Transfer Rumour - Diego Milito

[Don_Felipe]

Please move this thread if it's in the wrong place....

No inside info or anything like that - but Guillem Balaguer on the Times Football podcast reckoned that there was no way David Villa was going to come to Spurs, but that we were after Diego Milito.... who he really rated.

Here's the obligatory YouTube vid (which is also a great excuse to get Los Fabulosos Cadillacs and Andres Calamaro on to SC - ¡¡¡¡¡AGUANTE LOS CADILLACS KARAJO!!!!!! ahem...)

Any thoughts?

 

[sloth]

Cheers for the clips Don. Very very reminiscent of senor Lineker, with those perfectly timed runs and uncanny ability to just get a toe, knee, shoulder, whatever onto it and poke it past keeper.

 

[yid0]

with zaragoza possibly going down we could take a few players off these lot...
aimar?
Militio?
Sergio Garcia?
Diogo?

 

[mdharris]

whos the strike partern in those goals, that fella is who we should get man

 

[mdharris]

ewerthon?

 

[van_Pommel]

with zaragoza possibly going down we could take a few players off these lot...
aimar?
Militio?
Sergio Garcia?
Diogo?

Aimar would be awsome, he'd be straight on the back of my shirt! He's quite similar to Modric though.

 

[michaelden]

I'd rather Diogo of those listed.

Back on topic, Milito would be useful too

 

[michaelden]

Lampard is definately considering a move to totenham according to my friend Avram Grant, (A GENUINE yid).

That is straight out of left field. Are you ill or did your glacoma prevent you from following the thread topic?

 

[gavspur]

I've never seen much of Milito, seems like a more controlled (fitter) version of Mido.. Which could be good, he's prob more direct than Berbs (who often slows the pace of our attacks) and could be good at getting on the end of thru balls and crosses.

 

[Dharmabum]

No gracias. He's already 29 this summer and by the time he's adjusted to the EPL he'll be 30, and past it.
I rather have a 25-ish hungry striker that want to achive something "big" in his career - fex. Mirko Vucinic (Roma)

 

[van_Pommel]

No gracias. He's already 29 this summer and by the time he's adjusted to the EPL he'll be 30, and past it.
I rather have a 25-ish hungry striker that want to achive something "big" in his career - fex. Mirko Vucinic (Roma)

Vucinic is a great shout.

We need a Torres clone!

 

[chileanspursfan]

Update on Milito in Marca (Spain)

http://www.marca.com/edicion/marca/futbol/1a_division/zaragoza/es/desarrollo/1120965.html

Marca quotes Gazzetta dello Sport claiming that Napoli are chasing Diego Milito to establish an Argentinian striking partnership with Ezequiel Lavezzi.

The interesting part is that it seems that Zaragoza is willing to negotiate the initial 15 million Euros fee because of their compromised league position.

Milito has already played in Italy for Serie B outfit Genoa, after excelling in the Argentinian First Division with Racing Club.

 

[tommo84]

with zaragoza possibly going down we could take a few players off these lot...
aimar?
Militio?
Sergio Garcia?
Diogo?

I'd love Sergio Garcia - but wouldn't he need time off to play in the Ryder Cup? International duty and all that.

:grin:

 

[Jon Shelfside]

I found this info on the Net, and he seems a good buy.

I had to cut bits out as it was too long, but I think you will agree he looks good.



Reasons Why Barcelona Should Have Signed Diego Milito and not Thierry Henry

Written by Hugo Steckelmacher. Tagged: Barcelona - Features - Thierry Henry



I was going to write a type of homage to Diego Milito during the transfer window as I anticipated that a move to a bigger club was imminent for the Zaragoza striker.
Milito was heavily linked with Tottenham and Manchester City (who, strangely in my opinion, opted for Benjani) during the January sales. Since no transfer has materialized,

In contrast, one has to go back to the 2001/02 campaign for the last time Diego Milito played fewer than 34 games in a season (for Zaragoza he has played 36 and 37 respectively), and this despite the strain of playing the odd international fixture in Argentina.


5. Ego and lifestyle
Diego Milito is the consummate professional, a team player who eschews the headlines and keeps out of trouble on and off the pitch – Milito is happily married (to an Aragonese, no less, so he has proper links to Zaragozan soil). Milito is an excellent leader and as club captain has held together a Zaragoza squad threatened by mutiny throughout the season with pride and class.
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6. Style of play
a traditional number 9 who is not only a natural striker (as is Eto’o, for example), but can also hold the ball up superbly (I can think of few strikers over the world who do a better job: only Drogba and Van Nistelrooy spring immediately to find) and is a massive threat from set pieces. How many goals do Barça’s strikers score from headers, either through in-play crossing or from set-pieces? 7.

8. La Liga experience
Diego Milito has two terrific La Liga seasons under his belt, including an excellent last campaign in which he took the fight for the Pichichi to the last weekend before losing out (23 goals to 25) to Ruud Van Nistelrooy. Milito has continued in the same vein this season, and is currently one place beneath Luis Fabiano at the top of the goalscoring charts (14 goals to 16), whilst being part of the most fruitful attacking partnership in the league – he and Ricardo Oliveira have together contributed 23 goals to the Zaragoza cause.

Milito has already etched his name somewhat into Catalan folklore, having accounted for 4 of the 6 goals in Zaragoza’s amazing 6-1 Copa del Rey demolition of Real Madrid in 2006.