Exactly one month before the start of the Serie A season, the new coach Paulo Fonseca and Senior Advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic have implemented a real revolution at AC Milan.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below), many things have changed and will continue to change, from the way the mercato is conducted to the style of play, from the coaching staff to the medical departments.
The paper talks about the changes that Fonseca and Ibrahimovic have brought to Milan’s staff above all, with the primary objective of solving the injury problem that has affected the last few seasons under Stefano Pioli.
The approach during the first days of training was physical and will continue to be. A lot of work was done on intensity, which is why double training sessions were reintroduced in this first phase.
Supporting Fonseca in bringing his ideas is a ‘large and revolutionised’ staff. In addition to Tiago Leal, Paulo Ferreira and Paulo Morao who are his assistants, Antonio Ferreira (goalkeeping coach) and Nelson Duarte (match analyst) will join.
Moreover, the staff will also see the addition of athletic trainer Filippo Nardi and match analysts Giorgio Tenca and Igor Quaia. In order for them to arrive, Ibrahimovic has had to sanction some exits.
Marco Paesanti, Roberto Morosi and Albino Rossetti will not be part of the first team staff as they have been dismissed. They worked as massage physio, physio and rehabilitation therapists respectively.
Last year, the goalkeeping coach was Tony Roberts, but now he will step aside for Ferreira and ‘could be a goalkeeper scout’.
Ah now Fonseca is a mastermind/genius/revolutionary coach. Funny. He just won with Shakhtar, a team that won 12 of the 16 Ukrainian Premier League titles, including 9 without him. Then the failure at Roma and the shaky legacy at Lille. Last time he played in UCL was 2018. 20 total games played in UCL. It was definitely an ambitious hiring for the coaching position.
Get over it man. Paulo Fonseca is our coach now. Either you support Fonseca and Milan or you can go find another club team to support. Smh
Why am I not surprised to see Bart crying over something management/coaches have done or not done? I challenge you guys to find just one post by this guy where he says something even remotely positive. Mission impossible. Even Tom Cruise would fail in this mission.
I was only writing plain facts. Shakthar won 12 of the last 16 Ukrainian titles since the rebranding of the league. They have a lot more before that also. So Fonseca’s only success came with a team that is almost certain to win its domestic championship every year. And he didn’t play in UCL since 2018, fact again. Then it’s your choice to be ecstatic, optimistic, supportive or critic. Live your life bro
So what has Pep won without being at a big, rich club that can get him every player he asks for? How many times have his sides been favorites and crashed out of the CL? Guess he’s an awful coach too.
I bet you loved Pioli when he came in with aaaaaaall his trophies, right? But then again, as the positive person you are, you probably think he was the worst coach Milan ever had. Even worse than Giampaolo. 🙂
Still comparing Milan with the previous Scudetto era when the team was filled with unproven youngsters. In the past three seasons Milan has been Serie A champion with the Serie A MVP, qualifying for the UCL semifinals (missing Leao and Bennacer) and last season finished 2nd, all of this with players being well known for their quality such as Mike, Théo, Leao, Tonali, Tomori, Pulisic. How is that different from when Pioli arrived at the club?
You so missed the point. Again. Or deliberately avoided to answer.
This made me laugh. Thank you.
Revolutionize? Really? The way the paper gushes over them is a bit much. A large and revolutionary staff support. We’ll await said revolution
I assume that English isn’t your native language? The entire staff has been turned over, revolutionize is the proper word to use. Its meaning in this instance is change, not revolt. Is it something that will change world football, no, but that was not what was meant.
Not sure if you’re trying to be snarky or helpful but given my regular posts around here it should be obvious I’m a native English speaker. All I said was we’ll await the revolution both to your interpretation of the article as well as what I’m about to point out below.
So while we’re at the English lesson (I do understand this might sound snarky), certain words connotes or evokes certain meaning. “Change” and “”turnover” as you put it are both fine by me if that’s what the authors meant to convey…but they’re not or else they’d use those exact words. Those two words are ‘gentler’ so-to-speak in terms of conveying additional meaning across to the reader.
“Revolution” on the other hand connotes a different feeling or meaning on top of the existing literal meaning of the word and is stronger. So the use of revolution is very intentional here. It is meant to go beyond just a change in staff and methods. It means more than a mere typical change and the change is drastic, sharp …I presume here also esp in the methods being used by Fonseca.
You’ll even notice in your own response that staff turnover and revolutionize evokes two different sets of meaning. Even your use of revolt is sharper than they way I used (btw I never said revolt, I simply said revolution…the same exact words as in the article).
In conclusion, the literary device being used here is connotation and as such the use of revolution is stronger and intentional. Hope this clarifies the matter.