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The Rumour Commode XXXIX: A Cardinal Sin

Do you think Leao will renew?


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our pride has created this fall. For the team and as fans…

we must admit our sins
 

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We will forever be in commode purgatory unless we turn from our ways

every one of us
 

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And that goalpost and subsequent gif are hilarious, Powers but you get zero reactions from me until we right this ship
 

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owner is bigmouthed cheapskate. M&M wasting money for gambling in unusable young player that cant replace the player that left, but challenge rival team for another scudetto. pioli is dumb to keep asslicking management while his squad keep getting amputated for nothing each season. shouldve slap them all with that fluke trophy for reality check. redbanter
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We had something special

he was beautiful, er…I mean it was wonderful

and what did you do?

you spat on it. it wasn’t enough

it’s never enough. You couldn’t leave well enough alone you wanted more.



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sometimes just i miss how he danced on the parade bus
 

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Sky - Milan abandons the Osorio track: demand is too high​

 
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Sky - Milan abandons the Osorio track: demand is too high​

It will never stop…

we have to go back

ask for him to take us back
 
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We had something special

he was beautiful, er…I mean it was wonderful

and what did you do?

you spat on it. it wasn’t enough

it’s never enough. You couldn’t leave well enough alone you wanted more.



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So you want Pioli out who has had nothing to spend but is still in a European slot....yet are dreaming about a dude who is in NINTH place behind the likes of Brentford, Fulham and Brighton.
Lol @ thinking pioli can beat Brentford Fulham and Brighton :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
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Carlos Passerini , a journalist accompanying Milan for Corriere della Sera , gave an exclusive interview to the microphones of MilanNews.it (CLICK HERE to read the complete INTERVIEW) in the aftermath of the umpteenth and clamorous debacle by Pioli's team in this month of January.

Do you also expect some new signings a little more on the field?

"I think there was little faith in the new signings. Milan certainly didn't make a big transfer market, but I also believe that Pioli trusted his men too much and too little in the new ones. For example: yesterday the substitution at the half-time by De Ketelaere, as there were many who were doing worse than him; I think that type of management is not the best for the large investment of your transfer market and for a player you need to recover: remove him at half-time as if he were responsible for AC Milan's match doesn't seem to me to have been a great choice... The same goes for Thiaw, Vranckx and Adli: right now they probably deserve a little more space and trust, even seeing what the owners are giving, I don't think so is so much difference".
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our pride has created this fall. For the team and as fans…

we must admit our sins
“Our”?
Fuck no

There were MANY of us ringing those alarm bells a looong time now. The scudetto was like a big bandage that masked all of our GLARING deficiencies

I won’t even talk about RW because it’s like saying a dude in a wheelchair can’t walk.

We only have one style…and even then we still rely heavily on Leao and Theo.

In reality both of them have gone quiet because reasons and the entire fucking team collapsed. If we had more viable attackers or *gasp* players competing for their spot - then the collapse would NEVER have been this dramatic. Fuck something quite similar is happening at CB.

All the positivity force nonsense and “lol Barcelona” bullshit has come back to core out our asses.

WE LITERALLY HAD PPL LAUGHING AT OTHER TEAMS FOR SIGNING EXPENSIVE PLAYERS AS IF THAT WAS DUMB!!! :max:

Maybe let ppl have their opinion next time?
 
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This is a cluster fuck of epic proportions.

I can’t believe we didn’t bring in a backup goalie and starting DM on the 1st of January.

These 2 alone would have helped so much. As many people said, we are one Tonali/Bennacer injury/suspension/fatigue away form disaster.

I get giving Vranckx and Pobega a chance in the first half of the season, but if they aren’t up for it - we obviously needed another CM. 3 man mid makes this requirement even more glaringly obvious

All hands on deck now, not getting top 4 with Juve out of the picture is completely unacceptable.

Seeing that 3 man mid without Bennacer made me puke

Also if we play 433 and play Messias over CDK, man oh man. This is literally the perfect setup for CDK to thrive in, in the center-right channel
 
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If Leao and inshallah ain’t working, what can Pioli provide? I hated CDK before but i’ve seen the light. Pioli is just a limited coach who can’t coordinate a play to score against a 10-man Torino nobodies.
 
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Milan need a coach who can motivate players right now, and Gattuso is the right profile for it. It is not coincidence that Milan and probably Napoli this season win the scudetto after Gattuso coached their players.
 

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Honestly helping young players grow and improve with some basic tactics that work is probably more important than 4D chess inverted full back type stuff for the present and future of this team.

I can agree that some young players we brought in recently might not be up to the mark but currently Pioli is making Maldini and Massara look bad, as if the young talent they brought it are complete duds or overspends.

Is Pioli the right man to integrate, coach, and develop young players into future starting 11 and potentially world class players? Honestly, hard to say. He’s been great with Theo, Leao, and to an extent Kalulu. But he’s been horrible with almost everyone else - Kerkez, Thiaw, CDK, Adli, Vranckx, Lazetic, Chaka.

The trend here is that 1)Pioli plays young players only when there is no one else available and that 2)Unless they are a generational talent like Theo/Leao, he hasn’t really been able to take a rough diamond and mould them into a consistent performing player. Adli is the best example of this, dude is obviously talented.

In conclusion, if we are going to continue on a path of scouting/buying/developing young players (which I think is the only viable way forward), Pioli’s body of work suggests that he’s not the right person to lead us
 
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I’m thinking a 4-3-3 where the left Mezzala is Tonali and all he does is cover lateral and vertical space behind Leao/Theo

It’ll be a bit wonky but I can’t think of another way to make Theo and Leao work in the same team. And obviously we don’t want to ask Theo to start playing conservative

The other obvious solution is a 352, with Leao as a SS. But that would require a fundamental rethink on literally everything
Fortunately, I think that's the plan we're going for. Maybe not against Inter, since Bennacer is out and Tonali will play anchor, but once he's back it will most likely be Tonali on the left, Bennacer deep in the middle, and Krunic (or Vranckx?) on the right side.

We suddenly have 4 or 5 players now fighting for that single RW spot.
 
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