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Milan has to sell before buying, says Galliani
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November 29, 2012, Thursday
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AC Milan CEO Adriano Galliani said the club will have to trim its playing personnel before any new players can be brought to the club.
Seven-time European champion Milan qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League last week and followed up with a 1-0 win over Juventus to hand the champion only its second defeat of the season on Sunday.
Now sitting ninth, albeit 14 points adrift of Juventus, things are looking rosier for the Rossoneri after they lost the spine of their squad over the summer and went on to begin the season in disastrous fashion. Despite already losing big names like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, both to PSG, Galliani has not ruled out more departures.
"I suffered a lot from the sale of Ibrahimovic but the economic situation in this country is what it is," Galliani said. "Ibra was a great player but he was luxury we could no longer afford."
Ibrahimovic's departure paved the way for Stephan El Shaarawy to come through to Milan's first team, and the 20-year-old has since scored 10 league goals to top Serie A's scoring charts.
"With Ibra in the side El Shaarawy may not have scored so many goals," added Galliani.
With the January transfer period on the horizon, Galliani said Milan, owned by former Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is in the selling market.
"We have 23-30 players. First we must sell then we can buy, when we have reduced the squad size," he added. "We have some players who want to leave, not many, and others who we had already sold but who didn't accept the offers because they like it here at Milan."
Seven-time European champion Milan qualified for the last 16 of the Champions League last week and followed up with a 1-0 win over Juventus to hand the champion only its second defeat of the season on Sunday.
Now sitting ninth, albeit 14 points adrift of Juventus, things are looking rosier for the Rossoneri after they lost the spine of their squad over the summer and went on to begin the season in disastrous fashion. Despite already losing big names like Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, both to PSG, Galliani has not ruled out more departures.
"I suffered a lot from the sale of Ibrahimovic but the economic situation in this country is what it is," Galliani said. "Ibra was a great player but he was luxury we could no longer afford."
Ibrahimovic's departure paved the way for Stephan El Shaarawy to come through to Milan's first team, and the 20-year-old has since scored 10 league goals to top Serie A's scoring charts.
"With Ibra in the side El Shaarawy may not have scored so many goals," added Galliani.
With the January transfer period on the horizon, Galliani said Milan, owned by former Italy Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is in the selling market.
"We have 23-30 players. First we must sell then we can buy, when we have reduced the squad size," he added. "We have some players who want to leave, not many, and others who we had already sold but who didn't accept the offers because they like it here at Milan."
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