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Originally Posted by GeoTav
And to add more - to this 3-4-3/3-5-2 discussion, playing with such a formation would be out of our identity.
Milan has always played with a formation looking like 4-3-1-2, and with Ancelotti and his Christmas Tree, 4-3-2-1 which was a kind of more defensive 4-3-1-2 ... or a modified 4-3-3 (instead of the wingers, we had two "central" attacking midfielders) depending on your point of view.
So I think we need to keep our identity on the pitch, and don't forget too that we have some players who have been there for years now (from Nesta to Pirlo without forgetting the likes of Gattuso and co), and telling them that finally, we'll play with 3 defenders, I don't know how they would accept it ... and how they would adapt.
About Flamini, if you want him to request to be sold next year, put him in the RB position ... he said before the pre-season that he doesn't want to play in this RB position too often because he is a midfielder. If that can help, he can play there for some games, but he doesn't want to be counted as a RB. And if you put Flamini in the RB position (let's imagine he is ok with that), then, what will happen ? Instead of a quality FB, we'll need another quality midfielder, and I don't think I'll be wrong that for an equal quality, the midfielder will be more expensive than the RB/LB ...
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we won scudetto in 1998 w/ a 3-4-3 (with abbiati and ambrosini btw!).
For me formation has never been the identity its more style of play... players like pirlo, gattuso...albertini, ambrosini.. farther back ancelotti, desailley,rijkaard..to the great gianni rivera and of course the defensive greats... Milan has always held great possession and controlled midfield irregardless of formation.
Everyone talks about van basten, sheva, now pato... but milan is always defined for me by possession football. Its kind of whats scared me most in preseason, total lack of possession and 'milan football' starting namely w/ ronaldinho who does brilliant things but gives the ball away soooo much