Milan just carved Atletico Madrid... keep it going Milan! Diego Simeone is a clown skeezeball, beat these guys down now
So Atletico have scored 3 goals on 1 real chance and 2 half chances over two legs. Edit they just got another half chance.
well its def over now, this milan team has to put a lot of effort in to play well and can only do it for 45 mins
Well at least we scored 'a' goal. Seeing how we're so useless going forward I didn't even think we'd score at all (a nice surprise for a change).
Its heart breaking when you play well and lose. Napoli has a reason to be heart-broken - they deserved to be there. Milan on the other hand doesn't deserve to be there however it is ultimately heart breaking to see the club fall so far from grace.
You guys will be back. Not sure how long it will take. But a club like AC Milan doesn't just fall off the face of the earth. Milan does need to evaluate a good 75-80% of the roster and see who deserves to be there. To be honest I watched and honestly only 2 guys worked their asses off and it was Kaka and De Jong. The rest are crap. That first goal should have never happened. I watched Atletico v. Celta Vigo. They did the same thing to them as they did to you guys and that was take advantage of mistakes. But I haven't watched Milan too much in Serie A, but Balotellis performance tonight was despicable, for a player of his talent to lollygag with, what might be the last CL game for Milan in a while was sad to see and he said he was childhood fan of Milan. Don't mean to compile on the sorrow, I think the management decisions of the next few months will be indicative of where the management sees AC Milan and what they want to do to fix it.
Out now, 99.9% no CL next season. That will hurt our revenue more. Balotelli or SES to be sold to make up for the shortfall in revenue. Or will Berlusconi finally wake up and decides to sell the club?
Arrigo Sacchi launched a scathing attack on Milan after their 4-1 defeat to Atletico Madrid. “This is not a team.” The former Rossoneri Coach is now a pundit for Sport Mediaset and was horrified by the 5-1 aggregate exit. “It is a sad moment for Milan and for Italian football,” said Sacchi. “This is not a team. They do not defend collectively and this just highlights the limitations of every individual player. “In attack they have many soloists, but the style of football has no logic to it. I was also disappointed by Adel Taarabt tonight, as he wandered around the field. “On the other side, we have a good collective with a great striker like Diego Costa who is wonderful at moving off the ball.” http://www.football-italia.net/46322/sacchi-milan-arent-team
i dont see sacchi coming in to help milan any its easy to talk when you are on the outside of things.
honestly... I see more Sacchi's style in Atletico then in Milan, but thats because he isn't the coach of Milan, and Atletico loves to have the whole team pressing
What a depressing game. I guess, it was the end. The sole hope of the season is gone. Milan has looked like its improving under Seedorf, but our defense is in shambles and we can't score goals. Just a bad team. That video they posted was very sad. We used to have a team of legends and a filler here of there. Now, we have a team of fillers with few WC guys. Just disappointing as a fan to watch em...
Whether they can afford to keep Balo or not he should be sold immediately. I'll admit I was on the Balo bandwagon when we got him thinking Milan was a platform for him to unleash his explosive talents (and early on it seemed that way) but what's ended up happening is a stone-cold realization by many that he's nothing more than a petulant child with serious issues completely devoid of any work ethic and not enough overall production to back anything up. He's making 4 million net which means Milan is shelling out 7 mil in gross pay - in other words, he needs to be dumped because we can't build around him and he's barely producing anything as it is. In fact the whole team needs to be gutted (again lol). Here are all the salaries: Marco Amelia 31 €1,000,000 2015 Christian Abbiati 36 €1,500,000 2014 Gabriel 20 €500,000 2017 Philippe Mexès 31 €4,000,000 2015 Cristian Zapata 26 €1,500,000 2016 Daniele Bonera 32 €1,300,000 2015 Matías Silvestre 28 €1,100,000 2014 Jherson Vergara 19 €200,000 Since 2013 Kévin Constant 26 €1,000,000 2017 Mattia De Sciglio 20 €1,000,000 2016 Ignazio Abate 26 €1,800,000 2014 Cristian Zaccardo 31 €800,000 2016 Nigel de Jong 28 €3,000,000 2015 Sulley Muntari 28 €1,500,000 2015 Bakaye Traoré 28 €1,200,000 2015 Andrea Poli 23 €1,300,000 2017 Riccardo Montolivo 28 €3,500,000 2016 Bryan Cristante 18 €240,000 2018 Riccardo Saponara 21 €600,000 2018 Urby Emanuelson 27 €1,100,000 2014 Stephan El Shaarawy 20 €2,400,000 2018 M’Baye Niang 18 €800,000 2017 Robinho 29 €2,500,000 2016 Giampaolo Pazzini 29 €2,700,000 2015 Andrea Petagna 18 2018 Mario Balotelli 22 €4,000,000 2017 Alessandro Matri 29 €2,500,000 2018 Kaka 31 €4,000,000 2017 Kaka, Balo, Robinho, Urby, Bonera, Mexes (********ing disgrace he's even allowed to ride the same bus while he makes his 4 mil *********************) Matri (on load to Firence, hopefully they decide to keep him), Muntari, Constant all need to be liquidated. Hell you can even throw in Monto if the right offer is there (we don't really need him and he's not captain worthy anyways). Also don't bother resigning Tarrabt, Rami and whoever; they're not essential players and we can't afford their salaries or buyouts for that matter.
I disagree about Balotelli. I've been a fan of his for years and think he is a star. I think Milan and him are lacking because everyone knows HE IS THE ONLY OFFENSE. Opposing teams game plan to shut him down through double teams or swarming him in midfield when he gets the ball. The idea is, make someone else beat them, and we have NOBODY else that scares teams. Kaka, Robinho, Honda, Birsa are all nice players but they aren't goal scorers. They aren't hustlers either like Xavi/Iniesta. They aren't wingers like Ronaldo/Bale or Robben/Ribery. It's a weird mix of 3 guys who need the ball at there feet playing together and not creating chances to score. Lots of possession and passes but no finishing. On the national team, Balo thrives because he has Candreva/Cerci and proper wingers that make teams open up and cover the outside. Milan are playing 3 trequartistas with 2 mids and a CF. That's the reason why teams counter us so easily and if we lose the ball in MF we are screwed. I like a lot of our players but we need to get rid of a lot. Sadly, with no CL next season we won't have that money. However, that $$ won't effect us till the next year, so we might not sell guys now, but if we don't qualify again next season, than for sure we'd sell because Berlusconi won't pay out of his own pocket. I'd be fine with never seeing Abbiati, Bonera, Essien, in a Milan jersey again. Add Silvestre, Zaccardo, Robinho, to the guys who can leave also. We need to add quality to the team, no more fillers and other teams waste. 1 or 2 is fine to round up the squad, but our team is filled with back ups starting. Just sad to see where we were, and here we are today. If only Ibra and Silva never left. Sure, we might not be beating Barca in CL finals, but we surely wouldn't be in the current shit storm we are today.