Peppe Di Stefano spoke live on Sky Italia earlier today, reporting from Milanello, and he didn’t exactly provide a positive update. According to him, there is ‘a serious problem’ at AC Milan.
Yesterday’s defeat against Juventus was indeed a poor one for AC Milan, with the Bianconeri dominating proceedings, and Sergio Conceicao wasn’t happy at all in his post-match interview. Once again, the players failed to have the right attitude and mentality.
Speaking live on Sky Italia earlier today from Milanello, as transcribed by MilanNews, Peppe Di Stefano stated that there is a serious problem at the club. Going from the Supercoppa Italiana performances, filled with hunger, to the ones seen in the league lately is indeed strange.
“Zlatan Ibrahimovic arrived to watch the training after the poor defeat. But I’m not the one saying it, the numbers say it, the faces, Conceicao said it in the post-match. There is a serious problem at Milan, which doesn’t only have to do with Conceicao, Fonseca or Pioli.
“These continuous ups and downs aren’t problems of a technical-tactical nature but evidently, there is much more. The problem of Milan must be researched in depth, that when there are one-off games, like in Madrid, like the derby, like the Supercoppa Italiana, they manage to play them well and win. But when there are ordinary games, they go into total suffering,” he stated.
Girona are up next for Milan and a win is needed in that game to keep the dream of finishing in the top 8 alive. Dinamo Zagreb are the remaining opponents after that in the competition, so the Rossoneri should really make the most of their opportunity.
For the players who are regularly in the squad, none of them are “Captains” by example. Maignon is the closest one and he is at the far end of the pitch.
Morata, Pulisic, Reijnders, Bennacer, Gabbia are “Captains” by example but it does not seem as if Rafa, Theo and Tomori are particularly able to raise their games in response to them.
Fonseca may have been on the right path, and Conceicao is likely discovering what (who) the real problems may be. The question is whether the club and the faithful are ready to make (and suffer) those changes.
Yes. Fonseca wasn’t the problem. He was very honest. He said what needed to be said. The same for Conceicao. It worth nothing both of them complained about the squad, about not having the right players, pointing the finger at Moncada.
Just cant accept losses from fio and 04 that is where he made teams wrong step
Juventus has changed their minds about signing Tomori after watching him play yesterday.
Appreciated
Probably. They also understood why Milan want to sell.him.
Problem is evident: RedBird did a mess with sacking quality personnel management, and hiring low quality coaches (compared to Pioli) and buying bad players.
What Elliott did good: releasing overpaid players, Red Bird did the opposite- they hire bad and overpaid players.
Red Bird sold Tonali for 1 year capital gain , later they send Kalulu on loan, and lost money on overpaying Emerson Royal, Pavlovic, Morata and Abraham
These 4 cost roughly more than 33 million annualy, and for that money, they could bring Buongiorno, Lukaku and one more strong serie a player.
When we add this year flops like: Calabria, Florenzi, Bennacer, Tomori, Okafor, Chukwueze, Jovic, and Ruben Loftus Cheek, that is one full squad of overpaid players.
So what Elliott cleaned, Red Bird made a mess bringing low quality personnel.
AGREE with MILANELO 100% WE HAVE TOO MANY FLOPS ON THE TEAM …SELL SELL !! WE HAVE THE RIGHT COACH NOW , SO GIVE HIM SOME PLAYERS TO WORK WITH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Honestly Chuck and Okafor were not bad performers before joining Milan. As the article alluded the problem at Milan needs to be researched. Why would players fail when joining…are they a wrong profiled player for what we are doing and how we are playing, is the team poorly constructed, do we have the right coach for the material at hand…did we make the wrong choices in letting the core players leave ( Tonali, Kessie, Calha…). And the fact that we don’t want to invest in quality is not helping the case either, like the poor efforts season after season landing a quality striker…the penny pinching approach on the mercato where a good player is lost because of an extra million or two…it surely boggles the mind
The team is poorly constructed, I have been shouting this since Pioli era. We must make peace with selling Leao, Theo and Tomori, even Magic Mike can be sold and the team rebuilt from the ashes. The above players are bigger than the club (except Mike), and the club cannot move forward with this attitude where players decide which games to show up for and which to give 50%.
True
There is a lack of depht in the quality. Alot of promising players arent reaching the heights.
I feel the midfield hasnt been the same since Kessie left. Rejnders is awesome though and alot of positives
There is also no real investment in the striker department. 15m spent since 2019 i read the other day. Inter spent 40+m on Lautaro and Oshimen cost Napoli 70m (if I remeber correctly)
Bingo!
With Milans Sporting Director Mr. Moneyball Data they would be replaced by cheap players from low level leagues or players with 1 year left on their contract and cost under 20. Maybe you have forgotten what they bought from Tonali money.
” The above players are bigger than the club (except Mike),”
I assume you meant they THINK they’re bigger than the club, right? Because otherwise this makes zero sense.
It’s the QUALITY and not some out of this world mistery. They called it a miracle when we won the scudetto and reached the semis in CL with that squad. Well, now head to head quality now is worse than the scudetto year. We don’t have quality and a poorly built team period. Enough beating around the bush and finding culprits after every defeat. Poorly built team and the club is being run by amatours.
Apart from the American ownership model rotting this club to the level of the gutter then there appears to be too many foreigners in the first eleven and all the Italians keeping the bench warm.
Problem?
This team is bang average and badly constructed. Environment around the club is toxic and players are seen as assets first, then humans. Directors around the team who should stand by the lads and protect them, have no problems throwing them under the bus when sh*t hits the fan.
How would you feel playing for these clowns, in this team and environment?
Well said
Yesterday no one could come from the bench to come and change the game, Milan is that poor. The other problem, players that are being bought are all bench material yet the teams we compete with have first team players. The technical team has to be changed. I wonder what job zlatan is doing, bringing players like walker who is 34 years, bro where is the team going???????
Management need to be shaken right from the. Ceo to the technical team.
Milan have 4 big problems
1. Their best players are not leaders, and are not high effort guys.
2. Their best players management is poor at both acquiring players but also selling players.
3. This team seems to be ravaged by injuries.
4. This team is not built around their wingers. Not having strong defensive Mids, a right back who is an attacking threat or a striker to play one twos with the wingers, is wait g the talents of Laeo and Pulisic.
Oddly enough I think spending a year outside of European Competitions may help both thin the squad, help with injuries and allow a good coach like Conceivao to prepare the team properly.
You are signing only average players so what did you expect? To play like world class? Is not possible. Now, you want to finish ahead of Juventus yet you want to strengthen there defence with your starting line up player
The best part is we have no room on the roster for signings because our squad is full of foreign rubbish that we cannot sell.
Does anyone explain the squad rules to Moncada? What a f-ing m0r0n
We need to sign players who have won something… Walker is a good start, but a Sergio Ramos, even to play 8 games in 2 years, can and will be a leader.
We need to stop with the bs signings… A team with egos and stars needs leadership. If you want to build a team of youngsters, you need to get rid of the stars then, because if not you get a half baked squad like this…
Milan’s problems can all be traced back to a lack of trust in the defense. This lack of trust causes players to play scared, and too nervous to attack and take risks. Players do not “flow” when they’re tentative as they are always thinking about needing to run back on defense.
Milan’s problems started the moment Kessie left. Kessie locked down the DM position and this allowed Milan’s attack to flow. The problem became worse when Kjaer left as he was the last truly reliable defender.
Milan have many attackers who can become Serie A’s best. Milan does not need more attackers. They need a defense that the rest of the team can trust in order to unlock the “flow” of a quality attack.
solution is simple,
apologize to Maldini then follow him.
need prove? from crisis by Chinise to scudetto. he bring right players & true Z (as player) + he’s master in motivate players, Maignan Leao Theo Tomori is world-class under his watch.
legendary active-players listen to him (even Messi & CR almost join us in his time) & still respected by current stars of the game so w/ him we’ve chance to get 1 or 2 that kind of players.
if we can do it in financial crisis (Elliot era) we can do it now (super sustainable & full-entertaining financialy club as jeri version)
100% a couldn’t agree more
The problem are in the owner who always profit oriented, clown directors, and advisor.
Hardly well played ag Inter. We were lucky that Inter didnt scored third goal.