The pre-season has come to an end and the real deal will start for AC Milan tomorrow. That being said, it’s worth looking back at the summer to see which players Max Allegri used the most.
While the pre-season tends to differ quite a lot from the proper campaign, with player vacations and signings often resulting in less competitive squads, it does say something about the manager’s preferences. This summer, for example, Allegri relied on a few players in particular.
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Since it’s the pre-season, there are no fancy stats sites that show minutes collected, so we have taken it upon ourselves to do so (it should be correct!). As expected, the players who were with the team from the start also got the most minutes.
Top 5 most used players in pre-season
Yunus Musah came out on top with an impressive 286 minutes, and what pushed him over the edge was the fact that he played against both Leeds United and Chelsea. Yes, the games that were a day apart (albeit only 45 minutes in each).
Davide Bartesaghi was another player who Allegri relied on a lot, not just on the left flank but also in defence sometimes. Then, the standouts (you could say) from the pre-season are next: Rafael Leao, Alexis Saelemaekers and Ruben Loftus-Cheek.
- Musah: 286 minutes
- Bartesaghi: 277
- Leao: 276
- Saelemaekers: 267
- Loftus-Cheek: 258
It’s also the last three players who are expected to start against Bari tomorrow, in the first competitive game of the 2025-26 season.
Incredible how Musah keeps getting so many chances in front of other players while yet doing nothing in almost any game that he was played. Not just in this summer but past season as well. No matter how many catastrophic mistakes he made there was still place for him in the team. While players from our own youth sector never got a chance.
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Interesting that Chelsea are reportedly interested in Musah. Hmmm. Let’s be blunt- the youth players have not produced.
why everyone just believe easily that some bigs club interest in him is beyond funny..
why noOne ever think that it can be his agent/ fellow country journalist to overhype him.. everyone who seen him play know exactly his true value..
they reject 25m from Napoli my a5s, 5m maybe..
Can’t wait to see how pis*ed off you’ll be when Allegri plays him as a starter. 🤣
don’t have to.. it’s 2 years already,
& i more than u (sure) am not alone.
Conte is smart, he tell (competitors) that he want to buy Fiat while he trying to get Lambo
Hahahaha, you’re a legend. Good one. 🤣
Camarda/ Liberali/ Malda/ Simic should change their citizenship to get those playing time here
All the coaches are eager to see his indefinite potential everyone keeps talking about. They play and play him and never see anything. They’re hoping and wishing him to show SOMETHING positive but nope… Nothing. Never. But they still keep playing him because he’ll be the next Messi people here say. 🙂
he has “Ame Rikano Jutsu”
We can gave Maignan to Manchester and 15-20m for Hojlund 🤔
We can give you to inter milan for free
I find it hilarious that despite Allegri selecting Musah in every match, plus Conte willing to spend 35M on him, Forest 25-35M, and the guy has been fairly solid all pre-season and everyone still trying to figure it out. Good players play. Terrible ones don’t! it’s really that simple. You may not value Musah, but so many others do including Allegri which is all that matters. Hope that answers your ‘why Musah’ questions. Why has the ‘great’ Adli been banished? Why is Bennacer practically disappeared? Not good enough!?
How would they know? You need to ask the football masters from comments of an AI translated “fan site”. 🤣🤣🤣 Allegri only has 6 Scudettos. No clue.
Its really not that simple. Players can be played for many different reasons, favorisam of coach, management, marketing reasons etc… Also no one has offered 35mil for Musah lol.
So you want to say Allegri favours Musah because? He reminds him of his kids? Or Gerry ordered him to play him? Or Furlani said it will make Milan more money? You are joking right? This is complete delusion, medical case.
How should i know why he is favorised. But according to his performances he obviously is. He was even given chances in multiple different positions while some players can’t even get a chance in one. As explained there could be many reasons. As for medical case look in the mirror mate you are the one who argues with everyone and can’t understand anything around here.
Can’t understand anything? Could you point to one time? 🤣🤣 F-ing id*ot, using copium to explain to himself why he can’t see something in a player. It has to be aliens!!! You’re a clown.
Favoritism? I would laugh, but you may not be joking, so I won’t. Keep going my friend, you’ll eventually run out of irrational reasons why he is in Allegri’s plans. Or…you can conclude that Allegri and other credible coaches and teams want him in their squad and believe he is good enough to pay 25-35m for? Doesn’t that sound more rational? Probably not!
This club fired Abate cause he didn’t play Ibra son despite being one of the best youth coaches. Irational is to think in such simplistic terms that the coach simply plays you if you are good or not. There is a lot more going on in football. Also we all watched last season Musah was far from good lol.
club owner is american, this kid too, he’s the future face of american soccer & it’s also good for marketing,
remember Black Panther movie? an average film but works well in those country just bcs it’s black
Its pointless mate. This goons can only think in simplistic terms. Really no point to explain it to them.
Irrespective of Musah bad displays last season, the lad is strong n physically built, he is skillful and could come out of any situation if only he carries himself above average display, in a team of complete stars, musah can compliment!!! That’s the potential coaches and big clubs see, remember the general was terrible for atlest a season before he became the most valuable player in the league winning season.
If you had at least two brain cells you could have went online and saw that Musah was one of the lowest rated players in our team last season. The only players with lower rating than him were the ones who hardly played… But never mind stay simple and keep spilling that sh from your mouth, you just don’t have the capacity for more.
You’re a clown, that is a fact. I can’t even imagine how low IQ a person has to be to think that Allegri chose to play him because of anything but seeing him in person and in roles wants him to play. Marketing, US owners. You don’t have a “capacity”, doesn’t exist. Mental patients have more reason.
Maybe Donald Trump called him and said, you have to play Musah? Or maybe the alien overlords? 🤣🤣🤣 🤡
Maybe the Pope really likes Musah and is blackmailing Allegri? Or Putin prepared to launch a nuke if Musah doesn’t get the minutes? It is like you fell from the sky and have no clue about anything. Of course your best bet is to call someone simple as that is the only way someone can be even close to your level. Simple is a praise for you, halfwit also.
Yea yea keep trying to clown your way out of it lol. A player that has one of the worse ratings in the club is played cause he is “good” lol. Also thinking the world is just like playing fifa and that’s about it. Stay simple my friend.
Clown my way out of it? You are delusional beyond repair. Yes, Musah is being played because American owners said to Allegri: “you will be the coach of Milan but you have to play Musah.” Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahhahahahahahahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Yup, put more smiles maybe it will work this time. Poor you couldn’t even understand what clowning means lol.
You are like Goku, but also delusional. Anyone can understand your basic sentences cpt. Obvious. The problem is that it is unbelievable someone can be such a re*ard an think that. What you described as “clowning” is actually ridiculing a complete delusional mo*on like you. Now please tell us now, who told Allegri to play 3-5-2 and Pulisic in attack? Marco Rubio? Luka Modric? 🤣🤣🤣
My bet is on Furlani, he is the manager from the shadows and they are only paying Allegri to be the public face of it. He doesn’t make any decisions, right? 🤣🤣
Sure everyone is delusional except you lol. Keep trying to ridicule/clown your way out of it as every simple mind does when he can’t find arguments. The stats are still saying that Musah was not a “good” player at all tho lol. It’s getting sad at this point.
The stats? You are not talking about stats but how there is an US conspiracy to play Musah. 😳😳 You are mentally ill.
And “everyone is delusional except you”. Who said that, me? When? I just said you are delusional ans 100% mentally ill. You can’t find 3 people on the planet that believe what you wrote. 🤣🤣
Let’s go back to what you said clown “Players can be played for many different reasons, favorisam of coach, management, marketing reasons” This is why Allegri is playing Musah? Someone told him he has to play him or he favours him because he likes something not football related? 🤣 and you are seriously thinking that while trying to tell me I’m simple because I don’t believe in the most re*arded false construct ever written on SempreMilan? Nobody ever came up with such unfounded and delusional stupidity. I can’t stop laughing how stupid you are.
Lol comes here spams replies on every post arguing with everyone about everything, than calls other people mentally ill. Mate take your pills and and chill, your rants here wont solve your problems.
Let’s go back to what you said clown “Players can be played for many different reasons, favorisam of coach, management, marketing reasons” This is why Allegri is playing Musah? Someone told him he has to play him or he favours him because he likes something not football related? 🤣 and you are seriously thinking that while trying to tell me I’m simple because I don’t believe in the most re*arded false construct ever written on SempreMilan? Nobody ever came up with such unfounded and delusional stupidity. I can’t stop laughing at what kind of a story can a sick mind come up with.
Oh yea, let’s just forget what you said and try to say I’m crazy. Not you for inventing a literal conspiracy theory about Musah. 🤣🤣
O yea a club run by investment fund would never try to get money out of players. I mean so silly of me to think something like that. Luckily you are here to tell us how simple it is, and players play just cause they are good same as in fifa lol (No matter that their stats show something quite opposite). Nothing to do with how much the club invested in the player, how much revenue he brings etc. I mean everything is simple for simple minds lol. Jog on mate, and stick to name calling, that’s the most complex thing your brain can come up with lol.
This is not Serie C. Allegri is not some lowlife that has to accept a job and be dictated what he does. It is complete stupidity. Even when I explain you say I’m name calling because you are obviously wrong. I played Fifa maybe 16 years ago, you seem to be well informed of it, why are you mentioning it all the time? So Redbirds plan is to force Allegri go play Musah (that is the worst player at Milan according to you) to somehow make more money? Ok🤣
At the same time they told him to change the formation to the one that doesn’t suit Pulisic, the best US player currently and by far Milans most valuable commercial asset in USA?