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Monday Discussion Thread

Great place for team discussion/whatever Serie A related topics you would like to bring up. Examples: Transfers, rumors, players from other teams, things you miss about the old days etc. Whatever you want as long as it isn't too off-topic.

Also a good spot to ask about the stadium, the city of Milano, bars, fan clubs in your city etc.

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u/Darthprovader1 Olivier Giroud 1d ago

If we don't retain our players we are headed straight to the banter era.

Our strategy seems to find talent and as soon as they start developing or settling in we sell them and rebuild again. Instead of building up upon that talent, specially on our midfield. We have a completely different midfield now. We could have had Reijnders still and alegate those funds to build a midfield with him on it. Modric is an insane player but at most he has 1 more soeson with us after this one. And who knows if next season we won't decide to sell players like Fofana, Sallad Pulisic or even Leao?

Heck even by going further back. We could have kept Tonali, still have Reijnders and keep building upon the team. We have the funds, we just dont use them. How many financial scuddetos will we win before we get relegated?

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u/coldnorth11 Ardon Jashari 1d ago

I think managment showed this window that they are willing to reinvest in the squad, even though they are really bad at it.

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u/ComradePoula Simon Kjaer 1d ago

They have invested massively in all 3 seasons that they have owned the club in while still keeping our finances in check.

And both rebuilds were definitely necessary. Look at the players we had at the end of 22/23 and tell me that squad didn't need a rebuild. And that rebuild took us from 5th to 2nd the following year. You can definitely argue that it was a failure because of last season, but we've pretty much sold every single one of them for a profit while still being able to rebuild the squad this summer for an entirely new long-term project with Allegri and Tare at the helm. You can't really say that about the squad they inherited.

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u/Darthprovader1 Olivier Giroud 1d ago

Exactly. Also just take a look at the Striker position. 4 different players brought in to fill the gap upfront and none of them worked because they aren't the right profile.

Morata, Tammy, Felix, Santi.

Would Dovbyk have been much better? I do not know. Was he the profile we need? I think so

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u/4thelolzz01 David Odogu 1d ago

Allegri definetly thought so

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u/Nico-on_top 1d ago

And they’re desperate to make cl. I know that’s not what we should aim for but we always know these guys will push really hard to make the cl because they understand how important it is. If they can’t build a squad that could make the competition, they’ll be out of here in a hurry.