QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Mar 20 2016, 10:42 PM)
Get? We are 6th. And it's ours to lose.
You speak of a waste, but the way I see it, Milan cemented their place to 6th. Maybe we can get 5th or fall down to 7th, but...
Yeah, we are 6th but we seem to have hit a wall atm, and as kurt pointed out, Sassuolo have an easy run in as well.
Maybe I was a bit too pessimistic having posted that right after the game, a game we should have won imo. But I just feel like we've lost that bit of edge that had been carrying us through in the previous 3 to 4 months or so.
We'll see, this international break has definitely come about at a good point for us. Just when Inter were starting to rebuild their momentum and we were losing our. It will probably serve as not only a good break for the players physically but also mentally
QUOTE (Jack Sparrow @ Mar 22 2016, 01:56 PM)
I think 6th is a very fair position. It's all we deserve. We haven't been bad enough to not get Europe but not so great as to finish just below the top 3 either. We're leagues away from the fluency of Fiorentina and Napoli or even Roma.
I was thinking about our 'collapse' in recent years and the biggest thing I felt I overlooked other than all the lack of money is that we haven't really replaced Braida and Leonardo after they left. Instead in some weird way, it has been Galliani doing that bit as well.
For next season, or maybe even towards the end of this season, I'd like us to hire a proper Director of Football/Sporting Director. We hear rumours of Lippi and more recently Sabatini and this is where we need to be careful and make our moves.
What's everyone's opinion on Mihajlovic though? Do you want him to see out the contract or is it out with him?
I do think he has a tendency to plateau but I guess, but I'm completely undecided on whether I want him to stay one more season or not.
My stance on Miha is that I'd keep him if the replacement is going to be another run of the mill mid-table level coach.
Sure we're being linked to Di Francesco who I think has done some really great things at Sassuolo, but I'm sceptical if that is going to translate as well at Milan.
Plus I think that it's important to get some continuity going, and the players seem to really have gotten behind Miha.
I think we've done as well as we could with the squad we have imo.
QUOTE (X-Offender @ Mar 22 2016, 02:11 PM)
I agree, Jack. 6th place is all we deserve. 4th or 5th would be an overachievement. Heck, even the Coppa final is a overachievement, and we only got there because we got Carpi and Alessandria in the final rounds.
As for Miha, I personally don't mind him. He's definitely an upgrade over Inzaghi, but at the same time he's not the proper tactician we need to get us through the mediocrity we've hit. Granted, the coach is only part of the puzzle, but I'd like to have somebody else instead.
Why haven't we ever considered Donadoni? He took Parma to great heights before their bankruptcy, and look at Bologna now. They were bottom of the table before he took over. Not to mention he's an old Milanista.
Hmm, I like Donadoni. I just don't think it's fair to sack Miha atm as he's done all that he could with what he has.
Plus he's given us a possibility at silverware this season and gotten us to a final that we haven't been able to get to in well over a decade now. Sure the road has been relatively easy, but having said that, we've ruined easy chances in the Coppa for years now, so he must have done something right to get us there