[CL] Champions League 2011/12 (46 Viewers)

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Alen

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Team of chokers they were, chokers I say and I am sure of it :touched:
The things Milan's number 10 was doing to Barca on that match should have resulted with all Barca players and their coach giving up from football.

Il Genio had the talent of all those Barca stars combined, but just like his countryman that now plays for Juve, he was lazy and inconsistent. But when he had a good day you could only play Queen's "Don't stop me now" and watch Savicevic destroy opponents.
Strange how the guy who was vital for winning CLs and probably the main star of two CL winning clubs doesn't get the recognition of the football world and his name is almost forgotten.
 

acmilan

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Nov 8, 2005
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blʘndu;3590065 said:
disagree...being a top club and selling a young star isn't helping very much...they were awful the following years
that was only for a year and the main issue wasn't that Kaka was sold but that the club didn't invest the money and also that they thought Leo was the right coach for the job - big mistake obviously - and to a smaller extent that a washed up Dinho could replace Kaka. The year after, we brought in Allgeri, Ibra, Binho and things improved a lot.

Kaka was the first player in the Berlusconi era to be sold for the only reason that the club needed the money to cover it's debt, which is why there was no money left for reinvesting in new players, which the team direly needed. He may have been only 27 yo at the time but as it turned out, given his injury issues over the next couple of season, selling Kaka was indeed a piece of smart business by the club.

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Article on the 1994 CL final between Milan-Barça. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/mar/28/barcelona-milan-champions-league-1994 I'd hate to see Barcelona win this competition again, would prefer Mourinho.

"Barcelona are favourites," Cruyff said. "We're more complete, competitive and experienced than [in the 1992 final] at Wembley. Milan are nothing out of this world. They base their game on defence, we base ours on attack." To illustrate the point, Cruyff noted that while he had signed Romário, the Brazilian who had scored 30 in 33 games, Milan had spent the same on Marcel Desailly. "That," he said, "is telling." "Cruyff's words were inappropriate and really struck the team," Billy Costacurta recalled. "Had they not been, things might have been different."

On the morning of the match, the Catalan newspaper El Mundo Deportivo claimed that Barcelona were at their "sweetest moment", against "the poorest Milan of the Berlusconi era: Cruyff is a winner. [Fabio] Capello, by contrast, has not been up to the task internationally." Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten and Frank Rijkaard had gone. Milan were without two of their back four: Costacurta and Franco Baresi. "We weren't favourites," Paolo Maldini recalled. Barcelona knew that only too well.

Cruyff's team talk at Wembley had been: "Go out and enjoy yourselves". His team-talk in Athens was: "You're better than them, you're going to win." In 1992, he was hailed as a genius. In 1994, he was derided as a fool.

Milan smothered the Barcelona midfield. Desailly dominated, Demetrio Albertini created. Guardiola couldn't settle, Barcelona couldn't bring the ball out. Romário never saw it, nor did Hristo Stoichkov. "It was not that we played badly," Cruyff said afterwards, "it was that we did not play at all."

Milan scored twice in the first half, Daniele Massaro getting both. Two minutes into the second half Dejan Savicevic scored a glorious lob. "When the third went in, we knew it was over," the Barcelona goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta recalls. "That was the worst night of my career." It finished 4-0, the biggest margin in a Champions League final. So much for boring, defensive Milan. Massaro collected his medal in Stoichkov's shirt – the Bulgarian was his hero. It was Milan's fifth European Cup; Barcelona had one.
tried to rep you but had to spread ... thanks for the memories :touched:
no Baresi, no Billy, no MvB, and we still kicked their asses :touched: ... for the 98% of the forum, who don't remember this game as they probably weren't even born back then :p, Cruyff's Barca was just as highly hyped as the current one and as clear a favourite as a team could possibly be in a CL final
 

Emmet

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Apr 5, 2006
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What was the reason behind selling Sheva? I read the rumours about his wife pulling the strings saying she wanted to live in London, or was it that Milan knew Sheva was starting to decline and 30m was too good to turn down?
 

acmilan

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Nov 8, 2005
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What was the reason behind selling Sheva? I read the rumours about his wife pulling the strings saying she wanted to live in London, or was it that Milan knew Sheva was starting to decline and 30m was too good to turn down?
he asked to leave and Milan followed their policy of not stopping players, who want out. it wasn't about Milan needing money even if the 45-50 mil, iirc, they got from Roman didn't hurt the club.
Supposedly it had to do with personal reasons about relocating the family, etc.
 
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that was only for a year and the main issue wasn't that Kaka was sold but that the club didn't invest the money and also that they thought Leo was the right coach for the job - big mistake obviously - and to a smaller extent that a washed up Dinho could replace Kaka. The year after, we brought in Allgeri, Ibra, Binho and things improved a lot.

Kaka was the first player in the Berlusconi era to be sold for the only reason that the club needed the money to cover it's debt, which is why there was no money left for reinvesting in new players, which the team direly needed. He may have been only 27 yo at the time but as it turned out, given his injury issues over the next couple of season, selling Kaka was indeed a piece of smart business by the club.

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tried to rep you but had to spread ... thanks for the memories :touched:
no Baresi, no Billy, no MvB, and we still kicked their asses :touched: ... for the 98% of the forum, who don't remember this game as they probably weren't even born back then :p, Cruyff's Barca was just as highly hyped as the current one and as clear a favourite as a team could possibly be in a CL final
Except that you actually had a quality squad with a strong coach back then while your current team doesn't have enough quality.
 

Bianconero81

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Cruyff, as much as I love the player, is an arrogant cuntbag. It was awesome seeing his "invincible" Barcelona team get crushed by an under strength Milan in that final. I recall Barca had two of the 3 best forwards in the world at the time (Baggio being the obvious missing name from that list). Stoichkov and Romario would go on to tear shit up at the 94 World Cup as well.
 

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If Mascherano plays CB, Milan should really try to isolate him against Ibrahimovic and play longs balls to that area.

It may be Milan's only way out, because they are going to struggle to keep the ball and work it forward with that midfield.
 

Red

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Maybe not five goals, but I can't see anything other than a comfortable win for Barca over the two games.

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Might watch Bayern tonight, because I at least enjoy watching them play.

Don't like watching Milan or Barca.
 
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