW - Honda is playing atm against City for anyone interested

GTR63

Barbara Berlusconi: "My father is satisfied because some of the tactical indications he gave to Allegri were followed in the Barça match." :rolleyes:

At least she is pretty.

GTR63

Milan squad for Parma:
Amelia, Coppola, Gabriel, Abate, Constant, De Sciglio, Silvestre, Vergara, Zaccardo, Zapata, Birsa, Cristante, Emanuelson, De Jong, Kaka, Montolivo, Muntari, Poli, Saponara, Balotelli, Matri, Niang & Robinho.
DeSciglio back which is great news. Doubt he'll start him but great all the same. The game is on ESPN tomorrow at 2 (remember the clocks go back tonite).

GTR63

Well this has been terrible, 2-0 down and can't remember us working Mirante once.