Former Milan star Zvonimir Boban has criticised the current Rossoneri side and insists that they need more than Alexandre Pato to turn things around.

The European champions are in the doldrums after last weekend’s defeat against Roma left them in 13th place.

The Diavolo have pinned their hopes on Brazilian striking starlet Pato, who arrives in January, but Boban is not convinced.

“I strongly doubt that Pato will be enough to jumpstart the Milan engine,” he told La Stampa.

“If the Rossoneri want to compete on all fronts they need one really big signing.”

Boban believes that the priorities at the club have changed since he won four Scudetti at the San Siro between 1992 and 2001.

“Milan have changed their philosophy and now they put the Champions League first and let everything else follow,” he stressed.

“As Europe seems to matter more than everything else, the side are unwittingly snubbing the League.”

The Croatian ex-midfielder concluded by casting a critical eye over the men at Carlo Ancelotti’s disposal.

“It’s a different squad now because you can’t ask the old guard to keep working miracles,” he warned.

“Ancelotti doesn’t have the strikers who can turn a game, let alone a season, like Jon Dahl Tomasson or Daniele Massaro used to.

“Inter have Julio Cruz, Juventus have Vincenzo Iaquinta and Roma Mirko Vucinic, but Milan have nobody.”


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Why oh why...did we do what we did??

Everyone is pointing out what is Milan's real problem, but unfortunately neither Galliani nor Berlusconi don't pay heed to no one. becoming European champions [while it was more like a miracle than anything else] has caused some arrogancy between them I suppose. the team have been playing in the levels of a Serie B team this season (except for one or two one-offs) and all they have to say is that "no worries, we are European champions ans SuperChampions".

Great post

And Boban speaks the truth.

Yes!! One more Milan legend (after Gullit in the summer) criticizes Milan's policy!!

Maybe this can wake them up!!!

I think you just insulted the entire Milan squad's efforts with that comment.

Boban has a point, it will take more than Pato to turn the season around ... It will take a Ronaldo

Hey, calm down! I don't know why you like to be misunderstood by my posts. I certainly didn't want to insult anybody. why did you say that? I think you just insulted me! you're right about the team's efforts [it's not like only Milan tried to win the title. all the 32 teams tried as hard as we did] but that aside, we were lucky to go all the way to the Athens; we were inconsistent, struggling a bit in the group stages, a lot of injured players, Dida's mistakes, etc. there were two or three teams which were as much qualified to win the title as Milan but luck was on our side more than them as we saw it in the first half against Liverpool. and these are not only my thoughts, in fact Sacchi said more or less the same thing ["Milan made gold out of what was destined for failure"].

@ Z ... Of course we had 'luck', after all Pippo Inzaghi

And I apologize if i insulted u ... But the team as a whole was struggling without Shevchenko at the time If you remember correctly .. we lost only one of that group games, plus we topped the table so

What we did to Bayern and United was not luck .. Milan showed it's power, that even the prime candidates for the CL final couldn't even withstand the power of the Rossoneri at old trafford and at home

What about the final ?? Milan had fielded it's strongest XI ! In the 05 edition Milan played a free flowing attacking game and we lost, because of the defending of the scousers for almost 80 minutes of the game, whilest Milan dominated This time again Carlo was like "ohh yeah, we'll teach you scousers a lesson !! We'll beat you at your own game !" and we did, but this time around we had Pippo Inzaghi, someone who handed the CL trophy to Milan

114

I think he's saying we dominated the whole of the game (90) plus extra time (30), except for the 6 minutes when all of their goals happened to come.

huh ?! What does 114 mean ??

114=120 - 6=(90 + 30) - 6=(Full Game + Extra time) - 6...

ok .. sorry i don't speak Greek

see guys, university does have its effects

Back to the topic,...Boban was allways very close to Berlusconi. They have a real good relationship and Silvio will hear his voice I'm very sure about that,..

Although I like to believe that, it does seem like Berlusconi has lost his edge. He is not making things happen like he used to. Berlusconi was always the one to surprise Milan fans and Galliani was the scapegoat. But after blaming Calcipoli for the lack of signings the season before, Silvio promised Milan fans a world class signing. (The night of our CL win) He didn't deliver. We will see if this will continue next season or not.

no it insulted you.

Hmm .. Yeah, i was expecting R10, as u were expecting Torres, etc etc ...

I think this summer Milan will be stealing the headlines from the transfer market ... After all, we have Maldini retiring the last of the old guard and Gli Invinsibli ... The board will definitely be in the market this time around.

Torres, I didn't want him in Milan due to his poor physical stamina and stability. I don't think he would have survived with us. I was actually pretty content with Suazo(...) and the possible signing of Buffon.

oh, i was of the opinion that u did .. anyways, yeah, u got the point ... Each and everyone of us had a certain someone in mind to be signed by the club ...

I'm sure the club will be in the market in the summer. They will keep the team up to it's usual standards

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This topic should be shut. Il Capitano has spoken!

I love Ambro...but he just seems like a step down after the previous two legends we've had.

Replace does two even as captain is a mission impossible and doomed from the beginning. But to me Ambrosini has a very interesting character...

A blond with an interesting character... rare find! You are lucky my friend!

Geez...what does dst need a 'coming-out' day for??

As far as I'm concerned he never ever went in.

you're right! blondes = boring

(no offense )