During his press conference earlier today, on the eve of the clash against Genoa, Milan manager Paulo Fonseca shared his thoughts on why the season has been filled with ups and downs. Above all, he attributed this to the pre-season.
It’s not exactly a secret that Fonseca was given a major task when he arrived at the start of July, ordered to more or less completely change Milan’s way of playing. However, due to the Euros, he had to embark on this journey without many of the stars.
During the press conference earlier today, Fonseca was asked about the ups and downs this season and if he believes there has been any progress. He provided a very in-depth response to the matter, mainly attributing the struggles to the pre-season.
“We have already done this exercise here, but we can do it again. I came here and they brought me here to change the way we play. I came here with 15 players, we went to the US with 15 players and a lot of youngsters: a lot of the important players weren’t there due to international duty.
“We trained, we did things well, things went well. But not with the players who were in the national team. They arrived 8 days before the first league game. We can’t change everything in 8 days, or even a lot.
“After that, it was difficult to train, we played every three days. The steps I want to take need more time. But for me, we have already changed things that are important to me and we have played good games.
“In Italy, we didn’t get the results we wanted, but we have played good games. And if we analyse a lot of tactical things there has been progress. The problem for me is mental, I feel like it’s like a roller coaster. Games like against Empoli, against Sassuolo…
“We did good things in Bergamo too: they created more against Real than against us. The problem was the second half, where we didn’t attack. Then the Champions League arrived and we didn’t have the mental ambition to continue growing. It seems to me that when the team thinks it has an easy life in matches, like against Red Star, it has this presumption. And that’s the problem,” he stated.
Tomorrow, the manager is expected to make some bold choices with both Alex Jimenez and Mattia Liberali set to start. Seeing as some of the usual starters have struggled, it’s absolutely the right decision to give the promising youngsters a chance.
Whining like he’s the only manager in the world who’s players came in late. A man of many excuses but he’s just weak and mediocre. As are the owners, management and the team.
Jeeez more excuses wtf
Next up, the water boys don’t bring full the bottles to the brim.
Ha ha.
Do you remember Ferguson blaming the grey third kit for Man Utd losing at half time to Southampton?
Lol classic Fergie. But with him it was to detract away attention from the defeat. Don’t know what Fonsy doing here
Blaming the preseason is all good and fine but now you had 3 months with these guys. 3 months of training. Week I week out.
Don’t speak like they don’t train 2 times a day..every team trains 2 times a day.
So yeah, we’d be expecting a lot, a lot more consistency by now.
But this genius goes and plays musah on rw. Pulisic on AM and a mezzala on DM.
I’m surprised he doesn’t put Mike on ST and Tammy in goal.
Just an excuse. That maybe could fly for the first month but won’t work now.
In 5 months he’s in charge, he has caused more drama than Pioli ever did in 5 years.
Ha ha. So true.
It’s exhausting!
This man really is blaming literally everything but his own decisions…
I think the team needs to spend a weekend together…
The reason for the subpar performances is HUGELY the fact that we have one of the most incompetent head coaches in all of Serie A, much more than a late start for some players in the pre-season. That excuse could fly for 3 games, not at mid-point in the season.
If you agree the coach is incompetent then can you take it easier on the players who have to play under an incompetent coach?
Fonseca has right . Many of our players don’t have the right attitude and profesionalism required for performance. They lack “grinta” like italians say.
They take too easy some games with “smaller” teams. They are too arrogant and delusional. These players are still nothing in the world of football , they have won nothing in their football life, they have no performance whatsoever but they still have a superior attitude and are unreasonably full of themselves. This is probably due to their lack of education, weak character and total lack of ambition. I don’t mean all our players, only some of them, including those mentioned here in this article.
And who’s responsibility is it to keep them grounded and united? Exactly. All he does is singling them out every match, benching them as a punishment. Fonzy here’s doing helluva bad job man managing his players.