Comments on: Dream Comings and Goings in Milan http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html News from the Italian Serie A Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:14:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Martha http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33352 Martha Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:35:08 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33352 Well how old is Ruud, 85? For life might actually be accurate. (Thanks, ursus.) And Inara, are you telling me all of Italy don't want to go to Man City? Impossible! Well how old is Ruud, 85? For life might actually be accurate. (Thanks, ursus.)

And Inara, are you telling me all of Italy don’t want to go to Man City? Impossible!

]]> By: Inara http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33345 Inara Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:18:33 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33345 Benzema will leave someday, yeah, but not before the summer of 2009. Anyway, with these kind of interviews, you need an entire salt shaker, the way the media likes to word "interviews." Though nothing is as bad as English media, where they act like every decent player in the world is just dying to play in the EPL. Ugh. Benzema will leave someday, yeah, but not before the summer of 2009. Anyway, with these kind of interviews, you need an entire salt shaker, the way the media likes to word “interviews.” Though nothing is as bad as English media, where they act like every decent player in the world is just dying to play in the EPL. Ugh.

]]> By: Martha http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33342 Martha Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:10:29 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33342 I thought it was recycled first, too, Inara, but my impression from reading La Gazzetta is that it's actually a new interview, with old answers. No one thinks it's happening now, obviously, but he's gonna go somewhere someday -- this sort of thing is gonna sell papers and Spain and Italy, that's why it's in the headlines there, not in France. If you were trying to sell Marca, would you pull quotes that made it sound like he was staying?! (: (The La Gazzetta interview does include those CL quotes, as well as him saying he won't leave til he's ready. Again, though, those won't sell papers.) I thought it was recycled first, too, Inara, but my impression from reading La Gazzetta is that it’s actually a new interview, with old answers. No one thinks it’s happening now, obviously, but he’s gonna go somewhere someday — this sort of thing is gonna sell papers and Spain and Italy, that’s why it’s in the headlines there, not in France. If you were trying to sell Marca, would you pull quotes that made it sound like he was staying?! (: (The La Gazzetta interview does include those CL quotes, as well as him saying he won’t leave til he’s ready. Again, though, those won’t sell papers.)

]]> By: ursus arctos http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33340 ursus arctos Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:02:31 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33340 Fetyani and Inara should be chided for bunking the Milanisti's collective high. After all, dreams are all one has when one is 25 points off the lead with less than half the season gone. Martha, the Marca story is at http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/real_madrid/es/desarrollo/1075937.html, under the headline "El deseado Benzema se confiesa seguidor del Real Madrid". See, he "confessed"; he's never going anywhere else. Didn't make the front page, though, because Van Nistelrooy extended his contract "FOR LIFE" (say the by no means biased hacks at Marca). Fetyani and Inara should be chided for bunking the Milanisti’s collective high. After all, dreams are all one has when one is 25 points off the lead with less than half the season gone.

Martha, the Marca story is at http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/real_madrid/es/desarrollo/1075937.html, under the headline “El deseado Benzema se confiesa seguidor del Real Madrid”. See, he “confessed”; he’s never going anywhere else.

Didn’t make the front page, though, because Van Nistelrooy extended his contract “FOR LIFE” (say the by no means biased hacks at Marca).

]]> By: Inara http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33337 Inara Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:33:28 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33337 Guys, don't get your hopes too high. That interview is recycled from the last time he said he wanted to go to Real, Barca, Milan, or a big European club, etc. If Benzema had said that, it would be in the French press, and it isn't. But <a href="http://www.sportinglife.com/football/overseas/france/news/story_get.dor?STORY_NAME=international_feed/08/01/08/SOCCER_Fra-Lyon.html&TEAMHD=france" rel="nofollow">this interview</a> is. Doesn't sound like a player who is eager to leave. FYI, Chelsea's 40m bid for Benzema was rejected. Lyon are serious about keeping him. I can't imagine any club offering more than that. And since Benzema isn't forcing a move nor is he saying what is preference is, negotiation will be impossible at this stage. Guys, don’t get your hopes too high. That interview is recycled from the last time he said he wanted to go to Real, Barca, Milan, or a big European club, etc. If Benzema had said that, it would be in the French press, and it isn’t. But this interview is. Doesn’t sound like a player who is eager to leave.

FYI, Chelsea’s 40m bid for Benzema was rejected. Lyon are serious about keeping him. I can’t imagine any club offering more than that. And since Benzema isn’t forcing a move nor is he saying what is preference is, negotiation will be impossible at this stage.

]]> By: Martha http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33335 Martha Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:27:13 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33335 I've seen some of those, Adam -- apparently smoking a hookah is a pretty hardcore experience! I’ve seen some of those, Adam — apparently smoking a hookah is a pretty hardcore experience!

]]> By: adam http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33333 adam Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:08:06 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33333 pictures of milan in dubai ronaldo and carlo smoking kaka looks stoned http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?p=147665015#post147665015 pictures of milan in dubai ronaldo and carlo smoking kaka looks stoned http://www.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?p=147665015#post147665015

]]> By: Martha http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33330 Martha Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:24:56 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33330 Thanks, Fetyani -- I link the the interview in the post, too. (And I can't find the Marca front page online. Anyone?) Thanks, Fetyani — I link the the interview in the post, too.

(And I can’t find the Marca front page online. Anyone?)

]]> By: Fetyani http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33328 Fetyani Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:17:47 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33328 this is the whole quote. he did mention Milan, but along with Madrid, Manchester, Inter & Juve. Gazzetta mainly focused on the Milan part. "For me, the Rossoneri are my dream club,” the hitman told the Gazzetta dello Sport. “Ronaldo has always been my idol. "I like Milan, though I must admit I do support Real Madrid. I also like the big squads such as Juve, Inter and Manchester United. The important thing is to win.” "I will only leave Lyon once I feel in the right frame of mind and ready for the move,” this is the whole quote. he did mention Milan, but along with Madrid, Manchester, Inter & Juve. Gazzetta mainly focused on the Milan part.

“For me, the Rossoneri are my dream club,” the hitman told the Gazzetta dello Sport. “Ronaldo has always been my idol.

“I like Milan, though I must admit I do support Real Madrid. I also like the big squads such as Juve, Inter and Manchester United. The important thing is to win.”

“I will only leave Lyon once I feel in the right frame of mind and ready for the move,”

]]> By: Martha http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33326 Martha Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:04:00 +0000 http://italy.theoffside.com/serie-a/dream-comings-and-goings-in-milan.html#comment-33326 That is brilliant, ursus, I'll go try to grab a cap of that headline. I hope these writers get together for drinks regularly, and laugh about their glorious lies. Francesco, I can help -- will email you in a bit. That is brilliant, ursus, I’ll go try to grab a cap of that headline. I hope these writers get together for drinks regularly, and laugh about their glorious lies.

Francesco, I can help — will email you in a bit.

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