Galliani: "My hard work on the transfer market this summer has three fixed points. First, we are not giving away our most important players. Second, we need to reinforce the team. Third, we don't want to spend too much. In goal, Fiori will quit and Abbiati will come back, and is very welcome by the entire dressing room, to play with Milan. Palermo offered him more, but he wanted no one but Milan. Lloris? No one knew him before we became interested in him, but in the end we decided we didn't want to have four goalkeepers in the squad. In defence we lose Cafu and Serginho, two heavy losses, and we are looking for a defender like Zambrotta who can play on both flanks. We are awaiting news, but I think that we are getting close to an agreement for him. In midfield, although there's no official announcement yet because no contracts have been signed, Gourcuff will leave for Bordeaux on loan and Flamini will join us. This won't mean we have too many players because Seedorf, who knows this, will sometimes have to play in midfield. We will also buy out the other half of Sammarco's contract from Sampdoria. The other midfielders like Brocchi and Emerson? At the moment they are still with us, we are expecting them for the reunion on 16 July, but if someone leaves we will get a replacement. In attack we are losing Ronaldo and Gilardino. For us Borriello is like Gilardino, we have thought about this a lot. Remember that Borriello scored more than Amauri this season and he's an international: if we should also get Zambrotta, we'd have five Italian internationals, which is good. Meanwhile Pato will certainly be a first team player, and Ancelotti agrees: Pato is a player we are counting on very strongly, he's part of our starting XI. Then we have to replace a star like Ronaldo and we are following 6-7 players whose names have been well publicised. Ronaldinho? Yes, he's one of those, we'll see. In the end we'll have 23-24 players, among which 3 goalkeepers, 9 defenders, 6 midfielders and 6 strikers."
The objectives for next season: "With the arrival of a new striker I'm convinced we will be competitive for the title until the end. We will have our minds on the league. In the last few seasons we always won the competition we focused on the most. In past seasons we spared some of our players for the Champions League, where we were always at our best. Next season the league will be our Champions League. For us the European games were different from the others, we noticed it in the training camps, in the buses. Now we will treat the league that way. Last season we earned 42 points on our return from Japan, because before the Club World Cup we had our minds set on becoming World Champions. We believe the gap between Milan and Inter is not represented by the points difference of the last two seasons, but by the effort we have put in the different competitions. Next year we will give our all in the league."
Finally on Ancelotti: "We will continue with him for a long time because he and the club are on the same wavelength. Our relationship has been ideal since the first day. Chelsea? No, they didn't meet with him because they asked our permission and there everything halted. Him and another Italian coach were on top of Chelsea's wish list and the fact our coach is sought after and well seen gives me great pleasure. But Carlo Ancelotti is and will stay Milan's coach."
