GRAZIE
By: Gianfranco | May 31st, 2009
From the Guardian…
The Milan captain, Paolo Maldini, insists that Carlo Ancelotti has the full backing of his players to remain at coach at San Siro.
Ancelotti has one year left on his contract with Milan but there has been constant media speculation in Italy and England that he will be in charge of Chelsea by the start of next season.
“We are all hoping Ancelotti will stay,” said Maldini. “With him in charge, the group has been really good. We have won so many titles and our quality of life with him has been great. But in order to go forward, there needs to be three parties that want it: the players, the coach and the club.”
Ancelotti joined the club in 2001 and is the longest-serving manager in Serie A. However, Milan have endured another disappointing league season despite not having the usual pressures of Champions League football this season.
The Rossoneri suffered an early Uefa Cup exit and also never mounted a serious challenge to Internazionale in the race for the Scudetto. Their city rivals won the title for the fourth consecutive time.
Still not sure what to make of all this…
 |
Serie A Match Schedule |  |
 |
Discount Travel to Milan |
| AC Milan Results |  | San Siro information & hotels |
Category: 
Subscribe
|
Print
|
Share
      |
Comments
-
why do you have to replace Pirlo?
And there is no way I want Deco.
Im hoping for a new formation and new tactics
Posted from
Australia
-
Deco can go to Inter. We dont need another 30+ guy.
My only fear is that Leo will be a puppet coach for Berlu.
Expect Dinho to be in the starting lineup a lot more. I hope this team is not run by Berlu. That wont be good.Posted from
United States -
“Expect Dinho to be in the starting lineup a lot more”
Good! He might actually get a fair chance to prove himself. Shame on the haters…
Posted from
Australia -
-
4-4-2? After Pirlo, Dorf, Kaka and (possibly) Ambro leave, before any new players in, it might be
Boriello – Pato
Antonini – Flamini – Rino(C) – Zambro
Janks – Silva – Nesta – Bonera
Posted from
United States -
Kaka and Ambro won’t leave.
Im happy for Pirlo to leave cos he’s 30 now and he hasn’t been able to compete at a high level over a large part of the season for a fair few seasons now and if we get rid of him we can fit Ronnie in easier cos you can just play DM behind him and Kaka.
If I was playing Milan in 4-4-2 next year without new players I would go for
Borriello-Pato
Ronnie roaming in high left part of pitch
Kaka roaming in high right part of the pitch
Gattuso and Flamini as DM
Janks-Silva-Nesta-ZambrottaSo close to what Malih suggested
Posted from
Australia -
Paolo Maldini hangs up his boots after winning seven Scudetti, five European Cups, two Intercontinental Cups, five European Super Cups, one Coppa Italia, five Italian Super Cups and one Club World Cup. In all competition, including internationals, he has played 1,041 matches.Posted from
United States -
Malih, where is Dinho in your formation?
do you think Berlu gonna let Leo roll out that kind of team while Dinho available on the bench?
and kaka is not leaving
Posted from
United States -
Hey just to let you know…there is a new post up on Pato the offside.
Posted from
United States -
lol leonardo doesnt have his coaching badges yet. apparently going to do the UEFA A coaching course in June.
Hopefully he learns something ;p
Posted from
Australia -
@myu: I think Dinho should do well altering between Antonini position, or Pato’s in my previously mentioned formation.
I just don’t think Dinho is a winger, he’s not that pacy or ‘dribbly’ (anymore), IMHO… he plays best in center as through-ball feeder for the striker and scoring occasional screamer.
Posted from
United States -
“I just don’t think Dinho is a winger, he’s not that pacy or ‘dribbly’ (anymore), IMHO… he plays best in center as through-ball feeder for the striker and scoring occasional screamer.”
Against Roma he was dribbling like a maniac, he still has it in him if Leo’s good enough to get it out of him. Plus he doesn’t have to be fast or a good dribbler to be a winger as long as his crosses are good, especially considering a FB haven’t been great crossers of the ball for awhile now
Posted from
Australia -
patcook | May 31st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Did you watch the game A? Did you see Zambrotta running his arse off defending like a champ and being an important part of the lead up to the first goal? Champion preformance from the evergreen fullback!
Did you also see Flamini bossing the midfield? He was fantastic, one of the only players in our team who moves into space when he doesn’t have the ball. Definitely a midfielder that kid…Posted from
Australia -
oh god…i cant get over the 2 of them leaving…its difficult to start thinking already of new players, tactics, formations….its just not sunk in yet
Posted from
Switzerland -
I did see the game, Pat, and agree Zambrotta was excellent. This was his best game in the second half of the season. I just seriously doubt that he can play at that kind of level consistently. I would love to be proven wrong but it would be ill-advised of Milan to put all their eggs in one basket, so to speak.
Posted from
United States -
Cant wait for the market to open.
Posted from
United States -
“Kaka will Leave” http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jun01a.html
Posted from
United States -
Ancelotti has been coanfirmed as the new manager of Chelsea officialy taking over from the 1 July. In the meanwhile first news on Leo has come up and it already looks interesting if it is to be trusted.
http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/jun01e.htmlPosted from
United States -
this summer is going to be far more important than any mercato since the 90’s in Milan’s future.
Posted from
United States -
syed – it mentions the 4-3-3 formation which could work out sweet even with the current personal
fadayn – you could well be right
Posted from
United Kingdom -
Avia – i saw that and i was really pleased to see SOME change in formation…man its already getting me excited…. yesterday seeing nesta was soooo relieving and then gatuso…. nesta with silva would be just great… also remember maldini mentioned that silva is a great defender but will need some one experienced by him … nesta would be way better than favalli by his side :-p…
Posted from
United States -
Here’s another write up on Maldini.. Theres also a link in there which shows maldini’s son tackling seedorf… Forza Maldini Forza Milan..
http://www.goal.com/en/news/1717/editorial/2009/06/01/1296369/calcio-debate-looking-over-the-shoulder-of-a-giant-the-paoloPosted from
United States -
Favalli is a lot better than Khaladze if alongside fast defender like Silva, of course as second choice in case Nesta is injured.
I just hope Nesta isn’t as prone to injury right now, like Ambrosini who got injured all the time, but since around 2006 he’s been solid.
Posted from
United States -
fadayn, kaka won’t leave. He has a brazilian manager
Posted from
Australia -
I disappointed kaka to be sold to madrid. He is the good playmaker. Please you change the old player with the young player…….
Sucsses for MILAN at the next competision
Bravo MilanistyPosted from
Indonesia
Read the rest of the comments
Comments are closed
Home 
