Summer Mercato 2010

Originally Posted by Revolver

Italy made to WC finals with him, only to lose on penalties, even when he was without some very important players (Tassotti, Baresi) and even when he had only one striker in form (out of four). Sacchi couldn't made it in some teams because he always wanted to play with team players, with complete players, not specialists... He tried almost 50 players before 94 WC only to take 23 of them. Nowdays football is all about specialists. Now you have Ibra and Ronaldinho who don't want to track back (why bother?!) so you need Flamini. But, you can't play anything with Flamini because all he can do and all he's willing to do is to pass it to the closest teammate. Furthermore, when you have specialist, what happens?! You close Pirlo and there is no Milan. That's why I said Sacchi is even beyond this time.

I didn's play down Sacchi's idea, my point is you need players to work for your idea or your idea must suit your current players.

Italy 94 was Milan-Italy, the Great Milan which he's just created, so he didn't face many problems, but Italy 96 was different and his experiements failed miserably. Sacchi, IMO, is one of the most inovative & respectable strategist, but he just couldn't always force the players play like he want. Even his comeback at Milan was fruitless.

The coaches who understand his idea and apply it practially like Capello or Mourinho are more successful than him. And as a fan, I want coaches like them for Milan.

Allegri could be the one. This man studied about Milan a lot and know great deal about strategy. You want complete players? He made Seedorf a more complete midfielder, and even Gattuso is better with ball now. Dinho gains motivation and player more central, more active under his guidance. Milan now also play more dynamic and unpredictable. These make me think Ibra, Binho & Boateng could be very useful, not just in paper, but for a "new" Milan, which means they will be more complete, too.

Pirlo can't be more complete, this guy is already a complete midfielder, IMO. Something like speed, strength he can't learn to be better, but he can defend his way and play his best for Milan. However, this Milan will depend less on him.

I just wanted to say 4-4-2 is not something Milan should play, but talking about Sacchi's era bring good memories