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Following the press conference of presentation of the new Rossoneri’s official Adidas shirt for the 2007/08 season, the Managing Director Adriano Galliani spoke about the main issues of the transfer market:
Alexandre Pato: “I read that Leonardo is in Brazil to bring the negotiations forward for Pato. This is not true, Leo in fact is just on holiday. If there will be the necessity, he will move. But now he’s there on holiday. Tonight Ariedo Braida will leave to talk to the player and we shall see what developments there will be in the negotiations. We shall see if we shall be able to do an important transfer operation. In any case I’m calm, after twenty one years of football, the time of the summer impulses is over. In these long years of experience, I learnt that often with pharaonic transfer purchases nothing was won, and instead a lot was won with the arrival of few players. Summer is a season in which the market tells you that MAYBE you can obtain results, but the real final balance of results and the reached objectives is done only in May of the following year. With all respect for Oliveira, he arrived and Shevchenko left and we won the Champions League. Why? Because this is football…Therefore if there will be the possibility, we will sign Pato, otherwise the player will be able to join other clubs who are following him. The player interests us for sure, but I repeat, there is no type of anxiety. I remind everyone that Pato is a non-EU and is not yet 18 years-old. He interests us; if he arrives it will be for the month of January."
Julio Baptista: “With regards to the situation of the Real Madrid player, in this case there is no problem to clear things out. If Real Madrid is ready to let him go on loan with an option to buy him, the negotiation will be sealed, otherwise we shall remain like we are and we shall play upfront with Seedorf, Kaka, Ronaldo, Inzaghi and Gilardino. With the directors of Real I was very clear, for the deal to go through, these are our conditions. If Real Madrid accepts this proposal, that's good, otherwise we won't do anything. We would like to make the same incoming operation which we did with the outgoing Oliveira. Kaka? No Real Madrid director has asked me anything about Kaka yet, they know that he’s unreachable and that Milan will not sell him for the next four years: President Berlusconi said so. I deny that Real asked us to also take Cassano. You ask me in what position Baptista would play? I don’t like the discussions with regards to the first, second or half forward. I only say that he would be purchased to be played in one of the three offensive roles. In fact I believe that Milan plays with the 4-3-3. You tell me that Baptista has an EU citizenship…I know about that, but it must be clear that if he should arrive, someone different from Pato should have the EU citizenship since he is our first target, and Pato in fact is a non-EU.
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