[Danny]

Every club has this, but as we know, Milan are not every club.

Basically the most illustrious teams in any club's history are usually what fans would describe as a class befitting the club's name. The standard they expect.

For Barca they will always expect Messi/Iniesta/Xavi/Ronaldinho/Eto'o type quality. Won't settle for less now. Man Utd expect Giggs, Van Persie, Ferdinand etc.

For us it's clearly the quality of Maldini, Baresi, Boban, Pirlo, old Kaka, Gullit, MVB etc etc.

Question is will we ever see 'Milan class' again?

Right now we have debatably one player who comes close to being uttered in that kind of breath, Balotelli. And truth is he isn't the finished article, his attitude is often disgraceful and that's now 5 matches we've lost him for through poor conduct.

We have very good players like De Jong (imo arguably one of the top 5 DM's around), Monto (out of form at the moment admittedly) and Kaka (nowhere near convincing anyone he's back to the old Kaka) but other than Balo we basically have no 'Milan class' players at all.

Right now this Milan is a new breed, a team we're not familiar with. We're having to be content with Abate, Mexes, Zapata and DS when it used to be Cafu, Maldini, Nesta and Jankulovski.

Times have changed and it may be decades before the true Milan class returns.

[Jack Sparrow]

Ok. Sure. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/friends.gif)

[ganney]

great topic here

the summary of the milan class problem is management

Galliani
*its his genius idea to keep allegri as coach
*giving in to allegri's wish to sign matri and pay him stupendous wages, money that would have been better spent on keeping paloschi&petagna on our books
*his last good idea was to sign ibrahimovic
*the horror of each transfer window---selling t.silva&zlatan for ony 65m---the stupid purchases, traore, zaccardo(earning wages and playing just 2games since january)----passing on the good signings-ljajic,eriksen to mention a few
*if we cut down on the impulse signings and stupid wages perhaps our yearly losses won't be so high

Allegri
*this guy is just a bull, i don't understand how we announce at the start of the season that "hey serie-a and ecl opponents we're playing 4-3-1-2 this year"

*i thought coaching also involves changing the game plan as dictated by factors such as the opponent you're playing on the day, the squad you have available on the game day considering suspensions and injuries

i actually hope we go on some 4 or 5 game losing streak to rid ourselves of allegri, then maybe next year Galliani won't calls this many lousy shots, we're down and out this year