Davy & Chin Talk A.C Milan Weekly
Davy & Chin Talk A.C Milan Weekly
Davy & Chin's Reactions To AC Milan's Upset Loss to Dortmund In The UCL
Has AC Milan's recent 3-1 loss to Dortmund left you scratching your head? Join your hosts, Davy and Chin, as we dissect this unexpected result and the fallout among Milan's loyal fanbase. We'll be exploring coach Stefano Pioli's tactical decisions, including the unexpected inclusion of Adli in the lineup. Additionally, we'll unpack the team's heavy reliance on their players for results and delve into whether a more creative and fluid style of play could be the answer to Milan's inconsistent performance.
We offer a comparison of Milan's gameplay with that of top-tier teams and share insights into how individual players can shape the outcome of high-stakes games. Our discussion also extends to Pioli's balance of high-intensity play with fitness management, raising questions about the need for a shift in the team's direction. You won't want to miss our analysis of Milan's transfer decisions and their potential role in the team's current predicament. Let us guide you through the maze of challenges facing AC Milan, and the possible solutions that could help them bounce back. Join us for a deep and insightful conversation about the world of football.
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Speaker 2:Rossoneri Renaissance is complete.
Speaker 1:After 11 years. Once again, milan are the champions of Italy. It's they who wear the crown for the 2021-22 season.
Speaker 2:Hello everyone, this is Divya and Chin Talk Milan. We are back again for another interesting episode.
Speaker 1:This is an emergency episode to talk about who we are. You have the mind to be laughing. What is funny about today? What is funny about today?
Speaker 2:Everybody's reaction is so funny because Milan fanbase is so divided now, which is fine because I think I can understand from that perspective.
Speaker 1:What's dividing them?
Speaker 2:We'll get to it. We're recording this episode after the Milan-Dutchman game at San Siro. We lost 3-1-2-Dutchman Technically. This put us in a very difficult situation because now our fate is no longer in our hands. We have to grand doubt the last result. We have to come out with a victory in Newcastle or St John's Park. We have to hope that the Dutchman that is already qualified can beat PSG. That's the only hope we have at the moment.
Speaker 1:To put it clearly Milan has to go to St John's Park, Bit Newcastle United and Dortmund has to beat PSG.
Speaker 2:Exactly Now. I think this is kind of like, oh wait.
Speaker 1:Dortmund has to beat PSG. That needs a win or a draw to qualify.
Speaker 2:Definitely. I think Piolli actually said it at the beginning of the year when this group was made. He said whoever is going to go through, who is going to no? At the last year of the distance of the, group Well Dortmund already went through. So technically, yeah, but at least there are the other three teams in this race. I'm not going to rule Milan out of it.
Speaker 1:I have ruled Milan out because? So let me tell you when I ruled Milan out.
Speaker 1:I think then beating PSG was a mini miracle. So the way this group set out, you were supposed to get almost maximum points from those two games against Newcastle and Dortmund at first, or maybe at least you get one win against Newcastle at home, draw Dortmund away. Then now this game today was supposed to be a win, but if you had one against Newcastle, draw Dortmund, you would have four points. So even if you have four points and then you get one point against PSG, it's just the fact that you cost all these other teams to drop a lot of points.
Speaker 2:I know it's a change Because I do right now, the way you look at me, it's like purely from the first option.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, to be honest, there's no emotion to be controlled. You know why. So I've said this before and I'll say it again For me, milan is a team under purely.
Speaker 1:They have been very, very consistent in one thing, which is rely on your players to deliver results for you, week in, week out. I've never watched a game where Milan played, and I thought I think the only game that I can tell you where it felt like purely did something incredible to beat a team was in Napoli. Remember the Napoli semifinal game, when he decided to go against what he normally does and park the bus and hit on a counterattack, and that worked perfectly. Other than that, like every time Milan plays any team or any game, I always feel like they just come in, the coach, puts them up and he just expects the players to deliver. So to me, that is the most consistent thing about this purely Milan is that if the players are in form and they are doing great, they look like a world beaters. In fact, they can beat anybody you put in front of them. But when a few players drop in terms of their form, you see that the team just goes on this weird run where they lose a lot of games right, but go ahead.
Speaker 2:Let's first of all dive deep into the tactical and tactical.
Speaker 1:What's tactical? Sorry, tell me the tactical.
Speaker 2:Again, can you just copy a motion a little bit, Please, because you? My own thing is, I like to dissect this game because I think we can all both pick our points and understand the perspectives based on the result of tonight's game. So, please, this is it here Going to this game, right? Who are you surprised to see Adley on the lineup?
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely. Because the previous five or six games Adley has just been on the bench for no apparent reason other than I don't like, I don't know what the reason is. Then, all of a sudden, in probably the biggest game of the season, you toss him out there and nothing against Adley. Obviously I love to watch him. I thought he to me, I thought he did exactly what he wanted, what he was the call, what you would like for him to do, right, meaning he helped move the ball and he was good on the ball. You know like he tried things that most people would not try. It's a good dribbler, so, but obviously, like you mentioned multiple times and like I also agree with you on he's, him being disciplined in that defensive midfield role is not his strongest suit doesn't mean that he is a liability. Just means that he's not as disciplined as, say, someone who, like a, say, a crew niche, who would sit there and do absolutely nothing else. Just You've been told to sit there, right so what am I?
Speaker 1:getting us. No, no, I'm just being frank, right. So I think you can see, whenever he plays there's a little bit of imbalance because he pushes up a little bit more, but what he gives you is creativity on the ball, milan can move the ball more fluidly, and so on. So I was a little surprised, but then at the same time, well, I was excited because I actually would rather watch him play any day. Then what's green? It because green. It is almost like you might, as I just poke my eyes with tin and blind me because it's so. Okay, let me explain. I'd rather the team tries to express themselves and play, then try to park the voice. Because I was thinking. At one point I was looking at the gap in the midfield and I thought to myself I'm like, even if crew cringy was there today, hmm, big Apple would have seen me there, like he wouldn't change much, it's not?
Speaker 2:like he's. No, I think we move the ball world, though to would add it to you, and I think you had a very good performance to do in this game.
Speaker 1:So like, yeah, there was one. I've watched Milan play games right where they go back and forth, in fact even against PSG. Right that game? Remember that game? Were joking that it was tennis match back and forth. Yeah, this is a game with Wasn't crew. Need to be meet your daddy? Yeah, good. So when Milan is in balance, it doesn't matter who you put there. I remember last year they were in balance and they had a tonally and the benefit.
Speaker 2:Understand, though, that chain when you put crew in those sort of games, right, you can see again, I reference to this game and that piece this game. Right, when I'd replace, and I'm not, I have nothing against, hardly change, to be honest. There I just feel like, again, I will have loved to find a way to create space for adi In certain some games where, like you have to be here, I mean he has to find what, to build some sort of shield around him, and In case of any of those lapses, right, but again, which lapses?
Speaker 1:though, like a lot of times, like I mean.
Speaker 2:Defensive faces like Milan. Milan is good on the ball when we have a down the pitch like this past. Yes, I think. Yeah, the dates who.
Speaker 2:You need to understand that when we are playing that high With players like Theo, for example, with players like Polisic that have the tendency of giving the ball away in very in high, in dangerous spaces, right, okay, I think I have the advantage to be able to cover those pieces again.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that should. That should be the reason why it shouldn't be playing. Don't get me wrong. Right, what I'm just saying is I wish, purely, can Can find a way to, like you know, put out in the team because playing a high line, if you look at, for example, you see players like Fabinho I'll take it as an example you see how Liverpool play high, high lines, right, and they have Fabinho, for example, who is someone who is very physical, caught personally in and all those things, if you want to, and the kind of ball that at the place, I prefer, me the center of the few, so we can make those passes, but again he's. We run into situations like again, some in some, in some in some. I can I ask you one question? No, you know you know, you know.
Speaker 1:You know what the problem is with Milan like in. Okay, let me explain what you've just explained. The issue is Milan cannot play. They have to either play a defensive midfielder that likes to stay back because there's no balance, sort of, so he gives you that defensive coverage, or you play one that is attacking. That doesn't you know. He's always out of position defensively right.
Speaker 1:So do you know what that means? It means that the team is not cohesive, doesn't that sound like it? Because a lot of teams have watched what. It's what they tell the players. Right, you end up getting like the team move up, right, because if you watch Milan play, you can be. You can attest to this, it has always been the case, you can attest to it. There's always a lot of gap in midfield. It doesn't matter how, it doesn't matter when, it doesn't matter whatever, since Milan have been playing on that purely right. You see how, all of a sudden, they break only one pass through the middle and it's like a wide, open midfield. I'm not going to call it team out or whatever, but if you watch a lot of very compact teams, the way they attack the attacking faces and then the way they defend the defense Fending phases, so I'll give you an example.
Speaker 2:You know what happened, shane, can I be real with you? I just feel like, and I'll say, yeah, I feel like, yeah, I want one scooter to ride and Kessie, yeah, he doesn't have not really been able to feel that space Good. And you know why?
Speaker 1:because because, pure because Kessie, of all the Milan players, is the only one that is kind of technically in Between, that meaning he can almost do both With smartly, like he knows exactly when to go forward and knows exactly when to be in the defensive hole. Otherwise, like because last year, exactly the same thing that happened last year when KC wasn't there. It doesn't matter if you put on Ali or you put Ben Aser or whatever, you will see end up with that gap. So again Pep, let me use Pep. Forget anything I want to say, but just focus on what I wanted to tell you.
Speaker 1:I remember, a few years ago, manchester City. There are some games he would play. Pep would play Fodin. There are some games he would play. Pep would play Mahrez or Grealish. Even this past weekend someone was saying why he was surprised they started Doku, because in those games he would like Grealish, why Grealish has more control. He doesn't lose the ball easily. You know what I mean. He dribbles well and he's not very electric. So basically, grealish is going to help you allow your guys to move up right. So he doesn't. You get what I mean. He gives your defenders a little bit of chance to close up the gap, but Milan literally have all these players that are very risky on the ball and the encouragement is take on players, because that is a coaching decision. Remember that take on players, take on players in high risk situations. Meanwhile, your guys are literally trying to come up and you've lost the ball and now, all of a sudden, there's a break behind you. Get where I'm going with that.
Speaker 2:These are all coaching. Don't you think this has a lot to individual ability to break out of the situation?
Speaker 1:No, but no, it's coaching. You know what I keep saying. It's coaching because I don't know what you see. When you watch the team, what I see is a team that does not actually have an idea of what the coach really wants. If you ask Plioli I've asked you a few weeks ago what is Plioli's idea he said high press, high intensity, even Juventus.
Speaker 2:I don't think you really understand this question, Wait let me use this Juventus.
Speaker 1:I want Juventus to play this weekend. They were boring. I would never wish Juventus on anybody, but the very least it almost felt like they knew exactly what they wanted to do Pack the boss, wait until they hit on the counter attack right, and then, on the flip side, there's Inter Milan on the other side. So at the end of the day, you know where I'm going with this. It's again coaching, because for me, I believe high performance players are going to go up and down in terms of their performance. The coaching framework is what puts them in a minimum performance week in, week out. Is that framework around the team? But go ahead, dave.
Speaker 2:You know what I think the problem is at the moment. I won't lie to you, to me, if you want me to make a fair judgment, you might say Plioli might be a little bit part of it. Yes, and I think I've seen him and I've also criticized him as well in some games, that he made some decisions that I don't think was.
Speaker 1:Well, the only criticism you gave is that why would he play Moussa's right back? I don't know what criticism that is.
Speaker 2:But go ahead Again. The thing is, when you look at the way Plioli likes to set up his team, you first of all have to understand how Plioli lost to Plioli In this game today. Plioli's plan was to have Vrindas play alongside Adley in the midfield right and push Lufthor Stik forward in the midfield to be able to do the rough work and stuff Again, having Plioli's on the left. We both know that Plioli's not Liao. He's not going to take on Plii one-on-one. He's going to cut into the midfield and try to find passing lanes right in the midfield. That's the kind of person Plioli's is Now.
Speaker 2:The only person that has a little bit of similarity with Rafa Liao is obviously Chukwizi. Again, chukwizi is not there yet. I'll say it again, I've said it before. He's not there yet. To be honest, his ability to shoot the ball when it's in the box, when he tries to cut in, he needs to do way more with it. To be honest, these are the things sometimes that you may or you may talk about when you're like oh yeah, messi has, messi has. Messi has as bad as Messi has his cheating. You see that Messi has it. He doesn't have to cut in midfield, cut in and try to wind the ball To me. I feel like, again, chukwizi needs to be able to improve himself in that level. He's getting better, obviously, like the last two games. I see him. Lise Wokrit is very high. I think you will get better Again. When he settles down you can tell that he's not yet settled. That's the reason. You know what I mean. When he gets settled, yeah.
Speaker 1:So To point it out, the players show yes, you're right.
Speaker 2:Let me finish now, chain. These are the things that are not really working. If you vote purely again, he has his way of playing. When you miss your key players in any game, regardless of who you are, if your people, whatever, whatever, and then the day, what I feel is, if you miss your key players, is you're gonna pay for it. To me tonight, I will say it if most are hard to this game and raffa Lea had played this game who will have won this game easily? To me, that's how we are famous. One thing I also notice is, again, they were in under sometimes doesn't has not been showing up in big games like on a constant basis in the last two seasons. Now they really only please when he wants to play. When he wants to please, yeah, he please well, but regardless, he doesn't really pay that much.
Speaker 2:Now I'm not saying all this is all ball to players, right, what I'm saying is you all you've mentioned, here is the players buggerhead see sometime when you need to understand that when you look at this big, close, for example, like Manchester City, for example, that we're references when you look at all these teams, right, there's some individual qualities that strikes in big games that makes that difference, for example. Absolutely that's what I'm saying. So, and if you don't, if your big players Unfortunately doesn't show up in big games like this, which is of high weight, can you blame the coach? Maybe partly, but you cannot really blame the coach for everything.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm not blaming. Okay, let me explain today's game Honestly, like I am not blaming purely for today's game, but what I'm actually blaming purely for is exactly the fact that he delivered exactly the same game he delivered the last time. Because look at this game today. Is there a difference between this game and the PSG game? Yes or no? Think of it in terms of back and forth, all the chances. The only difference is Milan didn't have a Layout to take a couple of the to create a little bit more clear court chances, and take some of them and then Jiru, your boy miss penalties.
Speaker 2:Oh, like you said, I was highly missed today.
Speaker 1:No, miss you, okay, good so the place good, but then if Moosa was there, who wouldn't have played? That would have been no.
Speaker 2:I think would have played and again. Okay, I was saying I was the reason. I mean I lost this game.
Speaker 1:No, no, I know you're not saying that, okay.
Speaker 2:The impact of Moosa and that team. There's a huge impact again when Milan was trying to like at least take control of the game and stuff Manic tell injured. It's not like we don't have any.
Speaker 1:So okay, but Dave, again, I'm not. I'm not disagreeing. See today's loss. I'm not putting it down to the coach. I'm telling you that my only problem is that when I watch a similar play, I'm telling you the same thing. I've been consistent, at least better than your coach.
Speaker 1:I am telling you that when I watch Milan play, I see absolutely zero consistency. I cannot discern what they are trying to accomplish. I don't know what they are trying to, how they are trying to attack. I listen to him is put the post game that you posted, yeah, and he said you made a comment on. He said, well, with three, a lot of bodies in the box, it was not a day. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm like If Manchester City were to nothing down today and I knew that they will come back and beat lives, and why? Because, again, I can guarantee you that when you watch them, you know that they are going to keep doing the same thing. Doesn't matter if they are for nothing down or three nothing down, chain chain. The point I am trying to make is.
Speaker 2:Can I ask you just one question please? When you look at Manchester City's team, you look at that quality team. No, bro.
Speaker 1:Okay, sorry.
Speaker 2:Purely brought in chakathori today.
Speaker 1:Yes, I get it. So the team is struggling with injuries. That's true. That's why I'm telling you I don't blame again. I told you if I fell out, played today and uh, what's he called like? Uh, the player some of them stepped up. Milan would have won the game today.
Speaker 1:But I wouldn't change my mind about purely because last week or two weeks ago or whatever, when the beat PSG, I wasn't here praising purely for his magic. If you remember, I was telling you that the players won that game because that's exactly what Milan has been on that purely. So at the end of the day, let me explain to you I know purely's kind of coach, coaches, he's the kind of coach that you bring in. He has the ginger motivation, he gives guests, people excited, and you know. But I'm telling you that Milan is to take the next step that you hope that they will take. In your mind, you always tell me how we don't have good players. Right, the players are not good enough. But then I watch. I watch a lot of other teams play, forget man city and live up. I watch, like, say, aston Villa, for instance. Are you going to tell me that the Aston Villa players are all better than AC Milan?
Speaker 2:So Aston Villa is not building anything. Aston Villa doesn't have 10 new players in that team this summer. Aston Villa is not competing at the level that Milan is competing. Aston Villa loses game in the house. Milan is good on the table.
Speaker 1:Who told you they lose games anyhow?
Speaker 2:Look, let me tell you, forget about the fact that it's you know Emory that's coaching them. You cannot be comparing Milan's situation with Aston Villa. That's completely out of line. Okay, can I ask you a question?
Speaker 1:So everywhere, everywhere in the Emory, has gone right. Can you almost just let me say I know what he's trying to accomplish because it almost seems like he's consistent in his approach. So even when he came, he took over, so they did a table and he said 38 games. Aston Villa will be first in the table over since his dinner. When you watch these guys play, literally it's week in, week out I can tell you, I'm telling you. I even texted you about Ange and post to coglue In 30 hours for whether it's nine players, whether it's two players, whether it's half leg, like he was playing Hoiburg as defender, he didn't, won't change his pattern of play because he understands Aston.
Speaker 2:Villa is not playing every four, four days. Okay, so because Milan is playing every four days.
Speaker 1:That's why Milan has to be consistent.
Speaker 2:Aston Villa is not playing PSG on Tuesday. I'm playing Aston Villa. I'm playing Juventus on Saturday. We're not playing Dortmund on on on this team, or playing Farentina on Sunday. I'm playing Dortmund.
Speaker 1:Okay, so that that basically gives them the license to being consistent. See, at the end of the day, let me tell you, like I told, you.
Speaker 2:We're talking about a depleted team. We're talking about a depleted team that has a who's who's responsible for this.
Speaker 1:Sorry Okay, Milan has how many injuries and how many I?
Speaker 2:Went to international break and came back with injury.
Speaker 1:No, no, he went to international break because it was nothing in the lamp player before the international break. Really what?
Speaker 2:are you saying this guy came back with injuries? That purely sports.
Speaker 1:No, no, I'm just telling you now, like Wasn't it.
Speaker 2:We were. We were seated together in this simple cast last week talking about, I mean sorry, before international break, that, oh, now that Leo is injured, okafo is going to come in and feeling for Leo. Yeah, but then the same Okafo that had been injured.
Speaker 1:Do you remember? You told me he was injured. That's why he didn't come in again, juventus or something like that. You remember? This is Okafo that had had an injury, nagging injury. So let me explain. I'm not blaming Okafo, or purely whatever, for going to international. I'm not blaming purely for Okafo going to international break and getting injured. Okay, let's like today, malik Teow I thought he didn't. He enjoy his back or bum or something. Yeah, like.
Speaker 2:Malik Teow had an arm strength and also oh wait, wait, wait wait, malik Teow had a hamstring injury.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh, I thought that was a back injury or something. I don't know. I missed that.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, so I'm out of that because he left a crotch.
Speaker 1:So sorry, another muscular injury. I'm surprised Wow.
Speaker 2:What's the most?
Speaker 1:problem, yeah, but again I keep making the same point that I made before Injuries do not just happen, they are not like miraculous. You I not the bodybuilder guy you go to the gym. I remember you were the first person you were telling me before about wait, let me, let me kind of tell you, let me remind you of things you said to me before you told me before about how it is so important that you know sports.
Speaker 1:You called it. What's it called Sports body? You build your body right for the right environment for something, something, something. I remember you used to be a champion of that few years back. Do you forget? You know how teams are building body, so that players, body matches, the style of play and all that stuff. Whatever happened to that? So all of a sudden, your boy, purely they don't. They don't perform that, they don't do those kind of things.
Speaker 2:That's not the situation in team. The situation right now is when a team is depleted, right work, load of games all coming back to back. It's so hard for you to be able to get this team together. This is not. It's not easy for any coach.
Speaker 1:How did they get depleted in the first place? That's my question. Is it not the same coach that play players, even when they are playing pipe teams? You play everybody team. They run to the ground and they are broken and then you say they are depleted. You're not even giving him credit.
Speaker 2:Chin how many players are injured in match at the moment.
Speaker 1:A few of them, those people they were nine, most of them came back.
Speaker 2:Okay, nine. Okay, imagine Like Harlan.
Speaker 1:Ake a lot of those guys are back.
Speaker 2:So the nine players that got injured, right. So you don't say anything wrong in that.
Speaker 1:That shouldn't be a concern, no, but I legit told you how they all got injured. Some are ankle injuries, some are knees, a couple of muscular injuries. My problem here is Milan has a lot of muscular injuries, and I can guarantee you that muscular injuries are related to workload, your intensity level in terms of how much energy work you put on your muscle and as well as how well you take care of your muscles and your body. Okay, player like Ronaldo, think of it. Ronaldo almost never gets muscular injuries because he almost always works on it knowing fully well. Do you get what I'm getting at?
Speaker 1:No no, no, no, but I'm just using him as an example. It's a combination of diet. Okay, ibrahimovic, think of him. How often did you hear of muscular injuries? When he was old he started having knee injuries and stuff. But then they talk about how Milan players, when you watch, they're not really that intense in terms of what's it called. Okay, take Liverpool. You always use Liverpool as an example. How many of you hear Liverpool players with all the muscular injuries? They usually have knee injuries, ankle injuries, which is normal.
Speaker 1:But again, if you're going to play that high energy, high intensity game, the diet, the exercise, the fitness regimen, the workload has to be balanced. Even workload is not even about workload when they are playing, it's even how they play, meaning the minutes, right. So, for instance, you can get people to press at the right time so that they don't have to press continuously, like I watch Milan defence. Even today, tomorrow was so high up that every time he has to sprint a lot of sprint. Well, you're putting those foot prints in those ready comments where you know what happens when you have a lot of sprints per game, right, you're more likely to enjoy your muscles, right? That's exactly what it is. So it's purely style of play, plus the lack of whatever it is they are doing in Milan, milanello, and then also the fact that the players are not very serious about being fit enough to play, for the, to play that level of football, and the coach never saw that. And then, plus, he uses them too much. You are not talking about it tomorrow and now. I know the reason he does that is because they don't have any other option. But exactly, you use people till they run to the ground. Then you run out of option. Then you start using your lap people till they run to the ground. Basically, if purely was like a maintenance manager, his job would be, his philosophy would be run to fill. He run you until you reach the ground.
Speaker 1:So at the end of the day, let me say something. So let me tell you where we conclude. Like I said before, I don't want to be pooping on. Purely, I think he did a great thing for Milan. He won the Scudetto. But to me he has been there almost four years, he has run his course. Like to me, he's not going to take Milan further than they have. Actually, he has taken them Literally. At some point you just have to tell yourself maybe we'll try a different direction. It's not because he's a bad coach, listen. No, it's not because he's a bad coach. It's just because let me ask you realistically what is your expectation for him and Milan?
Speaker 2:Tell me purely is the only choice that Milan has right now to either fix this problem you know what I mean and what does.
Speaker 1:fixing the problem mean? What does the problem? What is your ideal state of fix problem?
Speaker 2:This problem right now is, you find, is finding a solution to getting these players healthy and getting them back in shape. When, purely has this full team together, milan, please, different football Again I'll say it. Can I ask you what?
Speaker 1:has. What has he shown in the last three plus years of his time at Milan that will tell you that he has the ability to do that? Just, I mean, think about what I asked he said to get them, to get them healthy and playing the right kind of football. So in his, in his old duration of Milan, what has he shown in terms of injury records that tells you that, yes, they are going to. There's going to be a point ever where all these players will be fit and all of them will be clicking on, all sitting there, except for the first four couple of games of the season, which is typically typically the situation, because, if you remember, milan didn't have issues until Champions League and the workload increased right.
Speaker 2:What's the standard If I were Milan's management right and I look at the amount of games that Milan plays at this high level, this is not Milan of three years ago anymore. This is the Milan of current Milan. That's one of the top 10 mentioned clubs in Europe at the moment in terms of level of performances and stuff. What I need you to understand is the workload is no longer the same workload that we used to have before. Now, if you see how Milan plays at the moment and the amount of games that they have, you know the best thing to do for me is to find the way to build that team around this sort of workload and for us to be able to succeed Again. That's what this management is currently doing. But the problem right now is there are some key areas that I feel like were properly handled.
Speaker 2:At the end of last summer transfer, again, we lost two rounds to Inter. That shouldn't have happened. That's number one. We didn't leave out the last to go and pick up Jovi from Farentina. Jovi, and he has delivered. Jovi and Amrabat Now see what they're playing. It's the same thing as Manchester United where it was. I don't want to go there. That's all in my business. What I'm trying to say is to me, right, I feel like there's some players that should have left. Should have kept them, for example, like Junior Messi oh okay, gabi should have been kept. To be honest, one between Junior Messi and Alexis, and I will have picked Alexis. Alex should have stayed at Milan because he just reviewed his contract last year. We should have kept him. But the gambudon, again, romero, the gambudon Romero and Tukuyze. So who is the?
Speaker 1:here, because I feel like Piolli is part of the day. Right, you have to include that too.
Speaker 2:Again, to be honest, you know Piolli very well. For you to start blaming Piolli in terms of transfer, you need to understand that Piolli is a kind of guy right now. Regardless of if you think maybe he has autonomy over transfer, I feel like he still has limits, like Mokanda and Flani are the main guy that are making these decisions in terms of transfers and stuff. Again, for me, I would have kept Alexis. Alexis has his own value. They should have sold him Again. Gabi should have stayed. They should have sold Gabi to Villarreal. These two players should have come handy for them. But again they made that mistake and let them go. We didn't find solutions for our striking problems. You know All those things really.
Speaker 1:I thought you said you didn't need a striker, you had Giroud.
Speaker 2:We said we need a striker, we need a striker, we need a striker, we need a striker. I remember coming into the season.
Speaker 1:I said it clearly. I said you cannot rely on a 38 year old as your, and then you cannot rely on Krunic as your defensive midfielder, going into the season as your only guy there. And then I also mentioned the fact that, defensively, the point is what was he called? You had Tomore, tiaw Kallulu and Simon Kier. Simon Kier was already half gone before the season started and I think the plan was to bring in Simic, but again not to start calling your boy out. Simic did well in the pre-season. All of a sudden he goes.
Speaker 2:So now it is time right, because you forgot that the Primavira are also using these kids too. Yes, I know.
Speaker 1:But he called Kamada. He called Kamada this past weekend.
Speaker 2:He did not need him. There's a reason why Kamada is highly mentioned it's because of the fact that he's caused a lot of goals with this thing, the Primavira, you know. Again, that's a plus. There's a reason why Simic is playing well at the Primavira because he has a lot of game times there, right? You cannot just stick him up like that.
Speaker 1:No, but you don't get it. There are games where, again, like for Zinoni coming this weekend, for Zinoni coming this weekend If Malik Teow didn't get injured he would not have thought about somebody else to come and dress these people, no. But now he's forced to go and play Simic. But what I'm trying to get here is simple. I mean, I don't mind if he wants to make shitty decisions, but he should make them consistently. If you want to make bad decisions, make bad consistent, because then he fluctuates between oh my god, this is a good decision. So all of a sudden, romero now cannot even get minutes right Because he came into the Napoli game and made one bad call.
Speaker 2:That's not the reason. Romero is not easy to pull in If you can tell that kid is too light on the ball.
Speaker 1:Again. Okay, so, and then the same issue too with Chukaise?
Speaker 2:no, chukaise is improving. Chukaise is one of the most expensive signings this summer, do you know? And so then, how would the Romero improve.
Speaker 1:How would Simic get any sort of whatever? But he started him earlier in the season, like he played him a few minutes and then now the kid just sits on the bench right and then what's the name of the other kid, what's he called?
Speaker 2:Like you don't understand, but I get it, this kid that you mentioned in now, right, you're talking about, like you think this is Brighton that needs to be on top five. No, but Manchester City plays in equal time.
Speaker 1:Wait, sorry. Manchester City plays in two weeks. Okay, Liverpool, Newcastle United Okay, even though I know they were forced to, they play the kid named. Whatever his name is Miley Cyrus.
Speaker 2:His name was Miley, he's 17 years old Chin Chin when Kamada came on. How does it? Mean Kamada looks like a child.
Speaker 1:Kamada is 15. See what I'm saying. Is Romero 15 years old? Is it Romero like 21 years old?
Speaker 2:No, it's not 21. It's like 17 or 18 or something.
Speaker 1:Romero, chris, oh, my no, no, I said.
Speaker 2:Chris Romero. Nope, you are not saying it because you did it.
Speaker 1:But no again, like I said, I just want consistency in the decision making and if you give me that, I'm fine. That's all. Luca Romero is what? How old? 19 years old, so way much older than 15. So he's not a child. Zayamri Zayamri that was playing for France and PSG before his injury. He said today the people that beat us go and look the boy that scored the goal. How old would?
Speaker 2:he have been 16 years, or 17?. Not everybody's going to be at that age and be performing at top level. Mosa is 20. How about that? Look at that boy. Look at what he's playing.
Speaker 1:Okay, good, but then you're using age then as a point, because my point is you're telling me how. That's not what I'm saying. Romero is not ready.
Speaker 2:I'm just making a reference that when you pick up this key from Prumevere, look at when it came on, look at how we looked.
Speaker 1:Right, kamada is 15 years old, not 15 years old should be playing football professionally. That's all I'm trying to say At the end of the day, at the end of the day, you, you're going to have your side and I'm going to have my side, and you know who's going to eventually win Me, because one day probably in the near future, it will be very far your boy purely will be fired, and then Milan will have a reasonable head coach.
Speaker 1:Anyway, that's, that's what I'm trying to say, because then I can watch football and know that my team is trying to progress and they're trying to improve week in, week out, as opposed to let's just toss some players on the field and then hope that they all perform, and if they don't perform, we blame them. If they perform, we don't blame them, we, we, you know, we tell them oh my God, that's a football. Then what's the function of the coach? Because if the players did well and they don't do well, they are the ones that determine the result. Then the question is what exactly is the coach supposed to be helping? You do I get it. The players play, the coaches coach. But coaches can help players almost achieve a certain level of consistency in performance.
Speaker 1:Milan, milan. To me they are like a gentle and high team. You mentioned it every week, the players, which player did well, which player was bad? Every week it's one after the other that you cannot have one man player be consistently good for literally a stretch of five games without going up and down. And that just tells me that the coaching staff, and whatever you're doing with the coach, tells me that they don't know how to give those instructions consistently that would deliver those results. That's just me.
Speaker 1:At the end of the day, it sucks that we lost to Dortmund, and it basically means that Milan is probably out of the Champions League. But the bigger problem here is the bigger problem here is I don't even know what they're going to do going forward. When they played here in last week, last week, we won, but they were just hanging on by the thread, literally, and you're going to say everybody was injured, but it's the same thing. You're going to play for Zinoni and then you make them look like they are world beaters. So then what exactly are we trying to accomplish here? Just hang on and pray and narrowly win games for the rest of the time.
Speaker 2:That's not the case. Anyways, we have Rafael Bac, we have Nusa Bac. Who else again is coming back this weekend. I'm not sure if Okafor is going to come back this weekend because he trained alone, but hopefully he comes back. Then we'll have at least a bit of a bit of a distance, chin. Anyways, you should get back together again and talk about Puglia and Milan on Sunday.
Speaker 1:After Sunday when they play for Zinoni, yes, and hopefully they win. But yeah, if all those guys are coming back, I expect them to win. Otherwise I expect them to perform again just like they perform, with no direction or pattern. I just watch. I watch. I never miss because obviously I'm a Milan fan, but it's just kind of sad to watch. It's not that entertaining, it's just football. Actually, to be honest, today wasn't entertaining because it was back and forth, but then again it's like huh, no more Milan. Anyways, it's nice chatting with you, Mr Pioli's advocate, continue one day of flying to be fired and I will have the last laugh.
Speaker 2:Anyway, it's been a pleasure talking to you, chin, yeah, same here.
Speaker 1:Ciao, hashtag Pioli out, so we can get him out of our club. Anyways, take care of yourself. Bye.
Speaker 2:Chin.
Speaker 1:Bye-bye.
