A report has stated that Christian Pulisic deserved more respect after the penalty debacle that took place during last night’s defeat against Fiorentina.
As Daniele Longo writes for Calciomercato.com, Paulo Fonseca is ‘not a coach who likes to hide in front of cameras and journalists’ and he was ‘since, frank and direct since his first day at Milan’. Last night, after the defeat, he stated: “I’m p*ssed off, the taker is Pulisic. It must never happen again.”
The message that lingers, Longo states, is ‘that of a squad that does not listen to its coach, or even better, of a coach who does not have control of the dressing room’ The cooling break at the Stadio Olimpico with Theo Hernández and Rafael Leão hinted at it, and last night reinforced it.
What Tammy Abraham did is ‘absolutely unacceptable’ as he ‘got the ball from Tomori, he pushed Pulisic who was the designated penalty taker away in a bad way and then shot badly, putting his personal success before that of the team’.
Pulisic has five goals and two assists in seven games. He is ‘probably the only Milan player who never makes a mistake in his attitude and preparation for the match’, and sometimes he ‘may even play less well, but he always manages to be useful for the team’.
The USA international ‘is an introverted man who likes to work hard and talk little’. He doesn’t have the personality of Mike Maignan or the boldness of Theo and Florenzi but ‘he is a leader and as such he must be respected’.
What happened yesterday ‘was a clear lack of respect’, the journalist adds, before concluding: “For his part, Pulisic can and must take on more responsibility to become the leader of a group that must come together quickly.”
First nail in the coffin for Abraham.
Abraham is a striker who can’t score, and screwed up this match. No way Milan will buy him at the end of the season.
End Tammy’s loan early
We need Camarda on pitch not bench.
A captain should be an extension of the coach on the pitch and example for the rest of the teammates to follow. Someone who will hold teammates accountable.
Milan captain is Theo Hernández.
That’s all you need to know. That’s your problem right there.
He set the example to Tomori and Abraham that they shouldn’t follow the coaches instructions by wanting to take the penalty on his birthday so he can score and post on TikTok after the game.
Remember the example he set along his buddy Leao during the cooling break in the Lazio game?
It’s a travesty that he is even allowed to wear a captains armband. But meatheads have been calling for him to be that captain, because he fights with Dumfries during the derbies even though Dumfries outplays him in almost every derby.
He wanted to leave this past summer, pimped himself out, but no tricks showed up with any money to aquire his services.
Milan should think twice before offering him a new contract for the money he wants.
Pulisic needs to speak up and stand up for himself. Otherwise you get walked on. But he is the clear winner of this fiasco as apparently no one else can score a PK in this team.
There seems to be camps within this team. Chelsea/English boys stick together? Fik decides Tammy needs a PK and no one objects? Where’s the captain? Oh that’s right – he did the same thing earlier and is voiceless now.
Fonseca and Ibra need to reestablish the order on the team. The bigger concern is a big lack of leadership – they would be wise to assign new leadership and make Mike the captain, and maybe Morata the backup – most experienced player at the moment.
That wasn’t meant to be a reply, Z. Sorry.
This isn’t the Wild West..it’s a professional football club. How unprofessional would it then look if Pulisic started arguing back…so we want Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer at San Siro?
Schmuck has been here 5 minutes l, missed a hatful of chances and then demands the ball off Pulisic….end the f@ckers loan now or ban him interallly.
It’s time for Baresi to step out of his honourary role and get him in the dressing room….
We signed two strikers who can’t really score…Tammy should have sealed the derby and scored at least twice in the last three weeks, and Morata albeit great at the teamwork and the workrate yadder yadder isn’t clutch either.
I agree that Pulisic should not argue back on the pitch. Players should do what the coach says. If X does not do that, instead of Pulisic arguing back, X should be taught a lesson from the coach&management.
Making Morata vice captain or Mike captain is adding fuel to fire, you fans and journalist are part of the problem, one lucky performance from Abraham and couple from Morata, you guys already started calling them leaders, this is the problem, Tammy that’s a bench player, who couldn’t score to save his life is now good for a whole Milan, too bad
Complete revam required….
Fire our tactical genius first
Sell all most all the players except Puli, Gabbia , Calab and Theo(play him as LAM) and buy Tonali back
Torr
Calab, Gabbia, Bart, Jim
Zero, Tonali
Puli, Lib, Theo
Mora
Who’s the genius that starts Tomori and Abraham every game?
Do we even need Morata and Abraham on the field at the same time? Now and then it might work but clearly, all the time is not working out for Milan atm.
Abraham is still a big question mark. Not sure why many were calling to sign him on permanently. I maintain we need to see what he does in the full season. But I agree that there’s absolutely no need to be starting the same players every game with the same setup.
He has not learnt to shoot the ball properly yet. That is the main reason why Chelsea sold him out. Unless the coach can help him fix that issue, he is not up to the standards of a top Serie A team.
That is true and i think thats why Roma gave up on him too, his finishing is not good.
he is very poor, twice he has been faced with the goalkeeper to beat, and twice he failed to score, he is no good
do you want to sell maignan?
This is an embarrassment. Theo should never wear the armband again cares more about himself than the team. I’ve been a fan of Abraham since he’s been here, but where does he get the balls to do that? You just got here, now you are going to step in and take the ball away from the guy who has been our best player for the last 2 seasons and defy the coach’s wishes. F off man. Both he and Theo should be benched for this. Pulisic has too much class to make a scene on the pitch and start fighting over the ball and these clowns take advantage of that.
Well said. Pulisic isn’t going to make a scene.
Agreed. He chose not to make a scene that would have impacted the squad badly. THAT is putting the team first. Something Theo, Tammy, and even Rafa know nothing about.
Quite right.
point of correction Pulisic isn’t the best player but one of the best, if I have t pick I will say Leao
Tammy is a flop
Abraham had good work ethic in his first games. But he probably still views Pulisic as the injured newcomer at Chelsea who couldn’t get consistent time because of Tuchel’s moronic shuffling of players all the time.
But Pulisic is healthy, is much improved, and is the new sheriff in town. Abraham’s lack of respect is disgusting.
There ARE little cliques on teams — players who always pass the ball only to each other. I’m also seeing a bit of that at Milan. Pulisic, on the other hand, will find whoever is open. Abraham should apologize.
Abraham should be on the bench, he is no good
So Tomori keeps proving Southgate right.
Tammy and Tomori- all they have is work rate. Apart from that, they have nothing. Milan really needs to incoporate their youth players. Forget about their struggle in Serie C, that team was completely new. Slotting in a few yout players would be a lot easier.