But I hear that Despite the solid performances of Ignazio Abate, Milan are still looking to sign a new player in the right-back role.
it can be Alisson Veloso Ricardo or Rafinha
this is because Milan's management are retards. We should give Abate half a season to a full season to see if he can be a solid RB. Don't bash him if he has a bad game or two, but lets see how he does over the course of the season and we'll see if he shows promise (lets not make another Gourcuff mistake). If he does, than we should keep the faith in him seeing as he's our own youth product for fucks sake!! Then we can just search for a LB. If Abate pans out, he could be exactly what we've been looking for... a young, youth product who has immense promise. And, if he doesn't pan out, then we can search for a RB and try him in midfield. I get so sick of people saying where he can play and where he can't play... its disgusting... its not like when somebody is born they can only play 1 position... Personally, I think that us giving Abate fair chance (half a season to a season worth of games) is really a good litmus test as to the direction our management will go... we will either give the kid a chance and put faith in our youth, or we will not, and just look elsewhere. Hopefully, Abate plays as well as he did vs. Bologna where literally nobody got by him and he becomes our RB... I kind of see him as being a Dani Alves-esque player. More attack minded... then, we can have a more defensive left back to balance our back 4... hopefully it pans out.
EDIT: I was really happy with Leo for running both Hunt and Abate from the start... I was starting to doubt that he would change from the old regime, but he's done well... he's shown the guts to start the unproven young guy and the new unadapted striker to give them time to work into the system. also, he has completely dumbfounded me and not played dinho and played seedorf(personally I think pirlo should be there and seedorf back in midfield bc Clarence can actually use some strength to defend, but Clarence's cohesion with the team is always amazing and great to see). IMO, I think we definitely need an AM BADLY(.... cassano???
), but it is so apparent that Seedorf is 5x the player dinho is
at Milan. Dinho used to be the world best, but he's past it and he's just trying to prove something to himself now and make good shows for the fans... Clarence always gives his all for the team, he truly loves Milan, and although I've bashed him for the past 2 seasons for his laziness, he has shown his true class in the past few games and shown that he truly is a living legend. TBH, the only thing Ronaldinho has been good for here at Milan is giving Seedorf a reason to try, and its helping us out. Keep it up Leo, remember this is your squad, not Berlu's.