Yes, I know, the word helmet brings to mind the unhappy period with Gattuso on the bench, but I think the limit is now full.
We have given credit to these football upstarts who, unfortunately, have not understood what they are dealing with and what the real values are that they should defend and safeguard. After all, you can’t expect much from someone who arrives and carries the negotiations for the renewal of Maldini’s contract (fresh from the championship) to exhaustion, only to then defenestrate him with a meager statement not even 12 months later.
Yet, even after Maldini’s dismissal, always in the name of the times we are living in, of sustainable football and of a process which, at least according to the upstarts mentioned above, should bring Milan back into the elite of football, we have been patient .
We have digested the investiture and promotion to COACH of a living dead man who should have been released in January 2023, we have put aside a lot of rubbish such as the now very famous GLI, integrated working group, the promotion of totally incapable people in roles that do not belong to them and Now it’s time to do the math.
Yes, now the issues have come to a head. A disastrous season from every point of view, except the budget (the only thing that evidently matters to the club), has led us to always hear the usual paeans, this time unfortunately from the mouths of those directly involved and not from the pens of the pen sellers who populate the galaxy of the Rossoneri press.
We arrived in May without having a plan B ready for the coach of the 24/25 season in case Pioli had failed all his seasonal objectives. Of course, we must then consider that the corporate objectives often do not correspond to the objectives of the fan, but ultimately an ownership, a management and a team must respond to what the customer of football is, namely the fan.
The NOPETEGUI controversy is a product of these days, still in relation to the coach, with the usual press flaunting the agreement at one step, only to then turn around when the fans rebelled, hoping for many other names for our bench. After the scudetto derby (for Inter obviously, we don’t stoop to competing for these annoyances called trophies) a lot of names came out, all united by being a total BET and not, as the fans would like, a CERTAINTY of competition . All these names of coaches are of people, who, as a dear friend of mine says, should pay to enter Milanello and not be paid to work there.
Nothing against him, but we need more!
To date, and I say this with a heavy heart given that often in the past I was the first to say “no escape”, especially after some unfortunate exits after the European eliminations, the only certainty of competition (attention, competition, not victory , because unfortunately no one will ever be able to give us the certainty of winning) only one name would give it: Antonio Conte.
I’m not here to write all the reasons why he would be the ideal figure for us, rather I’m discussing the fact that, apparently, the company isn’t even remotely evaluating his profile, hiding behind his exorbitant salary and allegedly crazy requests. during the football transfer market. Well, we all know that the reasons are very different, namely that the company does not want to bring into its house someone who wants to win and who to do so would be willing to disgrace management and ownership urbi et orbi, destroying the harmony of the GLI (which apparently he can only work if there is love and peace).
In all of this I also have to put up with our president’s outbursts about Maldini, who may have all the defects in the world, but at least he has hard-earned and earned credit in the world of football and has never attached himself to any armchair, sport national team in which our Stadioni seems to excel.
Not to mention the CEO who allows himself to go on television and show off a toothy smile seasoned with arrogance and arrogance worthy of the best Condor. With the difference that the dear surveyor has been forgiven for many things in the name of twenty years of living at the top of the football world, while our current CEO has no football curriculum and/or victories or trophies to justify these attitudes.
I will omit commenting on some statements from our players, perhaps due to the fact that the team currently does not have a charismatic guide either on the pitch or on the bench.
Returning to the title of the piece, the time has now come to return to the trenches and fight to defend the values of AC Milan, of a team that must be able to be coached by a real coach and managed by people who know what football is and do not confuse it with a consolidated financial statement. We must fight to make them realize that they are not dealing with 4 naive people who intend to passively suffer this process of depersonalization of Rossoneri passion. We must fight to finally get back to managing Milan to make them REALLY compete, and not just in words, to return to the football elite. Football elite that none of us want as a sort of wild card (we leave those to others) but which must be earned through the sweat of the shirt on the pitch.
This ownership must know that we are now waiting for it, on the coach in PRIMIS and on all the other choices that will follow immediately afterwards. They must know that they are dealing with a people who are angry and ready to defend their team, the same people who, on the basis of four good performances, discovered the fire that was smoldering under the ashes, filling San Siro at every match in the last 3 years.
