retired_vanessa_marco

Associazione Calcio Milan is an Italian football club based in Milan, they play in red and black stripes, giving them the nickname Rossoneri ("red-blacks").

One of the most successful clubs in the world, they have won the prestigious UEFA Champions League six times (second only to Real Madrid), the Intercontinental Cup 3 times, the Serie A title 17 times (only rivals Juventus F.C. have more Scudetti) and the Coppa Italia (Italian Cup) five times. In total they have won 12 European trophies which is a record shared with Real Madrid. It is also one of the most supported football clubs in the world, and along with Juventus and Inter Milan one of the most popular teams in Italy. Milan are currently the number 1 ranked club in Europe according to UEFA's co-efficient ranking system.

The club was founded in 1899 by Alfred Edwards, a British expatriate. In honour of its origins, the club has retained the English spelling of its city's name, instead of changing it to the Italian Milano (though it was forced to do it during the fascist regime, like Genoa and Inter); it should be noted that the Italian pronunciation is actually MEE-lahn, even though the English one is the same as in the local dialect and many other dialects of Northern Italy (e.g. Venetian).


2006/07 squad-


1 GK Dida
2 DF Cafu
3 DF Paolo Maldini (captain)
4 DF Kakhaber Kaladze
5 DF Alessandro Costacurta (vice captain)
7 FW Ricardo Oliveira
8 MF Gennaro Ivan Gattuso
9 FW Filippo Inzaghi
10 MF Clarence Seedorf
11 FW Alberto Gilardino
13 DF Alessandro Nesta
15 FW Marco Borriello
16 GK Željko Kalac
17 DF Dario Å*imić
18 DF Marek Jankulovski
19 DF Giuseppe Favalli
20 MF Yoann Gourcuff
21 MF Andrea Pirlo
22 MF Kaká
23 MF Massimo Ambrosini
25 DF Daniele Bonera
27 MF Serginho
29 GK Valerio Fiori
32 MF Cristian Brocchi


Best starting XI-

GK- Dida
DR- Cafu
DL- Kaladze
DC- Maldini
DC- Nesta
DM- Pirlo
MR- Gourcuff
ML- Seedorf
AM- Kaka
ST- Oliviera
ST- Gilardino


Areas for improvement-

GK- Get a younger backup keeper (kalac is just *****)

DF- 1 younger CB to replace the aging Maldini, and a new RB to replace the tiring Cafu

ST- Theres quite a few quite young strikers for AC, but they're not really proven(except for gilardino)and Oliviera. So try and get shut of Inzaghi and bring in a new really young ST and try and rotate him for him to get experiance.



Finacial-

In the bank- £19,000,000
Transfer Budget- £10,000,000
Wage Budget- £973,686
Current wage total- £706,789

retired_toad72

I was gonna start a Thread on AC

As one of my favourite European Clubs I will definitely be having a save with Milan :thup:

retired_gomab2k4@aol.co

good start.

did you really start as them or you just on starting-thread-spree?

retired_vanessa_marco

i did start with them... im sorry for posting loads of threads... but its only beacuse my games keep getting corrupt for some reason. think ive sorted it out now :thup:

aldorfc

Milan thread

already one but since it had a poor opening post.. might be better if this one stays open and that one's closed.

retired_vanessa_marco

Oops im really sorry i did search abd i looked in the CLub guide thread and it wasnt there, so i thought nobody had made one

retired_toad72

Too right :thup:

The first opening post on that other one is pretty unhelpful

retired_vanessa_marco

Anyway, i currently have tabs on Benoit Costil, and Brede Hangeland a 25 yo norwegian international CB

retired_vanessa_marco

just got £23,000,000 never knew that they would give me more money if i asked

retired_mrbadboy

Very much doubt Hangeland would be good enough for AC Milan.