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‘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.”

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Well...when one hears statements like 'Cannot be seen any other way', 'It should be obvious to just about anyone with any intelligence.." etc. it does seem like it's being forced. The only thing that's left that can be done on the internet is to call the other person a retard and kick him out of the forum isn't it?

I mean sure the sentences are not offensive and use very parliamentary and decent language, but I think the opinion held about the opposing view is clear.

Allegri is at fault to a large extent. What it proves is that he's clearly an average coach. He wanted to walk away this season, Galliani infused him with some magic potion which gave him the foolish confidence (possibly based on our second half performance last season) that he could actually make lightning strike twice. Big mistake! He should have known he would be in over his head.

Galliani's fault is he left this team without any leaders. It's unusual. A lot of people are on my back about my 'supporting' Galliani but the fact is he isn't useless. Except for Moggi (the rat is probably angling for Fester's job), everyone else speaks well of him as a director. He made a mistake that was completely uncharacteristic of him. He left this team without ANY leaders. I don't know if he overestimated Abbiati, Montolivo and/or Kaka's influence. It was a foolish mistake. It's true his attention was very less on team building. I think what budget we have has gone into financial consolidation. And he's been mostly involved with commercial aspects. Before you decry that, I insist that we have shown amazing progress there. We're sustainable again and I read that we make more commercial revenue than Chelsea. (TV and Stadium is where we lose out)

I don't give a rat's *** about Barbara's storm in a tea cup. I will believe it when I see something happen. Removing Galliani is not easy. You axe someone who has held so much power for nearly 30 years, you axe a pillar and if you think the walls won't tumble you're being silly.

However the rumours are that Galliani will be put in a more restricted role where he has lesser say on players. I think that's stupid. What these morons must do, is make Milan into a position where we can once again negotiate from a position of strength, so that Fester and his Golden Tie can make things happen again.

Also fed up with the Maldini as director of football. You know what would be great? For Silvio to apologize and get Leo back as DoF. We need someone competent in there. Maldini I Love. He should be an ambassador. I would rather see him where he is, than have him take up a huge role with no experience, screw it up and we are forced to think of him as a failure.

DoF? What does he know about player negotiations? About coaching youth teams, or scouting networks? Maybe he does a lot, but you'd still want to ease him into it rather than just handing it over. Let him have the same role that Zidane did at Madrid and then grow into stature.