Budget of the first month of Allegri to Milan. What does it go and what it does not work, what are the objectives between the Scudetto and the Champions League area
Milan returned from Perth and the long tour around the world with a positive balance. Two wins, one of absolute prestige (Liverpool) and the other discounted (Perth), and a defeat of measure (Arsenal) good to forge the character of a team in reconstruction after the failure of last season.
An abundant month of work, the first of Massimiliano Allegri on the Rossoneri bench. With an equally long period of transfer market in front, open, impossible to draw definitive conclusions; some interesting indicationshowever, emerged from the first 40 days in Milan (and surroundings) of Allegri and Igli Tare who is the architect of the new Milan.
New Milan, what works after a month of work
Meanwhile, the good news. Allegri seems to have succeeded in the task of eliminating the slags of the eighth place of the last championship in the head of his rose. Apparently Milan is a different team, alive and responding to the stimuli of its coach. It is also in the words of the protagonists, read the declarations of the Portuguese Leão, but on this point it is better to go cautious because the words of the summer takes away the wind.
Point number two: the Milan begins to have a precise identity on the field, even if not linked to a single form Since market delays forced Allegri to mix the cards. Identity means organization in the defensive phase, sharing of the will to verticalize the game as soon as possible and availability to suffering when attached as in the case of Arsenal and Liverpool.
Third positive news: Some players who had been disappointing or inconstant in the past season have changed step. Leão entered enthusiastically in the new adventure and discovered that he can play even closer to the door, Loftus Cheek seems reborn and even a few second rows (Okafor) is playing the opportunity to have a future Rossoneri’s future.
New Milan, what does not work and the delays of the market
Obviously it is not all roses and flowers in the first month of Allegri’s work at Milan. The work on tactical alternatives to 4-3-3 can be interesting but it still remains an obligatory fallback. Between vacation to dispose of and late in some key roles, the truth is that the technician had to do so far with what he had available. The official commitments approach and the need is to be able to pull the row so as not to disperse what has been done.
Mercato chapter: there is no first tip, probably owner, a right -handed defense, a midfielder and perhaps another central defender. It is true that the treasure derived from the heavy sales of June is important, but the feeling is that Igli Tare will hardly have the budget to do all the operations following only the logic of the quality improvement of the rose.
Milan cannot afford to make mistakes in this second phase of the market. Vlahović’s suggestion is the watershed between building a immediately winning team and thinking a only competitive project. On Jashari the Rossoneri are wasting too much time: negotiation that consumes both the enthusiasm and patience that the fans that the physical condition of a player who, however goes, should arrive in Milan will have on his shoulders the weight of a hyper evaluation and a separated summer summer.
Milan runs for the Champions League, not for the Scudetto
The synthesis leads to say that This Milan will not run to win the Scudetto, but to secure a place in the Champions League next season. This is a minimum non -unionable goal, the real reason why an expert technician was chosen as Massimiliano Allegri.
Below this line, it would be a failure. Because Milan should not be considered favored for the Scudetto, despite having The undeniable advantage of not playing the European cupsit’s easy to say. The starting point that Allegr found in Milan is certainly more value than the eighth place in the last championship, but is less than that that Antonio Conte inherited a year ago in Naples, thirteen months after the conquest of the title with Spalletti.
Not only that, last year the burden of the exaggerated and compressed calendar fell almost solely on the two competitors of Napoli: Inter and Juventus. This year, which will end with the World Cup in the United States, the effort is spread over all the teams.
Vlahović’s arrival could change this picturebut the feeling is that in any case at the starting tapes of the next series A at least two stronger and deeper teams of Milan remain seen in the first month of Allegri. It is not said to be a disadvantage to start like this.
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