Arrigo Sacchi believes that Inter are the favourites to defend their Scudetto crown, and revealed some of the doubts he has about AC Milan under Paulo Fonseca.
After the last friendly played at San Siro against Monza in the Silvio Berlusconi trophy, Milan are getting ready to begin their 2024-25 campaign for real with a game against Torino at the same stadium on Saturday night.
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The results from preseason are encouraging as the Rossoneri came out on top against Manchester City, Real Madrid and Barcelona out in the United States, while there were many positives in terms of the style of play but also some issues that Fonseca admitted that he wants to work on.
Sacchi spoke during an interview with Il Giornale ahead of the start of the Serie A season and he offered his thoughts on the campaign ahead, with his comments relayed by Radio Rossonera.
Who are the favourites in your eyes?
“I’m not playing the fortune teller but I’ll just say that Inter is definitely the favourite team for next season because they are the most structured. They will have to be very humble to be able to repeat the brilliant results.”
How will Milan do under Fonseca?
“If instead of announcing his [plan to achieve] dominance of the game he had prepared and executed it, it would have been better. To achieve it, the start will be complicated because Milan fans know how to recognise quality football.”
Is it comparable to your start at Milan?
“We started well in Pisa, then the following week we took a beating from Fiorentina at San Siro. There were no whistles and President Berlusconi asked me: what do we do? I replied: let’s continue on this path, when we last 90 minutes instead of 60 the results will also come.”
How did you view the Silvio Berlusconi Trophy?
“I saw a defense that wasn’t always covered and this means that there is still valuable work to be done to gain compactness and the right distances. The goal must be to make the opponent not the protagonist even when they are in possession of the ball.”
I’m not playing the fortune teller but I’ll just say that Inter is definitely the favourite team for next season.
Sacchi and his comments in a nutshell.
I’m not saying who’s favourites but inter are favourites.. 🤦♂️ this dude
This is the guy who was chanting all the season to keep pioli , and before that (when we just hired pioli) he was the one chanting that will be a big mistake and we shouldnt hire him.
So you’re saying things change
Hmmm 🤔 interesting
Sacchi was also the one to encourage Maldini to sign Giampaolo who he claimed is a great coach and we all know how that turned out.
I wouldn’t listen to a word out of his mouth. In my opinion he is the luckiest coach on planet earth.
He coached a Milan team and Italian national team that was loaded with superstars and legendary players who in my opinion would have won without him.
Few clean sheets early. We’ll need to outscore our opponents.
Next year serie a will be like this
1 Ac milan
2 as roma
3 inter milan
4 Atlanta
Where the F did you find roma at?
If anyone is in top 4 is Napoli.
Roma with chiesa they are more than strong, Napoli hhh that club is dead if Napoli remains in serie a next year they are lucky
Why? They’re gonna lose dybala and de rossi might be an upcoming coach but he has alogn road to prove himself. And let’s be honest, dybala is the only player in that roma squad that is worth anything.
Now for Napoli. I know a lot of people don’t like conte and all that and think (foolishly) that his career is over. But the reality is, he is a winner and Napoli won’t have any eu games, means more rest and more training time to gel.
Napoli is dead yet they were champions 2 years ago and a vast majority of those players are still at the club. Can you be any more subjective and wrong?
Like honestly, how stupid do you need to be to write that a club like Napoli is gonna be lucky to stay in serie a next season? Such disrespect and arrogance.
Sacchi is a real italian legend! I like fonseca and i Hope that Milan is ablento reach the Champions leaque! For me Inter is the Only Team to win the title!
Roccy milan or roma remember what i said I’m not those people who change names here inter are weak this year their best midfielders barela and mikhtarian are out of form and decrease barela isn’t a player he was
The Roma Coach is a legend but still a Talent
If Inter is Not the next Champion the Serie A is a shameful thing! Napoli has a mega Coach but …..ß
Nah you’re one of those people who write ridiculous things that have 0 basis in reality.
Inter is weak. You just wrote that. Like wtf??? Barela can get injured for the whole season and they’ll just pop fratesi in. And zielinski was obviously brought in to replace Miki who’s old.
Inter is weak. So ridiculous. You should try your asś at stand up. I’ve hunch you’d be hot shít there