Are AC Milan, Ronaldo, Inzaghi and Kaka losing their pulling power?

nice article......Ronaldo has always performed best when everyone thought he is gone for good...i wdnt b surprised if he makes one last comeback and pips Ronaldinho , Kaka for the Player of the Year award in the next year or two

I think we've all been saying this for about the last 5 seasons, having sat in the Stadium in Athens last May unfrotunatley it isn't coming true. They may be getting old, they may even be outplayed for 90 minutes (like in May) but they can still pull out the goods. I personally think they're robots.

last year when ronaldo plyad for real madrid there was no much support from the coach,and wen he joined ac milan he showed he is still the best in the world.ronaldo rocks 07-08 season

if liverpool played football not defensive american football it would be a different story. Its a known fact that liverpool played the most unattractive football in the world. Every team that tries to play real/attractive football gets whipped against milan... just ask man utd, your league winners.

its true milan were outplayed for the first 45 minutes of the game, solely for reason that it took 45 minutes for milan to adjust to that horrendous style of football that liverpool play against teams that are better than them. However your sore loser statement that milan were outplayed also in the second half proves how your point makes no sense. Watch the game again, you were outplayed in the second half. The usual tactics of killing the game by unattractively spraying the ball up whenever it comes to your feet was undone by milan's class.... remember, class will beat scare-tactics anyday.

I watched the match in the ground and then at home. What's clear is that Milan played ot their strengths of solid defensive football (Nesta, Maldini) rather than in 2005 when they DID attack and were beaten. The time before that when they won the European Cup had 11 men behind the ball against Juventus (who also had 11 men behind the ball). To hold AC Milan up as the bastion of attacking football when they are famed across the world for their 1 goal, stand off and let the other team attack then poach a second is famed. It's what they're brilliant at. It's how they won.

Milan are not the side they were and people can see that. Despite being the second best team in Athens, they won the trophy. We can hardly complain, we robbed them, they robbed us right back, evens. My point is, Milan fans deluded themselveds into thinking they were still European giants and the big names would arrive. As it has been shown, their fortuitous win did not fool any of Europe's stars, hence none of them have gone there. Degs, clearly itching for an excuse to use the word 'bastion' I see

Class will beat scared tactics any day? Really? Em, Istanbul?

C'mon Liverpool fans, Milan are a far better team than you lot are. You havent won the Prem in 17 years and the semi finals of the CL with Chelsea were so bad I changed channel. You have to admit you play the most boring football in the world. If you can't see the fact that Milan have football greats like Maldini, Ronaldo & Kaka. Alongside top class players in Nesta, Pirlo & Gattuso. They have made 3 finals, a semi final & a quarter final of the CL in the last 5 years, winning it twice. Fernando Torres is no Shevchenko, no Ronaldo, no Kaka. Please admit that Milan ARE Giants of European football, Liverpool WERE Giants. Liverpool will never have a Fifa world player of the year in their team, Milan have. The Demolition of Man Utd by Milan was glorious.

Milan will be signing Pato. He maybe inexperienced but he has some serious potential. Only 17 and is going to cost £20m already!

there is no doubt ronaldo is the best in the world.he will prove that next season.he can win a match out of nothing

WE KILLEEEED U LIVEEERFOOOLSSSSS

Nice to see a Liverpool fan gracious in defeat as always. Milan have Nesta, Pirlo, Kaka and yep, Inzaghi, they are hardly short of big names. I don't think beating Liverpool is going to give them delusions of grandeur

The Italian league is in decline, the average attendance in stadiums has never been as low compared to all of Europe. This is due to the corruption and all the problems that derived from it, since it got exposed and investigations are still on going. To add to that matter, the crowd troubles in the stadium also didnt help the attendance at all. As Juventus will need time to become a European power again, this year's calcio is a rope pulling competitions with two adversaries, two sides Inter Vs Milan. I dont see any of the rest as capable of targetting the league cup. Moreover A.C. Milan has just won the Champions League, and any player moving to a great club would have the Champions League dream taking shape in his mind. So if the Italian league is not in good shape and if the team has already won the champions league (the last time it was won in a row in 1990 and not surprisingly by AC Milan!) so a repetition of that glory isnt very possible, Milan were able to focus on the champions league since they had

ac milan is the best no matar what ever you say hahahhahaa liverpool hahahahahahahaha

IT IS A PETTY THAT THE GUY SEEMS TO HAVE LOTS OF INJURY PROBLEMS,BUT HE IS JUST A BEST STRIKER EVER, WITH HIM MILAN WILL DEFINITELY WIN EVERY TROPHY

LIVERPOOL SUCKS- 2004/2005 ASIDE- LIVERPOOL HASNT WON A CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SINCE LATE 70'S EARLY 80'S- A JOKE- SINCE THEN AC HAS WON IN 88 89 93 02 AND NOW- NEED I SAY MORE? OUR GRETATES PLAYERS ALSO BECOME THE WORLD'S GREATEST COACHES--- frank rijkaard- VAN BASTEN- DONANDONI-ANCELOTTI- CAPELLO--ECT. ECT. ECT. WE ARE BY FAR THE BEST TEAM IN THE LAST 20 YEARS. I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN MILAN AND WAS PRIVILEGED TO BE ABLE TO WATCH SUCH FOOTBALL GREATS AS: BARESI-MALDINI-WEAH-VANBASTEN-GULLIT-RIJKAARD-SHEVA-GA LLI-RIVALDO-BOBAN-PAPIN-SAVICEVIC-- SHALL I CONTINUE.........................................?

It just shows how the best team did not win the Champions League. They were basically playing on one front due to the complete lack of good teams in Italy besides Inter and Roma (and now Juve, since they're back). They were the most rested team in the Champions League. Manchester would have beaten them if not for injuries, fatigue, and inexperience.

Liverpool had more rest before the final than Milan so they cant complain and the weekend before Milan played Man U they were still in a battle for top 4 and if they had have rested too many players could have ruined their chances of a top 4 finish but their gamble paid off and they managed to rest a few stars and keep winning while their league opponents dropped points and by the second game against Man U they were pretty much safe. what it show is the lack of depth Man U had last year and their poor management of players fitness through the season

SORE LOSERS .MANU LIVERPOOL ETC. ENGLISH LEAGUE SUPPOSED TO BE BEST IN EUROPE HAHA.MILAN CHAMPIONS LEAGUE WINNERS ,ITALY MORLD CUP WINNERS . WHAT HAVE ENGLAND WON .MIGHT HAVE MOST MONEY IN EUROPE BUT APART FROM ARSENAL AND MANU THE FOOTBALL IS LIKE VERY POOR .ALWAYS LONG BALL .

the best AC.MILAN

Another nice wonderful gift would be Adriano, thanks in advance.

Liverpool yes is a good team, but not in the same class as AC Millian, in that game Lpool were looking for answers they were not good enough and wont be this season, because of the name Ronaldo not C Ronaldo and he will be the best in 2008.(Ronaldo)

roaldo kaka the beast

You've got to be kidding. That's just pretty sad. He was proflific but now he's washed up. He may have scored 2 goals against Liverpool but one game doesn't prove your class. He hasn't been that good for Milan, his heyday was a long time ago. He may be one of the best poachers of all time but he's not even the best of his generation. That's Van Nistelrooy. Moody git he may have been but his goal scoring prowess was phenomenal. His record speaks for itself. It's far better than Inzaghi's. So Milan do actually need a new striker as Kaka is an attacking midfielder. And Milan were quite lucky to win that final. Liverpool are by no means a bad team and Milan aren't the best.

While there is no doubting the class of