Re: The AC Milan Thread
ZAMBROTTA in the house
here is milan plans for market made very clear by Galliani...
Adriano Galliani: "My hard work on the transfer market this summer has three fixed points. First, we are not giving away our most important players. Second, we need to reinforce the team. Third, we don't want to spend too much. In goal, Fiori will quit and Abbiati will come back, and is very welcome by the entire dressing room, to play with Milan. Palermo offered him more, but he wanted no one but Milan. Lloris? No one knew him before we became interested in him, but in the end we decided we didn't want to have four goalkeepers in the squad. In defence we lose Cafu and Serginho, two heavy losses, and we are looking for a defender like Zambrotta who can play on both flanks. We are awaiting news, but I think that we are getting close to an agreement for him. In midfield, although there's no official announcement yet because no contracts have been signed, Gourcuff will leave for Bordeaux on loan and Flamini will join us. This won't mean we have too many players because Seedorf, who knows this, will sometimes have to play in midfield. We will also buy out the other half of Sammarco's contract from Sampdoria. The other midfielders like Brocchi and Emerson? At the moment they are still with us, we are expecting them for the reunion on 16 July, but if someone leaves we will get a replacement. In attack we are losing Ronaldo and Gilardino. For us Borriello is like Gilardino, we have thought about this a lot. Remember that Borriello scored more than Amauri this season and he's an international: if we should also get Zambrotta, we'd have five Italian internationals, which is good. Meanwhile Pato will certainly be a first team player, and Ancelotti agrees: Pato is a player we are counting on very strongly, he's part of our starting XI. Then we have to replace a star like Ronaldo and we are following 6-7 players whose names have been well publicised. Ronaldinho? Yes, he's one of those, we'll see. In the end we'll have 23-24 players, among which 3 goalkeepers, 9 defenders, 6 midfielders and 6 strikers."
from official website
