Max Allegri and Zlatan Ibrahimovic will meet again at AC Milan, albeit with a different role for the Swede. While there’s ultimately respect between the two, they haven’t always got on perfectly.
The two first started working together in the 2010-11 season, when Allegri took over the Rossoneri from Leonardo and Ibrahimovic joined from Barcelona. It was a successful first year, of course, as they ended up lifting the Scudetto and then clinched the Supercoppa Italiana a few months later too.
However, the 2011-12 season somewhat failed to live up to expectations with a second-place finish in the league. That is also when cracks started to appear in the Allegri-Ibrahimovic relationship, as revealed by the latter and some of his teammates (who also questioned the coach).
“With Milan, we had lost 3-0 to Arsenal in the Champions League and he was all happy. It’s true that we went through, but there was nothing to laugh about, and I pointed it out to him.
“He told me to think about myself, that I played badly. I replied that he did badly because he had brought two goalkeepers on the bench,” Ibrahimovic said in 2021 (via Football Italia).
Gianluca Zambrotta (former Milan full-back) and Adriano Galliani (former CEO) have also spoken about the incident in the past, stating that the two nearly ended up in a fight.
“It was a terrible game, everybody was happy after the match, but when we entered the locker room, Ibra was screaming like a madman.
“He almost beat Allegri up because he had brought two goalkeepers for the bench. Ibra is never happy. He is never satisfied,” Galliani stated.
“I didn’t have problems with Allegri the first year, but in the second, we lost the Scudetto due to mismanagement of the locker room.
“One time, after losing 3-0 to Arsenal, Allegri said: ‘Well done lads, it doesn’t matter.’ That wasn’t a great move. Ibra was furious and they almost got into a fight in the locker room,” Zambrotta stated (via Football Italia).
I was at that match and heard the cheers before my dad and I even got to our seat. Ibra was terrible that game. No movement whatsoever (think he rushed back from injury) but offered zero.
Zlatan ansvarig för säsongens fiasko i klubben. Han skall hålla käft och krypa ur klubben med svansen mellan benen.
Hans senaste uttalade är bara skrattretande och visar att hans ego förstört klubben
Who is Zlatan…???😂😂😂😂
“Ibra is never happy. He is never satisfied,”
He doesn’t seem too mad receiving the paycheck being a corporate clown and Gerry’s little lap pooch.
Yeah, sitting in the 9th place doesn’t bother him
Ted, Ibra is a true professional and also a Milanista. You didn’t have any problem with Gerry when Paolo Maldini was getting his paycheck from him before he got fired.
You seem to not understand that Ibra works in a team, and whatever the decision the team makes, as a team player, he has to stand by them even if he didn’t agree at first.
Well said. Ted is toxic. He’s incapable of making a single valid point.
And l live in your head rent free. Which is not the case for you, now go back to work so you can pay your rent in that yank sh*thole you call country. Remember you have third shift tonight. Insurance won’t pay with only one job in yankeland.
A true Milanista would never hire an incompetent to lead our u23, ending up in SERIE D, he is the Craftman who sculpted the failed season either on 1st and second team, how the hell could you praise him
I suppose what you said is meant as a joke.