Summer Mercato 2011
The EPL money for TV rights is 55 million , but not in one its a parachute payments of 55 million over a few seasons .Which is why alot of clubs that get relegated dont sell their best players right off the bat and generally come straight back up...Ganso , Mexes , Kolorov , and montolivo or Poli .
It is per season or else it would not be fair for teams who got promoted during the contract years of TV rights.

Anyhow, EPL got tons of money from TV mainly b/c they knew how to market itself, something that Serie A lacks.
Liga also is starting to market itself too, esp since they are having more and more early games like Germany.
Milannews has reported Taiwo has confirmed he's leaving Marseille at the end of the season, with us looking his likely destination.
(04-07-2011, 12:31 PM)ACMILAN1983 Wrote: Milannews has reported Taiwo has confirmed he's leaving Marseille at the end of the season, with us looking his likely destination.

Is he good? How good is he compared to Antonini (Abate)? Any club about him?

Thanks before.
"When Costacurta and Maldini won they didn't celebrate much. They were thinking about winning the next game" - Alessandro Nesta
(04-07-2011, 09:55 AM)Jay Crisp Wrote: The EPL money for TV rights is 55 million , but not in one its a parachute payments of 55 million over a few seasons .Which is why alot of clubs that get relegated dont sell their best players right off the bat and generally come straight back up...Ganso , Mexes , Kolorov , and montolivo or Poli .

Worldwide, the total raised from these deals is more than £2.7 billion, giving Premier League clubs an average media income from league games of around £40 million a year from 2007 to 2010, and again will be similar for the next 3 years.

Parachute payments, which are for when clubs are relegated, and it's around £12m over two years.

They also get £800k per position in the table. Chelsea as champions earned £16m last year for coming 1st.

Lets remember from our games with Marseille last year, how he stopped Pato with his pace...i have never been a fan of him in the past, as he was not the typee of fullback i like...But Taiwo is fast, strong and use the ball well... He never gives up, good arial ability, atletic...His crossings, long balls and shoots(his powerful shoots are good) are good...Above all there are questions over his defending though its much better than Antonini's...

i'd rather to get Cissokho but Taiwo as free is a good option. Probably we will put Antoninin on sale, cuz he wants to play. We can get some euros from Juventus for him...5-10 m euros would be enough...

Nesta stayed... Mexes is about to come... Gattuso on Russian Radar, Ambro is wanted by Chealse and Tottenham...
Seedorf is wanted by Corinthiras and Tottenham...Pirlo is wanted by both inter and juve...Van Bommel might stay...
Gattuso got a great offer from Russian club, 20 m euros for 3 years is amazing amount...Milan anymore cant offer that amounts and long term contracts to +30 Players...

Honestly, i'd rather to get Taiwo on free instead of spending 18 m euros on Criscito...Criscito is defensively good but offensively he doesnt add much except his dynamism...
(04-07-2011, 01:37 PM)abbeyleemania Wrote: Lets remember from our games with Marseille last year, how he stopped Pato with his pace...i have never been a fan of him in the past, as he was not the typee of fullback i like...But Taiwo is fast, strong and use the ball well... He never gives up, good arial ability, atletic...His crossings, long balls and shoots(his powerful shoots are good) are good...Above all there are questions over his defending though its much better than Antonini's...

i'd rather to get Cissokho but Taiwo as free is a good option. Probably we will put Antoninin on sale, cuz he wants to play. We can get some euros from Juventus for him...5-10 m euros would be enough...

Nesta stayed... Mexes is about to come... Gattuso on Russian Radar, Ambro is wanted by Chealse and Tottenham...
Seedorf is wanted by Corinthiras and Tottenham...Pirlo is wanted by both inter and juve...Van Bommel might stay...
Gattuso got a great offer from Russian club, 20 m euros for 3 years is amazing amount...Milan anymore cant offer that amounts and long term contracts to +30 Players...

Honestly, i'd rather to get Taiwo on free instead of spending 18 m euros on Criscito...Criscito is defensively good but offensively he doesnt add much except his dynamism...

Strongly disagree ...

Defensively, Antonini is better than Taiwo. Antonini isn't a defensive monster, he sometimes makes mistakes, but look at Taiwo when he faces a correct opposition on his side, he makes many mistakes, especially positionning mistakes, and while some people will say he can improve that, I'll reply them to take a look at the names of his last coaches: Deschamps who is a good tactician (he even gave the left side to Heinze at some stage of the season), and Gerets who liked to have a strong defence ... If he hasn't improved with these two coaches, why would he improve once in Milan ? I'm maybe wrong, but there are a lot of better options for our left side. Actually, while I think we could get better players than Cissokho, I think Cissokho is better than Taiwo.

About his games against us last year, don't forget he played against a young boy who was learning how to play on the right side almost as a winger, and he actually stopped him just once (but he did it in a way that all of us still remember because it was impressive lol) ... What I mean is that last year, when Marseille played against us, we were in a bad situation (start of the season), and yet, Taiwo wasn't outstanding against out of form players in front of him !!

And I edit my post to add that: he's not that good with the ball, he's not a technically skilled player, he just runs fast, but when the game is slow, he's unable to take the ball and dribble one player, he's only an interesting player going forward when his team counters, which isn't the way Milan plays. Also, he's known to shoot very strongly in the ball, but it's often at the expense of the quality of his shoots and crosses ...
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So stop laughing at Juventus !
(04-07-2011, 02:03 PM)GeoTav Wrote:
(04-07-2011, 01:37 PM)abbeyleemania Wrote: Lets remember from our games with Marseille last year, how he stopped Pato with his pace...i have never been a fan of him in the past, as he was not the typee of fullback i like...But Taiwo is fast, strong and use the ball well... He never gives up, good arial ability, atletic...His crossings, long balls and shoots(his powerful shoots are good) are good...Above all there are questions over his defending though its much better than Antonini's...

i'd rather to get Cissokho but Taiwo as free is a good option. Probably we will put Antoninin on sale, cuz he wants to play. We can get some euros from Juventus for him...5-10 m euros would be enough...

Nesta stayed... Mexes is about to come... Gattuso on Russian Radar, Ambro is wanted by Chealse and Tottenham...
Seedorf is wanted by Corinthiras and Tottenham...Pirlo is wanted by both inter and juve...Van Bommel might stay...
Gattuso got a great offer from Russian club, 20 m euros for 3 years is amazing amount...Milan anymore cant offer that amounts and long term contracts to +30 Players...

Honestly, i'd rather to get Taiwo on free instead of spending 18 m euros on Criscito...Criscito is defensively good but offensively he doesnt add much except his dynamism...

Strongly disagree ...

Defensively, Antonini is better than Taiwo. Antonini isn't a defensive monster, he sometimes makes mistakes, but look at Taiwo when he faces a correct opposition on his side, he makes many mistakes, especially positionning mistakes, and while some people will say he can improve that, I'll reply them to take a look at the names of his last coaches: Deschamps who is a good tactician (he even gave the left side to Heinze at some stage of the season), and Gerets who liked to have a strong defence ... If he hasn't improved with these two coaches, why would he improve once in Milan ? I'm maybe wrong, but there are a lot of better options for our left side. Actually, while I think we could get better players than Cissokho, I think Cissokho is better than Taiwo.

About his games against us last year, don't forget he played against a young boy who was learning how to play on the right side almost as a winger, and he actually stopped him just once (but he did it in a way that all of us still remember because it was impressive lol) ... What I mean is that last year, when Marseille played against us, we were in a bad situation (start of the season), and yet, Taiwo wasn't outstanding against out of form players in front of him !!

And I edit my post to add that: he's not that good with the ball, he's not a technically skilled player, he just runs fast, but when the game is slow, he's unable to take the ball and dribble one player, he's only an interesting player going forward when his team counters, which isn't the way Milan plays. Also, he's known to shoot very strongly in the ball, but it's often at the expense of the quality of his shoots and crosses ...

From Ligue 1 who would you suggest for fullback, Geo?
"When Costacurta and Maldini won they didn't celebrate much. They were thinking about winning the next game" - Alessandro Nesta
(04-07-2011, 02:15 PM)Siregar Wrote: From Ligue 1 who would you suggest for fullback, Geo?

Seriously, nobody comes to my mind nowadays ...

Cissokho and Taiwo play in the highest profile clubs in France and they don't convince me, Lille uses Béria who is good for them but I don't think he'll be abe to make the jump in a better club, at least not right now (he will improve with Lille as a whole), and in other clubs, nobody seems special in this position. Then I won't lie, I don't watch Ligue 1 games each week-end (I don't want to commit suicide), but the times I watched, nobody ever impressed me as a LB.

For our LB problem, I'd keep watching the most known players there who were linked once or several times with us (Marcelo, Coentrao, Maxwell, Criscito, Balzaretti) ... If we have to pay for a quality LB, let's do it, nowadays, it's so rare to see a special player in this position that without paying big money, we will get normal players, what we already have (Antonini).
Gattuso is close from one of the Russian clubs ...
Ambrosini is close from Chelsea ...
Seedorf is close from Corinthians ...
Pirlo ? No news but I hope he will be renewed ...

The players from our golden era have left one by one since two years, but this season, it looks like we could let some of them leave all at the same time ...

Sad (even if they are no more the players they were few years ago, they brought so much joy with the European titles) and happy (we need a new team and a new cycle) at the same time if that happens ...
One should not speak ill of the dead.
So stop laughing at Juventus !
Gattuso or Ambro or both will stay at the end. Slowdorf is a goner and Pirlo will probably leave to as MVB is more suitable at the DM role. In a way, I think it is time to move on from pass glory, let's just hope that Berlu is willing to sign new Mids like Hernanes, Or Boateng.