Specialists and did not give a vote to the Milan transfer market. Unanimous recognition: they worked well, very well. I subscribe. Second reflection: between the summer and winter markets, so far, there is only one account that has not yet returned, that of Hauge who is serving all his inexperience in these first weeks of Italian football with respect to the characteristics necessary to emerge in our parts. . The exclusion from the Europa league list is therefore inevitable but this does not mean having dismissed the young man in disappointment. It just means that he will need a lot of training to play the part that Pioli has assigned him. I would suspend the judgment on Meitè who had suggested good feelings to me in the segment of Cagliarti before proving to be inadequate to the role of playmaker and to “hit” the only header, in the Italian cup derby (on that passage Ibra scored). Tomori is certainly the precious piece of the latest arrivals while on Mandzukic there is only to wait for him to recover the best condition.
Covid 19 is not a health walk. It almost always leaves marks even in well-trained physicists such as footballers. Rebic, since he returned, has not yet gotten into fifth gear even though in Bologna we saw him rise as soon as he scored the penalty smudged by Ibra and rejected by the Bolognese goalkeeper. Imagine Calhanoglu who also suffered a tough viral shape. Therefore it is certain that against Crotone he will start from the bench to possibly play a final segment, thus leaving the Rebic-Leao couple the task of strengthening the ranking with this new tactical formula that satisfies Ibra even if it reveals the defensive resistance (any reference to the challenge of Bologna is wanted, ed). Rather, we must remind Calabria that he finds himself weighed down by the warning: a yellow card is enough to trigger the disqualification. In other shores they would have suggested to the interested party to give up the pappafichi with Crotone to skip the trip to La Spezia and return clean between the derby and Rome. I hope instead that Milan will behave differently: when the next yellow card comes, going to look for it means behaving like some crafty card! Among other things, Pioli has at his disposal a couple of disubstitutes (Kalulu and / or Dalot) that could replace the great Calabria, now a candidate to permanently move to the blue squad of the next European.
With the lights off, we proceed to renegotiate the contracts of Donnarumma and Calhanoglu. According to some sources we are on the last mile. A nose seems closer to that of the Turk than that of Gigio who has the “disadvantage” of starting from a skyscraper salary (6 million euros net): if he wanted to add more floors he would end up touching the sky or almost. Certainly this experience will suggest to Maldini and Massara to immediately put their hand to the next renewals, those of Kessiè (fundamental), Romagnoli and Kjaer.
About the elimination from the Italian cup last comment. I don’t think it was a disgrace. It will allow Pioli to work hard for two weeks finally free from extra commitments before starting the marcialonga between the championship and the Europa league. It will also make it possible to recover all injured players including Kjaer and Diaz between mid-February and late February. In those days, alternating two sides or almost between Thursday and Sunday will become fundamental.
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