Rate Your Club's Transfer Window

7/10

Sanchez, Chambers, Debuchy and Welbeck all great signings. Needed a DM but Diaby will cover that. CB huge problem though.

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Not really happy that the team is completely overhauled i.e. too many changes for my liking. I have no problem letting Postiga and Jonas leave but we should have kept Bernat, Mathieu, Guardado and Banega. Perhaps Mathieu could go considering we really ripped Barcelona off but the rest, I'm not so sure.

I think we have signed some overrated players like Rodrigo. We really lack classy players in midfield where it used to be our strongest position over the years. I like Parejo and I think he's improving year after year but who else do we have to partner him in midfield? Racing rejects Zuculini and De Paul? Not ready. And why is Fuego still here, or let me rephrase why did we sign him in the first place?

5/10

Does the Addition of Negredo add to that num?

TalkingReckless wrote:Does the Addition of Negredo add to that num?

I rather we still had Soldado instead

Still, an upgrade over Postiga so I should be happy.

Considering what we have gone through on last occasion this has been a beast of a transfer window. Uber happy.

8 out of 10. Needed a back up right back and one more CB as well. Couldnt get them. So 2 points scrapped. Otherwise it would have been a perfect window. But yea huge improvement nevertheless.

Replaced Fabianski and Sagna with Ospina and Debuchy, signed a good young talent in Chambers and got Alexis.

Sold Vermaelen, didn't replace him. Still have Flamini and Arteta as DMs. Didn't sign a better striker than Giroud. Got Welbeck. At least he's better than Sanogo.

So 6/10 for Arsenal.

Sevilla signed Barbosa, Arribas, Carrico, Pareja, Kolodziejczak, Tremoulinas, Krychowiak, Mbia, Banega, Denis Suarez, Deulofeu, Vidal and Iago Aspas, which just about makes up for losing Fazio, Moreno and Rakitic. Emery signed a new deal. Kept Bacca.

8/10, I think. Not sure about the quality of some and a few loose canons in that lot.

Kloppo says 10 from 10:

Spent about £20M excluding the Negredo money.

Kind of surprised they let Huws go.

Negredo offer was too good to turn down. Can only think Iheanacho will be the fourth striker when hopefully he gets his work permit next month.

Sad to see Micah go but hopefully he'll get back on track in Italy.

Core of team signed long term contracts so i'll give it 8/10.

RealGunner wrote:7/10

Sanchez, Chambers, Debuchy and Welbeck all great signings. Needed a DM but Diaby will cover that. CB huge problem though.

I think Chambers will be the full time CB. Bellerin will probably be the second choice RB. Last year we had 3 Cbs, this year is the same story pretty much.

Maybe I'm crazy but Chambers has looked far better at CB than Vermaelen has in a long time.

I'd agree with the 7

Diaby

Pardew

6/10

Unhappy with selling Di Maria, who was a vital player.

Unhappy with signing James Rodriguez based on WC hype.

Happy with signing Kroos as a replacement for Alonso.

Di Maria and Falcao.

RealGunner wrote:Pardew

I don't follow

Signing James was a disaster as far as i am concerned. I have a very good feeling he is going to flop. It's one thing to sell di maria, but if you sell a player that was playing box to box for your team, dont replace him by a n10 who has no clue what playing box to box is like. Stupidity of the highest degree.

But hey, i have heard enough fans telling me how he is the best player of the next generation, future golden ball winner, so what do i know right?

Mr Nick09 wrote:Signing James was a disaster as far as i am concerned. I have a very good feeling he is going to flop. It's one thing to sell di maria, but if you sell a player that was playing box to box for your team, dont replace him by a n10 who has no clue what playing box to box is like. Stupidity of the highest degree.

But hey, i have heard enough fans telling me how he is the best player of the next generation, future golden ball winner, so what do i know right?

maybe perez engineered James move purely on the model or philosophy that has been always the case of Perez... always buy popular player... its good for marketing.

James is a good player but i agree i also didnt understand, there was absolutely no necessity of bringing james. not even Tony Kroos. should have kept Xabi Alonso instead.

if anything, Real madrid needed only striker in my books, and that was falcao... personally i think Benzema was the only weakest spot of the madrid squad.


feels as if madrid has weakened themselves by buying James Rodriguez and Tony Kroos and unsettling the likes of Alonso and Di maria

Xabi left on his own, we didnt sign Kroos to replace him straight up. Both were going to play a whole lot together, but Xabi just decided to go for reasons we will never know. But my take is simply that it has to do with the BS casillas pulled, getting madrid to sell Diego. When we did that, meritocracy died all over again.

that's the move that truly weakened us. To me, Falcao wasnt needed, Benzema just needed a good back up and we were ready to go again.

Now we are just going to rely on Khedira-modric-Kroos in big games. Illarramendi needs to stop being a p*ssy and play up to his talent as well.

For Barcelona I'm thrilled with our business.  For some reason people have been taking shots at some of our moves but I don't really get it.  

I know a lot of people on here never watch La Liga so they may know the names of some of the players we signed but not there true quality.

I love Ivan Rakitic and he has been a beast for a while now.  Last year vs Madrid (if anyone actually watched the game) he was the best player on the field and one of the best players in La Liga for the entire season plus he's tall at 6'0 which we need badly. I think we stole him for what we paid.

Again if you know anything about La Liga you would know Barca have had there eye on Jeremy Mathieu for about 3 years now.  He can play almost any position on the back line and he has a ton of quality defensively and going forward plus again he's TALL at 6'3.  Yes he's 30 but he really hasn't shown age slowing him down or getting him injured or anything like that.  

Luis Suarez, not much to say.  Top 3/4 player in the world and brings a nastiness we needed so badly.  Plus I may be the only one who believes this but he's also an insurance policy should Neymar continue to not really play up to his potential in our system.  I do believe there are some concerns starting to take shape on that front as IMO Bale who he will always be compared with is totally outplaying him.

The keepers we signed Bravo and T. Stegan are quality and seeing I was never a huge Valdes fan they were good signings for the money and getting 2 of them so we hopefully never have to see Pinto in goal again is a blessing from god.

Re-signing Mascherano is gold.  I love this player and I could care less if he's a CB, DM or whatever the guy is awesome.

Alexis Sanchez- The guy runs his socks off but he misses so many chances.  He did better last year but I know Arsenal fans are infatuated with him now but believe me they will get frustrated with him.  He is not a world class players as some would have you believe.

The last thing I like and the best signing of all is Luis Enrique and a shift back to playing our youth players.  It was a system that worked for many years and why we got away from it probably due to that ass clown Rosell who was the worst thing to ever happen to the club is beyond me. The youth players bring a hunger/fresh young legs and willingness to run through a brick wall/plus they know the system.

What I didn't like:

Thomas Vermaelen, no offense but if he can't play for Arsenal he probably can't play for us, plus he's always injured we knew he was currently injured and still pulled the trigger.  Just dumb IMO.  He will be a total flop.

With our transfer ban we don't really have the luxury to gamble on a guy who's always injured there were other options out there.

Christian Tello- I love the guy and thought he was electric off the bench for us.  I'm not really a huge fan of letting him go, I think we will need him this year.

Gerard Deulofeu- I'm split on, I would have liked to keep him but only Enrique knows how much he would have played.  I'm glad he has a minutes clause in his loan to Sevilla.

It it were this year only I would give us a 9/10.  Since we were basically signing for 2 years because of the ban I would say 7.5/10 and if Suarez goes off like I think he will then more like a 8.5/10.

Why isn't Di Maria good in terms of marketing. Top 2 player in Argentina imo.

JespSwe wrote:i want to say that Chelsea has undoubtly have had best transfer market so far... with atletico... although (with atletico i have only two worries, Courtios should have been replaced with Cech... they should have asked Cech in return) and Felipe Luiz is a massive loss and i dont think atletico has found a better replacement.

They had no grounds to ask for anything in return for Courtois its not like we bought Courtois from them.

Milan had a huge mercato, signing 12 and getting rid of 18 players...

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ISSUES

1. Deadwood removal

I set out a list of unwanted players earlier in the transfer season, and most of them are now gone. All of the following are no longer Milan players: Amelia, Coppola, Silvestre, Constant, Emanuelson, Nocerino, Traore, Birsa, Kaka, Robinho, Matri. I would've also liked to have seen Bonera, Zaccardo, Mexes and Essien leave. I'm particularly annoyed that the last 2 are still at the club, although I think their playing time will be significantly minimised due to new signings (Alex, Bonaventura).

2. Balotelli Out; Torres In

I think this needed to happen for Inzaghi to implement the fast counter-attacking style we saw against Lazio. To play like we did in that game you can't have any passengers. Milan lose Balo's antics, but we also lose the publicity he brings to the club. However, publicity is a minor concern. My main problem with the sale of Balotelli has always been that the money probably won't be reinvested properly (or at all). Only time will tell if Torres is an adequate replacement. I can't think of a better tutor for Torres than Inzaghi.

3. Cristante Sale

A poor piece of business for only 6m. He was a promising youth product and now he'll probably be sold back to us or someone else for 5 times the fee Benfica paid for him. I think Inzaghi would have at least been consulted on this move. He knows Cristante better than the fans. The case may be that in Inzaghi's eyes Cristante wasn't going to make it at Milan... or maybe we just needed quick cash? Either way, it's disappointing to see him leave whilst Essien remains.

4. Poor purchases

Of our newly signed players, I think that Agazzi is the only player who adds nothing to the team. Fortunately, due to the signing of Diego Lopez, Agazzi has been relegated from 2nd choice to 3rd choice GK (Abbiati is now 2nd choice).

5. Excellent purchases

* Alex, Lopez, Menez and Armero already look like being significant upgrades on their predecessors.
* Poli is now fully owned by Milan. During this season he will hopefully develop from a good player into a great player. Conte sees promise in him and has called him up for Italia to face the Dutch.
* Rami's signing gives us much needed depth and flexibility at CB.
* I am particularly pleased at signing Bonaventura after I mentioned that he was available a couple of weeks ago. His presence will keep Essien out of the team until Montolivo recovers at least. I am also pleased that we finally beat Inter to signing him.
* Albertazzi had a good season with Hellas and is another Milan wing-back youth product. He will make sure Zaccardo never sees the field in an injury crisis.

6. Van Ginkel Loan

I would've liked to have seen an option to buy added to this deal. Now we have less incentive to use him, and in the case that he does play and turn out to be good, Chelsea still own him. Although, I have serious doubts as to Chelsea's willingness to keep him when their transfer strategy is often to offload youth products in favour of brining in established stars (e.g. see Lukaku).

SUMMARY
Overall rating: 7/10
Pros: Most of the deadwood is gone; many good, cheap signings
Cons: Cristante gone; Torres potentially unreliable

Milan have a very very interesting team. SES being one of my favourite players in the world and with the new additions(including Torres n Van Ginkel), I am going to try and watch more than last year. last year i did watch few games because of Kaka but Milan were unwatchable(no offence) lol.

The highlights for the first match were promising though!

Forza, whilst I agree with most of it, I have told you that Lukaku's situation and MVG's situation are not comparable due to the fact Lukaku didn't want to compete and forced his way out, MVG is very much not like that. I doubt he'll force a move away if he performs well.

8/10.. I love Kroos, I think Hamez will be a success, and Navas is really good

Losing Di Maria sucks though sure, but at the end of the day his natural position is a winger and he's not better than Cristiano or Bale out there

I think this needed to happen for Inzaghi to implement the fast counter-attacking style we saw against Lazio. To play like we did in that game you can't have any passengers. Milan lose Balo's antics, but we also lose the publicity he brings to the club. However, publicity is a minor concern. My main problem with the sale of Balotelli has always been that the money probably won't be reinvested properly (or at all). Only time will tell if Torres is an adequate replacement. I can't think of a better tutor for Torres than Inzaghi.

Forza, the only reason we sent Van Ginkel out on loan is because of Mikel, who'll be gone by January or next summer latest. Van Ginkel was injured for most of last season and needed to be playing week in week out. Hopefully he performs well at Milan. He has a future at Chelsea.

P.S. Mikel is eligible for a British passport in October so it would have been really cruel of Chelsea to sell him this summer. That, I think, is the main reason he's still a Chelsea player. Once he's gotten that, he'll be off. Like I said, if not January, next summer.

RealGunner wrote:Milan have a very very interesting team. SES being one of my favourite players in the world and with the new additions(including Torres n Van Ginkel), I am going to try and watch more than last year. last year i did watch few games because of Kaka but Milan were unwatchable(no offence) lol.

The highlights for the first match were promising though!

No offence taken. Milan were unwatchable. We played a really ugly style last year. We played with no speed, no creativity, no urgency, no intensity, made constant defensive mistakes and struggled to create chances going forward. That is the very definition of unwatchable when it comes to football.

As for this season, the Lazio game was very encouraging - and not just because of the result. For the first hour, in particular, we played an exciting, technical, quick style in a 4-3-3. Then we reverted to 5-3-2 and played entirely on the counter. It was an interesting experiment, and we'll see what Inzaghi makes of it in the next few games.