06-22-2016, 06:21 PM
If it is at all possible, and I realize how difficult this is under Berlu's management, I would strongly encourage Milan management to not do wholesale changes to the team unless it is for major upgrade.
For years now, we played musical chairs with the roster. Stop me if this sounds familiar to you. We have an incumbent player on the team that is less than stellar; We sell him, or more likely, paid to have him leave, then immediately sign someone who is similar in quality; A year or two later, we try to sell the player we signed and then replace him with someone similar in quality again. This is basically what we did in situations such as Mexes-Zapata-Alex, Huntelaar-Balotelli-Menez-Destro and our entire midfield for the last few years. Through these changes, we paid millions in transfer fees, agent fees and salary and the quality of the team hardly changed at all. There are obvious questions regarding to the quality of players we signed, but to me, the reason many players flunked so badly had to do with the total lack of chemistry between players on this team. Players cannot form any type of chemistry when they don't get to play with the same group of guys for a prolonged period of time. That is why this musical chair management style is doing more damage than it helps.
Whether we want to admit it or not, if we keep the roster the way it is and just add one or two quality players (not necessarily superstars), we'd have a team with some talent. Guys like Donna, Roma, Antonelli, Bona, Niang and Bacca can form a solid core that is competitive. We need to give this team the time to start gelling and develop good chemistry so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You add a good reliable CB and a midfielder to that lineup, and we can compete for EL at least with good chemistry and the right attitude.
I am, of course, all for improving the quality of the team through big acquisitions. If we can get Fabregas for Montolivo, then by all means, go ahead and do it, chemistry be damned. But another round of crap for crap is not worth it for me. I don't think Immobile and Giaccherini are bad players, but they do not bring anything to the table that the incumbent players at their positions already has. If we want another striker, why not stick with Adriano? Why not give Niang a chance to showcase his worth for a whole season? What does Pavoletti bring to the team other than a new name? If we do not have the funding or the desire to bring in quality players, then stick with what we have and go the war. The Golden State Warriors didn't look like the most talented team in the NBA, but their chemistry allowed them to become the winningest team in NBA history.
For years now, we played musical chairs with the roster. Stop me if this sounds familiar to you. We have an incumbent player on the team that is less than stellar; We sell him, or more likely, paid to have him leave, then immediately sign someone who is similar in quality; A year or two later, we try to sell the player we signed and then replace him with someone similar in quality again. This is basically what we did in situations such as Mexes-Zapata-Alex, Huntelaar-Balotelli-Menez-Destro and our entire midfield for the last few years. Through these changes, we paid millions in transfer fees, agent fees and salary and the quality of the team hardly changed at all. There are obvious questions regarding to the quality of players we signed, but to me, the reason many players flunked so badly had to do with the total lack of chemistry between players on this team. Players cannot form any type of chemistry when they don't get to play with the same group of guys for a prolonged period of time. That is why this musical chair management style is doing more damage than it helps.
Whether we want to admit it or not, if we keep the roster the way it is and just add one or two quality players (not necessarily superstars), we'd have a team with some talent. Guys like Donna, Roma, Antonelli, Bona, Niang and Bacca can form a solid core that is competitive. We need to give this team the time to start gelling and develop good chemistry so the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You add a good reliable CB and a midfielder to that lineup, and we can compete for EL at least with good chemistry and the right attitude.
I am, of course, all for improving the quality of the team through big acquisitions. If we can get Fabregas for Montolivo, then by all means, go ahead and do it, chemistry be damned. But another round of crap for crap is not worth it for me. I don't think Immobile and Giaccherini are bad players, but they do not bring anything to the table that the incumbent players at their positions already has. If we want another striker, why not stick with Adriano? Why not give Niang a chance to showcase his worth for a whole season? What does Pavoletti bring to the team other than a new name? If we do not have the funding or the desire to bring in quality players, then stick with what we have and go the war. The Golden State Warriors didn't look like the most talented team in the NBA, but their chemistry allowed them to become the winningest team in NBA history.