Gazzetta
Pre Season Preview
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Clubs pull in over £100m in profit but loose Gabi Barbosa
Much like last summer the transfers were clearing out more squad players to give youth more opportunities.
Ignazio Abate gets a testimonial against Palermo. Signed on youth terms in 2002, a few loan spells led to a move to Torino but after one season Milan brought him home in 2009. In his decade at the club he's played over 20 games in all but 2 seasons despite being the back up DR. Entering his senior years but with lack of a youth DR coming through means he'll still get plenty action.
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Manager Changes
Frank De Boer - Barcelona
Julen Lopetegui - Man City
Targets
Serie A - Winners
Italian Cup - Solid Cup run
Champions League - Semi Finals
We hold every trophy possible to win now so this season will be known as operation retain
Transfer Window
All our new signings are either back up or youth, Including Thiago who nobody else was signing for some reason. Barbosa is the huge loss the rest were back up players already loosing time to the U19s
AC Milan
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In
Thiago - MC
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Not sure what im missing here but he's only 28, played almost 30 games every season for Bayern but sat on the dump heap for over a month till i made a deal to take him to Milan. We will not miss out on a future fee when the time comes. I just felt Bertolluci, Mauri & Mastalli was a bit light in the middle so Thiago with his versatility will be a great addition if not mostly for depth.
Ramon Janssen - DL
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Far too good for Utrecht and a great addition on a free to be the Abate of the left wing.
Two Youths
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Out
The biggest move we made possibly so far was the sale of
Gabi Barbosa. No getting away from it he was awful last season and Man City & Barcelona entered a bidding war & thankfully Gabi took the extra £3m or so Man City offered us. Huge profit but will it come back to haunt us? Man City didnt stop there. They spent another £20m to pry
Simone Pontisso from our back up team. Both of our backup defenders were sent on there way. With 12 months left on his deal
Jherson Vergara was always leaving for Newcastle for £4.4m. The better half of the CB's
Rodrigo Ely joined the list of overpriced Brazilians joining PSG for £21m and a potential £10m in future fee's. More players than ever out on loan.
Serie A Transfers
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We were not the only team selling our star players. Juventus sent
Martin Odegaard back to Real Madrid for £30m and Lazio sold
Felipe Anderson leaves for Bayern for a meager £8.5m leaving Kaka & his Lazio team to make the biggest deal to buy
Niklas Sule from Hoffenheim for £22m. Juventus make one great signing in
Pjanic from Roma then a few horror moves adding
Serge Gnabry £20.5m &
Jason Denayer £12.25m. Better transfers from the other Italian clubs.
Marcelo &
Erik Lamerla join Udinese, Lazio also add
Mario Balotelli, his team mate
Christian Benteke joins Inter Milan and FM15 star
Tony Sanabria joins Atalanta from Germans Stuttgart.
World Transfer
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How much money do City have? They take the turn to spend mega money. Great move by Barcelona to get Lucas Moura for £16.5m
Champions League Draw
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We'll finally play my favorite club Man Utd. Shakhtar will provide a challenge for the top 2. Basel should finish bottom but well its Basel. Juventus got a group where top 2 will be simple, Valencia, Galatasaray, Anderlecht but Inter got PSG & Barcelona. Man Utd thrashed Pescara who drop to the Europa League
Italian Super Cup
AC Milan 1-0 Juventus
Romagnoli
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Only a goal in it as usual but could it have been any more dominant?
European Super Cup
AC Milan 4-0 Gelsenkirchen
Calleri 3
Laan
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Calleri scored a hattrick well before half time but got injured by the end and will miss most or all of September
AC Milan Squad 2019
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One change in the 1st team Henk Van Der Laan takes over from Barbosa. Plenty players among the backup players a few from the u19's too which is encouraging.