Ravezzani and Cardinale

Ravezzani says Milan need ‘great’ striker immediately ‘or goodbye Champions’

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Yesterday’s game against Juventus could have been a turning point for AC Milan, but instead their flaws were significantly exposed. As highlighted by Fabio Ravezzani this morning, the Rossoneri need a great striker and they need it now. 

Juventus dominated the game from start to finish but in the first half, Milan had quite a few chances to score. Rafael Leao was denied by a good save, although the finish could have been better, and several shots that looked goal-bound were blocked by the defence.

In short, as seen so many times before this season, Milan lacked the finish. Alvaro Morata and Tammy Abraham are clearly not good enough, at least not consistently, and something needs to change this month. The director of Telelombardia, Fabio Ravezzani, shared his thoughts on X.

“To achieve ambitious goals, Cardinale must spend, not think above all about the capital gains of Tomori. Milan remains a team without great alternatives to the starters. Morata is not convincing, the reserves are worse. A great striker is needed. And one is needed immediately or goodbye Champions,” he wrote.

Indeed, the situation in the standings is far from great and Champions League qualification is far from a given at the moment. It would be a disaster not to qualify for the competition, not just sporting-wise but also financially.

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30 Comments

  1. We are barely funding a 34-year old right back by selling our starting CB to a direct rival, yet Italian journalists talk about buying a striker? Save the jokes for another time, we already have comedians within the club.

  2. It’s OK cardinale have that. 100 million euros more or less is OK for him to pay.
    Now is time to think about transfer policy.
    Ac Milan team reinforcement can’t be Pavlovic, Morata and Emerson Royal.
    They might can have been bench players, but definitely they can’t be represented like first team reinforcements.

    Now it’s time to sell as many possible, and in next summer to see adequate investments like Napoli did after season without UCL.

    I would be more than happy to finally see sales of: Adli, Pobega, Colombo, Lazetic, Vasquez, Kalulu, Saelemakers and Pellegrino.

    Then we need to figure out what with players who are now in the team.

    Some without contracts I would released for fee:
    Florenzi, calabriaa and Balo Toure, release for fee.

    And then some of them in team needs to be sold out:
    Chukwueze, Okafor, Terracciano, Bennacer and Loftus Cheek. And possibly Tomori.

    Then we need heavy investment . We could have Buongiorno for price of Pavlovic and Emerson Royal. But one 30 million centre back should be bought. Very strong one. New midfielder and new striker with Morata as a back up.

    So you remove useless 15 players, and bring 5 good quality players and compete in serie a only.

    That’s the start..

    1. Good piece.
      Last summer i said we should buy Calafiori not Pavlovic, some genius here thought the management were right to sell, simic, Kalulu and buy that pos Emerson.

    2. All those “release for free” -comments are so comical. If it only were that simple and no one has ever realized it. LOL. 😀 😀 😀 😀

  3. The problem is not the lack of a striker, their are problems that run deep.
    The first and obvious problem is a lack of Leadership right from the top, to the management team, they are supremely unprofessional, let’s start with Cardinale, yes he is a business man and an American, he has other commitments,but he is always absent, for instance why was he not in Riyadh for the super cup, it would have been the perfect opportunity to meet with people that would be beneficial to the club, yet he chose to stay away.
    Second the management team are incompetent, even from the fiasco of the UCL lists, without adequate Italians in the team to be able to register 25 players, then the compoStion of the squad, this club needs a total overwork…

  4. There’s no way we can get good strikers like Lewa, Mitrovic, Griezmann, Fullkrug, Depay, or Callum Wilson, so Management if you want to get nobody striker. Just exploit youth or primavera to their skill boundaries.

    1. We can go for Wood, who is not a great Striker but the kid can score, and he is free, but Management will go for Calvert Lewin, because he is always injured, thus they can say to owners that Injuries are culprits

  5. Now we know for sure that arrogance and greed can’t drive a good project. This one is already rotten. Remember Scaroni saying after Maldini’s eviction “we don’t need him anymore” or Jerry saying he sat and watched for a year in order to understand football. It doesn’t age well. Back to reality, back to banter era.

  6. Even if we suppose that we’re gonna somehow put good chunk of money on a “decent” (forget good) striker this winter, who is available during the transfer window ? many teams nowadays rely on their wingers to score in bunches while the striker is somewhat of a playmaker, but we can’t pull that with Leao and Pulisic and we need a solid midfield anyways which we don’t possess.
    Few teams possess a pure striker and it’s going to be difficult to get hold of one during this winter.

    1. It’s not the case that “many teams nowadays rely on their wingers to score in bunches while the striker is somewhat of a playmaker”. That’s more the exception rather than the rule. If we look at the current top ten Serie A goalscorers, most of them are centre forwards. That’s been the case the for as long as I can remember. Even for us, during his time at Milan, Giroud outscored Leao. So that is an area we definitely need to improve. I agree with you though that our midfield needs to be sorted first and foremost.

      1. I don’t know why people are being so simplistic. Milan’s problem isn’t a striker. It’s the overall team play and squad dept. You only start screaming about a striker when the entire team is playing great football week in week out and the strikers are consistently missing chances.

        In yesterday’s match, no striker could have done anything with the lack of service from wingers and midfielders.

      2. I was mostly refering to teams that fight for titles in the top 5 leagues or so and “younger” generation strikers. If we include every team in top leagues, sure, their strikers are still their goalscorers, plus don’t forget teams that play 4-4-2, 3-5-2, 3-4-3 where you have 2 strikers. For serie A, the top 10 is made mostly of strikers, but how many of them are true quality strikers that can raise the level of our team ? Those strikers are playing with rivals and/or are too expensive.
        Giroud, Lewandowski, Lukaku, Martinez,… are a bit of old generation strikers or old school. Now aside from Haaland, you have players who drop deep, playmake,…

    2. I bet we could get Lorenzo Lucca for about 25M. He’s not the next Shevchenko, but he’s scored around 10 goals per season playing for a defensive side like Udinese. I think with a better supporting cast he’s good for at 15 in the league.

  7. Well we need more than just a capable striker. For starters a DM or two, an LB to give Theo rest and another capable mid to give Deers a rest. It’s poor squad construction as I said in the summer

    1. Poor squad construction is precisely right. The squad is not built for any system. They keep making changes (bad ones) in defense, which was our best department in terms of personell last season, and they ignore the glaring problems in midfield and attack. Say what you want but Gabbia, Thiaw, Tomori, Kalulu, Theo, and Calabria would walk into most Serie A teams.

  8. Want to ask a simple question just assuming nothing much I know the UCL qualifications takes miracle or disqualification of any team to fit in but let me say Milan win all the remaining games left can we qualify automatically without any probabilities or waiting for favour from any team

  9. I remember a year ago when people were calling the few of us that said we’ll be fighting to be 4th crazy.

    Looks like we were right.

    1. I got battered on here for saying top 4 wasn’t a given.

      Looks like I was wrong after all though. Top 4 was/is much harder than I thought.

  10. This is the very top of elite sport, if there is weakness in any part of the chain the other elites will eat you alive.

    The patients are in charge of the asylum and it’s affecting every rung of the ladder.

    A couple of good signings won’t fix this. This is now either top down change or obscurity. What do they say in America…DRAIN THE SWAMP.

  11. Positions of need haven’t changed and we’re almost 2/3 of the way through January with no reinforcements. The team is thin. If your depth subs are Terraciano/Jovic/Futuro Player then that ought to tell you something.

    We’re spending money every year yet we don’t seem to be getting any better. In fact we seem to be getting worse. So instead of addressing these positions of need, we’re after a washed up 34yo for our RB.

    Spoiler Alert: If Walker was still relevant or good, ManCity would not be offloading him in January of all times… Again, wasting money as better/younger/long-term alternatives are out there.

    But ibra is on it. So we’re good….

    Maybe missing out on CL this season would be a good reality check for the management and Cardinale to understand the need to invest properly. That means maybe bring a Sporting Director in who can do that properly. What happened to the Sartori rumors?

  12. Many members here satisfied when we got Morata for our main striker signing. Said he worked, tracked back, etc etc, except scoring many goals. Even many dreamers said let’s not bring a high-profile striker as Camarda will lead our attack within 2-3 years.

    All of those when it’s crystal clear that we need someone who can deliver even better than Giroud as our last prolific striker benchmark. And we need it NOW.

    1. The striker position isn’t the most necessary position to fill out. It’s just the most glamorous position because people think good striker equals goals. Even if you got the best striker, if the team as a whole isn’t functioning well, that striker will struggle because he depends of service from his team.

      Look at Retegui. He got 7 series goals last year playing for Genoa. As soon as he went to a well oiled machine like Atlanta he gets 14 halfway through the season. You think Retegui would have those numbers at Milan?

  13. Even the old donkey in the field next to my house knows that milan urgently need a GOOD – repeat GOOD — striker who can score 15/18 goals per season. Seems that only scruffy furlani, big nose ibra and moncada (who?) have not yet understood this!!!!!!

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