Why are people salty? This is fantastic news for United and keeping DDG
Gianluigi Donnarumma | Official: Contract extended to 2021
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Kid is an absolute moron.
Jesus they're happy he's going, has he done something wrong prior to this? Hasn't he always spoken highly of milan, how much he loves Milan etc?
Well naturally they are disappointed. He spoke of his love for his boyhood club and less than six months wont even renew a contract and wants to leave for Madrid.
'Donnarumma, I've come to bargain."
So,are we going to pay now,some reduced fee or will wait one year?
The second option can be difficult for the player, a whole year in Milan knowing that he is leaving.
Besides Zidane won't be able to promote Luca Zidane this next season,which is in my opinion one of the reasons why he didnt want another goalkeeper
The second option can be difficult for the player, a whole year in Milan knowing that he is leaving.
Besides Zidane won't be able to promote Luca Zidane this next season,which is in my opinion one of the reasons why he didnt want another goalkeeper
That is exactly why they're pissed off. They've given him a chance since he was 16 (not many clubs would do that), and all the talk about how much he loves Milan and kissing the badge against Juventus 3 months ago only to leave not long after has pissed them off.
There isn't even the excuse that Milan will be underachieving for the future. They've got new investment and are investing heavily in the squad. The fans at one point had thought that this would help ensure he stayed (and both Donnarumma and Raiola delayed negotiations which helped this line of thought as well). Turned out they had no intention of staying.
How much do you think he'll go for? record fee for a keeper?
Would Pogba have left if he was a regular starter for us? This kid is just something, I cant think of any kid who has done this to a club of Milans stature
We're overpaying for Morata if rumors are to be believed. It will wash in the end.
I don't see the problem with this kid being ambitious. People need to realize that the GK position at the biggest clubs in the world are rarely available, it's not like the other positions where you can rotate and hope to take your chance.
My understanding is that Fat Mino asked for a release clause if they don't make CL and Milan didn't agree. So why would he stay at Milan when you can go and play for the best team in the wold?
My understanding is that Fat Mino asked for a release clause if they don't make CL and Milan didn't agree. So why would he stay at Milan when you can go and play for the best team in the wold?
My pref was to send DDG to Madrid for James+Morata and then try to get Donnarunma.
The kid has great potential and will likely be better than DDG in 2-3yrs imo
The kid has great potential and will likely be better than DDG in 2-3yrs imo
Didn't know we have so many closet Milan fans.
If Madrid have promised him he'll be first choice, he has every right to go.
This loyalty stuff is a myth. He's a professional and this is his job.
How many of us would reject a better salary at a more prestigious company?
If Madrid have promised him he'll be first choice, he has every right to go.
This loyalty stuff is a myth. He's a professional and this is his job.
How many of us would reject a better salary at a more prestigious company?
Too early to say he'll be worlds best in two three years.
Premier League is different especially for goalkeepers. In the outfield your weakness could be masked by the player next to you but when you are a GK you are all alone. The point Im trying to make is we trained and fought so hard to make De gea premier league proven and to transform him from a scrawny little kid to the man he is today to deal with the physicality of the premier league. So it wouldnt make sense for us to throw it all away and do it all over with another kid especially when De Gea is so young and can easily play for another decade. Why throw away certainty in exchange for uncertainty?
In what world would that happen.
Not really the same as your typical job though. He has the Milan fans, who he made false promises to. It wouldn't look so bad on his part had he not been lying about himself being Milan's etc.
I thought that was the obvious move but they signed ArsePIG.
I don't think the Italian clubs are up for exploiting this with each other. They've always run an ordely calcio market. Bound to change with foreign owners though.
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I think the people who believe that crap are gullible. Ronaldo said he was staying few weeks before signing for Madrid, Fabregas vowed to never play for another London club. The list is endless.
Players will stay as long as it's in their best interest to do so. Only on very few occasions is that not the case.
Fans need to realise this. The concept of loyalty is bullshit.
Clubs tell players to feck off all the time.
The same goes for players.
I don't understand the people having a pop at Raiola.
He seems to me to be very good at his job and that's why players love him.
The idea that he's forcing his players to move is fanciful.
He's about to add Dembele to his list.
He seems to me to be very good at his job and that's why players love him.
The idea that he's forcing his players to move is fanciful.
He's about to add Dembele to his list.
I was not talking about this business, unless you are naive and you think Mendes or Raiola are Very Serious People.
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That's all true, but it's still a sad state of affairs. I still don't think it's the same as your average Joe's job because he has people paying out of their own pockets to come and watch + support him whilst he does his 'job'. Whilst this shouldn't be used to hold him to ransom if he wants to leave, he shouldn't have made false promises either. As you say he is within his rights to leave if he feels its in his best interests, but then people have every right to call him out on it too. Doesn't make them closet Milan fans at all.
A few points to take away from this if he does end up at Real:
- They're going to have an insane amount of world-class potential young talent: Donnarumma, Mbappé (if that goes through), Asensio, Odegaard and others.
- I can't see De Gea leaving anywhere now. Unless Atletico get bought by a sugar daddy, especially if the whole thing was genuinely about him missing Madrid the city, and not about him becoming bored of life at United in general.
- I can't even begin to imagine what kind of ride Raiola will want to take us on when Pogba nears the end of his contract. I'm hoping Paul puts a stop to the BS early and clearly tell him he'll want to stay.
- They're going to have an insane amount of world-class potential young talent: Donnarumma, Mbappé (if that goes through), Asensio, Odegaard and others.
- I can't see De Gea leaving anywhere now. Unless Atletico get bought by a sugar daddy, especially if the whole thing was genuinely about him missing Madrid the city, and not about him becoming bored of life at United in general.
- I can't even begin to imagine what kind of ride Raiola will want to take us on when Pogba nears the end of his contract. I'm hoping Paul puts a stop to the BS early and clearly tell him he'll want to stay.
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I've heard he said Milan were his dream club that he saw himself there till he is 38. At that time, those things might have been true.
I don't think it was anything sinister to lead AC Milan on.
It comes down to what I said before. It's his profession and in any profession, things change.
I understand that it's shitty for Milan but that's how it works and it has always worked. It's just that in those days the figures were smaller.
I have read countless biographies of footballers who said they left because of money or held their club to ransom.
The only way this doesn't make sense for Donnarumma, is if he doesn't play.
In Pogba's case, the best option is to make sure we are competing for titles and we renew his contract long before it expires.
I feel bad for Milan tbh. I would have expected him to sign a new deal regardless so they'd get more money.
Now he will get booed by both sets of fans.
He could have signed an extension for a year with a reasonable release clause but not agreeing to renew your contract was bad. It leaves Milan with no other option but to sell him and don't even have the negotiating power to haggle. The other option is to let the 6 months run and let him go for free.
There is nothing to worry with Raiola, he is easy to deal with.
It is clear what the man wants is to be paid. If you play hardball over any excessive fees he is demanding, he will play you like a violin and he will find a way to take his client elsewhere to a club that does want to give him a good payday.
If we give the guy a good fee and allow him to establish a foothold at our club so he can do regular business with us, he will not feck us over. He is not stupid, he will not bite the hand that feeds him. You just need to be sure as a club when dealing with him that you are feeding him more than other clubs and that you can afford it.
PSG has made a crazy offer for him but he wants to join Real according to Di Marzio
What was bad was that on the side of ACM they let it come so far. If they had renewed his contract last summer, this would not have happend. It is a golden rule, you don't let the contracts of your best players run down to their last year before discussing renewal. You put youself in a difficult position and make it easier for the player to move away if he wants to.
It doesn't show great loyalty on the part of Donnarumma and he might be fecking himself big time in terms of playing opportunities. But if he has been assured he will be the main keeper at Real Madrid and he gets paid significantly more money for the next couple of years and he sees this as an opportunity for himself to win alot of silverware and proof himself in the CL, why would he not do it ? It all comes down to believing in that Milan project and compairing it with the alternatives. If he thinks Real is a more interesting project for him, who are we to criticise him for making the decision not to renew his contract at Milan ?
It's about rejection of a new deal forcing the club to make a decision for a lower fee.
So we are either keeping DDG or getting this kid.
Don't blame him. He's going from a complete trainwreck of a club to the best team and most attractive club in the world. Going to make a ton of money, too. Would do the same.
We have seen it before , it's always Madrid behind. All this navas talk in there is a sham.
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