For the Love of God, Galliani, MOVE ON ALREADY
By: Martha | November 2nd, 2007
Back in August, Milan’s Adriano Galliani impressed us all (No, really.) with his announcement that his team had come thisclose to signing Theirry Henry over the summer. If only Barcelona hadn’t come in with their massive wage offers, Titi would totally have been solving all of Milan’s goal scoring problems right now.
In case anyone missed it back then, Galliani is now banging on about Henry again, and this time he’s added Luca Toni to his list of almost-Rossoneri. For anyone who still cares, the Milan VP told Sky Italia yesterday that “there was a moment in which Toni was very close to Milan.” See? They were totally trying to buy players! Stop the hate, would you people? Of course, as we all know, Toni ended up at Bayern Munich rather than Milan and, as we speak, is busy blowing doors off the Bundesliga with his lanky skills. And, unlike Henry, he didn’t stiff Milan for financial reasons, he just went abroad because he liked Bayern better. Ouch.
I suppose all Galliani is trying to do with these periodic “revelations” is show Milan supporters that he was not, in fact, sitting on his hands all summer, imagining his strike force would be just fine. But, really, does that matter? The point is that, apart from Gila, no Rossoneri strikers have even scored in Serie A this season. How do you say “close only counts in horseshoes” in Italian?
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This would really piss me off if I were playing for Milan right now. I mean, do you think the boss could focus on the quality there already is in the team, support his players, and give them the confidence to turn the slow start to the season around (which may already be happening).
And as far as Toni goes, I’m not sure I believe it. But who knows with the transfer speculation. Toni said that out of loyalty to Corvino/Della Valle/Prandelli that he would only go to a club outside of Italy. I’m also sure that the 5 million euros/year salary didn’t hurt.
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I wonder how much attention the team play to Galliani. I know he talks a lot, but I have no sense at all of what his role is like in their lives or consciousness(es). I suppose it varies from player to player, but I do wonder, generally, how much they listen to his pronouncements.
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Doesn’t this make Galliani sound a bit incompetent. Why would you harp on about all your failures to sign players as though its a positive thing?
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What both tmc & patcook said! How does this possibly inspire your strikers to play well? You’re basically telling them that you had no confidence in them and spent the entire summer trying to replaces their *sses. And since you failed, and are now beholden upon their feeling confident and producing, perhaps it would behoove you to be quiet.
And wasn’t Galliani’s perceived lack of confidence in him (i.e. by deserately seeking strikers all summer) one of the reasons why Gila wanted to leave? Good grief!
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Everybody and their aunt knew that Milan were trying to sign a striker during the summer, though. It was kind of hard not to notice when Galliani was banging on about Eto’o or Drogba or whoever all day.
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(Linda, I can’t find the comment or the post now, but I meant to tell you how much I loved that “All day in Milan they dream of Barca” line from the newspaper. So, so wonderful.)
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It was, rather. Sport may be embarrassingly partisan and borderline hysterical, but at least they come up with gems like those and feeds my obsessive tendencies with inane trivia about the team. (e.g. Thuram’s kids come to training so often they have their own locker in the home dressing room. And other deeply important stuff like that.)
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