Calcio mercato: Last chance saloon for Cassano?

Antonio Cassano's move to AC Milan has been dubbed as his last chance at the big time. After dramatically falling out with Sampdoria club President Riccardo Garrone Cassano was frozen out of the squad for virtually all of this season, and since that moment the anticipation of his likely destination has been hot topic. Somewhat surprisingly in my view Milan have answered the call instead of Inter or Juve, both of whom are in far greater need of a world class forward than the Rossoneri. Nonetheless, with Pato, Ibrahimovic, Robinho and now Cassano upfront few teams in Europe can boast a better armory. 

However, will Cassano be able to settle here? The answer probably will be yes in the short term at least. Milan is a club used to big ego's and getting the best out of them, although in some respects this does not seem to be Cassano's problem on the pitch at least. Never one to hog unnecessarily Cassano was the perfect foil for Giampaolo Pazzini upfront carving out chance after chance for the young Italian hitman. His main problem has been his temper and his inability to control it. Asking the referee for a fight in one of his infamous 'Cassanata's' perhaps being the pick of the bunch. Additionally, from Milan's viewpoint, it's worth noting too that with the exception of Bari Cassano has hardly left any of his following clubs on good terms falling out with Del Neri at Roma, Capello at Real Madrid and now Garrone at Sampdoria. What would make the same any more unlikely at Milan? Perhaps it is the fact that in big clubs terms at least this is probably his last chance, and a chance that he may well of believed he would never get anyhow having seemingly been settled at Samp coming into this season. The truth is however that players of Cassano's ability will always be wanted, even if he ends up becoming a journeyman like Baggio who ended his playing days between Bologna, Inter and Brescia.