AC Milan general spiel

[San Paolo]

[vtec]

[tonykart]

[Lumir]

O my o my...

From these transfer news that have surrounded us in past months, and from predictions around Milan from every fucker on earth, one can simply argue that the only player that benefited from all this saga is KAKA.

Everyone compeltely forgot about him. Noone in Milan mentions him. No media, no coach, no journalists thinks that KAKA is key to success. Which is good! Finally the pressure will pass to Ronaldinho, Pato, Flamini, Sheva, Pirlo and Co.

When KAKA will make his return, everyone will understand the diffeence he makes on pitch. We will forget all new transfers and see a new MILAN.

what was missing in the last game was a team leader, someoen that steps in and takes the game on his shoulders. Every team has one, and our team has KAKA.


I honestly believe that there is one solution to the formation mystery, and that, whenever that hurts or not to some, is benching Seedorf. He will be a golden sub when we will need to save the result. Second is benching Inzaghi. There is no way he should start from the begining.

Our formation should use Flamini, Pirlo and Ambrosini in the middle, since we have two wingers at the back that play quite attacking football (Zambrota and Jankulovski), and we should play with Kaka, Ronaldinho and Pato on attack. Sheva may come as sub when we struggle. We ned a balance on our team and a leader. I find the leader on KAKA, while balance can be reached if we exclude Seedorf.

[RobHood]

[p_maldini_3]

the thing with senderos is that he is a confidence player. sometimes he will blow you away with his performance over 90 mins, but if he makes one mistake he doesnt have the mental confidence in himself to recover from it. that is why after last seasons semi-final loss to Liverfekkin'wankscum where torres turned senderos to score their winning goal, arsene wanker gave senderos a 'psychological break'. he was devastated by his mistake and it took a heavy toll on him.

but if carlo can take the time to cement the club's belief in senderos' abilities and qualities, and taking into account hes only 23, we could have the next cannavaro on our hands. he is the ultimate test for the management; on his day, senderos can compete with the best. hes fast, hes strong, hes good in the air, and his reading of the game is phenomenal. he has the ability, its just a question of confidence. if we can restore that confidence he needs to showcase his talent on the big stage, he will be a great player for us for years to come.

its going to be a tough choice for carlo once gattuso is fit, aka next week. he'll have 2 spots for 3 players. flamini has to be guaranteed a spot, ambrosini looked awfully lethargic the other day. he was giving up fouls left right and center in the first half, and besides his goal his contribution to the game was next to nil. and at the same time, every time he pushed up bologna always launched a dangerous counterattack against us; ambrosini doesnt have the legs to be a hustler or a box-to-box midfielder and he isnt quick at all. he was largely to blame for bologna's second goal; he let valiani walk right by him to collect the ball and take a gorgeous shot. the least he couldve done was to stay at his shoulder and try to put him off balance.

i would think the best solution would be to have 2 livewires, gattuso and flamini, protecting pirlo. they cover lots of ground easily, and they have the ability to run back fast[er than ambrosini ever can]. we will lose height in the midfield area, and perhaps up front, but with pirlo around it shouldnt be too difficult to win the second balls and recover them to restart an attack.

seedorf and kaladze both had piss-poor games. i dont know whats wrong with seedorf, perhaps he was intimidated by ronaldinho, who knows. but he's been exceptional in the preseason but he was crap the other day. kaladze is in even bigger shit, and an even bigger liability than senderos. i dont know what the hell is wrong with him. he'll play well the whole game, but the one moment he loses concentration the other team scores. its too big of a risk.

but the best part about all of this, regardless of the loss, if we played this well the FIRST time this team has played together, just imagine once everybody gets to know each other! then we will be unstoppable, especially with kaka' back.

senderos trained with the team today, for the whole session; thats good news. kaka' trained with the team for half the session with no discomfort, and that is even better news.

[SuperPippo9]

could not agree with you more on your view on senderos, p dawg

[maro]

Mouldy-knee, I should have thought the general consensus on Senderos is that he's slow and relatively poor at reading the game. He may learn the latter from one or two of those around him at Milan and the former can be compensated for by playing a deepish defensive line. Still, I'm not sure too many Arsenal fans would recognise Senderos in "fast" and "phenomenal" in "his reading of the game."

[maro]

Oh, and now I know I'm right because SuperP agrees with you.

[red]

Maldini, do I understand you correctly?

Are you really suggesting that Senderos could be as good as Fabio Cannavaro?

[vtec]

i agree with maro. senderos is slow, and not top notch tactically, but he has potential to improve there. he certainly isn't abel xavier bad, and is an upgrade over kaladze as well, at present.

[Lumir]

04/09/2008 12:33


Milan superstar Kaka has returned to full training with his side and is ready to take on Genoa in week two of the Serie A season.
»Comments (15) Print This Story Send To A Friend Contact Us galleria zoom The Brazilian has been out all summer with an on-going knee problem but he is likely to start from the very first minute at Marassi after making a full recovery.

Kaka has been training hard and he has impressed Carlo Ancelotti who is likely to deploy his Brazilian trio, as Alexandre Pato is also likely to feature after recovering from a minor knock.

Therefore the Ka-Pa-Ro trio may play together in Genoa.

Although Milan fans will be delighted with the news of Kaka’s return, it is likely to cause the coach massive selection headaches as Ronaldinho, Kaka, Pato, Filippo Inzaghi and Andriy Shevchenko will all be fighting for a place.

The Rossoneri have stopped Kaka from joining the Brazilian national side as they prepare for their World Cup qualifier against Bolivia on September 12th.

The Selecao were annoyed that the playmaker couldn’t go, but Milan played hardball in an attempt to prevent him from picking up further injuries.

Salvatore Landolina

[RobHood]

[p_maldini_3]

maro, i've seen games of senderos where he was destroying any teams hope of getting into the box with great flair and skill. when you hear the commentator go 'senderos, away' 10 times in less than 5 mins, you know hes having a damn good game. although, of course, hes like seedorf when it comes to consistency of quality games...

but at the same time, i am not saying he is the best, im saying this all under the pretense of his potential. hes only 23, and you can hardly think of defender under 23 who's played over 100 games for a top-tier club like arsenal. arsene wanker has good judgement of potential, and even though he let him go, wanker knows senderos can become a quality player. he might just be a late bloomer, [hopefully] but who knows.

and red, im saying senderos has potential to be great. he just needs confidence in himself. and hopefully carlo can give him that.

great to see kaka' back, we've waited too long for him.

[oily]

[jawad]

[red]

[Lumir]

^^

dude we're not talking about FIFA Dream Team here, although we're almost there

but we're taking into account our options and trying to get the best defensive line up with current players...

Still the goals conceeded agaisnt bologna werent fault of oru Central Backs...
it was our wingers and defensive middfielders who couldnt stop them...

[maro]

Ten squid says Senderos will be packed off back to Arsewipe at the end of the season.

[Amedio]