On Seinfeld they invented a Xmas holiday called Festivus, (for the rest of us), whose main rite was the "airing of grievances" which I'm about to reveal mine. It will be my longest post ever, to rival our friend Samaldinho.
I knew we weren't going to be good with the announcement of Fonseca as coach, the essence of mediocrity and someone that nobody would have guessed after the fans' reactions to Lopetegui. The most I knew about Fonseca was that he drove away Dzeko to Inter and Florenzi to PSG, two of the most loved players by Roma fans so had this tough guy reputation that at the end of the day was counterproductive and damaging to the club.
He has now alienated our two top players in record time and has probably lost the locker-room already.
My theory is that players have no respect for him because, like the fans, expected a more established coach to be hired and were probably as disappointed as we were with him.
This was an off season with a ton of good coaches available, a chance for us to get someone with a proven record of success, to show that we're a serious club but we blew it spectacularly. Conte was begging to join us and finally moved to Napoli when he realized we had no interest. Other candidates like Motta, Sarri, Allegri, De Zerbi, Palladino weren't even considered. By the way, Conte after match one when they lost 3-0 in their opener at Verona switched to a 4-3-3 after starting 3-5-2 to show that he's flexible and adapts his formations based on the players' aptitudes, same with Palladino at Fiorentina while Fonseca has gone with 4-2-4 and now 4-2-3-1 neither of the two formations ideal for us. At his press conference Fonseca said that he's pleased with how we played even if we lost, and that we're still in the scudetto race if we keep playing this way. One should never be pleased after a loss, it's not a mentality that I want from a coach. And we are defensively inept, a problem that has not been fixed from day one. If we lose at Monza I would take one of Sarri or Allegri who are professional coaches and not a fake one like Fonseca.
Everyone is at fault for the situation we find ourselves in but I blame Ibra the most who described himself as the lion, the rest kittens, that he makes the decisions and is responsible for them. Not wanting a manager type as coach was an asinine declaration because, ego aside, you should want whoever gives you the best chance to succeed, that's true in every profession but this megalomaniac only cares about his image, the thing that I have always hated about him. The next is Gerry who I despise greatly, has no knowledge of the sport, wonder if he even watches the games on TV and hires a donkey like Ibra plus a president, (Scaroni), and CEO, (Furlani), one a lobbyist and the other an accountant, not nearly as competent as Gadzidis. Moncada has failed also because he seems to favor the same type of players whether they can be meshed into a team or not, and his total disenterest for Italians or technically gifted players that are not giants. D'Ottavio remains a mystery and I still don't know what he does exactly or what he looks like. Among the worst front offices in all Serie A.
Our summer mercato has not been as productive as we first believed. Fofana has been decent but Morata is a striker that doesn't score goals which should be his main function. Abraham a player perennially injured, one of the worst finishers ever, and as it turns out an asshole for taking a penalty kick that should have gone to Pulisic.
Pavlovic an abject failure and Royal a mystery as to why Milan was so keen to get him, he basically sucks at every aspect of the game, so much money wasted. We failed to address our two most important needs: DM and Leao back-up, so how can anyone say that we have a great scouting system and SD?
We have 14 points in 9 matches, a midtable result for a midtable squad that has too many holes and not enough good players.
As everyone knows you need to spend money to make money and De Laurentiis realized this after finishing 10th last season. Hired Conte and gave him carte blanche on transfers spending close to 40 million for Buongiorno, 35 for Lukaku, 30 for McTominay a player that I like alot, and 28 for David Neres who hasn't unseated Politano yet.
Yesterday Napoli didn't play great, they probably were tired from having played on Saturday and did just enough to win. Their defense had hardly any problem with our offense, in fact I only remember one shot on goal from us in the second half, handled us easier than they did Lecce, a team that we should be better than even with all our absences. Kvaraskavelia is becoming my favorite Serie A player, I like everything about him and he showed me again that he possesses incredible stamina by his defensive effort.
I was sure that we would lose because of our absences which Fonseca didn't help with the benching of Leao and Tomori and by minute 5 the match was practically over. They allowed us to dominate possession which consisted mostly of lateral or back passes but never allowed us to be dangerous in the final third except in a few occasions.
I used to look forward to our matches with great hope and anticipation but now I watch with dread waiting for our collapse at some point, some stupid mistake that let the other team score and yesterday even Maignan was guilty of that.
I hate these motherfuckers who have taken the joy to watch Milan out of me.
