Summer Mercato 2010

Originally Posted by Brasileiro

Btw, why we have a better coach now? I hope the best for Allegri, but until now(like Leo last year), he did nothing in Milan(or other big team) to be label as a sure thing. The management of a small team is a different animal than what he will face now... So, lets wait for the finish of the season before saying he's better at Milan than Leonardo.
Even more, because Allegri will need to do better than what you wrote in the quote above, since he will have a much better and(apparently) health team.

It's something different, of course (even if it's in the same league), but it's better to have some experience instead of nothing at all ? I mean, Allegri comes here by already having an experience in Serie A, he did something great with a small team and "limited" players (Cagliari played well under Allegri, and they even were a "threat" for the big teams, as they were among the good mid-table teams). So he doesn't discover the job, he has nothing to learn, he just have to do his job.

Leonardo had an handicap when he accepted the offer of coaching the first team of Milan for his first experience as a coach: he had everything to learn, and at the same time, he had to be ready as it is Milan. IMO, it wasn't fair to send him there suddenly, they should at least have given him the Primavera team for example (and who knows what he would have done with the Primavera ? He would maybe have helped some of our youngsters to be ready earlier than expected for the first team ?), for one or two years, a bit like Barcelona did with Guardiola. It's maybe not a big experience, but that would have allowed him to start his job by being a real coach from day 1.