The transfer window is approaching its end and given the poor start to the season, AC Milan might be tempted to make one last signing. As highlighted by Peppe Di Stefano this evening, the management must at least think about the matter.
It was a tough defeat for Milan at Ennio Tardini last night, losing 2-1 to Parma and once again failing to claim their first win of the season. The reactions were far from positive this morning and a lot must change ahead of the Lazio game next weekend.
Speaking live on Sky Italia this evening, as cited by Espertheo, Peppe Di Stefano shared his thoughts on the situation. He stated that Milan must make serious evaluations of the squad amid the transfer window deadline, after which there is no turning back.
“The club must make in-depth and immediate assessments of the squad, it is necessary to understand whether it is adequate for such a long and, based on the project, ambitious season. Pioli was not the only one responsible before, Fonseca is not now either,” he stated.
It remains to be seen if there will be one final signing, perhaps of Italian descent as signing another foreigner would require the club to sell Ismael Bennacer. The Algerian has been linked with Saudi but such a move has not heated up yet.
Pioli did wonders with the squad and especially recognized player’s weaknesses and limitations on an individual level and hid them in the way he played his players.
Seems like that tricked many in believing they are better than they are.
not really. We were still leaking goals under our dear lord Pioli. Any team with 5 min could walk all over us and they did. Just think back to last season and the schooling Roma gave us in EL
Dear Lord Pioli is only the third Milan manager to win a Scudetto this century.
And?
I see under the other article you also don’t like the other Scudetto winner.
So Scudetto winners are out in your mind.
I don’t even want to know what’s in your mind.
Idk what that has to do with Milan having a leaky defense under pioli. Elaborate or stop strawmaning
Sell ghost Loftus-Cheek for that instead. What’s wrong with Ibra for holding on to Loftus?
De Rossi Roma now play Ancelotti xmas tree formation
Leo needs to hit the bench hard, overall parma is a small team and he played better than us so i officially classified the present Milan team as a small team, look at what 20years old Parma player doing to our players yet our own libirali is too young to play
Smh, you definitely lack some levels of intelligence. If that is your conclusion.
We are in a difficult situation , because LAZINESS SHOULD NEVER NEVER NEVER BE TOLERATED AT THIS MILLIONAIRE LEVEL !!!!!!! ( also sell Benny he just doesn’t have it anymore)
I agree, I’m 45 today but as a 16 year old kid i made 200 sit ups and 200 pushups every day when i awoke and the same before going to sleep plus training 20-30 hours a week, is it really too much to ask professionals doing better and track back when needed. Pretty sure we all would kill to play for Milan, they should at the bare minimum show some pride and will and killer insticnct. Personally I have no issues with us selling Bennacer if the price at least is acceptable and the money is reinvested well. I’m not against the idea of at least benching some of our players as some has suggested at least if it is what is needed to send a clear signal to the squad.
Wow are you a bit bulky or built up like strong man after doing it every year
Well I’m not doing it any longer so cant really say that I’m in great form nowadays but back when I was younger i had a clear sixpack and muzzles but never was build like Schwarzenegger if that is what you mean, but it helped me a lot to build up a form where I basically didn’t get tired 🙂
I would like the team to play 4_4_2 coz it’s more balance
Maignan
Calabria/Royal -tommori/gabbia-paclovic -theo
Samu/salad- fofana-reijnder-leao
Pulisic – Morata
Samu is a winger and leao can play that too.. So if needed switch 4-3-2-1 moving leao forward and change Samu with salad
The most important thing right now is not to panic.
Presumably there was some sort of plan when they decided to replace Pioli with Fonseca, and sign the specific players they signed this summer.
That plan cannot come unstuck after a draw and a defeat.
Serie A is a difficult league. Any team can beat any team. That is why what Pioli achieved was remarkable.
Unfortunately fans expectations are completely off the charts and are one of the biggest obstacles to returning Milan to the top. Because to return to the top we need a sustained period of stability and growth, and right now we are experiencing a sustained period of instability and degrowth as we sell and lose all of our (actual) Scudetto winning players and replace them with players from mid-table clubs in other leagues.
The fact that so many people consistently underestimate how difficult a league Serie A is, how difficult it is to play teams like Parma and Torino, how little difference there is between the different players many of whom have played for top clubs, shows just how unrealistic expectations are.
In Serie A every match needs to be treated like a final, any mistakes will get punished particularly if the so called ‘minnows’ take the lead and are able to sit back and counter.
And most of all a team needs to be supported 100% which includes supporting the f’ing club captain.
I overall agree with everything you said here Maldinis Heir but at the same time it doesn’t change the fact that we at least should have had 4 points by now. I’m generally not one of the commenters around here who complaints the most but those two games we have played pretty much mortified me by the lack of quality and urgency from the start but I do nevertheless agree we should give it a bit time to see how the players gets adjusted to some new ideas of playstyle. Stability is without doubt an important factor and same goes for sticking to the initial plans,
The thing is that any drop in levels or uncertainty is noticeable.
Split second decisions decide these games and as we have seen so many times if you concede early in Serie A you can really struggle to get back into games because teams sit back and counter.
For me the most important thing is to get out of the blocks fast.
But we’re going to struggle to do that with a new manager, new players and minimal pre-season prep.
The good news is that because of the Euros we’re likely to see slow starts from everyone.
Most of the big sides have drop points already.
Inter got back to winning ways this weekend so 4/6 points to them. We’re 1/6 but still only 3 behind Inter.
Fonseca is known for slow starts so we just need to see if he can turn it around. If we don’t win the next few games he might be gone by Inter which would be a disaster (or a blessing given last time that happened Pioli came in and turned it around).
Who knows!
Fonseca is not a good manager, but to blame him for the tragic errors of our stars Hernandez and Leao is not correct. We can blame Zlatan and the others who sell Kalulu to Juve and buy Royal for 20 million. Zlatan should have been much tougher with both Hernandez and Leao if he loves Milan. How can he accept their catastrofic performance?
he will have time because he needs to sit Leao and theo next game, and Ibra is going to sign off on that. The plan was bring in the players that can play this system obviously they must have had some reason to think Leao would go along, but from the first play of the game he made his intentions very clear and while Theos defensive workrate has gone down each of the last 5 years, he still seemed like the right guy to protect Leao, and very well may be and is just dealing with a euro hangover either physical or off-field.
Yes, we should keep our great coach fonseca.
We should support our wise management, there is no doubt they are among the best in europe. They are already made great signing, fonseca, royal, pav, jovic, others great player.
Are you seriously implying that Pavlovic isn’t a great acquisition ? Even if Jovic has some deficiencies he has basically contributed with either a goal or assist pr full match played so not really a bad acquistion either considering he came for free.
Should we blindly follow the managment, of course not but Maldinis Heir has some points here that fully valid.
I actually think Pavlovic was a bad acquisition given:
a) we had a CB partnership forming between Gabbia and Tomori;
b) that would have rewarded Gabbia for his contribution last season rather than once again penalising any youth player who performs by signing a player to block him; and
c) most importantly we needed to spend that money and whatever other money we had on a DM and CF……
Really the only two signings we should have made all summer was a DM and a CF.
Morata was a good signing.
So we could have spent over 100m on a DM/someone to totally dominate and control and lead and plug the massive gaping hole in our midfield.
Until we plug that hole there’s little point doing anything with our defence.
How Pavlovic is a bad acquisition when you keep having injuries and Kjaer left the club. If it wasn’t for him Parma would have scored more
Because as I have said on numerous occasions we ideally want 3 CBs for 2 positions, and to have minimal rotation in that position given it’s all about players’ understanding.
We are hundreds of games behind the top CB pairings in the world because we kept changing our CB pairing.
And as for injuries, if we get injuries we’re finished anyway. We can’t just keep a massive squad to make up for our medical team being incompetent.
I disagree on that matter and as Eddie said we also lost Kjær and for me the Pavlovic deal is the most exciting one we did this summer.
I disagree with your point further down in regard of us only needing 3 cbs for two positions as well but we doesn’t have to agree on everything either.
nah should be a inter fan like you
pray for losses so you can complain online
There’s no point complaining about it now.
It’s happened so we have to get behind the manager and the team.
By all means take it out on the owners but the manager and players need our support.
All of you are just saying rubbish Acmilan problem is two things attacking midfield and defence I begged Acmilan management to sign Samardzic to support pulisic in the attacking midfield they went and buy defensive midfield that’s stupidity now I heard we negotiating is still stupidity now this what Fonseca should do our defender should be E.royal, Gabbia, Pavlovic, Hernandez then our attacking midfield should be either liberali or pulisic now for wingers we need only saelmakers and chukwueze for left then we need Chaka Traore and leao for left wing then we need Colombo, torriani and liberali into the first eleven leave too much words then we use tomori and Loftus cheek as our substitute thank you
Theo and Leo have had the same bad lazy attitude since we started the league. They are are our down fall in all the two games, we need to sit them down .
Yeah, they will sit at least the next game, which is why the coach’s job is not in danger. I imagine Ibra would like to sit them longer than that…but we will see.