Barca wantsAlves ......

..And Milan have the Problem they either bring Players 20 and less or players 30 and more

They have no Good Solution

i find it is actually a great solution because i respect their transfer policy...

• Always leave room for the best player in the World...
• Defenders at peak are close to 30, give or take 3 or 4 years
• Strikers are pretty good, Inzaghi(33), Gilardino(23), Pato(18), Ronaldo(31) ~ always good to have experience with youth, that way when Inzaghi and ronaldo moves on, you just get another couple strikers of similar calibre who will emerge especially if Gilardino and Pato don't turn out to be superb or effective
• Midfielders are at ideal ages with experience and not too too old ~ Makelele shows that you can be a defensive midfielder after 30, so Gattuso is there, your main man can be between Pirlo and Kaka who are not old and Seedorf maintains a standard from experience.

All in all, i find that Milan have an effective transfer policy where they don't pay that much for players, so they can afford to pay them and keeps the squad relatively fresh but balanced and stable by keeping certain players to form a core.  Remember how Leonardo, Weah and Bierhoff weren't exactly young either.  They've maintained this formula and it has worked, not only for them, but Juventus used it as well until the Italian scandal put them off a little, but you'll notice that it is still similar with Nedved, Del Piero & co forming what is similar to Inzaghi, Seedorf at Milan and let's not forget their defenders who left ~ cannavaro and zambrotta ~ fit the bill of close to 30 give or take 3 or 4 years are still playing.  Let's not lose sight of who were winning the trophies.  Even Inter Milan taking advantage of Juventus' situation does the same thing with their defenders, midfield and attack.

Top scorers and performers in Europe are identical ages to the Milan model of forming teams, so i wouldn't complain about age...Milan didn't want Shevchenko to go, but you don't find players like Shevchenko everyday

Barcelona agree fee with Bayern Munich for Lahm
tribalfootball.com - November 22, 2007

Barcelona have struck terms with Bayern Munich over a fee for left-back Philipp Lahm.

German media sources say a deal worth £10 million has been tentatively agreed, though the prospect of Lahm moving to the Nou Camp in January has been ruled out.

wtf, abidal and zambrotta (at times) is not good enuf for them? lahm for 10million pounds only. bayern seriously this guy is goin to be the best lb in the world soon. hopefully ur source (tribalfootball) is incorrect.

Welcome Azulrongjie!

The home of great football...1 pt behind Madrid and gaining fast.  By Christmas, we should be ahead by 5 pts...

Please Post things in here rather than create a new heading.

Slight slip by Barca, but all in all a good result for the team as a whole...we needed a chance to take our foot off the pedal and let some players get a run as we've qualified and won the group already.

Eto'o might get a run, Jorquera, Olegeur, thuram, gudjohnson might get another game, Mark Crosas, sylvinho, henry, ezquerro...still a good team that can go out and get a win against stuttgart.

We haven't had this chance for awhile...

barca's qualified havent they?

yup ~ qualfied as group winners too! 

...Yes..they did grewat work..

they faced a tough group...

I believe the players should have more respect for Ronaldinho atleast Rijkaard the guy led you guys to your last Cl Cup win....

Bojan is a great young lad...

hope to see him more in the futture..

and people must stop saying the Messi is the only one doing good in the team.....

messi sux. well he is alrite, just not a team player imo. but i dun like him. barca aernt doin anythin for ronnie. he shuld leave as soon as he gets the chance.

yup i quite agree....it's like everyone jumped on ronnie's back immediately after the World Cup and not many or any of his teammates or persons at the club convincingly supported him.  Both Messi and Eto got injured to start the season and all everyone was saying was that Ronnie was out of form and forgetting that the rest of the team needs to pul their weight if they have to depend on Ronnie so much, unless they are not good enough and overrated without Messi, Eto'o and Ronnie in form.

I don't want to see him go though, but Milan seems to have a midfield opening by way of Seedorf being injured and dipping in his form too.

and the fact that ac have a really old team and kaka along side ronaldinho makes a very scary and younger midfield.

Ya see Ronaldinho would kinda replace Shevchenko in how Ancelotti started playing him after his goal production started to decrease, right behind the striking position, so Ancelotti would have a valuable contribution to goals and a overall improvement in the squad balance.

It's interesting that AT Barca everyone is criticising Ronnie { through a campaign i think fuelled by Madrid}, yet Chelsea, Milan, Middlesborough {lol} and so on stil would love Ronnie in their team and see him as one of the best still.  Even Maradonna who should really shut up at times said that Ronaldinho would be considered as one of the best footballlers still, but I wrote him off when he said that Rooney was better than Kaka...he carries his Argentine bias too far sometimes, i'm sure of it...

of course he does, but he isnt far off if im being honest.

Kaka's goals from open play as an AM in the calcio in 06/07: 4.

Rooney: 14 of his 23 were in the league, with 11 assists to boost, as a support striker, and yes he plays deep.

 Of course, thats just stats, but i think Rooney has the class and touch that great ones have. Add to it the pace and determination, and you have a top 10 player there.

messi came 3rd for ballon d'or didnt he? dus he deserve it??