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Watch us miss out on glasner too

 
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He's right though. Mentality is everything in sport. Most of our players are pussies who fold every time the pressure goes on. Feyenoord, Coppa Final, last Sunday. There are three examples in a little over a year. We need to recruit real men, and a real leader to lead those men.
And who scouted them, then who signed the cheques???

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At least Origi was a winner, with a clutch goal that won an actual big title.

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BTW why does Kirovski get a renewal? Did a terrible job so far , unbelievable he gets a renewal.
Not a nepo-pick, we don't do that here...

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City won with 3 atb.
Italy reached 2 Euro finals and won 1. Inter and Juve reached 2 UCL finals each.

I don't have anything against 3 atb as long as they have the right personnel. It is true for any formation.
Allegri's was more like 5 atb, and the LWB was useless and the two strikers were out of position too.
As long as Glasner plays proactive football, i don't care of it is 3 atb or 6 atb. The play has to be high intensity and fast paced.
This is very atypical though without any wingbacks at all.

But yeah fair enough
 
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Summer already starting with he same pattern as past summers under Gerry. When will they take the hint that only the most desperate people in the game want to work with them.
 
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Zlatan Ibrahimović's communications with Massimiliano Allegri regarding tactical and technical matters inside Milan's locker room began after the 1-1 draw at home against Como, but the tension was already present even before Milan's 2-1 victory over Pisa in the final moments on February 13, thanks to a goal from Luka Modrić.

The start of the disagreements dates back to early February, when Ibrahimović and Forlan were considering the current squad sufficient to compete, while Allegri was extremely angry after the January transfer window because he had been waiting for reinforcements that never arrived.

The heated discussions gradually led Ibrahimović to inform some of the players he communicates with by phone about the true situation concerning them, as well as Allegri's plans for the future.

After the Milan vs. Como 1-1 match, these were Milan's results:

Milan vs. Parma 0-1
Cremonese vs. Milan 0-2 (Pavlović and Leão)
Milan vs. Inter 1-0 (Estupiñán)
Lazio vs. Milan 1-0
Milan vs. Torino 3-2 (Pavlović, Rabiot, and Fofana)
Napoli vs. Milan 1-0
Milan vs. Udinese 0-3
Verona vs. Milan 0-1 (Rabiot)
Milan vs. Juventus 0-0
Sassuolo vs. Milan 2-0
Milan vs. Atalanta 2-3 (Pavlović and Nkunku)
Genoa vs. Milan 1-2 (Nkunku and Aït-Nouri)
Milan vs. Cagliari 1-2 (Salemakers)

13 matches:
5 wins, one draw, and 7 losses.
Just 16 points out of 39.

Milan scored only 12 goals, of which:

3 goals through Strahinja Pavlović, one of Allegri's staunchest supporters within the team
Two goals through Adrien Rabiot, who is considered a symbol of "Allegri-ism" inside the locker room
Two goals through Christopher Nkunku
One goal through Alexis Salemakers
One goal through Aït-Nouri

That means 9 out of 12 goals came from players who support Allegri, while Rafael Leão, Yusuf Fofana, and Pervis Estupiñán—who are considered part of the opposition to the coach and participants in Ibrahimović's communications—scored only the remaining three goals.

And most shockingly, these players, along with Christian Pulisic, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Fikayo Tomori, Ritchie, and Jiménez, were the ones with disastrous levels and behaviors.

Therefore, there is no doubt about the reason for the collapse of a team that was steadily heading toward the Champions League, and was even competing for the league at one point, before collapsing in a shameful manner amid what resembles internal sabotage.

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Did Ibra stir shit up and got him fired in his last Juve stint too?
 
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Lois and Clark with Dean Cain and Terry Hatcher was my go to whenever I didn’t have school and was home alone.

Even younger me couldn’t understand how this schifosa didn’t know it was him
Lois was dumb but hot af so I would have forgiven her. And did Superman ever have sex? Did he even have the tools necessary?
 
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Pretty reliable report if it mistakens Athekame's name two times with Ait-Nouri.
 
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Milan and Ralf Rangnick are satisfied after Tuesday's meeting in Vienna. Good feelings. Rangnick has asked to bring in his own men and reorganize the youth sector. He wants a say in the coach selection.
There goes Ragnick, a shame..
 
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If true, this explains why we collapsed in the last weeks of the season.

Ibra started stirring shit up and setup part of the squad against Allegri.🤦

Should have been the first one to get sacked. :
Even if you simply look through all the smoke, and don't see any fire, you just have to look at Ibra's character and temperament to know a lot of what's being said probably has some truth in it.

The guys a self serving egomaniac, that's never been close to a GOAT, but has been lucky to part of teams that were good. He's never been the guy you depend on or rely on?

But sure, him going quiet, after "everything goes through me" and him being barred from the dressing room was nothing to worry about?

But, Max and the players didn't help anyone, and the seasons finish didn't help in seeing Ibra staying quiet.

Now we have Ibra the shareholder as the only guy that has any footballing experience, so Gerry doesn't have many places to turn currently.

Our only hope is that some new football men come in, and push Ibra out, while Gerry goes along hoping to protect his investors investment.

Any way you cut it, it's a fucking mess lol...
 
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Milan and Ralf Rangnick are satisfied after Tuesday's meeting in Vienna. Good feelings. Rangnick has asked to bring in his own men and reorganize the youth sector. He wants a say in the coach selection.
Wait, what plane did Ragnick get on following the meeting????!!!
 

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Ragnick is a huge plus for me. We need an experienced, football-minded person leading the technical side.

Let's face it, we made countless poor decisions signing too many inadequate players to the first team....adli, pobega, musah, santi, estupinan, chuk, RLC....way too many flops.

We need someone with the ability to pinpoint players of the right profile and quality
 
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Has the Iraola pursuit officially over? I mean has he officially said no? Or it's just a case " pessimism filters from his camp/entourage"? Cos I can't remember seeing any official statements either from Milan or Iraola himself.
 

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So barca would rather pay 70M for this guy instead of 50m for rafa

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I was a bit positive after Gerry outlined his vision for the future, said some stuff that actually made sense and cleaned house, though I would have kept Tare and let Ibra go. It was like he finally learned from his mistakes and was going to make sure that they wouldn't be repeated.

With the rumours that abound I find it hard to be optimistic, the set up sounds even worst than what we just went through and we're chasing names that at best have led clubs to the Conference League, none of whom with any experence in Serie A.

We'll be going up against the likes of Fabregas, Gasperini, Sarri, Chivu, Spalletti, Italiano and I'm not sure these Austrians/Germans are any better or even at the same level. And for CEO was expecting some familiar names like Carnevali who's been there and done that while being innovative as well and whose team played well offensively.

When they say they want to find a Fabregas type they didn't take into account that Como has a great support system, a previously unknown excellent SD, and are great at finding promising talents at reasonable cost before they explode.

So they were empty words, Gerry's statement, probably written for him, but he still has no clue how to run a football club. Brags about the Dallas Cowboys but they're a losing team in the NFL, don't even make the playoffs in a diluted field, but they make money.

I see Ibra as the biggest egomaniac in sports, liken him to Nero that burned Rome while playing the fiddle.
 
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Has the Iraola pursuit officially over? I mean has he officially said no? Or it's just a case " pessimism filters from his camp/entourage"? Cos I can't remember seeing any official statements either from Milan or Iraola himself.
If it's "close" for 3+ days and doesn't get confermato, it's 99% off.
 
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Missing out on CL really narrows what we can do coach and player wise. Even though so many changes are needed it’s gonna end up the same story. I do believe if we scraped CL Allegri still would’ve been out but we would’ve had much better options for coach/players. I’m not trying to be negative but I think last 2 seasons have set us back years now sporting and financial. Just watch more coaches we want come and go before the underwhelming appointment. I think Xavi is a big name and whether u like him or not as a coach perhaps the only one that’s left to maybe stop a mutiny from the fans
 
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And how's Glasner as a coach? Fans in the EPL really likes him and have been singing his praises. But seems like he's more of a Cup competition guy than the league system, evidence of this is the trophies he won and the league position of his teams, especially Palace.

Saw that he won the Europa League with Frankfurt as well - that's pretty impressive!!

On the negative side, seems he can be disruptive, vocal in his criticism of management and players, publicly even! That's a red flag right there. We saw how that happened and the result previously here.
 
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I was a bit positive after Gerry outlined his vision for the future, said some stuff that actually made sense and cleaned house, though I would have kept Tare and let Ibra go. It was like he finally learned from his mistakes and was going to make sure that they wouldn't be repeated.

With the rumours that abound I find it hard to be optimistic, the set up sounds even worst than what we just went through and we're chasing names that at best have led clubs to the Conference League, none of whom with any experence in Serie A.

We'll be going up against the likes of Fabregas, Gasperini, Sarri, Chivu, Spalletti, Italiano and I'm not sure these Austrians/Germans are any better or even at the same level. And for CEO was expecting some familiar names like Carnevali who's been there and done that while being innovative as well and whose played well offensively.

When they say they want to find a Fabregas type they didn't take into account that Como has a great support system, a previously unknown excellent SD, and are great at finding promising talents at reasonable cost before they explode.

So they were empty words, Gerry's statement, probably written for him, but he still has no clue how to run a football club. Brags about the Dallas Cowboys but they're a losing team in the NFL, don't even make the playoffs in a deluted field, but they make money.

I see Ibra as the biggest egomaniac in sports, liken him to Nero that burned Rome while playing the fiddle.
Ibra could genuinely put us in the ground given more power, I do not trust him at all
 
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Maybe only Adolf can fix our current situation :D
/I have no idea how this guy's teams play/
 
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Watch us miss out on glasner too


And can we blame him?
We missed out top 4 for ucl

And we have dumb cunts in charge. Clueless with money. No idea how to build a team.

And they will fire you in an instant as they won’t let you learn on the job. There is no patience given they have wasted 2 years already and we cannot afford to miss ucl
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Football is evolving way to fast to get stuck with coaches with Allegri, conte, Mourinho… if you want a revolution you need a young coach with new ideas and have to give him a time and trust the process. Milan is far away from being competitive to top European sides, both financially and being stuck in average league like Seria A. That being said if you want a result you need a couch with new ideas and have a whole system that will find suitable potentials for his style of play. This is a process. If you have no patience you will end up being disappointed year over year. Best case scenario we can secure champions league football but without playing important part in this competition. Ragnick.. Iraola was a perfect choice but himself alose would not be enough. You need whole supporting stuff from Bornemouth to possible make it work. That includes scouts, sporting directors etc.. never gonna happen in this club under Cardinale and Ibra. Glasner is even a better coach but he makes himself bigger than club. This is why CP is giving up on him…
 
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why wont these damn idiots consider Sarri ffs... after Allegri, they dont want any experienced Italian coach ever again
 
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