[Tennie]

Mauro Suma is the director of Milan Channel. He has a nightly show on the channel each night. Given his job, he's someone who often knows what's going on at the club, moreso even than Mediaset (which is owned by Berlusconi).

Here's a snippet from his editorial today:

Per il terzo posto è dura. Ci sarebbe il quarto. Ma la sensazione di un pazzo, prendetemi come tale, è che sia meglio il quinto posto del quarto. Il quarto terrebbe il nostro mercato a bagno maria per tutta l'estate, in attesa dell'esito dei Preliminari. Il quinto potrebbe voler dire sul piano semantico ridimensionamento. Ma, mi sembra chiaro, in caso di quinto posto, questo gruppo faticherebbe a trovare le motivazioni e la chimica giuste per andare avanti e allora quello che nel luogo comunque viene chiamato ridimensionamento potrebbe anche rivelarsi un sano e positivo rimescolamento delle carte. Parole in libertà: adesso pensiamo al terzo posto. E' dura, ma è impossibile non pensarci, non credere e non lottare per questo obiettivo.

[It'll be hard to get to third place. There's always fourth. But the feeling of a madman, taken as such, is that fifth place might be better than fourth. Fourth would keep the market at a slow boil for the whole summer, waiting for the result of the CL Preliminary. Fifth could mean on a semantic stage restructuring. But, it seems clear, in case of fifth place, this group would find it difficult to find the motivation and the right chemistry to go forward and that in that case therefore a restructuring would be called for that could also show a healthy and positive shuffling of the cards. It's just a thought: right now we're thinking about third place. It'll be diffuclt but is impossible not to think of it, not to believe and not to fight for this objective.]

Thought it was an interesting take on things.

[Bluesummers]

perhaps by looking at the direction were heading in? because it aint looking good, even when we were getting points they were playing quite poorly.

+4 exactly.