KEISUKE HONDA’S agent/brother is in Moscow and will meet with CSKA in the next days to convince them to sell now.
Milan’s number 1 and only declared target for the summer mercato is the Japanese playmaker Keisuke Honda (Adem Ljajic is no longer a target as Robinho signed an extension and the Ljajic is all set to renew his Fiorentina contract).
Honda’s January arrival is all but confirmed but the Rossoneri are interested in getting the player this summer and Honda’s agent, Hiro, assisted by FIFA agent Daniele De Vecchi, flew to Moscow on Friday as they plan to meet CSKA.
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The meeting will most likely take place on Monday, on the day Honda might play his last game for the Russian side (CSKA play Krylya Sovetov), but could happen this evening if CSKA’s Roman Babaev returns to Moscow sooner than expected. Hiro and De Vecchi are studying their strategies to convince CSKA to sell as there is a gap between supply and demand.
While the Russian Premier League champions want at least €4 million to sell the player, Milan aren’t expected to go above €2 million. La Gazzetta dello Sport suggests that the Japanese sponsors of the player believe a summer Milan move could help them and Milan would like one of the sponsors to help out financially and fund part of the move. It’s also said that Honda is willing to increase the pressure on the club and has made it known that he wants to move to Milan immediately.
A lot depends on this meeting. Sky Sport Italia believes that Hiro and De Vecchi are optimistic it can be done, but La Gazzetta says that in via Turati there is no optimism at the moment. In the worst-case scenario, Honda will join in January.
sign honda now and buy eriksen(boateng) and a underatted cb
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“CSKA Moscow want €5m to sell Honda now. Milan’s offer (with help from Honda’s sponsors) is €3m.” …
I pray this goes through and honda arrives this summer.
*kneels down and pray*
Buy honda now cos he might be cup ties b4 january and get eriksen 2 bold d squad and a defender is neccessary.
He might be?He will be for sure…
Milan shd sign honda,Erikson and a center back. They shd sell antonini and keep kevin prince boateng.
Plz japaness sponsor help milan out an get honda dis summer
get it done immediately,i wish juve clash would be postponded for him to break Bonucci,Barzagli and Chielini again.when will mario return from injury?reply to 07065226652.
To @Pato:
Tried to find the article, but I think it was Galliani who said Balotelli and Abate (who didn’t need surgery, thank God…) will be at least fit enough for the CL qualification.
I’ll try to find more accurate facts, later.
Good to hear. If we can get him as cheap as possible this summer, I’m happy. I also seriously hope KPB gets his chance till January, in a box to box position. Else… I don’t know what to say about Allegri. I just hope Boa can sort of readapt in that position which obviously suits him the best. In regards to someone’s mentioning of Eriksen… again lol; I think he’d be a great signing as well, even if it means competition. Just not in this summer, if it means we have to sell Boa because I still believe he can… Read more »
hope so! Waiting for the guy
All things works for d good öf Milan #winks …. Forza Milan
God Help, Honda. transfer to be close in on. in the summer, this will be right- for both Honda & Milan, Forza milan.
k Honda but we need 1 more CB good 1 and I thing we are done..abiatti/gabreil./abate..mexes..Zapata..de ceglio..boa/cristante..monty..dejong (now tats good mid)..Honda..balo..el sha/niang…keep in mind we need to give our youngsters a changes tis season..we have few good young player
I would be happy if I see Honda and eriksen both arrive this summer and Milan can sign them because they got 52 mill from the champions league last yr.
And attack would like this
—————————————————Gabriel————————————————————-
Abate———————–sapata———————————-mexes—————————-desglio
Honda10—————————————-Dejon————————————————-montelivo
————————————————Eriksen8————————————————————–
—————————————–Balotteli———-Elsharaawy———————————————
Although we need new defender like astori but would be good squad with good attack to beat Juve inter and Roma
A) The Eriksen rumour is not true.
B) 1. Even if Milan really did make 52m from last year’s ucl (not official numbers), they won’t spend any of that because not all the money Milan make goes to the transfer budget.
B) 2. Milan spend more than 100m on players wages alone in a year, 52 is about half of what they spend on that. And then there is the staff, the youth sector and a a lot of things Milan spend money on that is not for the transfer budget.
Okay. But you might see, that this 52 million we got is a higher amount, that we used to get. And Galliani told us, that the books are balanced now – we don’t get revenue only from CL, but we got an excellent amount from them. Anyway, i still hope that the wages can be reduced by selling unnecessary players (Traore, D. Vila, Amelia, Antonini, Zaccardo, Emanuelson, etc.), so as with contract renewals (Robinho, Bonera, Abbiati). I might be way too optimistic, but i smell that Galliani wants a double mercato. He wants a team with Honda for the CL… Read more »
Galliani said today that we couldn’t afford Strootman because we didn’t have €20m.
What makes you think we got €52m for transfers only?
Milan fan I understand that but where is the money from T silva Ibrahimovic Pato that was almost 90 mill they spent only 19 mil for balo they haven,t even spend the money from kaka and Shevshanko And Honda astori and eriksen will not cost more than 29 mil and are very good player come on man
After giving it another thought… I wouldn’t be afraid of seeing Saponara left in the shadow because of Honda’s imminent arrival. Heck, even if Eriksen joined us as well (even if I know the rumours are argubly not true). We could rotate a lot, which could be seen as something positive; IF (!) Allegri makes the right choices. 4-3-1-2/4-1-2-1-2 ———-El Shaarawy—Balotelli—————— ——————-Saponara———————— ————-KPB————–Montolivo———— ——————-Cristante———————– De Sciglio——Mexes——Astori———Abate—- ——————–Abbiati———————— or 4-3-2-1/4-1-2-2-1: ——————–Balotelli———————- ————-Eriksen———Saponara————– ————————————————— ————–Poli———–Montolivo————- ———————-NdJ————————– -Constant—–Zapata———Vergara———Abate- ———————-Gabriel———————- My point is, perhaps we could switch formation determined on the situation (injuries, players who needs to rest, type of competition or based on… Read more »
@ milan fan, so true. I really hope we can get honda this season and I still believe boateng would be really useful for us next season, I don’t think we should sell him
Same here, mate. What bothers me the most is that IF we do sell Boateng, we’ll never know what type of a player he could have become because of Allegri’s refusal of not playing him in his rightful position, in a rightful way.
Meaning, as a box to box midfielder. It worries me that Boateng played as a trequartista in the ‘intern’ game (white vs. red game).
Even if it was not a ‘serious’ game.
I just read our probable line-up for today…
4-3-1-2: Antonini-Zapata-Mexes-Constant; Poli-De Jong-Nocerino; Boateng; Niang-Robinho.
Allegri… Smh.
Gonna be a fun year…..
Mhm… I just don’t understand how a grown-man with such experience as Allegri, WHO BTW IS A FORMER TREQUARTISTA!!!!!!, is so stubborn to play Boa as a trequartista.
It’s absolutely… raaaaaaaaaaw. Speechless.
of playing him*
As much as I want Milan to sign a great player this season, I don’t see Erikson coming now. After getting Honda, all I pray for is a great potential defender.
Remember, even with all those players we have nw, we still remain the highest paying club in Italy.
Milan money is Berlusconi`s Bunga-Bunga piggy bank…
Buy honda, with the financial help from japenesse sponsors, we dont have the funds to get eriksen, unless KPB is sold, which would be a shame, and i think we need to off-load antonini in order to sign a new defender
I pray Ac milan sign Honda to help milan be a great team in champion league even win it
Berlusconi is a strategist.. He knows he needs a very good CB urgently, that’s why he won’t add anymore money on Honda. I believe he is saving th best for th last!
Rodrigo ely,reminds me of nesta and thiago, he’s 19. The fact psg bought marquinho and madrid are playing varane, we can also give him a chance. He once paired nesta, his calm,technical what a future defender and milan should not make mistake by selling him.
what time is the game?
Sign him now as well as a world class cb and we can compete with any team in the world… Last year when we signed balotelli we only lost one game in serie a and he wwasn’t playing and gathered the most points , with Honda being playmaker and scoring goals we can only be more lethal.
Abbiati
Abate mexes(new cb) zapata(new cb) de sciglio
Montolivo de Jong poli(boateng)
Honda
Balotelli El shaarawy
Galiani please, we need Nocerino and PKB by any means…
i want honda in Milan bcs. My team will be well competative and is possible to win the tittles in the next seasons. Bcs. I have great team with young talents.
I hope honda can arrive this summer. Does berlusconi really care about this team? Where is the money we got from the sale of taiye tawu to brussaspor.cant we get rid of players like traore,didac vila,zacarrdo,antonini,bonera?
Imagine Bayern or Real pleading with a players sponsors to help them make a €5m deal, it’s just embarrassing.
I don’t know who do you guys think Honda is,Messi,Mata,Bale ? What is with all this hype ? Honda is a good player,yes,he will fresh up the midfield but nothing more. Plus what is the use of him if he comes in January ? Are we that poor that we can’t even buy a PROPER AMC ? As much as it’s funny it’s also sad to see this reactions,we use to sign Rui Costa,Kaka,Rivaldo,Seedorf and now who wears the number 10 ? Boateng. Give me a break. No to mention we still have a holes in our defense,LB and CB… Read more »
Milan Fan no1 ever compares Honda to any of those players but the things is how much Milan can afford and from wat they afford who can do a good job Honda is just that he is top class has the required skill,experience and fan base there is much to benefit from his signing,… Honestly ryt now I think all we need are Honda, Eriksen and Bruno Martins-Indi, not forgetting sum logical thinking by our coach and using players in their natural positions, then we can challenge for major honours…
honestly i dont want this team to be my favorite no more im just going to move to juve if they dont buy honda this summer like what the hell stop being so cheap and buy us a good playmaker for champions leauge and more cups. whatever by
I think mr x is astori, god help milan. astori is worse than acerbi, at least acerbi didnt score own goals