Mercato Rossonero: Milan Transfer Activity Inside Out

Portuguese press report interest in Adriano from Porto. I think he's a better forward than he's ever shown at Milan but we're simply not going to extract any more from him and he's been poor in pre-season. With Niang, Lapadula and potentially even Bacca still around there's simply no space, so he will surely leave at some stage. Hopefully this goes ahead, I think it suits all parties.

Anyone ever heard of Gustavo Gomez? 23 year old central defender coming from the Argentinian League, reported fee of around 8 million euros according to Gazzetta, after we realised we couldn't afford Musacchio.

Spoiler:

Seems like another Salamon/Vergara

Watching a youtube compilation of his "skills."

The guy who made this video has got to be trolling.

From this guy's ENTIRE 77 game professional club career, he's selected maybe a dozen passes which are presumably the highlights of this illustrious display of the art of football. The majority are long balls which simply miss their target and one was a 12 yard pass along the ground to a stationary midfielder.

What exactly didn't make this video?

The guy looks like he has even less composure on the ball than Zapata. I didn't like the idea of signing an injury prone player but if this is what we're reduced to then just give Caceres what he wants and let's take our chances. Might as well call Favalli out of retirement.

For those who want to watch, my favourite moment is perhaps 2:07 when he picks up the ball in front of the box, runs to the halfway line while ignoring simple passing options then completely mishits a dangerous, needlessly lofted ball into central midfield. The camera of course cuts away before the presumed turnover, with him now out of position and needing to recover.

Who spent time making this "highlights" package?

I might legitimately be going insane right now. Who scouted this guy? How much must we suffer?

The play that starts from ~3:11 lmaoooo, 3rd world football at its best

3:50 onwards is legit just a ground pass LMFAO

Atleast the music is good

-----------------Don
-Calabria--Gomez--Romagnoli--MDS
---Kucka-----Schweini---Kovacic
--Suso--------Niang------Bonaventura

Great team

This will no doubt end up having something to do with an agent or a fund that owns the player who have offered Gomez to Galliani.

This is what happens when you don't have proper procedures that ensures not only a strong scouting network but that people with the right technical knowledge sign off on these things.

No doubt due to the end of the exclusivity agreement with the Chinese conglomerate and the doubts about the sales, Galliani no longer has to clear potential targets with Ganickoff. The shackles are off and Fester is going to work his magic.

I'm so desperate right now I've been reduced to thoughts such as "De Sciglio wasn't completely terrible that time we used him at centre back, right?"

I recall Allegri used him once when we had an emergency, dont even remember the scoreline/game

If worse comes to worse, there's a veteran italian lurking the streets of Villarreal whom we can always call

It appears we might sign Gomez on loan with an option to buy. Assuming it's not a mandatory option this is at least better news, we can either kick the guy to the curb if he's useless or we've established a set price if he proves competent.

Anto Vito of Milan News (a bit hit or miss) is claiming that we are go full steam ahead for Cuadrado

He's not the sort of player you can build a great team around but he'd represent a huge jump in quality on our right flank. I imagine Conte would want to keep him at Chelsea but the prospect of a starting spot under his old coach will probably sway Cuadrado to agitate for a move.

Let the fantasy market begin.

Inter are being linked with Bacca as an Icardi replacement.

Matri's free any time you want.

I would like Matri to come back if Zaza leaves (likely)

Why, does Sturaro need cheering up on the bench?

Have you seen the kinda women that hang around Matri???

Sturaro would be ecstatic about the move  

For real though, I love the guy. Zaza doesn't wanna stay with poverty minutes anymore and we just dropped Higuain on him. Higuain and Mandzukic will have most of the playing time for sure. We need someone thats happy be around and can be called on with no problems for the few minutes available.

Matri always comes through for us. He won us the coppa Italia in his last loan



How can I not want that back ffs

Di Marzio now: http://gianlucadimarzio.com/calciomercato/milan-da-cuadrado-a-zaza-passando-per-bacca-cosi-cambia-il-mercato/

-We want Cuadrado
-Sosa deal might be closed next week
-Bacca might accept West Ham's offer

and

We are looking seriously at acquiring Zaza

Fair point.

So did Borriello and Osvaldo, that's how good your service is. With your current options up front, Zaza would be a fool not to leave for more game time. I'm not certain you even need to replace him though given your ability now to alter formations but Allegri will want a centre forward there just in case, I'm sure.

ES wrote:Di Marzio now: http://gianlucadimarzio.com/calciomercato/milan-da-cuadrado-a-zaza-passando-per-bacca-cosi-cambia-il-mercato/

-We want Cuadrado
-Sosa deal might be closed next week
-Bacca might accept West Ham's offer

and

We are looking seriously at acquiring Zaza

We don't need another central attacker. If we do insist on chasing an Italian forward, we might at least look at Gabbiadini who can cover any position in the front three theoretically. I would prefer a dedicated wide attacker but beats chasing Zaza.

We already have Lapadula as an Italian forward to sate B's fascist desires, this is completely retarded. Wolfsburg was quoted to get him at 25m, if we pay anywhere near that (sadly we will)

We are back ffs.

Time to pay 60m for Aubameyang imo

BREAKING: There were contacts between Milan and Juve for De Sciglio today, who Milan value at least €25M. [Sky]

Juve are stacked on the wings, its interesting that Dost brought up MDS as CB, you think Allegri might use him as a RCB? If so, can we lure Rugani away?

Hope we don't sell MDS. We are gonna regret it if we do.

I'm personally not all too bothered, he's a fullback not a midfielder/forward/centreback, its not a 'loss of limb' so to speak, we have another great youngster in Calabria, plus 25m is a lot can net us a good CB/CM, an area we desperately need to strengthen

Watch this evolve into a Zaza-MDS swap though

Calabria has played like 2 games. We don't know anything about him. But then again, MDS has been not so great for the past couple seasons, but I think that has to with the toxic environment that has been prevailing in the dressing room and the constant changing of managers and instability (which is not such a great thing for developing players).

De Sciglio either needs to be trusted as a starter this season or we might as well let him go in my eyes, there's not much to be gained by him sitting on our bench for yet another year.

I've stated in the past that I'm against giving up on De Sciglio however I would accept a player exchange. Cash is useless, we lack judgement and the market is insane. If we identified a player we need more than De Sciglio though then we shouldn't hesitate. He can certainly grow into a great player but we're covered in his position and other positions, such as central defence, are harder to cover.

Would happily swap him for Rugani - or if he could be persuaded to go elsewhere - Paredes, if we have a cash flow problem.