Mercato Rossonero: Milan Transfer Activity Inside Out

uzonero wrote:Isn't the market closed in italy already?

Kick wrote:Stickied the thread.

El Shaarawy wrote:Why is the thread in caps and unstickied

dostoevsky wrote:I don't care how cheap Paletta is, this is an absurd transfer. Which other club has 7 central defenders in their team? Each new addition more incompetent than the last? Paletta has been awful all season and though he's had little protection this is just another typical example of a short term solution that will just cause issues later.

M99 wrote:

El Shaarawy wrote:Why is the thread in caps and unstickied

Kick wrote:

M99 wrote:

El Shaarawy wrote:Why is the thread in caps and unstickied

Happy?

Cruijf wrote:So we end the window with the following signings:

Suso
Cerci
Boccheti
Antonelli
Paletta
Destro

Bolded the loans.

Honestly what a woeful window. I'd take one or two young prospects anyway, not only are these mediocre to average players but they're near the end of their careers and have almost no room for improvement.

Suso and maybe Antonelli are the only signings I consider good, I won't even include Destro because Pippo continues to play Menez in the middle. If Menez is dropped in favor of SES when he comes back and plays LW until then I may be proven wrong, but I can't see that happening.

Dante wrote:Obviously we weren't and still aren't a well managed side , 6 players hardly made me have a different opinion about that. And certainly i didn't praise Galliani for anything , just the clear move to get rid of the fodder is all i find positive and necessary . The reasons you gave as to why we didn't do such a thing in the summer also count , but most important of all is what we've always knew , they are just incompetent , they either couldn't offload or didn't wish to , right now after 1.5 year of failures they were simply forced to do so and that's what i keep. At least it really begun , that's what matters to me , i never praised Galliani for anything this January . If he wanted to be a true Guru he should already have found new home for the fodder by now , but i'll take this major move to deal with it in the summer instead of creating the circumstances for them to stay even more.  

Galliani is only trying to fix his mistakes and i honestly see no better way than what he did , even in the summer you can't just find a new team for Mexes , who was going to sign him?? Zapata , really? Who else will fall into this trap? Bonera lol. Again , either they couldn't or wouldn't , i keep the fact we are moving toward the expulsion of the poison. It's like owning a bad loan and attempting to pay it back with a cheap one . Once you get rid of the cancer-loan , the cheap one won't be half as difficult to handle . That's what is happening here .  

As for Bocchetti , it's obvious the dude is your new Bonera , either Bonera stays or whatever and i agree with how you put it , but again , the end does justify the means in this case . There's a big difference between keeping Bonera or Bocchetti , no matter how similarly average they both are.

Bonera we can't get rid of and we pay millions for him each season and he's most always a disaster . On the other hand , Bochetti is cheap , we got him for nothing and we can always sell him back very easily even if he signs in June . That's exactly what shall happen , even if he stays .

Antonelli i agree , i think that was the most solid out of the 3. Again , when in the summer we will be getting rid off of Mexes-Zapata-Bonera-Armero , you won't be complaining as you do now.. and there's one Bocchetti who's on loan , who knows what will happen really ? Better players than him left after positive spells , i wouldn't be surprised to see him leave .

ATM , like i said , i'd have all 3 of them and sort it out in the summer with the fodder gone , no matter how panic buy - reactionary it seemed , shit hit the fan , it had to happen. There's nothing to praise , we are just trying to fix mistakes .

Why Paletta and Bocchetti ? Because they both earn near what Zapata does and they are EASILY REMOVABLE. It matters . The goal is to get rid of Mexes-Zapata-Bonera-Armero . Once the fantastic 4 leave , having to deal with one Bocchetti will be nothing . What has happened here is exactly this , sometimes you have to lose something to get something better . Our previous defence has failed and for what we paid for those 3 , it won't hurt us to give them a chance . Paletta just replaced Mexes and Antonelli replaced Armero , one Bocchetti can hardly make me disilusioned , who in the end stays or not it will be a short term case .

The great win of this transfer market is this : we have done the necessary steps to get rid of Mexes-Zapata-Bonera-Armero and if Baselli does join as rumoured , Essien 100% . That will be a cure for Milan . Cure . Players like Bocchetti will always rot in the bench whatever we do and we can always look for better options in the summer .

I think this summer a massive revolution is going to happen in the defence and midfield . I don't expect Thiago Silva to come back , but we won't be witnessing the horrors of the last 2 seasons , not when the fodder is away. Even if we replace them with additions like Paletta and Bocchetti , cheap fodder can always be replaced very easily .

From all our signings , what i gather your issue is , why get more possible fodder in both Paletta and Bocchetti ? Especially Bocchetti. But it's just one player on loan afterall .. if he is the reason we lose Bonera or Zapata from our wage bill however , again , it will be losing something to get something better. There's a strategy behind these signings , for me at least it is very clear to understand that Galliani is finally dealing with the mistakes he created. It may seem he added more , but in the summer when the clear-out happens and the balance emerge , i think we would have earned money even from players left and the new triplete.

dostoevsky wrote:The rumours that De Jong will not be offered a new deal at the end of the season have been intensifying lately. I think it would be a pity to lose him to United on a free but I won't be terribly disappointed if we use it as an opportunity to reshape the midfield. Knowing us though we'll simply get yet another cheap downgrade or end up paying someone well past their prime even more than De Jong used to earn.

dostoevsky wrote:I'd take Khedira on a reasonable wage, Milner and one of the Ukrainian wingers from the list.

Also on a side note, I'm fairly certain that no one has ever paid a transfer fee for Flamini From Marseille to Arsenal to Milan to Arsenal all for free