Is Carlo Still In Next Season....

Originally Posted by mrki

What makes you say that??? Its clear that carlo isnt one of the best tacticians around, and for those who say carlo has the best record , and that say that im an IDIOT, lets just look at our squad.....
We have the best team in europe, best defence, creative midfielders and sheva and pippo. Carlo wants to sign crespo from chelsea and he is 30 and not in the form of his life, then after 2 years we'll need new striker and cassano and gilla will be somewhere else. I agree with people that say carlo in not top class, be realistic, he is nice guy, there is great atmosphere in milan squad and he has done a good job, but you simply cant do a much , much worse job with our team!!!!
He did ok, but isnt the best around....

I've come to that conclusion after having followed every Milan game during the Carlo era minus 5-10/season. He has build this team from scratch, first season, he started out stabilizing a defence that was in ruins after Terim's short spell, made up of players like Chamot, Roque Junior, Helveg and Billy (who had been harshly criticized the preceding years but found his second youth during Carlo's stay), then slowly he has integrated Inter rejects like Pirlo, Seedorf and of course Gattuso into the team, players that may be celebrated as some of Europe's finest midfielders today, yet none of them were considered top 30 midfielders when Carlo arrived. Today those three make up the most effective midfield in Europe.

And as for the tactical aspect, well I can tell you that Carlo graduated his training course with absolute top marks (coincidentally btw. I know that his final task was to give an account of offensive movement/running patters in a 4-4-2 system), I've seen him change the course of a match to the better on countless occasions (most recently against Juve last Sunday), he has been praised from colleagues all over Europe (Italian manager of the season 2003/2004), his old mentor Sacchi has described him as one of the finest tacticians around. He has overcome challenges such as Hitzfeld's Bayern, Ferguson's United, Lippi's Juve, Capello's Roma, Mourinho's Porto, right there we're talking perhaps the 4-5 most winning coaches of the last few few decades.

In the light of the above I believe your criticism of Ancelotti is one-sided, to say the least.

P.S. as for Carlo being a "nice guy", I don't know him personally so I can't tell. As a player I do know that when he came to Milan in 1987 he was already a coach on the field, he was the kind of player Milan needed at the time, someone everyone would lean towards, a complete midfielder but above all a leader with great personality, for which reason I find it subjective at the best to hear people presume that he's a bad motivator (just by following this Milan side, whose greatest strength is the collective solidarity, week in week out should tell you otherwise).