MICHAEL ESSIEN has joined Milan and was presented yesterday before training with the Rossoneri for the 1st time.
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Previous Match
Serie A: Udinese 3-1 Milan
- Match Discussion
- March 18, 2023
- Stadio Friuli
- Referee: Daniele Doveri
Next Match
Serie A: Napoli-Milan
- 20:45 CET kickoff
- April 2, 2023
- Stadio Diego Armando Maradona
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we really need at laest one defender and one winger. and of course prain or krul. gelliani pls do something on tomorrow. wish best for milan. frozr rossoneri.
Milan are soon going to present Adel Taarabt in exchange for Zaccardo loan. Only thing which is uncertain, though, is Zaccardo as he isn’t sure if he wants to leave ( i dont know why ). Biabiany in part exchange of Saponara. I Think that Milan should increase the bid by 3m and Saponara leaves on Co Ownership basis only and Biabiany permanent as Saponara will get the experience Milan need. Armero for Mexes or Constant is on the cards. For Gk i would look at maybe Cuortis or Diego Lopez/Casillas which is unlikely but Casillas would maybe leave for… Read more »
Are you seriously going to say that El Shaa is almost always injured when this is the first time in his young career that he’s had a long term injury? Don’t jump into conclusions so fast… He was fit the entire last season, except for a week here and there. This is a natural thing. Taarabt is an awful deal, he’ll add nothing but to probably get more playing time than Saponara. And to Tello and Chicha – no. I’m sorry that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it, but I’m pretty furious about the Taarabt deal and it will… Read more »
I know the Moroccan is lazy in defending but he can be guided under Milan’s system fold. He knows this is a chance he can only get once a lifetime so I do not think he will throw it away. We have enough subs to replace if he doesn’t turn out well. And he will be upgrade for Robin, even lazier and worse than him till el92 comes back. Then we can rotate these two not to have el92 so overload like last term. So I see this is a good deal. Plus it is 6 months loan, so calm… Read more »
I agree with you. Taarabt is a very lazy player and just a year back he called Milan an average club n a stepping stone to Madrid or barca! Urgh. Too bad the deal is done. :/
Saponara is not fully owned by Milan, he is already co-owned by Parma.. So the only good deal is to make him leave on loan where he will be getting playing time cos Biabiany is almost certainly leaving..
welcome bison n mr. G please sign astori n cerci if possible
out constant,mexes,zaccardo
in:armero,cerci,astori,marchetti
with galiani as CEO and without berlu investing, it’s more like a dream!
sad part is that those are not even expencive players
All the best Essien,I knw u will make it….
Anybody knows when ElSha will come back??
middle of March, around 40 days to go
end of February according to transfermarket.co.uk
He was out for three months, including extra precautions and slow bringing in I guess El Sha will be 100% back end of march, maybe begin april 🙁
Thanks, I m waiting so much for this!!
Off topic mr G is trying to a swap Zacardo n Adel tarabat,if Tarabat arrives what about saponara? For God sake milan need a quality CB to replace bonera..our transfer this days is not on point.how can we compete with d big guns in europe n seria A.
……………..Pazo/Balo…………….
el92/Taarabt…..Balo/KaKa/Sapo……….Honda/Tarrabt
………..De Jong/Essien………Monto/Poli
We only need center back now.
apparently Gallaini made an offer for cercri of 10 million and half of saponara and torino rejected it. Also we are about to sign Biabiany or Taarabt.
Well, if it comes down to Biabiany or Taarabt, I’d take Biabiany ahead of him without a doubt. I think he’s the fastest player in the world, good skills, however it remains to be seen if he has what it takes at a club like Milan. But I wouldn’t want to sign any of them.
Cerci is so perfect for our attack when we play with wide players that we should just focus on him, even if it leaves us with no wingers until El Shaa is back.
Coach (maestro) seedorf is building a plantation in Milan locker room.
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
GALLIANI IS CANCER OF AC MILAN
Lol….Dude calm down his not the fastest player in the world…His very fast no doubt but he ain’t the fastest
I actually think he is the fastest, I saw a top 10 list where I’m pretty positive that he was number 1, I might be mistaken though… because it feels like maybe Walcott, Lennon and Cerci are faster. Perhaps even Abate. He is in the top 10 however.
I think he might be. Apparently he can run 100m in 10 seconds!
What about Aubameyang then? I thought he was the fastest.
It’s almost Official, Adel Taarabt will join the rossoneri till June with an option to buy (7 million euros )
He will arrive in Milan tomorrow !
He is just another robinho.. but is just a bit faster and better dribbler… He is unwanted at QPR… Mainly because he is a selfish player and is very inconsistent and his attitude stinks, remember he said “If i sign for Milan and play well then clubs like barcelona and real madrid will want me”… He is just another robinho but with no brain…
Dont talk about Robinho ok? I dont know what this player is capable to give at Milan but I m very angry when you or others judje Robinho and hate him more and more…if Taarabt is another ”Robi” as you said Galliani shouldnt let him come… If he can play well then he shouldnt come to Milan..he should go straight to another big club…. I dont think he ‘s better than Robinho in dribbling… faster yes but better dribbler NOWAY! What brain???hahaha…get away dude…Look Robi and what he s doing so far and Taarabt and come here to talk with… Read more »
Taarabt:
Age:24
Goals with Fulham=0 in the League and there re not other competitions…
Assists:1 in the league….OMG
Robinho:
Age:30
Goals:3 in Serie A,1 in UCL & 1 in Coppa Italia
Assists:5 in the League
NOW TrollAllegri who is better?Do you see the difference?
Taarabt is a zero!
Okay flash. Let me give you a flash back;
Just watch and look how useless robinho is, missing easy shots. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtevUJh0Vm4
Also Robinho is playing more competitions, more experience, then he will of course score more goals. But look at the chances that robinho wasted FLASH!
for 5-6 misses you mention that Robinho is awful and worse than Taarabt?????
doesn’t anyone else not want taarabt’s huge ego at Milan?
we’re already molding Mario into a better footballer. Taarabt, with his talent, brings problems. Can we really not find anyone that doesn’t come with that baggage?
I wouldn’t have signed Taarabt or Essien. But hey, these are the best of the free bunch.
Look I’m sure seedorf will put taarabt back in his place, just like he’s doing with Mario, and surely we will see the best from him, other than his big mouth and selfishness he is a good player
I DON”T WANT TO SEE TARAABT IN MILAN SHIRT! WE ALL KNOW HE DOESN’T DESERVE IT! COMPARE HONDA’S WORDS ABOUT MILAN TO THAT SELFISH C^NT!
Report is Zaccardo denied the swap but we will still get taarabt on loan with option to buy. Why do our reserve players have to ruin two deals now. People actually want our dead weight, but our dead weight does not want to go
they don’t want to go cause they get half money or even less in other clubs and they know they are flops and will end up like mesbah or acerbi… constant ruined the chance to get a good player like armero, that makes me so angry!
Thats true…whos is so crazy and idiot to move from Milan?
Both Constant and Zacca denied…I wish Milan could have offloaded them when it was the right time!!!
I dont want to see again this dead man Zaccardo..he’s for Serie C not A and of course not capable of playing for such a big club as MILAN!!!
And not only do they not want to go, we’re bringing in more with signing Taarabt. Ridiculous. You know that we’ll be crying for him leaving in the summer already…
For the fastest player in the world you dont have to look far at all…..Abate!!!!!!!!! dubbed the “Ferrari” lol
I honestly do not see the urge that the management wants to sign a player every transfer window even if we don’t have the money… if we don’t have the money, then the best way to go forward is trusting your youth! And I thought that was the point with our “youth project”. And having no money but still wanting to sign players leaves us with these kind of signings like Constant, Mesbah, Zaccardo, and now Taarabt. I’m okay with Essien, even though he’ll probably take playing time from Poli and Cristante, but at least he’s a champion. I would… Read more »
Armero could still join Milan on loan, without involving Constant, according to SKY.
Zaccardo only wants a return to Parma.
dejagah > taarabt
With Armero(maybe), Rami, Essien, Honda, Taarabt all bought for the total of 0 EUROS. One would expect that Milan will be ready to spend in the summer.
I hope
rami cost us 350000 euro for loan..
Dude don’t embarrass Milan no more.
Juve want pato lol, I don’t know if I could survive seeing pato do well with juve
You got something their bro but he ain’t the fastest….Based on the players you brought up only Walcott and Abate can evenly match Biabiany’s pace.I won’t include Lennon because his only fast over 40-50 yards after that his little legs won’t carry him again this was said by kyle walker who’s behind Abate in terms of fastest fullbacks currently also included that himself,Bale at his time at spurs,Lennon and Kaboul once took a 100m sprint and surprisingly Kaboul won admitting he was faster than bale,Lennon and him self
Yeah you’re right about Lennon, I’ve noticed that too, but there was a time when reports said that he was faster than Walcott as well, maybe they were referring to short sprints. Walker is a beast, super fast, pretty unreal that Abate is even faster, it only goes to show how fast he is. But is Kaboul really faster than Walker as well? That’s a real surprise, I can’t believe it haha… But Biabiany is technical with great pace, and if it would come down to Taarabt or Biabiany, even though Taarabt looks to be really close to us, I’d… Read more »
essien n de jong combination is gonna be superb.
yes defensively…but can they link the defense to the attack?
the problem is that our defense cant defend…it’s unfortunate we have to depend on the midfield to do the defense’s job
10.3 actually then again some players can match that time e.g Marvell Wayne 10.3 also
But I’ll say his the winger/striker in Serie A and the likes of Cr7,Bale,Lennon,Ryo,Robben.. etc got not on him in terms of pace.He’ll leave them for dust
@milanista, Though, I’m not a huge fan of taarabt cos he’s quite selfish on the ball but I honestly think we need another player who can sometimes take matters into his hands when things aren’t rilly going fine in a game, taarabt can do that instead I’d always playing to the strength of balotelli, he’s as bad as u say, I think he’s got some energy and physicality in him, I like Robinho, but he gets pushed of the ball too often. My humble opinion.
Cerci on a very good day is like the Italian version of Robben his very quick but he won’t even make the top 20 fastest footballers. So far from all my research Abate is the only Italian to make the list probably making him the fastest Italian currently and also as a defender his the fastest in the Italian calcio.The only defender that share’s the kind of pace Abate posses is Marvell wanye who currently plays for colorado rapids as a CB/RB.
Now this guy is a monster almost impossible to get past.And am not saying all this because abate is a milan player.Both on FIFA 13 and FIFA 14 abate is the fastest Fullback and Marvell Wayne for quite some time he has been the fastest center back.Am using FIFA game as an example after all most people play them.
why would milan need all that pace when we do not play counter attacking fotball. most games milan needs to score against a team who defends with 11 players.
cant we put essien or de jong in cb position since our cb department is the worst in serie a
abate and Des have been among our best youth products currently, we should definetely keep abate as he has milan in his heart, but this taarabt guy doesnt value milan, he doesnt know what wearing the shirt means, all her wants is a sling shot to better teams, i honestly hope we dont get him, biabiany or perhaps LAVEZZI but who m i kidding with the latter!!
Dont understand Galliani but I never will as Galliani probably dont understand himself!
Of all the players we could of signed he chooses Tarabat and Essien. One lazy player who should be playing on street corners and another old player that is pass his best!
I would have been happy if Milan had signed Cerci, Astori and Jorginho! Hard working talented young players under 30.
I have a crazy idea, that i dont think it will be realized by this management. But i really hope someday it will be.
Why dont we bring our lost boy back – Alexandre PATO to play at RW position? He used to be second striker backthen, and he explode. Now that he reach physical stability, we can deploy him and el shaarawy at each flank, and i bet it will be really good. Imagine quartet of elshaarawy – kaka – pato – balotelli…
Leonardo played him there and it backfired. Pato is a pure striker not even a second striker. Remember he never managed to play alongside Ibra while Robinho and Cassano could do it to devastating effect.
Yeah maybe in terms of short sprints but again short people have shorter and quicker strides so basically the shorter you are the quicker you look. Look at players like Giovinco,Insigne and Lavezzi.They always look very fast
Abate wasn’t given nicknames like Ferrari,Telepass and yellow flash in reference to a popular anime character in naruto.
I’ll pick Biabiany over Tarabat any time
Fans didn’t nick name Abate Yellow flash and Ferrari for nothing
yellow flash?? hehe is that the color of his boots??
well anywho welcome taarabt, milan has made better players of guys with larger ego’s than yours…ZLATAN!!! lets see what u got boy!!!
FORZA MILAN
Biabiany may still arrive according to Alfredo Pedulla of GDS. I can’t see why we are after all these wingers/CAM unless Saponara(Parma) and Birsa(Torino) are leaving.
Armero may still arrive but only if Constant is to leave as per Galliani
Seems like Seedorf wants counterattacking football.
—Abate-Rami-Zapata-DeSciglio
–Biabiany-DeJong-Montolivo-Armero
———–Honda/Kaka
=———– Balotelli
Lol no bro.Yellow Flash in reference to an anime character in Naruto.
A smart move Galliani could make right now is going for Verratti now that PSG bought Cabaye.
Forza Milan
Aubameyang is very fast also. He once covered 30 meters in 3.7seconds which is faster than Usain bolts time that was 3.78 sec
Tarabat just arrived for medicals
I guess taraabt deal is going to be oficial soon.. I was literally raised my eye brow knowing this. I’m quite dissapointed to be honest at first, but then i thought the signing could be Seedorf’s involvement too. As u all fans watched that Seedorf’s tactic is principally atacking and pressing the opponents with combination of long ball and short pass. So i guess aditional attacking member + another defensive midfield (to make it balance for counter attack of the opponents) is required for him. Perhaps in his mind Milan needs to get points in aggresive style with scoring a… Read more »
D’Ambrosio has officially signed for Inter for 1.5m. Here’s hoping he flops. Our rivals are all strengthening and we only signed 3 free players and Taraabt.
This Taraabt guy is a trouble maker and how did we decide to go for a player that is not even in Fulham starting lineup….but on the other side I must admit the guy is talented he just need discipline, he will cause a lot of clubs trouble. I would have preferred Cerci but no prob. Seedorf now have two extra tasks, Manage Taraabt and Bolatelli.
Expectation : Coentrao; Reality: Essien
Expectation : Cerci; Reality: Taraabt.
🙁
Expectation: Messi; Reality: Matri.