[Danny]

Difficult to know where to start - it's been a crushingly disappointing 24 hours. On this forum there are huge splits in terms of where the blame lies. If indeed there is any real blame.

Last summer of 2011 we had the real potential, having won the league and secured entry to the CL, to enhance the squad with real quality. Invest in the team and make us elite again. We got Aquilani, Sharrawy, Mexes, Nocerino and Muntari.

None of these are achingly poor players, but they were hardly the marquee quality we needed - and despite an honourable showing against Barca, we didn't win the CL and in the league we've been extremely inconsistent.

It's very difficult to know where to start - but the one critical change we need is squad investment. We do have very good players, wonderful players, but not enough of them. When you look at the top clubs they have at least 20 top top players - City, United, Barca, Real, Bayern - big world class squads designed to cope with injuries, suspensions, and a genuine challenge for the top honours.

We don't have that. We do have the CL again next season, and the default money which comes from that, but Silvio, with a bit of time on his hands these days, really does have to make some big signings. The fans need a boost, and frankly many millions require spending.

As for Allegri - as long as I have been a Milan fan fellow Rossoneri have never agreed on the manager - from Carlo, to Leo, to Allegri - all have been 'wrong' in the eyes of the fans no matter what they won.

Problem is a manager is only one man - 100% of fans are never going to agree with you, and even winning a league might not be enough to prove your doubters wrong.

So I don't know where I stand on the boss.

But I do know this squad needs reinforcement of the highest quality - guys who will cost a fortune but be definite starters and take us up a level.

[han2503]

I kinda feel like I'm banging my head on a brick wall with you Han. You are very stubborn.

Why because I categorically and unequivocally disagree with the ridiculous notion that Juve have the better squad than ours?

The fact that we ran them to the second to final day while playing the backups of the backups at times says it all. Had Juve had to deal with such a situation they'd have ended up 7th for the third consecutive season.

Our starting 11, our rotation players, our depth in general is just better than theirs. Allegri made a million mistakes this season, and he's been by far one of the most infuriating aspects of the entire season, probably just slightly behind the relentless injuries, but I'm confident in saying that had he had the full team at his disposal throughout this entire season as Conte did, we'd have won the title.

Yes he still wouldn't have managed to comprise the cohesive unit that Conte did, but than again, with the quality at his disposal he wouldn't have needed to, just like last season.

I'm bringing up the fact that most of our games have been won due to individualistic brilliance, but had we won the title do you really think any one of us, especially me would care? F@ck no!! I'd forget the fact that he's been playing a brainless idiot for nearly 3 months straight, I'd forget the fact that Allegri simply refuses to utilise creative players and I'd forget how tactically rigid he is that he simply cannot seem to come up with a different system than the one he has in place. Had we been the team celebrating none of that would really matter. But we're not celebrating, we're left rueing the fact that we simply handed over this Scudetto to at disgusting team like Juve, who will most likely sew on a third star even if 2 of those titles were bought. So now that we've lost this title we simply have to analyse what went wrong. And the injuries certainly were a big factor, a massive factor in fact. But you can't ignore Allegri's role in this failure either.

Well, Han's known as The Great Debater® in these parts, so no surprises there. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) He's the type of guy who loves presenting arguments and gets a kick out of discussing things. I wouldn't call him totally stubborn (he had budged before, I recall), but Han sure likes standing by and defending his viewpoint.

I only don't budge when I know that viewpoint is correct. There is no way in hell that you can convince me that on paper, Juve have a better 11 and squad than us. Because that is just not true. And I stand by the statement that we threw away this Scudetto

[acid911]

I only don't budge when I know that viewpoint is correct. There is no way in hell that you can convince me that on paper, Juve have a better 11 and squad than us. Because that is just not true. And I stand by the statement that we threw away this Scudetto

Yes, my point exactly. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) While I too am in the camp that believes we have a better squad than Juventus (we were Italian champions up till just a few days back, people), the fact that you love debating stuff worth debating is known by almost everyone here for some time now. This squad thing is specific, your love for debating is general.

And frankly, I wouldn't have it any other way. It is a pleasure reading tons of posts every morning with breakfast.