Abidal was the first player Milan made an offer for this Summer, if that doesn't class him as a primary target then what does? Pato has been scouted for some months - but no official approach was made until the primary targets of (once again): Eto'o, Ronaldinho, Suazo, Henry & and Drogba as well actually, failed.San Paolo said:@Tsar
You obviously aint too updated on the Suazo case. Abidal was never considered a PRIMARY target.
Ronaldinho and Eto'o are primary targets. Both of which are destined to stay at Barcelona not as a result of Milan's poor transfer strategy but to the desire of Barcelona president Laporta claming both are indispensible for the club. I don't understand how in this case you can label this a failure when Berlusconi is willing to splash out 100m on either player. Same case with Kaka. Nothing you can really do. They've tried as much as one could possibly try to buy two of the best players in the world.
Pato has been monitored by Milan over the past 6-12 months. His name isn't foreign to most of us who are up-to-date with Milan's transfer activities in recent times and is still listed along with Ronaldinho and Eto'o's of players we still hope to purchase in the current transfer window.
Tsar, if you have any knowledge about the transfer market you would realise that the biggest transfers are done in the closing week, not to mention the last day. Milan's transfer activities are still on going and in football anything can happen, another fact which you should be familiar with. I can't understand how you come to the conclusion that Milan's transfer policy is one of failure when there is still shit loads of time till the close of the window. Only then can you consider our policy one of failure or success.
Oh, and making your primary targets players that you can never sign kind of shows a weakness in transfer policy i'm affraid.
So again, (and this time try not and defer from the simple answer that is needed) : How can you dispute the strategy of the club to sign its ideal players is not a failure when it has failed to sign all of its primary targets?
Saying there is still time left in the window just isn't a reason because there could be all the time in the world and it wouldn't change the fact that the primary targets are now impossible to sign after they all moved elsewhere or commited to their clubs. Doesn't matter if the club can still sign X,Y & Z, because they wanted A, B & C - which didn't happen. So the policy to sign players employed by the management didn't work, to dispute that is disputing fact and logic.