QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ May 7 2017, 10:18 PM)
All together. Sure, the players have been the main let-down, but hell - Montella is also responsible. For picking the same ****-up's like Paletta, for not motivating the team obviously, etc.
What line-up do you expect him to put out? Honestly, I don't know what you guys want from this man, he has done the best he can with a really bad bunch of players which in general are just a bad mix put together by a guy iving on shady connections to clubs and agents.
Montella literally has no one on the bench that he could call upon (and please don't mention Bacca, he's become static and useless this season), he's without two of his best players, and when your sqaud is already thin, that cripples you
You know, you can blame him for playing Paletta all you want but he's generally speaking been decent this season, and had Montella dropped him and played Gomez instead who could have also made mistakes (let's face it) then you would have complained too
We've lost our starting RB, moved our starting LB to the right, lost our backup LB and are playing our 3rd choice in that position
Same thing in the CB position, our best CB has been in and out of the team with injuries, the guy who was sort of reliable at the start of the season has gone diabolical, and our backup options are simply not trustworthy at all.
Our midfield has been a joke all season, but at least we had a guy like Bona who always showed up and had moments of brilliance in him, we've been without him for the entire second part of the season and his loss has been greatly felt
Same thing in attack, Suso was great at the start, but weariness has surely set in when he's played nearly all the games this season minus 2 or 3 through injury. Bacca who was good last season has been asbolute cr@p this season
With all this and you're still blaming things on Montella. He's done all he can considering the bad card he was dealt all season long.
QUOTE (Danny @ May 7 2017, 10:29 PM)
Yeah, I'm absolutely done with Montella. I thought he did a great job earlier this season but starting to wonder how much of that was just Suso in great individual form. Plus those pre-match comments lavishing praise all over Roma and the fact we've been absolute mince since that 'win' over Crotone at the San Siro...
I'm done.
I'm done with the whole Milan regime and until a new manager and a new squad comes in, there's just no point.
Danny, I think you're being a bit overly dramatical. You of all people should be on his side, and let me tell you why, at the start of this season when we were doing so well, you constantly questioned when the run would stop, because you knew that at some point it would have to because we were playing far beyond any expectations anyone could have built up.
Guess what, you were right, it did stop, mostly due to fatigue and injuries. Montella could only have done so much this season and imo he has achieved what he could from a bad mix and jumble of players.
Suso was only part of the success we had in that first half of the season, Bona was also a big part, same thing with our defence, which up until a few weeks ago was the third best in the league. Kucka was also performing much better than he is now and Bacca was at least still trying
We were lucky during that first half of the season, do doubt about that, we had the bounce of the ball going our way, we managed to keep our players all fit for a long stretch, now it's been the complete opposite of that, we've had bad luck in games and we've lost some of our most important players. If anything, Montella has done weel to mitigate the damages and keep us in the hunt for the EL spot
Also, I think you're being premature in judging the regime in general, the new management have barely been able to hang pictures on their office walls at Casa Milan, but we've been hearing about their contant work since day one
So I urge all of you guys to have a little faith here, we#re in for a busy summer and this team will look radically different next season.
If Montella is given the tools to work with and he still fails, then we can all call for his head, until then I think you're being rash in your assesments of him. And if the new management doesn't deliver this summer we can all start thinking about jumping ship, but until then, let's all just have a little faith, we've stuck around this long, another season won't kill anyone