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Old 29-09-2006, 13:06   #63

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would you care to explain how Lippi and Wenger are "clearly a level above Carlo"? Compare their domestic and CL records with Carlos?

The only thing Wenger has going for him is that he has no equal in finding young talent and doesn't have a problem trusting them with 1st team football. But so what? What has he achieved in CL with this approach so far - a CL final thanks to to all sorts of lucky coinsidances (playing an awfully out of shape Juve, Lehman saving a last minute PK vs Villareal, etc, etc) and this after how many attampts ... I lost count really.And mind you that Arsenal spends as much if not more cash than Milan on new players, so you can't argue that they are a poor club and Wenger has been hampered by the lack of money.
And what did he do in the end - after numerous failures in Europe, he asked his team to play more defensively than an Italian team and do whatever it takes to literary scrape up a place in the final, which he lost, btw

How about Lippi? Take a god look at his CL record and tell me how many CL finalshas he actually won? ... and as I remember correctly, that's one of the grudges you guys have vs Carlo - that he fails in the most important matches - i.e. Istanbul ... what would you have to say about Lippi - 3 out of 4 finals LOST and most of them were in a period when all other big teams in Europe were crap and Juve had no decent rivals, apart from maybe ManU, still Lippi managed to lose those finals vs the underdog team.

On paper, Carlo's record may not be as shiny as Lippi's but let's not forget what calciopoli was all about and that if it was all honest business in Serie A, Carlo would have had, most probably, 2 more scudettos on his account for Milan - a trebble of consecutive titles that is. Add to that the fact that, despite so many teams having real CL title chances, Milan has been the best of the best since he took over, add to this the frugal, not to say misery, transfer policy of the club, and that would give you a more objective look on what Carlo has done for Milan and what he has had to deal with all these years.
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