Today, reports have suggested that Rafael Leao was on his way to starting in AC Milan’s game against Monza this weekend, but this may not be the case.
With Milan losing against Napoli, an instant bounce-back is needed, and this is why reports have suggested that Paulo Fonseca will look to his stars for inspiration against Monza this weekend. Included in that list was Leao, and whilst it was stated that he was in a ballot against Noah Okafor, it seemed he was heading towards redemption.
This is not the case, though, as Gazzetta dello Sport (via Milan News) have reported that Okafor will start the game instead. Should Fonseca not change his mind once again, it will be the third time in four games that Leao has started from the bench.
Perhaps, this could be a tactical move with the Champions League clash against Real Madrid on Tuesday night. However, with reports questioning the relationship of Leao and Fonseca, the decision to leave him on the bench will only add to the reported strain.
With Leao reportedly seeking a way out of the club, perhaps as early as January, keeping him on the bench will only push him further out of the door.
N🧊. Let okafor cook, rafa had his time
You man don’t deserve a player like leao. He’s our best player and you know it. Yall are forcing this hate. If u think leao getting benched for the 3rd time in 4 games is good for milan then your not a real milan fan
Exactly. And Fonseca is an idiot who is ruining this team, and ruining Leao. Instead of siding with one of our best players, these Milan “fans” are siding with the incompetent loser we have for head coach. Unbelievable.
If leao was such a good player it would take a lot more to “ruin” him. But yeah, you keep simping brah
Or 2 things can be true at the same time.
Both Leao and Fonseca are lovers.
Leao doesn’t deserve to start. Fonseca isn’t benching him for sh!ts and giggles. He is benching him because leao is trash. And not starting him again shows that Leao isn’t learning his lesson.
Milan should get rid off themselves from both Fonseca and Leao.
Both are trash.
Both Fonseca and Leao are *LOSERS.
You are the biggest loser with Zero Ball Knowledge. You could be a juve fan or something with your knowledge
We would’ve been better off playing Samuel Dalla Bonna than Leao at the moment, and then Samuel would still be the bigger talent. You children think we haven’t seen this before. Leao will destroy his own career like Balo did. But at least Balo has heart even though he’s crazy.
agree 100% he ruins this team and leao
I think no player is bigger than the club.
Yall are rafa leao fans not ac milan fans.
And hate is such a watered down word nowadays. I’m totally indifferent about Leao. Maybe that is why I’m able to see things and him more clearly than most “fans”
LOL. It seems like you actually think that you see things clearly. Too funny!
I see things very clearly. Unlike yourself. You don’t see anything at all. I’m surprised you managed to get into middle age with such lack of sight. Then again this society is made so people like you survive. In the old days you wouldn’t made it past 20
Do you actually think that your personal attack that I wouldn’t survive past 20 is clever or funny? You have an unrealistically high opinion of yourself.
Hey, have the last word, genius. Have a good day. See you around.
so Mr. AC Milan fan ; the fan fav okafor has 1 goal in 360 odd minutes in Serie a this season ; while the worst season leao has 1 goal 4 assist in 550 odd minutes ; now tell me which is good for AC Milan ?
I can also delve into deeper stats but i think this is enough.
Idc about leao as such but he at his worst is better than okafor.
Only arguement i can take is defensive duties; but let’s talk about that when the team is scoring lol
Nah delve deeper. I like the odd stat now and then.
Maybe leao isn’t better than okafor anymore. Maybe okafor actually worked and improved. Who knows? I’m curious to find that out so I say let him cook.
Pulisic has been the best player ever since he came here though and you know it.
You are obviously not a milan fan, do you think Leao is mostly affected, No it’s milan that’s hurt, even if we want to sell him which I don’t support his value will drop drastically and guess who the looser is….Milan not Leao
I just about had it people telling me if I’m a fan or not.. half off you id*its want fonseca to fail because you don’t like the idea of him.
True fans. Respect!
Milan survived dollar, kessie, snake hakan. We’ll survive leao. Nobody was ever gonna pay 100+M for him anyway.. 2 lazy
I think we have established by now that Okafor is an impact sub. But hey, keep trying to reinvent the wheel.
Leao has reached his ceiling.. He are catering to his ego too much, the best players sacrifice theirselves with grit and forceful attitude. Sulking n nonchalant behaviour cos you are perceived to be the most talented is not enough to be the highest paid player on the team
Not to mention the amount of cash we thrown around for him, cleaning that lille-sporting mess..
Dude has little appreciation for Milan imao
Yeah. Keep telling yourself that. Once Rafa leaves (who wouldn’t, the way he’s being treated?) and we finish 10th, you’ll regret it and MAYBE you will understand it, but then it will be too late. Mark my words.
It’s unbelievable how some people are clueless and short-sighed. They side with the mediocre, incompetent loser we have as the head coach, instead of siding with one of our best players. Great, just great.
Apparently Fonseca has such bad judgement, that he thinks that Okafor is better than Leao. Not to forget, he’s the one who asked for Emerson Royal.
Rafa wants out and next it will be Theo. Banter years 2.0, here we come.
Fonseca is engaged in a silly, useless war against Rafa to prove that he’s got balls. Maybe he does. Too bad he lacks a brain.
All u man are saying get rid of leao, but as soon as we put him to the market I can guarantee a club will come and get for at least
90 mil minimum. Why on earth would other clubs spend so much money to buy leao if you guys think he’s not good enough. Clearly he’s milans best player. If u disagree ur just a hater
Nobody is paying 90M minimum for leao.
Atm we’d be lucky to get 60M for him.
Clearly he isn’t Milan best player. That has always been Mike!
you are just a hater im sure the feelings would switch if he was italian
Why would they switch? I’m not Italian.
And no I’m not a hater. I hate allegri for example. I definitely don’t feel the same way when I see leao…
“If u disagree ur just a hater”
LOL. This will go to the Most Idiotic Quotes Hall of Fame. 😀 😀 😀
Comes up a lot when the argument for what they want to be true is lacking..
If our panties don’t get wet when we see leao on the pitch we haters..
This times a 1000.
FONSECA!!!! más malo que el covid 19… ACABÓ CON TODO!!!! 👍🏻🇺🇲🇵🇹🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡‼️🤮
Pioli was coach for which fans will cry untill end of the season
What’s the big deal? – we looked the better team against Napoli for 60 mins with Okafor starting and Leao wouldnt have improved our performance in front of goal.
So he’ll be on the bench. Get over it, .he’ll get his chance, which he will probably squander, like he did against Napoli. Real Milan fans no longer care that he has enormous potential, they want to see it on the pitch and if he goes then we’ll wish him all the best and move on.
Leao is not longer our best player. Pulisic is our best player. Leao is a lazy player who feels he can do anyhow and he will still play.
Yes. Okafor have done everything that Leao could – overpacing fullbacks to lay it off, shooting either on target or in the stands, smiling and dribbling. + tracking back and quickly passing the ball that Leao doesn’t. Leao may not have done anything wrong in the last match or I’d say he’s played reasonably fine. However sitting Okafor has to be justified with something more than merely preventing Leao getting upset.
Okafor is not one fourth of the player Leão is. Okafor is nothing more than a super sub. He is not starting material, and that’s been abundantly clear last season every time Okafor started (but Fonseca doesn’t do his homework and doesn’t watch tape, so, he wouldn’t know, therefore he keeps trying to reinvent the wheel.
Haters say that Rafa is lazy. Actually the lazy bum is Fonseca who doesn’t get to know his own players by doing his homework.
Leão in this difficult period when he is upset and unmotivated given the scapegoating (and yes, unfortunately Leão is not a very mature individual so his game suffers when he is upset) due to the silly war our incompetent loser of a coach is fighting against him, is still 4 times better than Okafor. Even the way things are right now, Leão still has four times more assists than Okafor (4 versus 1), despite being constantly benched by the idiotic coach.
So, Okafor does everything that Leão does, you say. Yes, sure, sure. Like, adding 30 goal participations per season, right? No? He doesn’t? No, indeed he doesn’t, unlike Leão who does (check their seasonal stats on footystats dot org).
One wonders why the experienced, professional raters from the main newspapers granted to Okafor scores of 4 to 5 against Napoli, while you think that Okafor did all that against Napoli. Did you actually watch the same game? Okafor did strictly nothing against Napoli, and most professional commentators said Fonseca should have started Leão or at least brought him in much sooner. It’s not so easy to solve it when the well-coached opponents have a 2-goal lead already and are parking the bus to protect the lead, so, no wonder Rafa coming in so late, couldn’t do much. We already didn’t have 5 starters including our currently best player, Pulisic, being sick, and the loser by the name of Paulo Fonseca also wanted to sit Rafa, for no reason whatsoever. No wonder we were toothless.
Last season, over and over, when Okafor started, he didn’t amount to anything. That same season Leão scored 18 goals and produced 12 assists.
Fonseca thinking that Okafor is better than Leão is nothing short of utterly insane. It doesn’t surprise me, because Fonseca is indeed utterly insane, and is destroying this team. I mean, how delusional can Fonseca be? He literally said, after a bad defeat at home to a title contender that then pulled ahead of us by 11 points, that he never felt as confident and that we are doing great. That’s insanity.
Einstein said, insanity is to try the same mistake over and over while hoping for a different result. And now apparently Paulo the crazy loser wants to sit Rafa against Monza, again. Monza is no Napoli so maybe we will still get a good result, and our amateur managers will stall and take no action, and we’ll continue to be stuck with Fonseca.
I will never root against Milan. But one wonders if the club wouldn’t be better off if Fonseca’s silly move backfired again and we lost to Monza. Maybe then the managers would finally panic and fire Fonseca.
I’m not vey good with remembering numbers but doesn’t sound to me like Leao has scored 18 goals last season, more like 12 goals. I may be wrong. I’m only doubting your honesty about this matter after you’ve said a few things like all the major ratters have given Okafor between 4- 5. FotMob has given him 6.5 and a 6.7 to Leao!. FotMob are the only ratters I’ve checked but I’m confident of most other ratters having a similar gap between the two players.
I believe if Okafor is given as much minutes as Leao, he’d get close to 11g and 11a (which is Leaos average goal contribution that you’ve been bragging about). But with much better defensive stats and attitude.
You’re comparing their stats for this season where Leao have had more than 4 times Okafors minutes lol ,even thou you’ve said that Okafor is having more minutes (dishonesty). Still they both scored 1 goal showing how poor a goal scorer the no10 is. If he’s 3 more assists than Okafor after playing like 4 times more minutes then I don’t know why you wouldn’t believe that Okafors numbers are better this season.
Fotmob is not a person. It’s an algorithm. Look at what the raters from the major newspapers said.
If you doubt my numbers about Rafa’s goals + assists last season go to footy stats dot org. All competitions not just Serie A. 18 goals, 12 assists
Rafa is coming across as another Sergio Garcia. Worlds talent weak nerves, weak mentality. A victim of a his own success. He’s a victim he should be the one in Saudi and Frank should be here.
you are just a hater im sure the feelings would switch if he was italian
Everything is falling apart with this shit coach. Let Leão fcking start, this reminds me of Ronaldo 2022
Time to leave the club Shitao
Leao is not built for defensive game, he is 100% attack minded player.
If you ask one of the top winger in serie A to play in own than being close to the defence line of opposite team then you are foolish and you don’t understand football.
Hang in there Rafael.