Palermo, Inter and mercato fun

By: Marco | January 18th, 2009

Last week Palermo edged us during a 3-2 victory with goals coming from Bresciano and uni-brow extraordinaire during the first half while after half-time Floccari and Pinto equalized until Cavani gave the pretty men the three points. A hard loss especially considering we were going against Inter during the next fixture.

Now for the fun.

We all expected the United Nations to beat Atalanta 2-0, 3-0 or at least a 2-1 margin but were we wrong or what. I wasn’t even expecting a draw considering, well even though I despise Inter with everything that have, the gulf in class between the two sides. Doni wanted to take advantage of Inter’s problems and well he did. 3-1. Shocking isn’t it? Talismanic old man Doni again defied the years by bagging two goals, setting up another and nearly scoring three others. Floccari, one of the on form strikers, opened up the scoring though with a great turn and finish. He is being linked with a call up during Italy’s next friendly in the coming weeks and rightly so.

For the most part the team was solid except for Padoin who had a lackluster game but he didn’t really make any mistakes either. Our back-line of Garics, Talamonti, Manfredini and Bellini were solid all night long even causing troubles for Inters defense with some nice runs. Maicon was shut down by Bellini for the most part and kept him in check. Guarente showed his class and potential with a great overall performance in the midfield with a couple of good tackles, passes and plays to go along with a great performance. Valdes played down both wings effectively and missed a great chance early on but was very effective on the flanks.

Man of the match though was Doni who was pure class throughout. As previously stated he could have scored six goals but two plus an assist is fine with me. The old man still has class even after these years (not everyone can play like Maldini when they get old considering Paolo isn’t human). Floccari and Doni are playing very well together this season and if Sergio keeps getting goals maybe City will waste some of their money on him. *Dreams of 100M euros for Floccari*.

Transfer News

Everyone is talking about Ricky Kaka going to either City or Madrid for a lot of money. If he goes to City his career will be ruined considering that no matter how much money City has they will always suck and Madrid is a better choice but we all know what happened to Sheva. My take on it? I love Kaka but I also love money so as long as we make some great transfers with that cash Milan won’t be completely lost. *Dreams of Torres, Fabregas, Giovinco, Chiellini and a few other youngsters* But you have to remember that were talking about Kaka who is still in my opinion the best player in the world even with injuries. (Ronaldo isn’t a real player. Riverdancing on the field isn’t a show of class especially against the likes of Titus Bramble) And at times he was the only one carrying Milan through its troubles. Sure Pato is destroying everything right now but Milan still need Kaka.

But look at the way Kaka plays. He loves to run up the middle which results in a lot of bumps and bruises not to mention injuries. He already has chronic knee problems and teams have found out how to stop him for the most part. Professional fouls are very prevalent against him in today’s Serie A. When he hits thirty if the injuries don’t get him his age will. Physically he will start to deteriorate like everyone at that age does except for Maldini and if you add in the current injuries and the possible injuries in the future he won’t be playing to 40. But I might be wrong and this is just my opinion.

Either way there is some big money involved with a big name player and going to City would ruin his career. Hopefully he makes the right choice which he should. If not then the ultras, (some of them I know), will cause some serious hell in Milan. Now for Atalanta and there not so busy transfer market. We have brought in Federico Peluso from AlbinoLeffe. I don’t know anything about him but most likely he will be filling in for our back-line in case of injury. We have already said that we don’t have a lot of choices (which is b.s) and we won’t make that many transfers if any during this window. I would have loved to see Pazzini and Floccari together but I guess that won’t happen. Plenty of talent in Eastern Europe but we won’t look there. We have a good amount of depth so its not like we have to worry about injuries. Great news though Cigarini is back from injury and came off the bench against Palermo which is always great after that kind of injury.