^About the entire Pato angle - I won't consider anything that Pato says as admissible in this debate because he is an injured party and it is in his interests to blame Milan's doctors. I'm not saying he may be wrong, but that's the natural thing he would do. We don't know whether Milan got his treatment wrong or whether, as Allegri insinuated, Pato should ask himself why he was repeatedly injured.
I know Pato is also injury prone, however with the fact that many squads member also injured...there should be something wrong with the doctors.
Also, like I've said already, there's no reason for Allegri to justify Milan's doctors against Pato as he simply went for the more effective strategy of not giving much heed to Pato's words. If you call me a thief, my media response to that will depend on your credibility. If I feel I'm better off ignoring you, I'll do that.
I meant that both have the same credibility, we are talking about Allegri and Pato...they both have the same credibility. Therefore, someone with more facts or proofs are more credible according to many. However, I know, in this case it's difficult to be sure on which is right, Pato or Allegri. Though, the injuries that we are having cannot be ignored.
Meersemann and MilanLab - Legit point there that we may be cost-cutting with the medical system. Since we are cost-cutting in almost every visible structure to fans, it is logical to assume we are doing the same in things like MilanLab as well. I agree - this may have reduced the effectiveness of the establishment.
Other smaller teams don't need Meersemann and MilanLab to not having problems like we are going through.
Doctors and recommendations - They would tell Allegri that a player is 70% ready or semi-fit or whatever, they may present the data in a layman form - but the final call will always be the management's. That's why it is foolish to blame the doctors for players being rushed back.
Easy question: if the doctor thinks that it is okay to field the player and then that player got injured because of the same problem...is that Allegri fault or the doctor?
We did have issues with the doctors couple of years back and that's why we made a change at the top, and then again another change when the first one didn't work. But since Tavana was brought in to head the medical sector, things have stabilized again. Make no mistake - if the management felt the doctors were giving them wrong recommendations, they'd have been fired long back. No one loves shifting blame as much as managers do.
It depends, therefore I was saying there can be two parties that are doing the gambling...Allegri and the doctor. If the doctor is told to rush the recovery, the doctor is doing the call. If Allegri was told, he's not 100% fit and dangerous to play, it's Allegri's call. So there can be some miss-communication here between Allegri and the doctors.
However, I'm more are blaming the doctor. The doctor's responsibility is to keep our players healthy, doctors are mandatory to be in the training ground with the coach. They have been working with Allegri for about 4 years, so they know what recommendation they should give Allegri in order for the squads not to get the major injuries problem again.
Overall - this comes back to the same argument. MilanLab is a scientific structure. They don't make executive decisions. Cost-cutting and other decisions are made by the management.
Everything bad that happens is basically management's fault. Wrong coach, buy bad players, less fund for transfer, less fund for medical, etc. But if we are having major injuries problem even though we have doctors...whose fault can it be? Allegri? He's not a doctor. Galliani? Maybe he cannot even do CPR. Each staff in Milan has their own responsibility. Doctors are responsible for the players' health, if the players are having major health issues (not just one or two players), I believe it's the doctors' fault.
Sure, one can blame the management for not having the latest best equipments that money can buy for the treatment. But again like I said above, if other clubs that have lesser funds than us don't have major health problems like us, it's quite clear whose fault that is. That is unless Allegri likes to ignore the doctors' advices and keep fielding injured players...which I'm sure not the case.