QUOTE (Danny @ Jan 29 2023, 02:36 PM)
Leave that in the NBA where it belongs.
We showed up in all the big games and even with our backs to the wall we pulled off wins. We were clutch.
QUOTE (Danny @ Jan 29 2023, 02:36 PM)
Nope, no one can tell me we were legitimately a better football team than the teams behind us. You can fluke a title. Leicester did it. We did it.
Get off it with the Leicester comparison. We were nothing like Leicester.
This team has been steadily improving since 2019. Or are you saying the table was lying then as well? Just because we lost 2 games in a row does not negate a very good season where we were clearly better than all the other top teams. Which is not only corroborated by the greater amount of points than anyone else, but also with our record against the top 6 sides which was the best.
We did not fluke anything. We were the best team last season. Simple as that. Inter can cry all they want but when they had moments where they could have come up clutch they did not. Case in point, the derby and then the Bologna game they had in hand.
QUOTE (Danny @ Jan 29 2023, 02:36 PM)
Just like I warned after 2011. You discredited a much better Milan back then because you hated Allegri, and now you don't like it when I'm discrediting this shower of rubbish. You're not seriously telling me you pin all this on losing Kessie?
That team in 2011 was on it's last breath. The important players were closer to 40 than to 30. Allegri is a one dimensional coach that needs difference makers to win games. All he knows how to do is set up a defensive system. Case in point when Zlatan left, we fell apart.
In this case, the management, or rather the ownership has simply put, failed this team and Pioli as well. We needed improvements after last season and we ended the summer weaker than we started it. The foundation for this title winning side is stronger than Allegri's one. Allegri's team was on it's last hurrah, this squad is mostly composed of young players who are still to even hit the peak of their powers with most not even at 25 yet. How can you tell me it's a much better Milan back then? That Milan was already on it's last few blows of wind when we won the CL under Carlo, let alone under Allegri. Allegri's team had no future. This one does. It just needed the right investment to take us to the next level as Paolo said in the interview in the summer, but once again, cheap ownership is screwing us over.
Kessie was a hugely important factor in our midfield composition you may disregard it as just losing Kessie. But replacing him with Pobega is a perfect symbol of why things have gone wrong. Last season we knew the squad wasn't the best in the league. Man for man, Inter were better, and probably Juve as well. We needed investment to bridge that small gap. Instead we went a step back.
The management or rather the ownership has simply put, failed this team and Pioli as well. We needed improvements after last season and we ended the summer weaker than we started it.
QUOTE (Danny @ Jan 29 2023, 02:36 PM)
Better we do lose out on UCL, painfully out of our depth at that level, we're the diddy side in the KO stage. Spurs might be flaky but they'll slap us.
This Milan is such a painful cry from Carlo and Allegri it's embarrassing.
I disagree. We need that CL money. Without it we go back into the banter era.