Gacek
Milan Veteran
Few months ago after mercato I wrote this:
Literally noone agreed with me, each and every one of you wrote nothing but love letters to Fassone and Mirabelli because all of them were doing was spending money without any idea - and you felt on it, all you needed and wanted was spending money, even without any reason. All I needed was four months to prove me right. Unfortunately, I would prefer seeing my points wrong but Milan on a higher position.
What I wrote then?
That Biglia is worse than Montolivo and will be a bench player along Locatelli;
That Kalinić is far worse than Bacca;
That we don't need Bonucci;
That money should be spend on LW, vice-Kessie (or simply leaving Kucka) rather than on Kalinic or Biglia;
That we don't have players to any system - we have too many registas, strikers, CBs but too less b2b midfielders, too less wingers. We don't have wide players for 4-3-3 and 3-5-2.
Let's be honest and fair - Galliani would have done a lot more with this amount of money. I don't blame just Montella - all he did was ruining our fitness. It's a lot, but with better players it wouldn't ruin our season. I don't blame entirely players - we do not have a complete team, so we don't play like one.
To me it was Fassone and Mirabelli who ruined our season - they failed miserabely in mercato, they sold wrong players with buying even worse. It is mostly their fault - coaches and players aren't saints, they made their mistakes, but with intelligent mercato we would be on totally different level.
Hopefully Mirabelli will start acting like a man and will take the blame. Then Fassone needs to decide whether to keep Mirabelli with his hands tied and force him to buy only the players this team needs - not just quality ones - or let Mirabelli go ruin other teams with bringing to Milan a better sporting director with a clear vision.
I wouldn't have anything against sporting director in Monchi's type - who works separately from coach's demands, all I want is a sporting director who buys players with a reason and idea. Who understands that we don't need 5 CBs and 3 strikers when we play with 2 CBs and 1 striker while in the squad there are just 1 b2b midfielder and 1 winger for 3 positions...
http://forum.acmilan-online.com/showthread.php?p=2750002#post27500026/10 mercato's rate is as much an exaggeration as saying it was 10/10.
Without starting LW I would hesitate between 7 and 8 out of 10. Buying bench players like Biglia, Kalinić, probably even Musacchio (Bonucci has to play, Romagnoli suits him better) won't have any sense without a decent striker. And staying with Borini on LW position would be catastrophic. He wasn't good enough for Sunderland FFS! We should focus on the bench AFTER completing our first squad.
Also this APACF event as an interview between Fassone and Mirabelli is the biggest marketing flop I've ever seen and believe me, in Poland I've seen a lot of those. It beats "Inter is coming" or "Mr X saga" in a heartbeat.
Literally noone agreed with me, each and every one of you wrote nothing but love letters to Fassone and Mirabelli because all of them were doing was spending money without any idea - and you felt on it, all you needed and wanted was spending money, even without any reason. All I needed was four months to prove me right. Unfortunately, I would prefer seeing my points wrong but Milan on a higher position.
What I wrote then?
That Biglia is worse than Montolivo and will be a bench player along Locatelli;
That Kalinić is far worse than Bacca;
That we don't need Bonucci;
That money should be spend on LW, vice-Kessie (or simply leaving Kucka) rather than on Kalinic or Biglia;
That we don't have players to any system - we have too many registas, strikers, CBs but too less b2b midfielders, too less wingers. We don't have wide players for 4-3-3 and 3-5-2.
Let's be honest and fair - Galliani would have done a lot more with this amount of money. I don't blame just Montella - all he did was ruining our fitness. It's a lot, but with better players it wouldn't ruin our season. I don't blame entirely players - we do not have a complete team, so we don't play like one.
To me it was Fassone and Mirabelli who ruined our season - they failed miserabely in mercato, they sold wrong players with buying even worse. It is mostly their fault - coaches and players aren't saints, they made their mistakes, but with intelligent mercato we would be on totally different level.
Hopefully Mirabelli will start acting like a man and will take the blame. Then Fassone needs to decide whether to keep Mirabelli with his hands tied and force him to buy only the players this team needs - not just quality ones - or let Mirabelli go ruin other teams with bringing to Milan a better sporting director with a clear vision.
I wouldn't have anything against sporting director in Monchi's type - who works separately from coach's demands, all I want is a sporting director who buys players with a reason and idea. Who understands that we don't need 5 CBs and 3 strikers when we play with 2 CBs and 1 striker while in the squad there are just 1 b2b midfielder and 1 winger for 3 positions...