Davy & Chin Talk A.C Milan Weekly
Davy & Chin Talk A.C Milan Weekly
Breaking Down AC Milan’s Roller-coaster Season: Tactics, Injuries and Coaching Decisions
Ever thought about what's been going on with AC Milan's roller-coaster season? Wondered about the tactics and decisions of their coach, Stefano Pioli, and how they've impacted the team's performance? Join us as we break it all down! We dive into the highs and lows of Milan's journey this season, from the fluctuating form in the league, and a remarkable victory against PSG. But it's not all roses, as we also explore their surprising draw against Lecce and question some of Pioli's decisions.
Curious about how player injuries affect a team's performance and the role coaching decisions play? We've got you covered! Drawing from Milan's example, we discuss the importance of a holistic approach to injury prevention and the value of proper warm-up habits. We also explore Pioli's inconsistent approach and debate how it may be impacting Milan's performance, while still celebrating his contributions to the team's recent successes.
Finally, let's not forget the management. Did their choices in signing injury-prone players and lack of depth in certain positions lead to Milan's defensive issues? We critique these decisions and reflect on their impact on the team's performance. As we wrap up, we gaze ahead at Milan's upcoming challenges in the league and express our hopes for a better future. Whether you're a die-hard Milan fan or just a football enthusiast, this is one conversation you won't want to miss!
The Rossoneri Renaissance is complete After 11 years. Once again, milan are the champions of Italy. It's they who wear the crown for the 2021-22 season. Hello everyone, this is David in Chin Talk Milan. We are back again for another interesting episode. Chin, what's up, man? You're wearing Milan's jersey. Man, what's going on?
Speaker 2:It's my last hoodie, my last clean hoodie. This is it. When I wear this hoodie, I know that I'm out of hoodies. Anyways, it's kind of nice. I've always liked it. I've had it for a while now. Last clean hoodie, nothing special. Milan hasn't done anything special this past weekend for me to be wearing their hoodie.
Speaker 1:So our challenge is to buy Milan's jersey. Okay, this is it. If Milan didn't get out of that accident.
Speaker 2:You promised to send me Junior Messias' jersey or Olivier Giroud's jersey.
Speaker 1:You look like a good writer. Anyway, you told me you were going to take off the name, so what's the point of sending it to you?
Speaker 2:No, I wear it in shame. I wear the cover, put tape behind the put tape around the Junior Messias. Man, there was a time you were obsessed with Junior Messias.
Speaker 1:Tell me you're not messing with Junior Messias. Tell me you're not messing with.
Speaker 2:Junior Messias. I've told you this before and I'll say it again I would like to be on your good side, because if I am, like anybody on your good side, you're very loyal to that person, my friend. Oh my goodness, you defend people like Junior Messias. And you start now you're defending purely, and as soon as purely moves on, now you realize that purely has always been like. But hey, good for you, man, it's good, it's good that you have loyalty.
Speaker 1:Look, this is one thing about me I know where Milan were when purely took over and I know where we are at the moment, when purely took over in 2019, what? 11th on Lictibo and we're having one of the most horrible season in the Banta era. You know, it's one thing to have a bad season, the other thing to have a bad season in the Banta era.
Speaker 2:And really came in. Did you not lose that year at Atlanta 5-0?
Speaker 1:It was after that game that everything changed. I don't know how I feel to do it, because I'm not sure if I should say I feel a little bit way better compared to the last time we did the pod after the Dinesi loss. I don't know, because I mean after the game. We beat PSG at the San Zero, which is one of the biggest game of the season for Milan, if you consider the weight of the game and the impact of the victory. Then we came back again this last weekend and we drew to Litchi. To be honest, I think I'll consider the loss, but I've been on paper. Of course, we got one point. So let me ask you how do you feel, though, from our last podcast to this current podcast, how do you feel?
Speaker 2:Okay. So to be honest with you, my feeling around Milan has not changed much, right? But on Wednesday I was very, very, very pleased because at least it means that Puyoli's agenda, or Puyoli's mandate of trying to ruin Milan's Champions League campaign, went sideways when Milan found the way to beat PSG. But in the league, milan has gone four games without the win. In the league, this guy he never sees to amaze me. So he didn't think Milan Puyoli was trying to support Aj Milan all this time. Is that the way to say? Puyoli did a good job, so he didn't think he was trying to support.
Speaker 2:Think of it. Go back. Milan is playing Champions League and you put Krunic and Pobega in the midfield twice One time. I can forgive you the second time. You have to answer like. You have to have a very evil heart. You have to have something else in your mind for you to play Krunic and Pobega twice in the Champions League. Did you notice all of a sudden he plays a proper midfield and Milan looks like a proper team. But hey, wednesday was good. Then they carried the same momentum into what's it called Saturday. The games started well. They had to go lead and blew the two goals and almost lost, so we're back to where we were before Wednesday.
Speaker 1:Okay, you know what, before we go to the Lecce game, I think it's better for us to actually quickly talk about the PSG game, because I think we didn't get a chance to have a reaction on the game and going into the game we spoke cheat, you completely doubted Milan. This game. They'll bring an edited from this game. I was the only one it would lead to the dissimpliated. I was the only one. They actually gave Milan a bit of a chance to prove the fans wrong and he did.
Speaker 2:Okay. But Dave, come on, For once, try not to give Milan a chance, because apparently it's your MO. You give Milan a chance and then when they come in and they pull the offset victory, you come and say, oh, I gave them a chance, I'm the only one who gave them a chance, it's your team, you always give Milan a chance. So what am I trying to say? Nothing Milan had done in the last month or so showed that they had anything in them to beat PSG, but then again, lucky for them, they were playing PSG.
Speaker 2:Psg is another team that goes on moods. So think of it. They've lost two Champions League games, one at San Siro, one in Newcastle and deservedly they deserve to lose. So again, I think, if you help me correctly, there was nothing about PSG that I felt like. Psg is not a team you couldn't beat, but the problem was Milan wasn't informed. So Milan hadn't scored a single goal in the Champions League in the last five games until that game against PSG. You know what I mean. So to me, if you were a better man, there was nothing other than emotion that would have made Dave bet that Milan was going to beat PSG. Other than emotion, because nothing showed that they just played two weeks earlier and lost three. Nothing, and it wasn't even close.
Speaker 1:You know what I'm saying is the facts show that I've forgotten that PSG is playing at San Siro. How does that have to do with anything?
Speaker 2:It has a lot to do when they play in the Champions League twice they know that that's a different thing.
Speaker 1:You cannot compare it to PSG's game.
Speaker 2:So you know what Good for you. Let me say good for you because they will play Borussia Dortmund at San Siro. Hopefully they can beat Dortmund in the next round. To be honest with you it doesn't let it not sound like I'm being a debit downer it was a good thing that Milan won that game. Okay, it purely would have lost his job over the weekend if Milan had lost to Lerche, just to give you an idea. So the one win against PSG is the only win Milan has had in the last five or six games. To be honest with you, that is not acceptable. Just because he won one big game and Chin let's be real.
Speaker 1:I'm not ignoring the fact that Milan is struggling. Let's be real, milan is struggling. Yes, I understand that, but again, I'll say it again we have to also put a lot of things in perspective, considering the fact that there's been a lot of absences due to injuries and people are just returning. For example, now, when you look at the weight of the PSG game, the amount of intensity and the amount of effort they need to put into all that game to get a victory, this is not just an easy game. They worked all round, like all the players that came and participated and gave their all to get this victory, and again playing Lerche three days later. I mean, is there an excuse to drop on against Lerche? Of course it's not an excuse, right? But also we need to also consider the fact that these players after that game, half of them were not even available again. The police was gone already. Love to see you couldn't play. He was injured as well.
Speaker 2:Okay. So, dave, what is going on with you? I have to understand what goes on your head, because I'm actually beginning to suspect you now. So I feel you know, when they say like love, right, love makes you behave in a weird way. That's what Milan does to you. So I'll tell you this. So let me explain. So what you're trying to tell me is that Milan could not beat Lerche because we did not have our stars playing. That's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Okay, what are you saying? Can?
Speaker 2:you put it another way, then Let me understand.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, this is just to pure, there's no other way to put it down. Sometimes it's partly fatigue, partly injuries, that's just it, and partly form as well, and partly police force. To be honest, because, I will say it again, he made some decisions in that game that I kind of question. But again, that was one of the reasons why I was so emotional this weekend after that game, because I'm like I had a feeling though too, and during the game, during the second half, that Milan might make some mistakes, right, so I wasn't expecting those mistakes to come back and, you know, bite us to the point that we're losing points against Lerche. To be honest, and again, I will 100% question position on this game, and I'll tell you why. Because, first of all, if you rested Musa in the midfield and you put in Krunic and Pobega right, which I don't have any issue against a team like Lerche, which is, you know, you can always fight away around it, because, based on intensity and stuff like that, you can make a case for that. But the question is, in the second half, we are leading 2-0. And you can see the game is wide open, it's end to end, and I didn't like it at that point I'm like I just had a feeling something's going to happen right.
Speaker 1:Then he brought in Musa. My thinking was, if you bring in Musa, why don't you take off Krunic and bring in Musa, and also take off Pobega and bring in Adley, so Musa can at least cover ground for Adley in case Adley's having any sort of struggle in terms of marking and stuff like that? But he didn't. Instead he just messed up the substitution, brought in Musa. The kid has not even played as a right back since he has joined Milan. I just put him in a game like that because of the fact that he's a versatile doesn't mean I can just keep throwing him around the pitch, right, and that's the thing that really piss me off about, Pobega.
Speaker 2:You know all this is you're saying, right? You know what this tells me and this is what I have a struggle with when it comes to. Purely. Okay, Dave, can I ask you a question? What makes a good coach Typically like a great coach? Think of all the people you know in the past that have been great coaches, right?
Speaker 1:Okay, great. What you're asking me right now is a very broad question, to be honest. No, no, no, no. Let me give you an answer.
Speaker 2:Okay, no, no. The reason I ask this question is everybody that you consider to be a very, very good coach. Somehow, someway, they're usually associated with something right, so let's start with. Let's start with Moreno, for instance.
Speaker 1:Okay, let me tell you why. Let me tell you. Let me tell you why, but at least with my name, two of my top two coaches, right, you can really understand how I do.
Speaker 2:Tell me who are your two top coaches. Let me see your, let me get your head.
Speaker 1:I mean this is based on my own personal love for them. Sure, number one, I'll choose Carlo Ancelotti and I'll tell you what I'm a big fan of, and I'll tell you why. If I tell you I love Carlo Ancelotti now, you can probably understand the reason why I love Puyoli.
Speaker 2:I can see that Now, I see, I can see the resemblance. But go ahead, that's just. Those are my top two coaches, that's it, okay. So do you know one thing that I can tell you about Carlo Ancelotti, in terms of his, his, his, closer to Puyoli, you're right in terms of their personality and style, and whatever right, but the difference is Carlo actually is quite consistent when it comes to whatever he's thinking, is he's clear, he's not confused. So why do I say that? Like when Milan, those days when Milan used to play back in the day, right, you almost can bet your life on the starting formation.
Speaker 1:If we chin the ten is, though, like I completely understand what you're saying, but my biggest, what I really still find very hard to understand from you and Leo is the fact that are you guys really looking like taking an in-depth look at the squad that Puyoli has? Okay, sorry, why are you talking about sports?
Speaker 2:Okay, can we go back now? Can we go back to Carlo Ancelotti? Yeah, in all the times he has been coaching most teams, again, I keep saying this you see, the Eurovision Puyoli did this weekend. Like the only time I've seen Carlo do that is putting Camarvinga on the outside, but again, it's consistently putting him there right. It's not like in the middle of a game, just out of the blue, you randomly throw a meat feeder on the right, for no exact reason Other than the fact that you just I don't know whatever got into your head, right, yeah. So why am I saying all this? I'm saying this because, if I remember correctly, all the great managers of the past that have consistently won things, including Carlo Ancelotti, that have consistently shown that they can do stuff, they are consistent in their approach, because no good coach will ever, ever not be consistent in their approach. And then be a great coach. You know what you be. You just be an okay coach. You win some games and get on with it.
Speaker 2:Puyoli is not consistent. In my own opinion, he's not consistent in his approach, and I say that because, if you think of it, you literally sat here and you're naming exactly the reasons why there is literally lack of consistency in his approach. Okay, tell me, tell me, try to justify his rationale for some of the decisions he made. For instance, milan played PSG on what's it called on Wednesday last week. Okay, okay, let me. Let me. Let me tell you. So we played PSG in the midfield, he played Moussa, ruben Losliscik and then Tijani Reinders, right, yeah. Then the previous time we played PSG in midfield, he played Tijani Reinders, moussa and Kroenich, right. And now I know Ruben Losliscik was injured, so let's take that out of the way, okay. But before that he had played Kroenich, reinders and whatever again.
Speaker 2:And I ask you one time I say what about Adley? Adley was playing. All of a sudden he's no longer playing. He doesn't even see minutes anymore, as though somehow he offended somebody. Well, he's not ready, but you're seeing that there's no pattern of consistency. If he was actually going where we know, if he plays tough games, he would play Kroenich to pack the boss. If he's playing attacking games, or against Lecce, for instance, you know what I mean. You play Adley like all of those consistency in picking the team, or consistency in his mind, in his thinking process.
Speaker 1:I don't see, I don't, I don't, I don't think that's the problem though.
Speaker 2:No, well, no, I'm telling you that because you know why that consistency, inconsistency, comes in. We change formation every other week, for no exact reason.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, don't see that change, Don't see that change the fact that Milan can I ask you, psg, no, start from PSG would the next day.
Speaker 2:Psg would the next day, then PSG, right, and then these people played Lecce. What are the starting formation? Do you remember the day we played there, with the next day that we lost? What was the starting formation? That was the only time. How did you start the game?
Speaker 1:Change. That was the only time, out of the blue, he decided to play. What for? What was that was the only time? Purely sweet to 442. And his reason for sweet to 442. What was the reason? Again, he's trying as much as possible to retool those players in a way that bring balance to the team.
Speaker 2:Which players? Because he played 442 and he played the exact same people that he played against PSG, apart from Jovic.
Speaker 1:Look, this is your like what? I think my problem with you, cheney, is the fact that, whatever you're making all these you know references right Now, those things like, I just kind of feel like most of the time you know, really considering the weight of Milan's team, you're talking about Milan, we're not talking about chain. Sorry about purely not being consistent with these midfield selections, but you forgot the fact that half of the midfields have how consistent are they in terms of availability Nine straight games. Imagine what's not playing those games. You know how, how, how is going to affect the midfield. The same thing applies to Tijani Rangers too. Like these guys have been putting in more weight because of the fact that half of the other players are not really available either.
Speaker 2:Oh no, but Dave, you're actually right now. This is a bold face, like you know what's in a lie. This is a lie because the people that are on the bench right? Yeah? Okay, let me not keep mentioning it carefully. I'm not saying Pogba should not play, because I know when he plays I complain, but Pobega gets to play.
Speaker 2:But the point is he gets to play randomly in a way that does not make sense. So, for instance, pobega would just show up in the middle of a Champions League game and you're like why? And then, all of a sudden, you play against Udinese at home. You told me before do you remember when you said they are very muscular team, very strong, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Guess what? Well, wouldn't that be one of the time when he runs around and kicks people a lot? No, he does. Did he play Pobega against Udinese? No, and then, all of a sudden, pobega shows up against Leche, like he's just showing up in places. And then you're asking yourself you're like okay, what about Adley? Adley is not injured, so he doesn't get minutes to rest people, Look all I'm telling you is, he's not consistent.
Speaker 2:Okafa is on the bench against Udinese and he tell me that he's just recovering from injury. Okafa wasn't fit to play that, but he played against the previous game and he came on like he did. So the point is he's still struggling with fitness. Ok, all I am saying is if, purely, let's say, you and I, we know Milan starting 11, right, let's say everybody is fit, we know what he wants to do in the mix. Yeah, ok, good, actually, I don't know, because in my head I still, when I thought about it, I this thing, I just said I put Krunic in there, but I don't know if you put Krunic, krunic is not fitting in.
Speaker 1:When, when Benase comes, when when I'm Krunic is not fitting in.
Speaker 2:but Krunic has had more minutes than almost everybody in Milan's midfield, apart from maybe Reinder. This season I come out to take out injury. He has had more minutes than everybody else he gets to play all the time.
Speaker 1:You and I know that. You and I know that if Benase or Mosa Tijani, reinder and Lufthus Tchaikov fit, there's no way Krunic is going to get um being a starting line for for for Stefano Piolli, he's not going to work. He's, he can look purely already has, and I'm so, I'm so happy because what I notice in the PSG game is that I think he's now beginning to understand that he needs to go back to the 4213 formation.
Speaker 2:Why are you always about formation, because you're always about formation, dave.
Speaker 1:Formation plays a huge role in this conversation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the thing is that Milan's formation is not very, very consistent, because the reality of it is every week we are doing something different. So this is one thing that I okay, let me they're not doing.
Speaker 1:Look, milan has been consistent with formation at 433 this season.
Speaker 2:They've been playing 433 until most of the most of the year, and then injuries came. Look, this is.
Speaker 1:Look, let's let's talk about the main problem here, because we know, I think, we know, I think is injury is injury.
Speaker 1:The main problem, injury is in main, and I want to say something Sure, because this is it here. Right, look at how purely likes to play Hmm, purely play high-press, high-intensity football. When you look at players like Rafael Lea, for example, theo Hernandez, right, you know the amount of peace and intensity. The only person that I think have been really consistent with intensity in this Milan team is still Tomori. To me, tomori is the only player that I know at least he's been very consistent with intensity. Every other player they play intense, high-intensity football, yes, but the thing is they easily get injured. Do you know that? You and I know that the amount of work that loves to put into that PENCG game.
Speaker 1:I knew something was going to happen, with all the hits and all the all the all the knocks is getting left and right. Look at when this guy knocked him down. What's his name again, lucas Hernandez. When he knocked him down, I even thought he wasn't going to continue the game, but he came up again and continued. The thing is, when you expect these players, right, to play in weak in the out, with this sort of intensity, high-press football, there's no way they're going to be able to keep that level of consistency, considering the fact that they get injured. You know there's so many things that falls in play. My question is in and I know I always refer to Liverpool, because Liverpool played similar style with Milan, right, and I've seen on the receiving end of these injuries in the past, right? How do you think Milan can really solve this problem? Let's let's let's talk about it first.
Speaker 2:Good you mentioned Liverpool, right, okay, that's one. They're not the only thing that presses, even the game against PSG, right, psg themselves. They actually had a, because, if you remember, that game was back and forth. It was like the within this game, back and forth. The following week, the following weekend, almost everybody that played against Milan from PSG ended up doing what Playing for PSG.
Speaker 2:So somehow the injury situation is actually what's he called the Milan problem, because I kept telling you this, that coaches and coaching and coaching staff has a lot to do with injuries and you're like, oh, how is that possible? It is possible because of this. What causes injuries? People are fatigued, right, muscle fatigue, maybe due to style of play, maybe due to use of players. A lot of teams put a lot of money. Right, if you want to get these guys, because they're playing a lot of games, first of foremost you have to be very, very disciplined in terms of your, your warm-up routines, your training regimen, precision in particular, right, if you want to keep up a style of play.
Speaker 2:So a good example is Conte. I remember when, two years ago, I think, spurs remember, I don't know if you remember when he took over Spurs and he got them running the length of the field like 50 times, and then Hume's song was for meeting on the field. How do you think he's going to go far, though? Let me learn now. But that's his normal Conte routine, right, with his teams. He had that guy, his friend, that died. That was his physical trainer guy that gets his guys in top shape. Why would he do that to those guys? It's because he knows that if a boy he needs them to play demands that they actually be in that level of fitness. On the flip side, milan, milan, in purely his time, he wants them to play high intensity, aggressive football.
Speaker 2:But you always tell me how half of Milan's squad look very not physically fit enough. A good example is Adley. For the past few years, you've been saying how Adley does not look like he's ready, right? Okay, rafael Leao, there's news on this thing. You can see him doing warm-ups. He does not have very good warm-up habits, right? Everybody gets to do whatever they want to do and get away with it. It's no coincidence that the only guy that gets to be fit enough most times is Tomori, because he comes from the English football, where they are at their own level of intensity. You know what I mean. The way they train is geared towards that style of play. The rest of the other guys are not really from that kind of footballing culture, right?
Speaker 2:So if you're going to be purely, you have to take the Conte approach and get your guys physically fit to the level you want. That's one. Secondly, milan as a team has to invest more money in terms of monitoring players and their level of fitness, right? So then you can actually do better rotation. The better rotation piece comes in In the absence of technological, whatever investment in knowing fatigue level for players. The coach has to use common sense. So you made a point. Listen carefully, you made a point.
Speaker 2:When you watch Rafael Leal play against PSG, I swear to you there's nothing in my head that would have made me play him against Leal. At least that's him. You know why I say so. The same reason you thought Lost Tichico was not going to be able to make it. It was so obvious because of the amount of running Leal did. It was all over the place. I saw his Z-Map. He was all over the place, back and forth, defending, doing everything.
Speaker 2:And guess what? Milan is going to play Le Cie and we don't have anybody other than Leal. 10 minutes into the game he's injured. Now he's lost nothing for two weeks. The same thing happened to Krunich a few weeks, a few months ago. Do you remember? Purely? We're saying how he was worried that he's playing a lot of minutes.
Speaker 2:And guess what your boy does? Start Krunich Because he does not want to not start Krunich. What am I getting at? This whole thing is a coaching decision. So purely has this mentality and that's why sometimes I get frustrated. Where he doesn't trust people until it's time he has no other option, then he throws them in and sees if they can do it. What stops him from giving Leal a damn break? Because the guy is going to go on an international break. Give him just one game. If Milan cannot beat Lecce without a velial, then what are we doing? Which brings me back to the point of coaching. Because he does not believe that whatever he has in his system is going to be able to help Milan overcome a team like think of Giroud. Purely keeps playing Giroud every day Because, according to him, there's no other alternative. Every single game.
Speaker 1:The guy is 37 years old Giroud is his best striker when you look at the options he's got. Are you kidding me? He's the only player that has similar characteristics like Giroud in Milan's attack. It's Odović.
Speaker 2:He's playing with the force, sorry. It takes every year old man to get injured. And then you ask me why is he injured? The question you have to ask yourself is the game against Lecce? Is he better than the potential three weeks with me because you couldn't just rest him against Lecce? Listen carefully to Lecce. So this is the thing. Purely plays these guys until they literally run to the ground. You can even tell from the TV that people are tired physically. He signs all these players that are injury prone. They don't have good precision in terms of preparing their body for it. They don't build muscles that they need for this whole rigorous work that they need to do. The club is not investing in technology to know when they are tired. Italian culture is different when it comes to physical or whatever. All of that stuff, great. And then your coach does not use his wisdom to actually do proper rotation.
Speaker 1:To actually add to what you're saying. To be honest, I completely agree with you because, wow, that's a miracle.
Speaker 1:No To be honest, I'm a big fan of Purely, but when I see all these flaws, I still have to point it out. Because if on like in the PSG game as well, at some point I was expecting him to solve the police and he kept him on until the guy got injured. And then the guy got injured at the end. Yeah, but you have other options. Why don't you just solve, like literally? Like what Purely's police was offering at that point was not that bad? Exactly, the boy doesn't get on his feet. You can't do anything. He wasn't running around like he was, you know what I mean. And again he left him on until he got injured Again. That's not the first time that he's doing this, to be honest.
Speaker 2:He did the same thing with Okay, so TTayu Hernandez right, you and I can see when TTayu is getting fatigued. And then one day you just wake up and it's like oh, you see that TTayu hasa knock because, again, purely requires these guys to do a lot. If you require somebody to do a lot, you know what you have to do. You have to help them right by giving them breaks. It does not give them break Even. This is why I get frustrated Because you tell me that this word is not.
Speaker 1:I don't think you can really say the same about all the players too, for example, ttayu Hernandez. For example, ttayu Hernandez doesn't have any reliable backup. To be honest, we have to convert Florence to play, right back To play left back. You know what I mean. And again, but Sati does. Are you going?
Speaker 2:to play. Can I ask you one question? What happens tomorrow if TTayu Hernandez gets seriously injured and then does not cannot play? What do you do? I mean, you still have to put Florence there. Good, so guess what? Why not just put Florence there, like he has done before? He did that last two weeks ago. So just play somebody to give the guy. Because you know why?
Speaker 2:This is a discussion that you and I have been having for three whole years, because, remember when I used to tell you that Purely's Milan man, they are always injured and it used to be like I hated Purely, but it wasn't that. It's because when you watch the way Milan plays, you can tell that that is going to lend itself to a lot of injuries, right, it is very obvious. And so, as a smart coach, you have to man, okay, not to mention Pep. Pep has a deep squad, but even his squad within his squad, right, he knows people that are very good, right? So, for instance, like Kovacic and the other guy from Wolves, he doesn't want to play those guys, really, but when he goes and plays bomb mouth, he knows that he can actually play those guys and not really lose too much sleep, right, and they still get the job done. It might not be perfect, but they will get the job done. You know why? Because he knows the next week they are playing against Arsenal or somebody. That is what the coach is supposed to do.
Speaker 2:I remember the time earlier this season when Milan played one team. Was it Genoa, genoa or somebody? It's not Genoa, genoa is good. All of a sudden, you remember the game where we played the team and Milan were winning 3-1. And, purely, they brought the ball in. Do you remember? I remember you like 75.
Speaker 1:75. I think. I think. I think pure. This biggest problem is just trust issues. To be honest, why is he having trust issues.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he's, he's got his biggest problem. Okay, but Dave can I ask you a question? Why would you have that?
Speaker 1:Let's just give him, for example. He makes absolutely no sense already because I'm like, okay, so you brought um, you brought most are in, right to play right back and we considered two goals in our blood friends in to go and play right back and push most of the game Exactly Not confused.
Speaker 1:I'm like this is this is what you'll have done like early If I put Florence at right back. Florence would not make that kind of mistake because most of us just leave it there. I can tell it was like we said, wasn't really straight in the game and we're just trying to like force and make impact and in that process that's what happened. You know, after considering that first goal again, these are just errors that I, to be honest, I've simply did this last season when it was confused, when we had this game.
Speaker 2:We were like okay, sorry, dave. So let me back up a little bit. My biggest issue with purely right is not that he's not successful at Milan, and I think sometimes you misunderstand that. So I actually I when he first came to Milan, I appreciated that he brought energy, because he's a guy that would give you energy. Right, intensity, the game will go. I liked it because before the Milan were in a bad place.
Speaker 2:But the truth of the matter is this Earlier this year, milan technically upgraded his squad. Right, when you have all those good players, you have to be good at all of them, right? Also, you don't want to coach that will be playing people at opposition over and over and over, to the point where they will not start looking like they're bad players. Right, because you remember you type in that guys, that Reinders and those guys all of us studying they are now looking like they are not good players. Right, part of it is also coaching. Secondly, you also don't want to coach that literally whenever he's confused, he starts doing weird things because the next minute everybody's talking about benching. Right, layout, do you remember that conversation? He's like you know you're going to do that one To me. Layout tells you that the guy like, at some point he might not be that good at managing those caliber of players, because if you get to the level, there's a level you get to as a coach.
Speaker 2:Yo, there's no doubt, nobody's doubting Calan Solotid. Do you hear those news coming up from me? Even though he's technically like, purely because whatever he is doing, maybe because he has one, one billion champions everybody just believes him. Whatever he's doing, he seems to understand what he's doing. He has a method to his madness. Purely to me does not have a method to his madness, but when things go sideways he would not die on that bridge, he would start jumping to to find solutions outside or whatever, because it is not comfortable with whatever he's doing.
Speaker 2:Last week I asked you, I said, dave, what is his style of play? Do you know who Marcelo Bielsa is? Yes, good, that guy relegated the leads. He brought them up to the, to Premier League, and relegated them because he wanted to die on that style of what he wants to play. Right, what am I getting at?
Speaker 2:At some point, I'm getting at the mindset of what they want. That is how you get to that elite level in terms of club, because Milan right now we're okay with purely, because we're scared that if purely leaves there will be we don't know what to do. That's okay, I get it, but doesn't mean that we should all pretend like purely is all of a sudden a great coach. No, it just means that when somebody shows up keep this in mind when a good coach shows up, any acceptable coach is available. We should probably consider that. And I'm not saying there is one now. If you hear me, care for Milan, you can go and hire Rudy Garcia or one of the idiots that are out there.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I'm not saying that, but all I'm trying to say is I will not not put purely on the same level, because when I watch Milan, I see zero plan. I see the football to me. I cannot actually tell you what Milan wants to do in attack. One minute Rafael is crossing the to to to to head the ball. The next minute is not taking on shots. You know what I mean. Like it's not, like it's like what, what is going on? It's like you know we'll be two, nothing up two times in two weeks and then throw those leads away.
Speaker 1:We don't feel like. I just think of it. I just feel like we're in a bad run of form right now.
Speaker 2:No, boy, it's not a form. Okay, because when you say we are in, the bad run of form.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's because so it's bad run off.
Speaker 2:You know what the bad run of form is. The bad run of form is when you know that, uh, okay, we'll get out of it because we know what we're doing is walking. You know, blah, blah, blah, blah. Things are not going our way. So the reason is not Milan, because I told you before that Milan is dependent on a lot of players. Uh, the players form right, 100%. So there's no think of it. We beat PSG, that Milan a bit PSG midweek. That that would have looked if you didn't know. You just landed. You think that that was one of the best things in the whole world, right? And then the previous week they had just lost to Deniz, with not even lost to Deniz, lost to Deniz without even effort. It was so easy. Then the next week they threw it away and almost lost it again, without putting literally, without chain.
Speaker 1:This is what I'm going to say. You see, the face that Milan is going to right now. Right, like, normally, how it happens is purely eventually find the solution to it when he's got the full team back. I've seen it happen quite a few times, even last season, even this season prior, when we won Skudetto, we had this like bad run of form at some point. Usually come we start at the end of the year anyways, and go see the team. It's good that it actually happened right now, consuming the fact that this team is still fairly new.
Speaker 1:I'll say it again like until, like, we, if, if, if, piori is able to get these guys, you know, together and again to be able to, like you know, give them that sort of motivation and you know the, the, the, the, the things that they need to be able to, you know, just put a quick run of you know good form of results together. I think it's going to change. I just want to you know something eh, enter will go through this face. This will go through this face, they will. This face of you know battling, you know dropping point here and there, every other team will go through it. This is not the first time. We both know it. Again, I'll say it again Don't forget Enter, but to 12 points in the league, but to 12 points. You know how many games that is for good games ahead of, and this is not the. This is not the begin of the season. This was towards the end of the season and Milan won Skudetto.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that you know I was had in a end up. How did Milan end up 12 points behind Inter Milan in the first place Since?
Speaker 1:he was in the first place. It's the fact that there are moments where Milan struggles and then when, when, when the table turns, it gets into us.
Speaker 2:It's just what it works. So no, no football. It's just football, it's just football. Yeah, league football is so long that you cannot be that consistent across the board, right. But when I say that consistent again, if I watch Inter Milan play, it is not to me. When I watch them play, there is not any surprising about what they are trying to do Okay.
Speaker 1:So Inter's football is not the same with Milan, please.
Speaker 2:Milan is where Milan plays now, because I can ball around.
Speaker 1:Milan always take possession on the game. That's why you see how like a person like we always take possession.
Speaker 2:We always take possession. We always take possession. That's what you do. And then, but you know how many games we played this year that we were not. We were not ahead of possession, like against PSG. How many possession? What was possession?
Speaker 1:for Milan against the game we played against PSG is different. After we went ahead, we were not able to come forward before attack them, and that's okay.
Speaker 2:But this is where the confusion comes in now, because when you play against Napoli, that's where the players were not sure if they should be attacking or defending. Eh, giroux said that when you play against Lece, all of a sudden you didn't know if you should go for the third go or not. Like those, confusion comes from the fact that you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing. So, anyway, the long and short is as long as Milan wins games, I'm okay. But you will never feel to the to probably die, right. You will never find a way to convince me that, purely, is on the same level with you. You can. You can believe that yourself. You don't have to convince me, okay, you don't have to convince me, because I've seen enough. I've seen him for three years and I've seen him for three years at Milan and in those three years I will just put him as a an okay coach. He's a good coach. Whatever, if it gives me wins, give me scudetto, this season.
Speaker 1:I'll be happy, chin, can we just shine the light on some good, some good players here, that players that have been really, you know, meeting the expectation this season. For example, tomori is one of them. Like Tomori has been called again to you know the team that's been called for, the team, I don't know how to remember where, but the thing is though, let's, let's, let's be, let's be. Let's talk about Tomori. I think he's really stepped up this game this season, and you know playing, watching him against.
Speaker 2:Mbappe and all the. You know we have to battle out all proof. So let me be honest, what you say on him, tomori has been consistent, right, regardless of what has been happening around him, right? Yeah, so to me that is very good for him because, um, he's been making one mistake here and there, but it wasn't too obvious, right, but he's been consistent. He's taking out those. So he has reduced the mistake from one a game to maybe one every few games, which is fine, um, and it is again, for a defender, it is not the worst thing, especially at at his what's called the way Milan plays, where they give you a lot of, they put you on high in high risk situations and one V1 situations. Yeah, so I I 'll give him his props. He's been consistent, he's been consistent, he's been consistent and he's always wanted, needed in his game. Now, again, he has been playing a lot of games. One day he will go and get injured and then you will surprise where the injury came from. Oh my god, how did Tomori get injured? Because the guy does not rest every game. He literally plays, plays 90 minutes and goes hard 90 minutes, and I get it. Milan does not have a lot of options right now. You have to play him and right. But this is the thing. Eventually he is going to get hurt because he's playing for England that much, so it doesn't matter. Anyway, I'm happy for him. He's been consistent. I still am very pleased with Reinders.
Speaker 2:Um, I know a lot of people have some comments. I just like the way the guy plays. No, he has proved again. He's back, he's picking up for me again. Yeah, no, but it's just that players cannot. They're not machines, man. They go up and down. It's not everybody's in Bapay and Messi and Ronaldo that keep consistent pace, or? Or Hurricane, these guys go up and down. Right, they do. Yeah, human needs to be in the hamstring. Maybe something is hot in. So there, there will be that inconsistency. Maybe they have family issues, who knows right, maybe they have a cold or flu, you never know. I'm just saying so. Anyway, let's. Let's call them slack, which is where a good coach would have put a system in place to ensure that when these guys are not in form, they are still trying to produce enough to help them beat teams like Leche. That's all. That's where my issue is with, purely is that if those guys are not in top form like I don't know. Police should be back, yeah, but this is the thing though.
Speaker 1:Raphael, how is that we're going to struggle? It's not simple as that. Anyways, to be honest, we can keep talking about Pule all day. I agree with you at some point. I agree with you at some point, don't get me wrong but I just kind of feel like again, I'm not saying Pule is like a late coach I have a better replacement than just firing Pule in the middle of the season and looking for a term in coach or someone to just come and feed the position, because that will not help us in any way. I would rather prefer him to see the season through and then we'll assess him based on his performances, and if he deserves to stay till 2025, based on his contract then let us leave him there. The thing is the fact that we also need to understand that, chinn, let's be sincere, though.
Speaker 1:Milan is drawn to a very top group in UEFA Champions League, and the demand from these players are very high in terms of the games and stuff, the level of games that they are playing. They are really top-top games that there's no easy. If you look at Laziou, look at all these other teams from CRR, look at the group that they are, it's easy for them. I'm not saying easy, easy, but at least they have them to breathe in stuff. I mean, if you look at all the teams that are in Milan Group, they are top teams, they are really teams that are ready to compete.
Speaker 2:But, dave, though this is, the main reason why Milan hasn't had the worst in terms of a fissure list. This is coming in right. So the only time I would have actually not blamed purely is playing Napoli before the Champions League. I think we played Napoli after the Champions League game or something like that, right After the PSG game. Good, but you could have again. You could have benched some people, rested some people, because it's all about his rotation. At the end of the day, like I said to you, if Milan keeps winning, I'm okay. If purely carries Milan to the Champions League finals and wins the whole thing, I would celebrate, but would not change my mind. So, because you know why I say that. Remember, do you know who Roberto Di Matteo was that took Champions?
Speaker 1:League final.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no. No. I'm not saying purely that, I'm not making a point. The point is winning things in football does not automatically make you an elite level manager. Some people that are highly respected in football that had wanted anything. Do you remember Ranieri? Before he took Lester City to go win the league, everybody respected Ranieri, they thought he knew what he was doing and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But he always finished second, almost always Always finished second. And then he finally won with Lester City. But guess what? Now Ranieri is now coaching.
Speaker 1:Sampdoria, but that's not purely, though. If you look at the level of consistency from Puyol, he's been consistent Since Puyol has been at Milan, puyol has never missed out on Europe. Do you know that? Yeah, but that's In his second try he took Milan to the semifinals. You can't compare him purely with Ranieri. No, no, no, but that's a factor of.
Speaker 2:That's a because you're always forgetting that your performance is in the league, right, it's relative to other people. So when Ranieri won the league at Lester City, everybody else were like all of the top teams in England were taking a break for some reason. Right, everybody had a bad year and then he won. Now, purely, you're right, he always takes Milan to Champions League games and blah, blah blah, but last season he legit. Forget the controversy with Juventus, he missed out.
Speaker 1:He did miss out. I don't like when you say that, though to be honest, I don't think any, any team, any, any fan from any team in Milan's position will believe that last season's league Based on on-field performance.
Speaker 2:Milan missed the Champions League last year, yes or no? Forget whatever happened on-field, that Juventus did some, paid bribe and did this and didn't do anything to play. Yes or no? Did Milan miss the Champions League based on on-field performance, dave?
Speaker 1:Milan qualified for Champions League and that's why they play in the Champions League.
Speaker 2:Milan qualified for Champions League by virtue of default.
Speaker 1:You see, your problem, cide? Your problem is the fact that I don't think you are seeing the value of purely from a particular angle that I'm seeing it from, which is the more reason why I think you and I will always bump head when it comes to this. So the value of purely I see it from the angle.
Speaker 2:So let me tell you what the problem is. You're trying to sell me something that does not exist, right? So, basically, if you hadn't, if you, you, if you had not started comparing purely to some top coaches because I remember you used to tell me how he was the top five coach in the world. Top five coach. I'm looking at you. I'm like what do you drink? What did you drink? Top five coach in the world? Because he won you a league title, because he's coaching your team, like you always do that stuff and it always annoys me because you know why it annoys me.
Speaker 2:Let me tell you why it annoys me because now I have to come in and try to bring you down, and then it will not be like I'm the one that is the bad guy, because, literally, if you and I just get along and pretend like we know exactly, because I know, you know, you know what I know, I know you know, you cannot just admit it and then, when things go bad, you know what you now start telling me how you know we are expecting so much because Milan does not have money, which is true. I've already already known that. Why are you then coming out and telling me how you believe that purely is a top five coach? I can go and check our chat Top five coach in Europe because he won a few games. Are you serious? What I want you to know is there's a reason why I rate coaches.
Speaker 1:I rate coaches based on not just the fact that they are tactically good or whatever, like it's fine what I'm using to rate purely as a top coach. I think you're not really seeing those criteria, which is the fact that you give someone a limited resources to make and he makes the best out of it, and that I think to me that's separate purely from a lot of coaches you can say, fine, his decision sometimes might be, might not be good enough or might not put him at a level that you expect him to be, which is fine. But the reality of the matter is this guy always finds a way Like again I reference again to the PSG game Milan beat PSG Like Milan really beat PSG, like proper beating. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:If this was Inter, we know what we're going to be saying about Insaki. We know how many you know how many Inter fans are going to be making the entire noise about beating the best team in Europe or whatever One of the best team in Europe and stuff. Milan did a job on PSG and still we still found a way to to discredit purely for what they are. Stone At the end of the day like this, is the guy still driving the wheel. So even if you feel like there's an individual effort that can come from one of the team's players, you know from one of the players, they still know the game, they still had a chance to win the game, or whatever, like Milan still did a job on PSG and that's the the reason why sometimes I really see purely in terms of the resources they got.
Speaker 1:PSG came to San Slo with a full team, the full squad, they still couldn't win I'm not saying because PSG also went to the San three goals.
Speaker 2:Literally PSG has been so because we purely won one game All of a sudden. He's a little, he's a little, so anyway that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:anyway, let's talk about, let's talk about, let's talk about the injuries now.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, purely injuries, right, Because now they told him that he should fire his.
Speaker 2:He told him to fire his trainer and he said he doesn't want to fire the trainer and then like again, again, I think I read the article, like I shared it in the group and I said the factors that impact injury. Most times comes to coach and coaching staff. Right, because Milan. There's nothing unique about Milan, right, like a lot of these players. Secondly, let's even back up. You go sign players that are injury prone what do you expect? Because the reality is that Ruben lost his cheek. There's a reason why he plays at Milan.
Speaker 2:Okay, I think moreno is the guy that put it best. He said the baller and a few other guys in dimension. They wouldn't be playing for a robot if they were consistently healthy. That was his line, right? So the same thing can be said about Milan. In a way. You wouldn't get Ruben loves his cheek playing at Milan, like that. Would you get Christian Pulisic playing at Milan If those guys were fit all the time and consistent in their performance, right?
Speaker 2:You know what I mean. I'm being honest. I'm not saying this because I'm being rude to Milan. I'm only just being frank because you know why the consistent players that are always healthy end up playing for the teams that can pay the most money, which is not Milan at this moment, right, good, so you can take it for what it is. So if you're a smart coach, what you realize is Ruben lost his cheek, has always had a history of injuries, in fact, it's like he made of glass, same with Pulisic. So you know what you do. You just manage those people a little better. You don't put them in predicaments. Where you run them to you, they go and break down, right, and then you're surprised that they are injured. You know what I'm saying, dave. So to me, that's where your boy falls victim to. This whole thing is the fact that he's to blame because he keeps playing these people till they literally they are born. You see the bone coming out of their flesh and he's like can you still manage? Like I don't get it.
Speaker 1:I have a question. I have a question for you because I know right now, I think, going into the general window, milan is planning to bring in some reinforcement, which is in the attack. They're looking to buy a striker, and then they're also looking to bring in a center defender, because it's quite obvious, like this is it, though? Like chin? Let's be real, though. I feel like the management also has a, has a, has a hand in this. Do you agree?
Speaker 2:Okay, please explain that part so you're going to the season.
Speaker 1:Your objective is to compete in Europe top elite to competition and also in Sierra, which is obviously a default objective in Sierra is to probably win the league right. The question is, how do you think Pellegrini? So Gabia got loaned out right To Valeria and they brought in Pellegrini from Argentina. He has zero European experience. He has never played in Europe before. Even when he's playing, he's all the time in Argentina he's playing with. He played as a back three. My question is why would the man, why would Milan management, bring this sort of player to Pellegrini? Say you know what? I want you to use this player. This is part of your backup defense, central defense. I'm not understanding.
Speaker 2:Okay, so what's your talent trying to tell me now all of a sudden? Is your blaming management again for giving purely not enough players or giving him poor quality management has a hand in this Okay, good, so this is the last we've seen now this is it?
Speaker 1:You're not answering my question, though, so are you seeing from that perspective? Let me ask you, like, if you're a coach, for example, and your, like, your task is to compete at a high level in Europe, right, maybe I should draw the question to you and you look at Milan's team, for example, and we need a defender, the closest, as bad as Gabya is. I can't tell you Gabya, because I know he has his own deficiencies and stuff. You know what I mean, but why would you bring him Pellegrini?
Speaker 2:What can Pellegrini do? Okay, but going into this, going into the season, milan had four centrebacks for sure, four with Simic. Simic as a, as a backup, the kid right, he played most of the preseason. So four centrebacks with Simic. They knew they were not having going to play Pellegrini. What's his name? Gabya? So therefore, pellegrini and Simic can actually just stay on the bench or play with the Premier Vera team without complaining. Was Gabya going to complain? And also, don't forget that what's your boy's name? Is Kaddara not still a Milan player?
Speaker 1:He's injured.
Speaker 2:But he's been injured.
Speaker 1:He's been injured all this time of the minute. This is what I'm saying. So you have to worry, listen. You have to worry, you have to worry, you have to worry.
Speaker 2:You have to worry, you have to worry. You have to have Maliktaia, kalulu and then Simokia.
Speaker 1:And Kalulu. Kalulu has been injured all through the preseason he was injured.
Speaker 2:But do you go into the season planning that they are all going to be injured?
Speaker 1:This is not the case. What I'm letting you know is you know the situation of your defence right, and you know, like you know, milan signed three players in the right wing, three players, that's. That's, that's the abundance to give the right wing, right, look at, look at the left as well the big, the big top to meet few things in all other areas. I just feel like they didn't do enough with that defense because, if you look at it, to me honestly, I like.
Speaker 2:Florence as a backup right back. You know what I mean. Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 1:How many people left from the defense that you want them to do? Enough next time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it's a different, different management. Okay, so let me tell you something you cannot eat your cake and have it. Let me say why I say so. You would like to want to eat your cake and still hold it in your hand and be happy that the problem is. Last week he said how they give purely 10 new players and blah, blah, blah, and they explain him to do magic.
Speaker 1:Now, this week, you're asking for more players to add to the 10 that already has been added to the game. That is not what I'm saying. Chin, you see your problem is every time I talk about situations or issues.
Speaker 2:Milan.
Speaker 1:You always feel like purely is the center of everything.
Speaker 2:Everything is purely when. I'm asking you right now, you can play Pobega as left back.
Speaker 1:Just say, because you know what he might be better, let me see, let me see, let me see If Milan wants to play for it.
Speaker 2:And there's you and Pobega end up playing left back. Would you? Would you sit down and say now, since you are trying right back, why won't you try left back? So anyway, so this is the point I have to make. Right to think, this is the kid. You remember Simic? He played against Real Madrid in the precision. What was your thought about Simic? Simic is good, he's a good kid, good, good. So all of a sudden, what did he do that he can't even get a call up for a minute, like, but the side you got a call up at some point, right, he's playing with the senior team. So even Simic, like, if you know, centre back is one of your problems. Why don't you take the opportunity to try to develop one that you've already played him in precision? You see that he's not that bad. In fact, to me he was way better than what.
Speaker 1:Pellegrini had to offer against Napoli. Right, you're right, you're right To be honest.
Speaker 2:All this things you're saying, right, you're making a lot of sense. I want to then the question is what? Where did, where did the kid go wrong? Then now, all of a sudden, pellegrini comes from Argentina, did not play against Real Madrid. That will say, oh yeah, the Simic has been playing at Milan for a while now with the senior, with the Premier Verra. Sometimes he comes off for training and then all of a sudden you're not going to get him to play. So do you remember?
Speaker 2:Last year the same thing happened with Malik Teow. Again, I keep saying it, he never played Malik Teow until he had to play Malik Teow. And then he realised oh wait, malik Teow can actually play centre back and he can play well. The same thing two years ago, three years ago, do you remember? He locked into playing centre back Because everybody got hurt. And then Kalulu came to him, according to the commentators, and said I would like to play centre back. And then, guess what? He realised that with Kalulu's pace and to Mori's pace and aggressiveness that he go hand in hand, milan went and won the league. That was Milan won the league.
Speaker 2:What I'm trying to tell you is this when I keep complaining about inconsistent decision making. It is exactly that, because the decision making that gives you Kalulu should be the decision making that will give you Malik Teow, should be the one that will give you your next midfielder, maybe defender. Rather, that is a simmage Back again to not having enough players. The reality is this Milan, in reality, couldn't do more than they technically did last summer. Maybe they could have brought him one defender for sure, because you lost what's in the Bado Turei. But they tried right, they wanted to get the top. Batisaghi Could be a backup, really, because play will never get hot, play will never goes on the bench, so why not have a kid that doesn't really complain and he stays? You know what I mean? It's the logic behind that. Like a center back, you had four of them and then, if you're lucky, simmage can develop, or maybe Pelagreni can develop, or you might even get Kadaara, if worse come to worse, right To play a center back for you. Good. But then the opportunity now is Kalulu has not been fit all year because of injuries which they didn't plan for. And then old man Simon Kea, you know he's basically showing his age. So now you're stuck with Tomori and Malik Tiaw Right as your only real, healthy center backs. That's beside the case. I can guarantee you in in January they buy, they'll sign a center back so deadly.
Speaker 2:When summer started, when you and I started talking over the summer, we were both happy with the level of work they've done in the market. Right, because we thought they were doing great. Also, if I'm not mistaken, you told me that one of the reasons why they wanted to get rid of Maldini, and so purely, can actually be involved in signings, right, yes or no? Good, yeah, so, technically speaking, who's the management here? Again, it's purely not part of those people, because apparently, according to you, he's getting his. Yeah, he's getting consent. They're getting consent from him before the sign players that he likes. So, technically speaking, have almost all those players he had put his blessing on them before they sign them? Maybe not like saying don't do it or do it, but more like oh yeah, hey, boss, man, we're going to do this. What do you think? Sure, if he had issues with whatever was happening, he would have actually spoken up because he got more power over the I don't think purely has total control over signings.
Speaker 2:But it doesn't have to touch control no one person, because I can play.
Speaker 1:I can categorically tell you that, purely, if it was left to purely, I don't think he would sign Jovic.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think purely will sign Jovic If it's left to him he wouldn't sign Jovic, and yet he keeps playing Jovic.
Speaker 1:Because he's playing more of a necessity. He doesn't have a choice.
Speaker 2:Okay, but he has a choice. But he has a choice to go and play Musa at right back and he also has a choice to no. No. He also has a choice to not play Adley, even though Adley we need three games he played. He looked like he was actually competent. What are you talking about, dave, like? Because it's his choice. He has a choice. He can leave Jovic on the bench and literally play a force nine, in fact. He can actually ask Rafael Leal to go be a striker, or even Okafor Can play striker for him. Anybody but Jovic. What has Jovic?
Speaker 2:This is the part that I don't understand. You remember when you and Leo were excited about Jovic? And my question to you is I don't know what you guys see, we know I don't think we're excited. Well, you guys had hope. Okay, let me not say you're excited. You had hope. I mean, I did not have hope because you know why? Because when Fiorentina is giving you somebody Fiorentina that, to me, needs help they are giving you a player for free. I'm begging you to take. If I will pay you to take the player, you should be suspicious. And Jovic cannot do nothing Like. I'm watching him and I'm telling myself I'm like in training, purely sees him and believes that this guy can help. Because to me it's almost like whenever he's on we play minus one because he can't hold the ball. Now that guy, he kind of really pass the ball. He doesn't have that much energy to help. You know, in terms of pressing Nothing, you know what.
Speaker 1:I mean, I feel like he looks like lost when it comes in. I'm not sure if he just yeah, yeah, he looks lost. It looks like he's not really.
Speaker 2:Maybe he's not, he doesn't know and yet, but your boy, your boy, changes formation and starts him in the 442 formation and then the next time we are looking for goals, he's bringing him back. Like, don't you have a young kid in the division in the premiere to bring on? That's the other question that we always forget. Maybe, maybe they told him not to touch the kids because Milan has a good premiere team, so let them play, right, you know, instead of to bring them on the bench and leave them there, like you know what.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, you know like because you don't want to bring in Simic and keep him on the bench and not give him minutes while he's missing. Developmental time in the premiere Right. That could be part of the rationale behind it. By the end of releases, any team coming from生 training Vocal club word title my Carly in maths and David Negros d'пidarn pixels instruction why are you standing on the sideline? Have you seen that? Coach is on the sideline. They act like mad people there, but he's always on the sideline though he's always on the sideline.
Speaker 2:Though that's my point. If he's on the sideline, what is he doing there if they're not following his instructions? No, I'm asking you. Okay so you want Peole to be creating something like Allegri or what I?
Speaker 1:don't understand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do you know how you know that people disrespect the coach? Musa, remember the second goal? I think he tried to do that stupid dribble while next to Peole. He was standing next to Peole, no respect. He just ignored him and did whatever his mind, told him. You know if that was Pep? No, I don't think. I don't know. Okay, I'm just going to tell you that people that are playing next to the coach on the sideline, usually you hear them, you get all the instructions directly to them.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, like Alexis Tose, yeah, yeah. Like Alexis Talaabakas, Alexis Talaabakas, I'll be running in here, musa Peole.
Speaker 2:But this is the thing, though, because that's why those guys on that side, they get all that instruction from the coach almost always, and if you watch things like Liverpool and man City and whatever you see, that club or Pep, or even at Teta, they're always in that sideline, always backing instruction at people. I know I can see. You can see the hand movement like keep it calm, move it. Like Milan scored two goals. It is not that complex to send a message.
Speaker 2:Moreno, those days used to send notes to the players on the field to give them instruction. You know what I'm saying. So your coach stands there 24-7 and yet what is he doing? He's just standing there for standing sake. I don't get it Like. I don't understand.
Speaker 2:If you're standing there and people are not understanding you and you cannot convince them by yelling the hell out of there, and then they stop a lot, you know they stop a lot, right, and then they're throwing People come near him.
Speaker 2:He cannot just yell and say, guys, calm, calm, calm down. Or, you know, do hand motions, say pass, pass, pass, if you want them to pass the ball, you know what I mean or use anything, and yet he comes out after the game and says oh, they did not follow instruction and blah, blah, blah and he did not make adjustments. This is a problem, right? I don't want to talk about his in-game adjustment, because you now say I don't like purely, you're looking at it go wrong in front of you and he can do absolutely nothing. And this is where remember when you said earlier today that you know, like your peer with purely is that every time things go wrong, he starts trying things but they don't work. It's because he doesn't know. It doesn't because when you know what you're supposed to be doing, right, when he goes wrong, you know what you're supposed to fix because you know what it's supposed to look like.
Speaker 1:Anyways, that's it, let's just. I got a question for you, though, like what do you think is the solution? Now? We're for for purely, you know. That's like.
Speaker 2:I thought you wanted to give you my ideal solution.
Speaker 1:After the international break. We're facing for it and then we'll go to play dot man as well, both at both at San Zero. Policy should be back for sure. So I'm thinking policy is probably start, go to go play left and Chiquizi plays right, and maybe they will probably have a car for, because Jude has recorded so it's missing too much, do you want?
Speaker 2:me to tell you what purely is going to do when we come back from international break.
Speaker 2:What do you think it should do to solve this? Well, he would not do what I say he should because because I know purely no one's going to Apple we're going to come back against Fiorentina. It's because he's going to be worried that Fiorentina is a ball playing team, a lot of very good midfielder. So what he's going to do is he's going to stop Obega and Krunich in midfield and then he's going to play what's he called a police each, and then maybe he will play Chiquizi, maybe depending on how he's feeling, and then now he will not play Jovic as a nine, and then maybe he will decide, okay, between Reinders and what's his name. Now, if we lost his feet, then maybe there's a less chance that you get to see Pobega, because, I don't know, he has obsession with Pobega and Krunich.
Speaker 1:Anyways, let's talk about the rest of the team in the league, because right now and before we won't talk about the rest of the team in the league. We're eight points behind.
Speaker 2:Okay, so your hope now is that Inter Milan will blow the eight-point lead at some point right.
Speaker 1:Forget the fact that this is just again. I'm not saying it's too early, I'm not saying it's late, but all I know is right now, again all the clubs. You might as well make it 11 points, because when Milan played, that and again, even despite the fact that we're actually struggling in form right, we still like what I think we thought uneligible Well, yeah, but you have to remember that this is not a league against yourself, it's a league against other people.
Speaker 2:So if other people are not also that good, then technically speaking, it doesn't matter what you do. If you played in a league where everybody is basically keeping up with you, like losing, going four or five games without the win out of potentially how many games, is it 10 games? How many games have they played so far this season? It's not just 10 games. I'm 12 here now. Oh, 12. Yeah, how is that? How would that drop you down?
Speaker 2:But because teams like Lazio and even Napoli struggling, napoli fired their coach, which, again you remember me saying this at the beginning is in that the only reason Napoli couldn't compete with teams like Milan and Inter and Juve is because of your head coach. I said that because normally Napoli, to be honest, in terms of squad, they should have one of the better squads after maybe Inter, milan, in the whole league. And guess what? Because of a bad coach, you literally have the squad on that performing.
Speaker 2:A wise man once said that a good coach can make a team 10% better and a bad coach can make a team 30% worse. This is again why it's so important. When I talk about purely, you should understand that in your mind you see him as he's helping Milan, but sometimes in my head he makes things worse with his selection and his decision making, with how he decides to deploy the players and instructions he gives them, makes them look bad. All of a sudden you I cannot believe that you were typing that Reinders that you've always liked, you always thought he was a good player, no, no. But to be honest with you, the fact that you are complaining about him, even thinking of him as a sub-par player to me, tells me what your head is.
Speaker 1:I never said it was your head, I just said his performance has dropped.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but his performance dropped again. It's form. I'm just angry. I don't know why that pissed me off that day. Because now all of a sudden, reinders is a guy you want to complain about. Meanwhile you've loved, even loving, krunic. You has been on the performing for one billion years and you had no problem with it. Then now all of a sudden, oh my God, reinders has two bad games. You want to complain. Krunic plays for you and you like Krunic. God, do you know? Okay, do you? Okay? So against Lecce, like against Lecce. So I'm just watching.
Speaker 2:Do you remember the time against Lecce where Milan had a Krunic, like somebody won the ball and Milan were going on a counter attack and all Krunic needed to do was make one nice pass just a little bit away, and do you remember? And he just passed the ball right to the defender. I just put my hand on my head and then I watched Bomb Moth play Bomb Moth and they went on the same counter attack and they are midfielder, I can't remember his name. He wasn't a good player, he's just a normal player Made the pass and I'm like, oh my God, milan plays Krunic on their team. Hi, wow, dave, you are purely. I will never forgive you people, but this is what you've been doing to me. You're forcing me to watch people like Krunic play football.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I just feel like Krunic has his own, you know, brings his own value to Milan. To be honest, my only problem with purely is the fact that I don't like when he plays Krunic, when Krunic is not fit, and every time Krunic goes to get injured and returned, I feel like he struggled with form. Sometimes it takes like five to six games before he even starts, you know, regaining form again. And to me, puyoli is the only one who has been in a situation by playing him and my again. I think we've had enough, you know, talk about me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's okay.
Speaker 2:I don't, I just. It's just that you know, when I sometimes this is the piece of me, of I wake up early in the morning, I want to watch Milan and I'm like, I just feel like I need to sleep because he's like, oh my God, this guy Like. And then he brings on Musa for no exact reason and say go play right back. Like, why, this one, you did decide that the kid should play right back. Can't you actually change your formation and basically play three at the back or something? And then maybe you know what I mean. Like adjusted somehow, like all that coaches will do. Like, instead you say, let the boy who has never played as a right back to go and play right back for you.
Speaker 2:And the kid now, humble kid, no complaints. He goes and he plays and then he does a bad job. He's lucky Puyoli. You know Puyoli is lucky Milan. Milan did not lose that game, because by now we'll be talking about what he did you to deserve him getting fired. And then you, you start finding faults in everything he has been doing all these years, because that's how it works for you. Once they break up with you, once they break up with you, that's where your brain resets.
Speaker 1:But anyway, Milan is eight points.
Speaker 2:Milan is eight points behind in time. Milan yeah.
Speaker 1:So against. The next thing is just return the game back from international break. Hopefully we get a player's back feet and you know we don't have injuries again, like because we have quite a few players that you know went for international distance. You should be hoping you're hoping too much yeah hoping too much, exactly, but the thing is, I just feel like talking about champions, let's just wrap that up right with the champions, the ambitions, because I've.
Speaker 2:So Milan all for champions like Milan just needs to beat Dortmund and then PSG beat Newcastle and it's all settled. In my own opinion yeah, that's what I feel too. That is the Dortmund game after the break, which is why it's sad that what's his name, rafael Leal, got played three days after the previous work he did against PSG. If he had rested, he could have played that game against the Dortmund, but he might not. He might miss that game now because of coach that does not understand the difference between Lecce and PSG. I don't get it Like it's Lecce, lecce. What are they again on the table? They are 14th on the table. Well, there, that's the people you're scared of, that you have to play all your big guns that you just played three days earlier 14th, 14th.
Speaker 1:It's been a pleasure talking to you tonight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been a pleasure talking to you, to Mr Purely Enough, enough, enough. So, so sorry, inter Milan are eight points ahead of Milan. Yeah, you went to the six points ahead of Milan, and then Milan are two points ahead of Napoli and the table is actually looking almost similar to what I had thought. The only difference is between, like, the top four the top four that I kind of picked Atlanta are fifth. Yeah, fiorentina is a good team. They are sixth. So Milan plays Fiorentina next. I think the next few games in the area will be bloody for Milan because you know, like, I think Purely, like he really, purely, really needs to win that game against Fiorentina, because the way what, from what I've heard and read, it seems like after that game, like if he loses the game against Fiorentina, they may just give him the dot-mong game and if he doesn't win that one, he might be fired in my own, I think, from what I understand.
Speaker 1:And to be honest, though, if he loses against Fiorentina, right, and we're both a bottom, but I think Purely should just be, he should just pack his bag, and I think a lot of fans who understand most especially the Purely the Pro Purely is the one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and anti-Purely Pro. Purely For me. The only problem I have is that, to be honest with you, my fear is that when I look around Europe, I can't find any good coach right now.
Speaker 1:What? This is my concern. Like you're not even speaking my language, oh no, but I've been saying this for a while now.
Speaker 2:If not, I'll be telling you they should fire him. He's just. All I just want for him is just let him just try and be consistent. Is that too hard to ask? Like, can you stop playing Krunic? Can you play Adley a little bit more? Like, just do things that are regular, don't just you know, because if he was doing those things that I, is it a coincidence that when Adley was playing Milan, we're winning some games and then now Krunic is back and we're losing? No, no, no. Please don't say that. What do you mean? No, no, no. Don't say that Milan's form has been.
Speaker 1:She's not, she's not based on just Krunic Well it's not based on Krunic, but he's not helping.
Speaker 2:We can't create Milan, doesn't? Okay? See, Milan loses a lot of creativity on a team that isn't that creative to begin with. You lose a lot when you take away one player in the middle of the park that cannot actually pass a ball to keep to save him's life. That's the problem we have. So, to me, for this team, I will put the premium on creativity, because you lack it in that sense. Right, and I'm not talking about creativity in terms of even even something as simple as control. Right, let's say control, for instance, if you're too nothing up. What's control? Isn't control? Keeping the ball and moving the ball around, right, Making sure that you don't give, give away easy, cheap possession, Make it like okay. That's where someone like Ben Aser would be perfect, Because he comes in, he moves around, he gives you options to pass and you keep, you, keep, you keep control of the game by keeping possession, something like that. Right, you said it Milan is a possession team. How can you be a possession team with Krunich? How does that work?
Speaker 1:See, doesn't change the fact that it can play. It can play possession with Krunich still. The only difference is the fact that how effective are you? We pass the ball around.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's the point I make. It like how do you? How effective, how, if literally, because it's simple passes how effective are you with moving the ball in a way that you literally keep it away from the other guys? But anyways, you're right, I don't want to complain too much right after the Fiorentina game. Yeah, exactly yeah, to talk about my mind, okay, and then? In preparation for the Champions League. So anyways, ciao ciao, dave.
Speaker 1:Before we leave, I just want to say big thanks again to our listeners, our audiences, like new statistics, you know. On all the on platforms our podcast are being downloaded and we want to say big thanks to everybody for always showing us support. And you know, listening to our round, listening to Chinranth about Pugli and you know all those things. It's going to be a pleasure chatting with you, yeah same here, dave.
Speaker 2:Thanks everyone. Thanks a lot. Have a lovely one. Ciao, nano, for the ame l'amé.
