[han2503]

‘Allegri not Milan’s problem’

Milan Vice-President Adriano Galliani has assured boss Massimiliano Allegri that his job is safe.

The tactician’s future has again been placed into doubt as the club’s problematic season took another unsavoury twist with a 2-0 defeat to Fiorentina on Saturday.

“There is faith in Allegri – he is not the problem,” the official stated this afternoon.

“All Coaches depend on results, but this is not a decisive week for him. If someone keeps losing then there is no one who can survive that.

“This is certainly a difficult moment because we are not picking up results, but we will carry on. From experience I say that we should remain calm.”

Milan, with just three League wins this season, will face Barcelona and Chievo over the next seven days.

Galliani was also asked to respond to Barbara Berlusconi’s request that there be a change in philosophy at the club owned by her father Silvio.

“I certainly spoke with Silvio Berlusconi last night, but I won’t comment on what we said,” Galliani added.

“The CEO is responsible for everything, the transfer market, the revenue, all of the costs. He’s in charge of the whole company.”

Also inevitably asked about the future of star striker Mario Balotelli, Galliani stated: “He is absolutely not for sale.”

[Fillipo Simone]

Well, that's funny. I've been studying for quite some time the history of the Habsburg Empire. Historiography pointed out that this exceptional world power declined and fell in 1918 because of the many centrifugal and centripetal forces that tear the country down.

We have quite a similar situation here with Milan. You have Allegri which is one (obvious) level. Then you have the management with the Galliani and the Berlusconi level. End finally you have Italy and Europe as a important and sometimes overseen context. You mention those contracts Han...but honestly, I don't think they ruined us financially. They just tried to delay the obvious decline in quality. Finivest, the Italian economic crisis and the whole economic situation of Europe has more to do with this then Galliani's contract concept.

[han2503]

Well, that's funny. I've been studying for quite some time the history of the Habsburg Empire. Historiography pointed out that this exceptional world power declined and fell in 1918 because of the many centrifugal and centripetal forces that tear the country down.

We have quite a similar situation here with Milan. You have Allegri which is one (obvious) level. Then you have the management with the Galliani and the Berlusconi level. End finally you have Italy and Europe as a important and sometimes overseen context. You mention those contracts Han...but honestly, I don't think they ruined us financially. They just tried to delay the obvious decline in quality. Finivest, the Italian economic crisis and the whole economic situation of Europe has more to do with this then Galliani's contract concept.

The economic crises has no baring on the fact that we have had an insanely high wage bill, exacerbated by the fact that we were giving 4m contracts to guys like Seedorf, Rino, Ambro, Dida, etc for years, even when they were reduced to being bench players they were earning as much money as our most important players. Don't forget that the 4m is multiplied by 2 because of the taxes. So those are huge figures going down the drain each year. We were no longer winning or going deep into the CL, we were paying huge fees to keep players on which were no longer contributing to the team, we have had a huge squad for years now.

We have the 2nd highest wage bill in the league only behind Juve, and this was only the case from this season because last season we were the highest on the list. How do you explain this when the squad quality has declined so much, why are we still paying so much money to players when we no longer have the names to justify those amounts? Why were we giving out contracts of 1.2m per season to a player like Traore, when no one knew one single thing about him. These are all just random things that have led us to where we are now