[Rossoneri7]

Let us all hope for a fruitful transfer campaign and then, I think the merda have had enough fun already, it's time to take business into our own hands (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)

[Jack Sparrow]

kurt be nice. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Well you can't play technical good football without the players. Give arsene Bolton Wanderers and you'll see.

As for the tactics, the problem is all the players Carlo has got barring a few, are too one-dimensional. Who does he have?

Kaka, Pirlo, Seedorf who I think are the only really good players who are versatile. And now Pato. Besides that, his only fit options were the likes of Gattuso, Brocchi, Ambro, Favalli etc.

@morgoth: Yes...the last two years have been very anti-Carletto type football...except for the glorious night against Manchester. But the years before....ooh-la-la.....but then he had those versatile players see. In Stam, Kaladze, Rui, Sheva.

We'd start of a 4-1-2-1-2, but it was never that. One moment it was a 4-3-1-2, then a 4-3-2-1, and my all time favourite, the legendary(in my book) Carletto special-> the feared Milan 3-4-1-2 (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/king.gif) (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/cry.gif)

His flexibililty in tactics unlike the coaches say Mourinho or Benitez, was a not a rigid shift from one style to the other through the introduction of subs. He's the Italian school of Capello, Sacchi etc. The change happens in game play.

So you would see these four formations all with the same set of players, but all diff tactics...

Stam/Cafu---Nesta---Maldini----Sergio/Kaladze
--------------------Pirlo----------------------------
-----------Rino------------Seedorf-----------------
------------------Rui/Kaka--------------------------
------------Sheva---------Pippo/JDT---------------

which would become....the 4-3-1-2 or even this.....

----------Stam----------Nesta-------Maldini--------
(Cafu)-------Rino------Pirlo---------Seedorf----(Sergio) ...one of them...
----------------------Kaka/Rui-----------------------
--------------Sheva-------------Pippo/JDT-----------


In a way this worked against us in the long run, coz the fluidity brought so much success. And our subs were great then. JDT for Pippo. Kaka for Rui. Stam who could play the role Bonera plays in the team a 100 times better. I mean Kaladze was a fringe player...so you know.

And what do you mean he had great players?? JDT was not an in-demand player. Stam or Kaladze were not superstars. We've never had a superstar bench...except for that brief period when Kaka benched Rui.


Carletto is a very different coach from Mourinho and Benitez. And imo, he was one of the few coaches among the top clubs (except maybe Benitez the season before), who had the right to make the 'Mourinho-omelette' speech. When he had the eggs, he always made the greatest omelettes!! (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)