From 02/03 till 10/11, it kept raising and stayed so for a few more seasons. 05/06 was when we should have started our rejuvenation programme.

Agreed, and the 07 CL victory really made things bad for us in that respect...

I think this graph just illustrates the complete mismanagement this club has suffered through in these last 7 years or so

Ha, agreed. Think of the dark gray shade as the crux of stupid management decisions. Wild years!

Yuppp... Pretty much!

EDIT: It's good in a way that we've gotten back to a more acceptable average age though. Just a shame that it took so long to return to such, and to top it off the drastic & abrupt manner in which it was done.

Anyway here's to moving forward.

Mismanagement is a bit of an overstatement. But yes, our rejuvenation failed badly in this period.

I don't see it as an overstatement at all.

The management were the ones who allowed this team to deteriorate so much both on the field and financially when they kept giving 5 year contracts of over 4m to 30+ year olds.

And the manner in which they suddenly turned to youth is even more laughable then those contracts

Mismanagement is the perfect word to describe it.

Going to www.acmilan.com I get a warning about malicious software from google. WTH?

I got the same ...

f***ing Inter fans Google

Milan calendar for March:

http://youtu.be/SMXlCi1kDTo

Looks like a fly fish out of water.

http://forzaitalianfootball.com/2013/03/ac...for-the-future/

R7 MUST have wrote that

I was thinking the same whilst I was reading it.

C'mon Mastour, get older quickly!

What position does he play?

Attacking midfielder.

More of an attacking winger.

Switch Niang with Balo and it would be a really great pic


I think he's an attcking mid/winger sort of player, at least that's what I thought from the various clips I saw of him

Don't think so, I read that he played trequartista in most of the games.

Shut up!

hahaha how can Boateng walk around like that, are there no mirrors in Italy??

Boateng to the hairdresser: "This:"

Lolol

Props to De Sciglio for being the only one in that photo with normal hair.

Mad props. One of the reasons he is my favorite player among the bunch. By far.

I wonder what picture SES has to show the hairdresser to get that mess...

We beat Gattuso's Sion 6-0 (all goals were scored in the second half) in a friendly game today. Traoré, Bojan (twice), Robinho and De Feo (primavera kid) scored for us + an own goal.

Starting line-up was: Amelia, Antonini, Mexes, Bonera, Constant, Flamini, Traoré, Nocerino, Niang, Bojan, Robinho

Highlights

These highlights show how dangerous Bojan can be when he has space. Unfortunately no one in Italy is dumb enough to give him that space and he can't handle physical defending.

Yeah, he's played so much this season, it's become quite evident.

Can't see them for some reason, the vid is blacked out. Hopefully someone uploads them on youtube

http://youtu.be/v6MIm9VleF8

Thanks

How Bojan can be left out so blatantly for the likes of Niang I'll never understand, loan or not, it's absolutely criminal.

He's surely our most technically refined player along with Monto

Exactly, in a friendly, which was more of a salute to Ringho than an actual competitive friendly.

In all honesty, Bojan is a wonderful player, who has quality. But he did not get a starting spot with Barc, Roma nor Milan .. I wonder if Allegri has anything to do with it

With Barca the reason has always been obvious, when you have Eto'o or Villa ahead of you then there's no need to question it

With Milan and Roma it's mostly because of it being a loan essentially and because they wouldn't like to raise his price, but when you have a lamp-post like Niang as your only option loan or not, you HAVE to play Bojan. I think he's done very decently for a player of his stature who is used to the silly frilly La Liga in how he transitioned to Serie A. He's been impressive for us when given the proper opportunities

Yeah, but people don't want to admit that because then Allegri would be wrong, and blaming Allegri on these forums is a heresy.

It was actually Gudjohnsen, Henry and then Pedro that kept it out. It says a lot that as soon as Pedro stepped into the squad, he played more than Bojan and the latter was sold right away. Then he lasted a whole season at Roma.

His career best in starting games in all competitions is 17.

But of course, Niang is barely 18 and comes on as a sub and people complain when he does bad. Bojan comes on, does F all and what's his excuse? Oh well, how can you expect him to play well when he's used wrong? When every single manager that he's had has barely started him, you have to start wondering maybe it's the player? Or is it just coincidence that every manager is wrong? The loan comment is ridiculous. A manager will not refuse to play someone without good reason if he can benefit the team, why make your job harder? A club also wouldn't loan someone if they're not going to play them for that reason. He's loaned in as a back up, that's what he is.

First of all, Niang always plays bad. Secondly, I don't think people complain when he comes in as a sub, but rather when he starts games. Bojan hasn't started a game since 13 January against Sampdoria, and before that it was against Zenit on 4 December (useless game). Furthermore, in the last 11 games he's played a total of only 90 minutes! How exactly can you asses someone's quality with such little timing?

To think someone as young and poor as Niang gets to start more than one of our most technically gifted players is absolutely outrageous.

I don't even really notice Bojan to be honest. Last thing I actually remember from him was coming on against udinese and being horrific.

Of course you don't notice him, he doesn't play!

Do you actually like Bojan or do you just like to nitpick? I agree he's a nice player but I just don't think he's cut out for Serie A. I'd love for him to prove me wrong though.

What do you expect when you're getting less then 5 minutes on most occasions! You barely even have time to touch the ball at that stage.

Whatever you say about Bojan, he's still a far better option, even backup, then Niang.