Jeez, You’d Think the Transfer Window Was Closing, Or Something

By: Martha | August 21st, 2007

Hello, my loving fans. Oh wait, it is. I suppose that explains the marked increase in frantic running around, and the associated upswing in articles detailing potential deals of varying degrees of plausibility.

Let’s start with what is suddenly the most likely of them all: According to at least two different sources, agreement has been reached between Real Madrid and Milan, and Emerson will officially make the move back to Italy once Adriano Galliani gets off the plane in Madrid and signs some papers — presumably later today. After weeks of haggling over price, Real saw the light and, if Google isn’t leading me astray (as it so often does), agreed to sell the midfielder for about €5 million, less than half of what they originally demanded. For his part, Emerson is apparently going to make €3.5 million/season, which is so completely insane I’m hoping it’s a translation issue. Please let it be a translation issue.

In other transfer news, Alvaro Recoba is now being connected with his 39th club in the past two weeks and, really this one comes as no surprise at all, what with him being on an Italian team and all. Yes, that’s right: Sven Goran-Eriksson is after him. Well, that’s not entirely true — what actually (supposedly) happened is that Inter approached Manchester City on their own volition, coyly asking if they might happen to need a striker the moment poor Valeri Bojinov did a knee and found out he’d miss five months. Borderline evil? Maybe. But hey, it’s good business! It sounds like Man City are willing to pay about €6 million for Recoba, but there’s no indication yet of how willing Inter are to accept that offer, nor of whether Recoba would go to England if they did.

Thirdly, things are maybe not so rosy in the world of Antonio Di Natale these days. Alongside persistent reports of interest from Fiorentina (supposedly to the tune of about €8 million) have come reports of a bust-up (more emotional than physical, sadly) between Udinese and Di Natale’s agent, who is furious about being stood up when he turned up for extension talks. Uh oh. It’s maybe a sign things aren’t going well when a club entirely forgets your agent exists.

And, finally: Just like everyone else, Real want them some Zlatan. Of course they do. According to this morning’s AS, Inter would let the Swede go for €20 million, and Real simply have decide whether they’re willing to pay that price or not. Also, I’ve got some swampland in Kansas I’m looking to off-load cheap, if you’re interested.

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Category: AC Milan, Fiorentina, Inter, Rumors & News, Serie A

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k

umm id like to point out that real paid 30 million for an uncapped central defender... if moratti had any brain cells still alive and he were to sell him to real it would be no less that 50 million... ITS REAL FOR GODS SAKE... snieder for 27 and pepe for 30... zlatan is obviously miles better
Jamie

lol, damn, i must not keep up with the gossip like you.
it was new to me.

i should change my name to jamie, i don't go by jameson, i don't know why i put that.
Martha

Jameson, that story's been going around for a while, though the version I've heard most has Mrs. Z doing the cheating first -- there's even stories that one of their sons is Pippo's. If nothing else, it's more (alleged) evidence of Pippo's mysterious, scrawny power over hot women.
chris

Zlatan will move to Real eventually, maybe not this year or next year, but it will happen. And as far as Inter's Euro dreams go, they don't have a prayer. A good manager on a small team could easily out-think Mancini over two legs. I think Z will realize that sooner rather than later.
Jameson

don't know where to put this, but has anyone heard this before

http://www.mediotiempo.com/edi...

this guy's version of the materazzi-zidane saga is that zidane allegedly cheated with a model named nadiya, and zidane's wife got mad at him when she found out and slept with none other than "superpippo" inzaghi. so, when zidane told materazzi he could have his shirt, materazzi told zidane that he wuld give the shirt to pippo as it wouldn't be the first thing of zidane's he had. the rest is history, and that also explains why both guys seemed reluctant to say what was said, as it would have been really awkward to explain the whole situation for pippo and zidane.

I have no clue if this is true, but makes for good reading
cheers
Martha

Chris -- I know Zlatan is crazy, but right now he has no reason at all to leave, even if the price was right. He's got a guaranteed spot on a team that holds the domestic title and is telling itself it's going to make big noise in Europe next year. We'll see how things look next May.

Ady -- I'm one of the few who actually doesn't mind the deam (though of course I'm not a Milan supporter). I think Emerson's a solid presence, and especially at the price, I don't really get why Milan fans are pissy about it. The €3.5 million, however, strikes me as MADNESS given his age.

Thanks, Marco, I was hoping it was another of my "Pato to make €10 million/season" -style errors.
Marco

No mistake in translation Martha, the TgCom article clearly writes 3.5m Euros. However, they're the only ones with that information it seems (nothing about the wage on Gazzetta or Kwsport). So perhaps they got the number wrong or are just speculating.
Fetyani

Its official,

Emerson to MILAN =)
Ady

The first objective remains Antonio Of Been born them. Of sure something preciser it will be known in the day of thursday

I swear Martha, you need to post a Google Traslation warning. Sometimes that thing makes my eyes bleed...

So OK, pretend I'm new to all this - which I am. Why is Emerson going to Milan such a bad thing? I thought he was playing better towards the end of last season. I understand that Milan have hardly acheived what they needed to (so far) in the transfer market, but...
chris

Zlatan's dream is to play for Real.

As resident expert on all thing Zlatan, especially his direct quotes, you can trust me on this. But 20m won't get it done. 40m might. And it won't happen unless Bernd is really considering having 3 up top. Real's stacked at forward.
Martha

It's surprisingly cheap, isn't it Steven? I mean, given his production and everything. (Thanks, fixed it.)

Joe, I think it'd be beyond stupid for Ibra to go to Real and, possibly naively, I'm actually not too concerned he will -- he seems very settled (though for him I know "settled" is a relative thing) at Inter and is discussing an extension.
Steven

20 bucks? Alright, where can I pick the fucker up?
Joe

I mean, honestly, how can you like Real Madrid? They are just a trecherous club with horrible tactics. Man, what a bunch of louses. Good thing I don't give a toss about La Liga.