All Hands on Deck, This Ship Was Made to Sink!
By: Gianfranco | September 14th, 2008
I have neither the energy nor desire to analyze today’s game. In fact I am somewhat embarrassed to be a Milan fan at this point and time, and after receiving a text message from one of my tifosi amici that simply read, “What is wrong with Milan.” I didn’t respond at the time but now I can politely say, “What isn’t.”
The notion of untouchable players at Milan needs to be abandoned and with that the necessity of the set formation. Carletto needs to reassert his authority over the squad and begin to choose only the best 11 based on form and fitness. So if Sheva, Dinho, and whoever else is playing like shit then guess where they can start their match, you guessed it, and if you didn’t, it rhymes with wench. He also needs to realize that he can’t impose the xmas tree formation on any old eleven players, he needs to look at the personnel at hand and make a determination on how to setup the squad. Milan’s formation and tactics are found out; any anyone can come out and strike on the counter when Milan commits numbers forward. This formation lacks width, creativity, and any real sense of offensive threat, it just plain sucks.
I hope to have a more constructive post later in the week, but right now this is all I can really muster. I leave you with an eerie image that I haven’t been able to shake for two weeks. When Baresi retired Milan were aging, they had a strong transfer campaign that saw the inclusion of Dutch, Davids, Reiziger, and later a young phenom named Kluivert, players to form the middle of the field, the team never gelled and the signings never materialized and Baresi left in a cloud of failure. This year Maldini is going to retire, the squad is aging, their transfer campaign saw the creation of a Brazilian foundation with a young Brazilian phenom in Pato, the team seems to lack chemistry and desire, and my fear is that Maldini will continue to follow in the footsteps of his mentor and legend before him…
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Gianfranco, I agree with essentially all of that, but it assumes that the sporting director is making the key personnel decisions, and I haven’t seen any evidence that that is in fact the case with Milan’s mercato.
Two hours before you signed Sheva, Galliani was saying it wasn’t going to happen. And it’s been obvious to everyone here for years that the Ronaldinho crush is all Silvio’s (as is the unwillingness to spend money on a keeper or shore up the defence).
You can criticise Galliani and Ancelotti for having sold their souls to the devil, but that doesn’t make them Satan.
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Galliani U SUCK.
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The problem is Ursus, it is hard to ask for the head of Berlu when he in fact made this team what it is today. Much like the Yankees and crazy George Steinbrenner the success was owed to him, but he also needs to right people around him to help avoid these extragavant desires for players who do not fit the system. Your are correct in faulting in Berlu as well, but the likelihood of him leaving is slim to none, but the likelihood of Fester or even Carletto growing some balls and tell him where to stick it may go a long a way in reastablishing some grit in what is looking like a gutless group…
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G, there is no question that my profound political antipathy for the man and everything he represents colours my view (as does the fact that I am not a Milanista), but I honestly believe that you will not have a serious football club until you* get rid of Berlusconi.
It will no doubt be somewhat painful in the short term, but Milan were a great club before Silvio showed up to take advantage of them and they certainly can be one again.
* the tifosi, not two employees who sold out very, very long ago.
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Okay, now that i’ve calmed down I can post.
Moka - You and I are calling for Ancelotti’s head…but Ranjeet from india made a good point who would we replace him with. It can’t be Rijkaard cause of his history with R80. And it can’t be Dondadoni? Because….just….NO.
I think with the current coaches available I’ll ride this current mini crisis with the devil I know rather than the devil I don’t.
Having said all that, R80 played like crap, as did Flamini, Sheva and Maldini!!!
Kaka went on a couple of nice runs but he’s still not sharp. (he’ll be fine in a few weeks)
We looked most dangerous nearing the end of the game when we fielded Boriello & Pato up front. Pato’s header that went wide, his attempt to score that was save by a sprawling keeper, followed by Boriello’s missed bicycle kick tells me that 2 strikers being Pato & Boriello is how we have to start the game. They attracted a lot of attention in the box and freed up room. Seedorf & R80 might have to sit to allow Kaka to play behind the pair. Sheva should be used like Inzaghi is last 20 minutes when we need a goal.One thing is for sure as Giancarlo stated the Christmas tree MUST GO!!!
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What we really need to is to change up the boring formation we’re running… I for one would like to see them go aggressive with
D: *i have one comment for the whole defense… “please send reinforcements”
M: DIHNO, GATTUSO, KAKA, FLAMINI
(ALL ATTACKING GOAL)F: PATO & BORIELLO
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looking at the 2 coaches being linked with the milan i am not filled with great confidence. rijkaard is like ancellotti in that he will be friends with the players and he is a bit tactically naive, just lookat how many cups he won after ten cate left. donadoni i think is a bit too inexperienced to manage milan, he should continue to learn his trade with other teams.
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BigDawg4Milan - well said.
I think with PATO & BORRI up there we’re a much better team.I totally agree with bringing SHEVA on last 20-25 min of game.. then put KAKA attacking behind the fowards, ball could run through DIHNO!!
it would be beautiful new school MILAN style futbol.!*we should not lose many more this season. the team needs to come together and play at top form!!!
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Carletto has been re-confimed in his position following a “summit” today involving him, Galliani, Leonardo, Braida and other club officials in the club offices on Via Turati. The gossip here is that Leonardo was instrumental in saving Ancelotti’s job (for now).
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I think Milan can be alright with Berlusconi, (I dislike him too Ursus) but he needs to realize that star names aren’t going to revive Milan, it’s like Chelski, can’t win titles with names.
Milan got Sheva and Ronaldinho, sure, Ballon d’Or winners. Juve got “rubbish” Poulsen and no-CL-no-International-experience Amauri and we’re doin alright.
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ale, the chances of Sheva and Dinho recovering their Balon d’Or form are higher than those of Berlusconi changing his spots.
This is where he reminds everyone that he won the league championship with the company team at Edilnord.
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Alessio -”star names aren’t going to revive Milan, it’s like Chelski, can’t win titles with names” … am, chelsea won twice and runners-up thrice in last 5 years…
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well first off all i’m really just taking this in!! 2 defeats in our opening league games doesn’t reflect us at all. and one thing that agree on is that if a player is not in form i don’t care who you are..r80, flamini even il capitano you will be benched. and this formation i was never a fan of so from now on we should play a classic 4-1-2-1-2 with Pato and Borriello doing the bussiness up front and also Sheva sucks he is not the player he once was we cant be living in the past face it!!!!!
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i want to see a different team and formation on thursday. whatever we’re doing now is not working, so do something different. 442, change the way the players should play, etc. i know its late and thats what was suppose to happen in the pre-season, but our pre-season was a joke. its not a pre-season if you dont have your players who will play in the season. we only got 1 benefit from the pre-season, ONLY 1!!, we found out Abbiati is our main goalie, and thats not even big, Carletto could’ve done that during training.
we just need a new formula for the team, ITS JUST NOT WORKING!! and Carletto must get it through his thick head.
and please no to Rijkaard & Donadoni. Tassotti is a better option.
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oh yeah alessio im so dissapointed that we did not sign amuari, he is a world class foward his goal againts udinese won the game for you guys so juve fans should be happy. i wish we had him instead of the past crappy legend whom i USED TO LOVE sheva whom is playing like shit right now!
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as much as I’d like a new coach, I can’t see anyone better than the likes of Lippi, Spaletti, Schuster, Juande Ramos or Benitez, so either get them, which is kindof hard since they’re tied, or stay with Ancelotti… he’s the best option for now I think, at least option that is known to us. Donadoni and Rijkaard just won’t cut it, they’re as awful if not worse than Ancelotti.
I’ll be waiting to see what happens for the next 4 or 5 games, I believe we’ll manage to get through this.
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Fadayn well switch it then. Chelski always had moderate success in the EPL, but never could win in Europe. Milan has great success in the CL…but maybe can never win the Scudetto. (anytime soon)
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before i was disappointed. Now i’m just embarrassed.
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^^ I’m with you on that mike…how embarassing I want to hide away forever…or until milan start winning
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Today was picture day at my school, and I was going to wear my Gattuso jersey, and then I had flashbacks of Sunday and decided against it -_-
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It is very hard for Milan to play a fundamentally different formation, they simply don’t the right players for that. They have no right winger to speak of so they can’t even switch the narrow christmas tree to a 4-3-3 with Dinho on the Barca-ish left. 4-4-2 is a formation consigned to the history books these days, excepting Arsenal, not that Milan have the players to play it anyway.
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The players are there but there’s no confidence and/or proper guidance and attitude. They only wake up once they’re in trouble and by that time the opposition can just sit back and hit them on the counter.
And I don’t agree with the Dinho substitution. He was showing signs of getting into the game at the end of the first half and with Borriello and Pato about to come in, he could have created a chance or two for them. As it happened, they wasted the whole of the second half impatiently and compulsively lobbing the ball into the box trying to pick out Borriello.
F**king hopeless.
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I’ll be at the Milan-Lazio match this weekend - should I hope for a better performance to entertain me than that which was on offer against Genoa!?
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Can we please get some kind of petition from amongst all of us AC Milan fans for the sacking of Carlo Ancelotti please. This is quite ridiculous. Milan have not been able to beat a mid table team in how long now? Must I also point out the disgraceful 4-0 we suffered this summer in the lokomotiv cup. Enough is enough! Ancelotti and his old tactics must go.
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Aldo, Galliani should follow him out the door…
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