AC Milan are deserving of some criticism for their decision not to strengthen the squad in the January transfer window, according to Tuttosport.
The well-known newspaper (via MilanNews) have judged the winter mercato for each Serie A team and they have given a rating out of 10 for each too, awarding the Rossoneri with a score of just 5.5.
It was a bold call from Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara to not strengthen the group available to head coach Stefano Pioli – especially given the selection emergencies already battled this season – but Tuttosport write that ‘we will see how calculated the risk will be’.
Despite the defensive crisis, which everyone thought guaranteed a signing, Milan never brought in a centre-back despite the many transfer links that we saw during the past few weeks. Instead, they signed a striker – Marko Lazetic – and said goodbye to Pietro Pellegri, Milos Kerkez, Andrea Conti and Alessandro Plizzari.
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We will see if the priority of saving money and returning to financial healthy status over strengthening the team and adding depth will pay off. I’m concerned we will have a similar injury crisis and deal a massive blow to the rest of the season. I believe our current squad is a strong one and we have the capacity to easily make top 4 (and depending on the derby) fight for the scudetto. But it honestly all depends on the health of our players.