Once upon a time… This is how all fairy tales begin, places of dreams that improve reality and not just that of children. The season has finally reached its final bell. Saturday evening Milan will say goodbye to their fans in a San Siro with two faces. The first half will be marked by “sound of silence” to give way, in the second half of the game, to the colors and the bedlam of the fans.
The Curva Sud could not remain silent in front of the last Rossoneri team of Simon Kjaer, Olivier Giroud and Mister Stefano Pioli. Already last week from this column there arose the well-founded desire to imagine a San Siro that would catch fire at the final whistle against Salernitana three columns of the Rossoneri’s recent history (READ HERE). And so it will be. But upon returning home, which fairy tale will accompany the Rossoneri fan before entrusting himself to the tender arms of Morpheus?
The most accredited narrative of the last few days leaves imagine that the story will have some less than reassuring melancholic nuances. Once upon a time there was a Milan that was never satisfied to be relegated to the supporting role. Pride, ambition and history they have always been the distinctive signs for returning to wear the purple of kings. The conjugatable verb has always been only one: WIN.
Current affairs look at future of this club with faint convictions that the definitive leap in quality can be made. All corroborated by the continuous words of the number one of RedBird Capital, Gerry Cardinalewho appears in spots in the salons of high finance, gives lessons to the world of football with thoughts that leave you irresolute: “You have to find a balance between the short-term goal of winning every year and the long-term goal of sustainability and consistency in reducing volatility and variation in performance“. So?
TO “explanation” comes immediately after a sentence that legitimizes anyone to let go of a smile: “The fans obviously always want to win. The irony in sports is that if you win every year you make the competition less interesting“. It would be said: “Let someone save the Premier League and La Liga”. England and Spain are or not two championships with now little competitiveness given the last six successes out of seven of the City and the uncontested dualism of Real and Barcelona which has been going on for 30 years (since 1984 only 4 occasions, with Atletico Madrid, Valencia and Deportivo La Coruña, has the dominance been interrupted)?
Words that leave ample room for reflection as much as thoughts on future technical prospects. The much-vaunted one teamwork of the Rossoneri management evidently he put a coach who does not impose himself with personality is at the top of his priorities in front of a fragile and moody group. Don’t question the choices that remain the sole and exclusive prerogative of the unquestionable thoughts of the managers and their associated statistical data. Don’t have a CV worthy of the history of this club or what I can do dream about the environment. It is appropriate to put someone on that bench who can give statistical guarantees confirmed by software. Approximate seasonal management was not enough. The evident and lethal technical and leadership gaps in this squad did not help the Casa Milan management team to have any doubts about the method.
Two second places, a Champions League semi-final and an inherited championship mean only one thing. From next year you don’t have to try to win but you just have to win. The numbers, the statistics and the historic ambition of this club say it. The project is based on the choice not to listen to the advances of the best technician on the market and go instead to those who, at best, have won only in Ukraine After small/medium cabotage results in Portugal, Italy and France. The hope is that after last June’s clean-up of management, the huge investment in the market sacrificing one of the best players in the squad, a better seasonal run only than last year (fifth in the standings), a European campaign that was a mix of bad luck and embarrassment, Lyet another gamble to collect fruits and trophies to those who at the moment they don’t seem to have the stigmata of top football managers.
All that remains is to wait, open a good book, close your eyes and dream to the sound of: “Once upon a time… Milan”.
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