Massimiliano Allegri

[ACMILAN1983]

Let's be honest with ourselves, the first season, when we won the Serie A, we were strong in Serie A (unfortunately, we were unable to play the same way in Europe), the way our team played showed we were contenders for the title and at the end, we won ... There have been several very good performances that year, very entertaining ones.

Last year, even if we have been near the title for all season long, I never saw our team be a real contender in the way we played. I mean, we played badly for almost the entire last season, and I remember myself writing here at the end of September/start of October that we would improve for sure once the team is 100% fit ... The fact is we played well for 2-3 weeks (in October if I remember correctly) and suddenly started to play badly until the end.

This season, so far, we have just played the same way (badly) but without Thiago Silva behind and Ibra forward ... That's the big difference.

If we were to play like in the first season of Allegri, I'm quite sure we could do something good, even without the players who left us. But if we play like last year, and without Ibra and T.Silva, we could just spend a whole season as a low midtable team ...

So something has to be done by :
- Allegri and the players firstly
- the management if nothing is done

Of course, while I said I would agree if Allegri is sacked, it all depends on who would replace him !! When I read Benitez could become our coach, all I have to say is we should keep Allegri at all costs until the end of this season, because IMO, Benitez has always been an average/bad coach who made his career on two results : a good season with Valencia, a final of CL against us.

I don't disagree that last year we didn't play great football. You just need to look at a lot of my posts last season and you'll see I said on quite a few occasions that I thought we played better in our first season. My point was simply that under Allegri we have played some good football, imo better than the last years of Carlo and Leonardo.

If I'm honest this year we're playing even worse than last year. It's not the same as last year at least we got the basics right, we've not done that this year.

I don't disagree about what needs to be done. I've maintained that if Allegri and the side shows progress over the coming weeks, then we must keep him. If not, then it can't continue and we'll have to find another coach (as you said, it's important who this is).