Alessandro Costacurta has provided a rather succinct summary of the current moment that AC Milan have found themselves in.
Going into the season many fans hoped that Milan would mount a challenge for the league title, yet at the moment it looks as though even getting into the Champions League places will be an uphill task.
Results have not gone to plan domestically so far with just nine wins from 21 games, leaving the Rossoneri in seventh position and five points off fourth place.
There are many points up for grabs and Conceicao has won five of his first seven games, yet the runway shortens each week and a winning streak is needed to reach the minimum objective.
Speaking to Sky at the Gran Gala event last night in Milano, Costacurta was asked for his thoughts on why Milan continue to be so up and down this season, even with the change in coach.
“Milan are a team made up of individuals who lack the consistency that is essential to have consistent results,” he said (via MilanNews)
“A team that has never had consistency and it is very difficult to change attitude and mentality especially when there are so many of them. This is a team that can beat anyone and that can lose to anyone.”
Individualism kills a team when a team lacks cohesion they tend to lose matches that on the paper it’s been considered win win but when a team plays as a team and they are cohesive with a real bone then individualism comes in and that comes as an advantage when they are really in need of a win by all means then any player can win the match for the club they are playing for.
Wise words from the legend. I would add that we have borderline amateur-level mentality, and we are not that talented as we would like to think. Overall, with the quality of football we’ve been displaying this season, we deserve to be a midtable team.
The best ACM diagnosis I heard in a loooong time!To change their attitude is going to be hell of a job…….I vote for Conceisao!Forza Milan!
Pulisic-Fofana-Reijnders-Gabbia-Thiaw-Musah-Maignan play for the team. Morata plays too much for the team, he’s forgotten to be selfish.
Unfortunately the rest are very individualistic, and success and failure depends on whether these guys are on form every match they play.
Hopefully Walker is part of the first category.
Last match showed that team cohesion can make up for less quality (subbing Theo and Leao was a genius move).
Do they?
Since Reijnders joined our midfield has collapsed. He offers nothing defensively.
Fofana very publicly gave up on tackling a player after losing the ball which lead to a goal.
Maignan and Gabbia are the only player you’ve listed who has actually won anything with Milan.
What have the others actually achieved?
Unless you’re happy with the current situation?
So you blame the current situation entirely on players who before most of the players listed above joined were actually regularly delivering for Milan?
The treatment of Calabria sums up everything that’s wrong with the club that is currently passing itself off as ‘AC Milan’..
Back when the club was AC Milan Calabria was one of its most consistent performers over an extended period of 5 years or more.
Calabria was to AC Milan what Gary Neville was to Man Utd.
He didn’t do anything fancy, he was just a solid, regular player.
His presence allowed others to do the fancy things most notably Theo and Leao.
There were some memorable matches. The game he played against Juve where he started in midfield and dominated helping to end our run of defeats against Juve, those matches against Napoli and PSG where he dominated the world’s best wingers.
Calabria had the right back position sewn up, sorted for at least another 5 years. But the club couldn’t resist.
One thing that AC Milan has consistently done in nearly every transfer window has focused on undermining established players and not focused on key weaknesses.
This will be the fourth transfer window in a row that the club has failed to sign a DM. Meanwhile the club has spent the last 10 years trying to sign RBs to replace Calabria: Conti, Dalot, Florenzi, Kalulu….until eventually they finally did it with…..Emerson Royal…..only to sign Walker a few months later (after Calabria had recovered from his injuries)…..and still no DM.
Meanwhile the more the club has undermined Calabria (like Locatelli and Cutrone before him) the more it’s killed its identity.
What is a football club?
A collection of random individuals thrown together by some dodgy data and dodgy backhanders?
Other than the collection of England B Team players the club now seems to have, would any of the players have anything to do with each other had they not been thrown together by some algorithm?
Like a collection of Tinder dates.
They don’t know each other from Adam.
And if they do threaten to know each other they’ll be sold.
What passes for the last remaining ‘core’ is currently been further whittled away – Tomori, Theo and no doubt soon Leao will soon been on their way removing the last few elements from Pioli’s side that delivered a Scudetto, a semi-final of the Champions League, and 3 x top 2 finishes in 4 years.
There’s nothing left. And anything that is left to ‘start again’ will soon be sold anyway.
So what’s the point?
But the most disappointing aspect of all this is the fans.
Many people on here hold Calabria in contempt. They repeat the same myths about the 27 year old being ‘passed it’, if he ever ‘had it’, with ‘it’ always being some enigmatic quality that only be found in some mid-table French team, or a 34 year old ‘not passed it’ England B team player.
Milan have sought for ‘its’ for decades and in doing so keep handing ‘its’ to our rivals.
Milan needed a midfield orchestrator so they first pushed out Cristante before pushing out Locatelli before pushing out Tonali before pushing out Krunic and now they have…..four transfer windows later and nobody.
This has happened all over the pitch and now is coming to a right back near you. The one position that was sorted Milan have decided to unsort.
Emerson Royal was a waste of time and Walker doesn’t have much time left. So Milan will need to sign another RB, and no doubt this is the beginning of a nice litter earner for the 15 people whose job it is to find one RB.
The club has nearly as many people in management as it has in its bloated playing squad. All having to justify their existence with endless Tinder dates.
There’s nothing left. The squad isn’t fixable in the short to medium term. You can’t ‘buy’ a team. Even Chelsea and Man City learnt that.
The success of these clubs came when they settled on a core. In the case of Chelsea that core consisted of Terry and Lampard. Their England careers show how they struggled away from their ‘home’.
A club is supposed to be ‘home’. And it is ‘home’ for players like Calabria. For the others, they’re just travellers passing through.
Maybe AC Milan should rebrand as “L’aeroporto”.
The fans are never satisfied driven by a media and industry that is
Calabria presence allowed others to do fancy things, especially Theo and Leao! 😅😂😅😂
If Saelemaekers wasn’t tgere ti double up Calabria wouldn’t even been on the pitch.
I see you still hating on Reijnders, literally Milan best player. But brings up bum names like Cristante and Locatelli.
In 5 months Calabria can find himself another club to be his home, like Monza, which is his level.
Yes Calabria and Saelemaekers were a solid partnership.
So why did they change it?
Surely they could’ve just signed Pulisic to replace Brahim, and they’d be in a better position.
As for Reijnders, there’s no ‘hate’, there’s an observation that the midfield he’s been part of 1 year and half has largely left the defence exposed.
But clearly the hatred comes from you who insults former players including one who is currently captaining Milan’s rivals.
Enjoy supporting this empty shell in 7th place.
Reijnders isn’t Milan’s best player, Pulisic is. Reijnders scored a lot but is on the decline since the end of 2024, before which he had maybe 2 or 3 games that could be considered excellent, the rest weren’t that much to write home about. Last game aside from the goal he was pretty much a ghost and spoiled more opportunities than he created.
Pulisic is far more consistent and I’d actually rate Gabbia as our second best player.