The reticience on selling players like Tiji isn't because "oh no, no other midfielder will ever play well for us again!" I mean, we have Adli, come on guys, relax. No, it's because the long track record of Moncada unleashed is absymal failure--they cannot replace players, they don't know how to buy players, they are shit at this.
Messias has outperformed Chuk, for a fraction of the cost. Musah has been terrible, and mind you, I wanted Musah here before he was linked with us. RLC's goals covered his problems last year and he was useless this year because he was injured. Okafor a good backup season and then... what? He was supposed to bench Leao and crumbled under the pressure and then left, failing a medical (apparently?); great. Does anyone call Fofana a smashing success? Pavlovic gets away with so much shit it's crazy, he literally has one man to mark and he forgets about him, where he runs out-of-position constantly but he huffs and puffs! Terracciano has done... what? Morata did... what? Sottil did... what? Walker did... what? Joao Felix did... what? Emerson Royal did... what? Pellegrino did... what? How many transfer failures do they have to have? Does Santi strike you as a hit? I hope he becomes one, who doesn't like a childhood Milan fan becoming a star striker? I'd love it. What has Bondo done to justify his 10m winter transfer? Tammy wasn't that bad, fine. Jovic, not that bad--but again, you look at their track record and it's so fucking bad it's insane.
Kalulu has done very well with Juve, CDK did well at Atalanta (and I hate CDK), Adli did well enough at Fiorentina to either come back here or go to Napoli, the only reason Saelemaekers is back is because Roma didn't have an option, he did a great job for them. Do all of our loanees have to be doing amazing in order for them to be wrong? No, but I'd rather have Kalulu over Emerson Royal. I'd rather have CDK at RW than Chuk, and I repeat, I hate CDK. I'd rather have Adli over Musah, Bondo, and RLC. Alexis wouldn't have been helpful this year instead of Sottil and Okafor, shit, even Felix? Pobega and Calabria would have been useful for the lists alone, but we went into the season very thin (particularly in midfield) and sent away a home-grown Pobega, so we could start Tiji and Fofana against a Serie B side?
Tare and Allegri want to keep Mike, but they can't because of what Furlani did. If you think Tare and Allegri are wrong to trust Mike, okay, cool, can't wait for the great keeper they bring in--you think I'm going to be mad at them for replacing a player with someone cheaper who is better? Lol. Then you don't know me.
Ibra has been a disaster, he's embarassed the club publicly and privately, with other organizations thinking of us as a joke because of him. I say this while I love Ibra (as a player), but he's been a disaster. He's not gone anywhere. I think there's a genuine difference between leading as a player and leading as an executive, and I think his work as an executive has been poor.
Don't worry, we have Tare and Allegri now!
Berta and Paratici did not want to come here, neither did D'Amico nor Sartori--and the fact that Moncada, Furlani, and Ibra (and their various lackeys like Kirovski) are all still employed and part of this structure show that none of those SDs wanted this job under these circumstances. Milan is a huge club, one of the biggest in the world, look at what just competent executive work did to Milan: they more than doubled Milan's revenues in what? 3-4 years?
Tare took the job, he wanted it, it's a huge opportunity, and we will see how much they will interfere with his work. People want the job, SD, manager, etc, they want it--but we offer insulting terms. It seems when it comes to coach, the executives can throw Fonseca and Conceicao under-the-bus, but they're all still in their jobs, no one got fired, and they are going with Allegri. I hope Allegri does an amazing job, truly, I do, but my fear with Tare, as SD, is that he's going to be undermined, because he was willing to accept terms that other SDs were not, just like Conceicao was in the winter.
Tare has been praised by many, including Boban, so like Allegri, I'm rooting for him, but I just don't get how we are supposed to pretend that things are okay now even when the architects of this disaster are all still here.
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