Odds and Ends As We Laugh at Milan
By: Martha | September 25th, 2007
•Former Milan player Oscar Damiani, now a FIFA agent who somehow oversees his old club’s transfers, has revealed to the press that Milan decided mid-summer to stick with poor Alberto Gilardino after they had already made “positive contact” with strikers such as Luca Toni, Ruud Van Nistelrooy and David Trezeguet. Brilliant. (In case you’re not up on these things, Trezeguet has five goals in four games, while Gila hasn’t scored with anyone but his wife in months.)
•Going to Manchester to see Roma play them in the Champions League? La Gazzetta wants to make sure you enjoy your stay.
•Alongside Billy Costacurta, his fellow ex-Azzurri mainstay (of both the Italian and the Chelsea variety) Gianluca Vialli has now been thrown into the rumor mill for the QPR job in England. It seems when an hard-partying Italian buys a football club, he’s required to hire a countryman to be his manager. (No word from anyone on what current manager John Gregory — who The Fiver this morning eloquently called a “slick-haired failure-merchant” — thinks of all this.)
•Still hopelessly trying to improve his club’s reputation, Catania president Antonio Pulvirenti has announced captain Davide Baiocco will receive a fine on top of his two game FIGC suspension after Sunday’s sending off. The suspension is for the red card; the fine is for the throat-cutting gesture Baiocco threw at the referee as he left the pitch. Yeah, and you wonder why their supporters think they can act the way they do.
•Milan will never stop shopping for strikers, despite the presence of the Great Gila. The latest allegedly on their radar are the in-form Antonio Di Natale and Nicolas Anelka, as well as the club’s collective obsession Ronaldinho, for whom Silvio Berlusconi has allegedly set aside a cool €100 million, including €10 million/season for his salary. Mmmhmm. That’s not crazy at all.
•That whole “really rich Chinese guy wanting to invest in Inter” story is still floating around, this time with the addition that Massimo Moratti is willing to talk to the investor, Li Ka-shing (who happens to be the ninth-richest man on earth). According to the latest reports, Li would not only offer €140 million for transfers, but also instigate a complete clear-out of the club’s management team. [Insert your own unpleasant comment about Mancini here.]
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