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Pioli will regret AC Milan more than Allegri Juventus. And Rangnick has nothing to do with Sacchi | First page

By now everything seems clear. Only officialism is missing and then the secret of Pulcinella will disappear in this strange summer impossible to forget. AC Milan’s next technical manager will be the German Ralf Rangnick, who must decide whether to go on the bench, or remotely control a trusted coach from above. Another revolution, therefore, as it has been understood for months and as it had understood before all the other Bobans, fired as a maid who had stolen the jewels of the family in which he worked. After him, but with different formulas and ways, Maldini and Pioli will also go away, who as great professionals as they are will work until the last day as if it were the first.

Time, as always, will tell if this new technical turnaround will pay off, but experience suggests that it is a dangerous leap in the dark, with all the risks involved. Those who compare this turn to the famous precedent of Sacchi’s sensational arrival are wrong for three reasons: first of all because Rangnick does not know Italian football; then because, at 62, he is at the end of a career in which he cannot boast a curriculum full of successes like Ancelotti, to mention a colleague with his age; and finally, or rather above all, because Rangnick won’t have a strong club behind him like Milan in the 1980s, in which there were experienced managers such as Berlusconi, Galliani and Braida. And since in the meantime Pioli will be on another bench, or in the worst-case scenario, he will be at home, it is very likely that he is regretted by the Rossoneri fans as Allegri is regretting Juventus today.

After all, the situation is similar in some ways, because even Sarri, like Rangnick, was to be a revolutionary, charged with ensuring a more spectacular game for Juventus. The weather, however, has shown that without the players with the qualities of his first Napoli, and the other night in San Siro without Dybala and Rugani, the show and the results remain a utopia. With the aggravating circumstance, thinking about the future Milan, which Pioli is less criticized than Allegri, because even those Rossoneri fans who did not consider him capable of leading a great team have finally understood his great merits. In a championship that we hope will remain unrepeatable, for the reasons that caused the suspension first and then this intense recovery, Pioli had to live with the increasingly insistent rumors about Rangnick’s arrival. Yet, in addition to never losing calm in the declarations, before and after the matches, he was able to compact a team taken in the race, which was in fourteenth place, bringing it to the full Europa League area.

In such cases it would have been understandable to demobilize on a psychological and consequently technical level. Instead, after the forced stop, Milan won all the matches, drawing only in Ferrara, but above all it managed to beat for the first time the teams that preceded it in the standings: Rome, Lazio and finally Juventus, who did not scored four goals from the Champions League final against Real Madrid. All successes deserved and among other things not only thanks to the position of Ibrahimovic, because they all took turns in the protagonists: from Calhanoglu to Bonaventura, from Rebic to Kessie, from Leao to the little-known Saelemaekers. A team success therefore, with the addition of an excellent physical condition, because Milan has always grown at a distance, as was also seen in the second half against Juventus.

There would be enough, therefore, of reasons to confirm Pioli, but now the decision is made. And it would not make sense to seek a late compromise of convenience, asking him to remain on the bench with Rangnick in the role of technical director, because Pioli has a great dignity that rhymes with professionalism and would not accept such a proposal. For similar reasons, it makes no sense to ask Maldini to be a wingman in society, leaving the weight of important decisions to those who know Italian football less than he. And so the sensational 4-2 against Juventus risks being remembered as an extravagant match to celebrate the present, but useless for planning the future. When Pioli will regret even more than Allegri.


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