Comments on: Pato Begins Life As A Superstar By Saying Stupid Things

By: moka

moka — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:54:01 +0000

7 goals in an 8-0 match. .. While one side of me says WOW, that’s AMAZING, the other side tells me, well, who else is going to score?! Inzaghi? (It’s not the CL in training) Gila? (mm.. no) Ronaldo? (I doubt he puts any effort)

Look, I’m glad the kid’s confident, and that’s a result of Ancelotti and crew reiterating how he’s gonna be amazing and what not. I trust Ancelotti (only him), when he judges players, soo, I think he’s gonna score one on Sunday.

*countdown – 4 days, 7 hours, 36 minutes*

By: shehan

shehan — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:00:35 +0000

as a milan fan, the confidence is, umm, promising? but the cockiness is definitely unclassy.

but, at the same time, i am doubting the sources. most of milanchannels’ interview transcripts are put up on the official website, and there is nothing of that perpetrated interview on the website. the only possible theory is that goal.com made that up.

but still, the management hailing him as kaka’s savior is not the proper way to do things. i guess theyre just doing the bread and circuses game with us milan fans, which is very disrespectful.

quick fact: milan had an offense vs. defense game a month or 2 ago.

score? 8-0 for the offense. pato scored 7…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:54:25 +0000

I wish the management had that much bravado! “We’re going to sign at least one, maybe two players this Sunday.”

I’ll give the kid the benefit of the doubt until I see him play a real match, but if it’s obvious to me, it should be obvious to the management that one player, howEVER good, cannot turn a team around in the second half of the season…

By: John

John — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:37:17 +0000

I don’t know, I mean it could’ve been translated wrong. He might have been joking around, or maybe berlusconi wrote a script for him.

By: Hana

Hana — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:54:24 +0000

“The quiet class of legends and superstuds such as Maldini, Pirlo, Gattuso (alright, not so quiet), Ambrosini and Kaka makes the squad itself difficult to hate, at least for me.”

you hit the nail on the head. (hammer on the head? whats the phrase…whatever.) that’s why i love being a milan fan. we have a classy bunch (and the family thing is true, really! as contrived as it sounds!). im guessing that oddo is still on your hitlist though.

yeah bonnie, ive been riding the denial train for a while, but i think its time to hop off. ive come to terms with our situation, just hoping we can do something about it.

chris, don’t give up on pato just yet. even without the statement (which is admittedly not so smart), he’s still been pretty good natured about the pressure otherwise. i really want him to do well (if only to salvage our pride a bit.) well see what happens this weekend.

By: Bonnie

Bonnie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:42:44 +0000

You’ll all feel bad come Sunday when he does score the brace. (As a Milan fan, I have decided to forcefully live the rest of this season in denial.)

By: Laurie

Laurie — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:01:14 +0000

McTalian, Oh, yeah! The U-20 WC! Now I know where I’ve seen him play. And I agree with you. A bit of a punk.

By: Martha

Martha — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:56:55 +0000

And, of course, the club aren’t helping with their “30 goals in the second half!”, “he’s the messiah!” bullshit, either.

By: mctalian

mctalian — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:40:06 +0000

sure, pato’s got loads talent and a brazilian pedigree that alone tagged some extra zeros on his price tag. But he’s still an unproven entity to me, and apparently a pretty cocky one at that. He might be in for a rude awakening.
PS: I remember watching him at the U-20 WC (or U-21 was it?) over the summer and thinking he was kind of a punk, not to mention that he got outplayed and outclassed by Adu in the US/Brazil matchup.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:22:13 +0000

Well said. He may have talent but he certainly does not get it. He does need a lesson in humility and respect for sure and I hope Napoli gives it to him.