AC Milan official transfer, rumor, and speculation thread 9

at 27 and being a dlpm, i wouldn't say more than 15M euro tops, but then again with how the market has been stretched this summer, maybe that is a little too low.

his left foot is magical, and he does have very good free kick deliveries and crosses when he gets into good positions. he is not as two-footed with his passing as pirlo, nor does he have quite the vision and array of tools in the final third that an in form pirlo has, but he can still deliver nice through balls, as he used to be a forward playmaker. he has a decent build and this season displayed some decent work ethic, and a willingness to try to get in the passing lanes. he has had a couple of very good seasons in a row and really this season he was IMHO one of the best players in serie a period this season and arguably the best midfielder period (not saying he is most talented or better than de rossi or cambiasso, but on the basis of play this season i would make that argument)...but that was for udinese, playing for a big club is always a different story as the pressure can wilt many a good mid-table player.

my gut feeling is he would be gago redux, a good player against 80% of opponents who in the biggest matches looks out of kilter, but that would just be my guess.

as for pirlo, yeah his fks used to be really good, now only his indirect deliveries are worth a damn, and even then his fk ability was a little overrated, but funnily enough his overall technical skills were underrated imho. he is such a tricky dribbler, especially given he has no pace nor build.

but yeah, "legendary" should go to juninho, rivelino, beckham in his pomp, et al. i wouldn't even give ronaldinho or riquelme legendary free kick status to be honest.

 

you sure? i read somewhere that this decade pirlo was still top 5 in fk goals when counting club and country with juninho being a clear #1 as of the end of 08. i think pirlo has about 30 some odd fk goals this decade all together fwiw, about 5 or 6 for italy iirc, and the rest for club though this could be off. of course with no fk goals for club or country this season, he may have slipped a little down that ranking after this last season

pirlo has 49 goals in serie a, cl, and other top competitions (not counting serie b goals or youth goals of course) and 8 goals for country, so dinho would need 57 career free kick goals, maybe, i just don't know though. the numbers are hard to find.

I'm trying to think actually

i know off the top of my head, pirlo had

0 in 08-09
3 in 07-08
3 in 06-07
4 (or was it 5?) in 05-06
then it starts to get shady, i remember he scored the nice one against in 04 and some others that stand out, but it really goes blank, but i seem to remember him scoring at least 3-4 in every year before this one at milan and a free kick or two on his loan spells the early part of the decade.

dinho had

1 in 08-09
3 in 07-08 iirc
4 in 06-07

ahh, i really can't remember, i watched almost every barca and milan match the last few years but it all gets hazy from there.

edit:
actually juninho is the leader this decade...and he has scored in all competitions for lyon 44 direct free kicks for club in 344 appearances this decade. so i highly doubt dinho has scored even 40 this decade for club, maybe not even 35. will look deeper, it is actually quite hard to find free kick stats

 

milan also bought young midfielder federico dal compare from treviso. don't know much about him, but that is zigoni, berretta, barbini, and dal compare as youth having been bought this transfer window...

hmm, hopefully the primavera will be pretty good again soon.

 

won't believe until the physical is passed...

 

if that is the case, then i would gladly pay the extra 4m...

 

udinese's management is pricing everyone out of range. he clearly wants to go to a bigger club, and for his profile and age/position they have been offered pretty good deals. probably will regret not letting him go if he gets unhappy and doesn't perform to his best next season. not to say he will be unprofessional, he won't be, doesn't strike me as that kind of player, but usually unhappy players don't play at their best.

 

edit: BS account screwing me up...

i think i will close this thread and start a new one. the post count is messing up for me.

here's new thread

https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1097556