There is a lot of enthusiasm among the AC Milan squad after the first few weeks of work under the new head coach Paulo Fonseca, according to one journalist.
Fonseca was confirmed as the new coach back in June but he only took office at the beginning of July, working with the players that were available from day one of preseason to try and instil his ideas while waiting for more arrivals
According to Antonio Vitiello of MilanNews, ‘positive feedback is coming from the USA’ regarding Fonseca’s training so far. He speaks of ‘exhausting exercises, intense work to put fuel in the legs’ as well as ‘hard, tiring training, different from recent years even in the methodologies’.
However, it was ‘necessary to change the type of preparation’ in order to move away from the Stefano Pioli era. Fonseca worked ‘above all on pressing, on recovering the ball and on possession in tight spaces’.
The idea is to have a team ‘ready for attack, but with extreme attention to the defensive phase’ given the struggles in that particular area, and for this it was and still remains necessary to sign another midfielder. Instead, the management seem to want to remain patient.