Sergio Conceicao has been the head coach of AC Milan since Monday and the atmosphere has already changed significantly. According to a report, the manager has imposed strict rules on the players.
Paulo Fonseca was relieved of his duties after the 1-1 draw against Roma and Milan quickly replaced him with Conceicao. In other words, it’s a change that had been in the works and the management decided to act ahead of the Supercoppa Italiana, even if the execution was far from good.
In any case, as reported by Antonio Vitiello, there has been a significant change in atmosphere already as Conceicao has outlined strict rules for the players. Furthermore, he has had several meetings with the entire team to discuss discipline, which has been lacking this season.
Individual interviews have also taken place to get to know the players better, which is essential with such an important month ahead. Initial reports also suggest that the players have responded positively to the change, and perhaps we will see the usual ‘new manager effect’ early on.
Conceicao’s first game in charge of the team will be against Juventus in the Supercoppa Italiana, scheduled for Friday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
this is a coach we needed espically on the lazy players
Nice to see the ‘rich tea & sympathy’ for Fonseca is over and we can read about Sergio C (should happened the second he broke ties with FC Porto, in the summer). and how is proceeding.
I think that Cardinali will now get rid of Furlani and Moncada, Zlatan will remain as he is just…ok no-one, if Zlatan knows his exact title, but he gets a pass. If Sergio C is here for longer than 6 months I can’t see him listening and even working with this management and Sergio C will bring in Italians, that’s a certainty, he has played and won in series A, he know the importance of Italian players to highlight what the Milan shirt is about.
I was fascinated and smug after reading Sabastian Verona’s report on Sergio C, I would encourage all Milan fans to read it.
Help us understand why having Italians is importing your mind? Why not talent regardless of nationality???
It’s not always about ability, nationality, does play a role…so many milan greats are not Italian, but this bare refusal to buy any Italian players is jus so obvious, the purchase of Emerson is a clear example, seria A has a host of players ready to jump in but we have to always go for ‘anyone but Italians’, players who would need no time to settle into Italian life, culture no the meaning of wearing the Milan shirt it’s history its fans.
Ability is not always paramount, it is just part of becoming a great, Gattuso won everything in the game, his ability is highly suspect, there are many examples like this.
I think conceicao training session it’s like conte. Horror training. Hahaha…
The Milan management has made it clear their first priority are the financials. The growth decree (50% tax concession for foreign players) in place hugely benefits them buying foreign players over Italians.
The growth decree ends in Feb though so I wouldn’t be surprised if in the summer Milan starts looking at buying established Italian players again to re establish their Italian core. Add that to the young talents coming through the futuro and Milan can regain their Italian identity which is important.
The player‘s needed a Commander and not Trainers like Fonseca and Pioli that Lack authority and have no Self Respect and throw it away just to stay on the Position as a Trainer.
They are young men who need to be told what to do and Sergio C is the man to be there father, figuratively speaking, doesn’t mean he goes around to see their mum’s
How do you know what they need? We haven’t even seen one game yet. Maybe this is the totslly opposite of what they need? Piolis style seems to have been what Milan needed when he came along. He completely turned the team around. We can only hope Sergio is what these players need.
If he can bring faster game, with a more direct way to goal I will be happy.
Good, the first rule he should impose, is no more jewellery during training, no more jewellery on the bench during matches, I have seen certain players wear jewellery on the bench or even when warming up, another rule is every player should wear their shorts properly, no sagging, and all players should wear their socks up to the knee during matches, they are not in training sessions ..
Ok grandpa 🤣
oh cool.. This is terrible action to take at this time, it seems he might fail again too.. well.. it will be good for a couple months, later….got…
We’re you dropped as an infant?
I’m fascinated to see how leao and teo will respond. I’m wondering if that ‘discipline’ talk was aimed at players who don’t hustle.
Off topic but why aren’t Milan trying to sign players that will be free agents in the summer, they can try to get a pre contract now (I don’t know what it’s called) and get the players in the summer. It should be prioritized or up there on our prioritize because of how many players there are and how many really good players there are
Beat them all with the discipline stick.
Finally we are back in the race for the scudetto!!
Not even a single minute under Conceicao yet, lol.
Get ready leao, you can’t just walk in the pitch.. hehe
I foresee Leao being sold at the end of season. His poor attitude and laziness has no place in Conceicao’s team.
It’s not even about laziness with Leao and Theo. I mean these two carried us many times before. Theo is one of the most used players in Milan ever since he got here. A player who never evem had any proper substitute.
It’s about attitude and that has a lot to do with the coach and his ability to get inside player’s heads. Look at Conte, he squeezes every drop of energy from his players everywhere he coached and many of who were deemed lazy and not fit for his system. It remains to be seen if Sergio Conceicao is the type of coach our players are willing to follow and leave their hearts out on the field.
It’s fine to discipline or apply the stick. What Fonseca fails at it that motivation comes with that approach. And the problem was there was no end goal to his approach. It’s kept dragging on for too long so much so he basically lost many of his important players. His level of coaching is clearly not up to par