People blaming Gattuso should stop doing so.
Our results this season have come as a consequence of two main factors:
1. Montella was completely clueless with our new squad, and our squad was clueless with each other. And over that cluelessness loomed an uncertainty in the quality of the squad as a unit, and rightly so one might say, because so many players had little more than some half-impressing years on their CVs. It was a strange bunch, really, and the only world class player, the game changer, was a CB. Of course our strikers have flopped, but it's never really been clear who was the regular starters, and insecurity combined with no luck produced two mediocre new signings.
2. Galliani finished his 30 year run with completely deleting our identity as a quality club with high class players. This produced an expectancy and a confidence in our players that gave them a core to believe in. We completely ruined our status as a top club when we sold Ibra(even though I never thought he could give us greatness) and Silva(who could have). After that things went one way, and our squad piece by piece turned in to pure second or even third tier. This is such an important fuck up because it takes away that belief in the shirt for the players. So even when we signed reasonably good players last season, what else than fan expectancy do they have to anchor their self belief in? Nothing, because every walking Milan player from the last 5-6 years already in the squad is a walking reminder of what mediocrity and uncertainty looks like. Ergo is there nothing for them to inherit, nothing for them to create champion mentality from. When Rino comes in he changes that, but that effect came too late and now the players have confirmed for themselves that they weren't good enough either to recreate the quality of the past.
We really owe Silvio and Galliani some real unfiltered hate for 1. not selling the club when he no longer wanted to win and 2. for running it in such a shit way after that.
