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Its not about picking Roma before Milan. If all is agreed you need to be a cunt to back out of the deal even if signature is not there. If you are an agent you risk of damaging your reputation. And who is to say that we offer more money?

Though we had shit like this happen
to us numerous times. I hope we win this one.
I mean, we did it before to them with Kessie.
 

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Pioli is here for the same reason Maldini stayed last season. Transition.

They used Maldini to transition and keep things together in a year when a change of ownership happened. But it's now clear that whatever "agreement" Maldini and Gerry made last summer, in Gerry's mind it was only done so that Maldini would sign the extension. But he never intended on continuing with that model. I'm certain he always knew the way ahead wasn't going to be with Maldini long term. Gerry's a piece of shit.

Now he is doing the same with Pioli. They are making the same comments about Pioli now that they made for Paolo last year. "He is very important, he is central to the project, blah blah". Fast forward one year, and I bet Pioli is gone....unless he wins a major title.

To be fair, the whole constellation is crying out for De Zerbi now. Brighton already uses a lot of analytics and our model is now based on the English one.

If Pioli fucks up now, he goes and De Zerbi comes in.
 
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"Central role of Pioli" lol

Well see around new year
 
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N'Dicka can play both CB and LB for free would be a good signing
 
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He faked to be injured for avoid to return :lol:

Then coached Napoli and Everton

Easily top 10 snake

You’re the most bipolar poster in this forum.
 
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isn't Ndicka known for his lapses of concentration?
Good thing he can cover LB
 
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Just hoping they wrap up the main 15 or so players in the squad before pre season starts , we can add some depth players later on better deals maybe ..

The guys who were added late in the window have struggled first season for us . We need to give Pioli full pre season with them and especially if they young foreign players
 
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N'Dicka can play both CB and LB for free would be a good signing
Sure but not really our kind of attacking LB. It’ll be a much more defensive option, and I think they want an alternative to Theo that doesn’t force us to change our game plan.
 

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Pioli is here for the same reason Maldini stayed last season. Transition.

They used Maldini to transition and keep things together in a year when a change of ownership happened. But it's now clear that whatever "agreement" Maldini and Gerry made last summer, in Gerry's mind it was only done so that Maldini would sign the extension. But he never intended on continuing with that model. I'm certain he always knew the way ahead wasn't going to be with Maldini long term. Gerry's a piece of shit.

Now he is doing the same with Pioli. They are making the same comments about Pioli now that they made for Paolo last year. "He is very important, he is central to the project, blah blah". Fast forward one year, and I bet Pioli is gone....unless he wins a major title.
Even before the renewal there was rumours stating Maldini wanted more power before extending. And when he renewed media said he had more power.

It’s obvious now. Gerry gave in because he couldn’t let Maldini go in that transitional period, but also if it’s true Maldini got more power than it’s obvious that it actually didn’t help the team and things got worse.

Vitiello even said Maldini didn’t listen to Moncada and he is a trustworthy source. Moncada from inside looking in, should be trusted. A lot of players we missed out on, worked out.

If any of this is true. Which I suspect is half truth and half lies. Maldini isn’t blameless. But it’s still depressing.
 
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we're going to be finally belgium free this summer😭

Wanting to sell Saele but keep Messias is a criminal behaviour from your Padre.

100% on board in selling Charles though.

If we had a different coach, I would want to keep Charles, I believe in his talent and potential, but it’s brutal to insist with him when this Baldie doesn’t have any faith in him

Just sell him off now
 

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Frankfurt fans shit on N'Dicka. We can do better..Just get an experienced CB for cheap alongside another young talent to replace Gabbia.
 

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Fuck Gerry, Fuck RedTurd, Fuck Milan, Forza Maldini ❤️ 🖤 ❤️ 🖤
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Its not about picking Roma before Milan. If all is agreed you need to be a cunt to back out of the deal even if signature is not there. If you are an agent you risk of damaging your reputation. And who is to say that we offer more money?

Though we had shit like this happen
to us numerous times. I hope we win this one.
Look if he's running down his contract and leaving on a free I don't think he has great character or cares about his image, so that shouldn't be a problem

iirc Maldini tried to sign him before and the two had a zoom meeting where Ndicka said he wants to run down his contract

So the club has been following him for a while
 
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I also think Pioli is on borrowed time, regardless of all this PR media push. They won’t let him dictate the market or make decisions like discarding CDK against the opinion of the analysts or Moncada. A few bad games and they’ll replace him with RDZ without thinking twice. If Pioli can’t develop talent then he’s at odds with the strategy same way Maldini was.
Seems like more like rationalization based on your unhappiness with him this season.

Right now it seems that his vision is more aligned with Furlanis.
 

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we need homegrown players though
Overrated topic.

I would like to point out again that the ECJ is due to rule on a complaint by Antwerp in this matter in 2023.

The case is: Home-Grown/Club-Grown regulations favour domestic players and thus disadvantage foreign players. This violates the principles of European labour law etc. pp.

Antwerp is represented by Dupont, no less than Bosman's lawyer.

In summary: Quality is more important than registration rules for a maximum of 13 Champions League matches.
 
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This fits perfectly with Pioli's comments before our last few games how "he didn't know" if Charles would be with us next season. Now it's clear he was just throwing Paolo under the bus further!

Pioli knew all along.

🐍 @Samaldinho
 
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Seems like more like rationalization based on your unhappiness with him this season.

Right now it seems that his vision is more aligned with Furlanis.
Based on what exactly? Running Giroud into the ground? Keeping Thiaw until there was a crisis and he lost Gabbia to injury? Burning Vranckx after the first mistake? Hiding Adli in the cellar all season? Forcing CDK to play in a way he hasn’t been played most of his career and insisting he adapts?

How is this the right profile for a coach that has the responsibility to develop young players? After winning the title Pioli transformed. He’s suddenly obsessed with winning. That’s fine, but it comes at a cost and it really doesn’t work with the way Moncada has said he wants his team to be run.
 
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Frankfurt fans shit on N'Dicka. We can do better..Just get an experienced CB for cheap alongside another young talent to replace Gabbia.
The few matches I’ve seen. He is average as hell. But is tall, strong, young and can grow. But who knows.
 
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I’m currently daydreaming about a scenario where Russia never invades Ukraine last year. We win Scudetto that season and finish 4th (5th) this year; ergo, Milan’s fate is completely untouched by this. But so too is Roberto De Zerbi’s… He has never terminated his contract at Shakhtar which is set to expire this month. Gerry sees this as a great opportunity and strikes; replacing Pioli with De Zerbi.
Moncada’s world class scouting, coupled with Gerry’s state of the art team of super nerdy data analyst’s and De Zerbi’s equally nerdy super tactics go on to conquer first Italy, then Europe. It will be likened to when Pep took over at Barca, only greater…

Damn you, Putin!
 
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And what he did to Sheva too
Highly doubt Carlo wanted sheva to leave or didn’t convince him to not.. sheva wanted a different experience so he left, think that’s pretty fucking obvious
 
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you are fucking clown

DO YOU REALY BELIVE WHAT CORPORATE PEOPLE LIKE THOSE TWO CUNT TALK ABOUT MALDINI

Can you relax?

You have joined this forum in 2010.

So my assumption is best case scenario you’re around 27-30 years old? And worst case you’re 35-40?

How can you have meltdowns like this every single day? You’re not a teenager anymore. I’m just stating my opinion

Take a chill pill, Christ
 
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Maldini renewed Pioli. What does that have to do with Redbird? Maldini gave Pioli and 8 out of 10. You don’t give someone 8 out of 10 if you gona fire them. In addition his actions is the reason why it’s tough to sack him in the first place.
Again not absolving Maldini at all. RedBird approved that renewal which was a mistake made by both Maldini and RedBird.
 

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With that Maldini post said, and if I'm putting my emotion aside for a moment, it does seem like what we're going to attempt to do is quite cutting edge - much like how we came to dominate Europe in the first place.

As fans we can only hope it works.
 
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N'Dicka being "convinced" has little to nothing to do with it... No player on earth chooses Roma over us in an open race.
The problem becomes if that deal was so advanced, the agent may not want to risk burning bridges and advise his player to conclude the deal.

That being said, we have CL and we're Milan. We should still be able to conclude it, if we're serious.
 
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Highly doubt Carlo wanted sheva to leave or didn’t convince him to not.. sheva wanted a different experience so he left, think that’s pretty fucking obvious
And then he called him a traitor and when he came back he let him die on the bench to play Beckham and Inzaghi who were not exactly young and promising players, the end result? CL Qualification at the last day having a squd with Kakà, Pato, Ronaldinho, Sheva and so on and on. That's what got him fired
 
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