Milan entered the stage of
unbalance after a bad start to the local season made it delayed 19 points
behind leaders Roma football Serie A and make just three points above the drop
zone to play in the hospitality of Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Milan is no longer able largely
to compete with the rest of the local clubs that seem to outgrow it with regard
to youth programs and talent and club management techniques.
Over the last 18 months, Milan
conducted numerous changes, but almost did not develop despite attempts by
Coach Massimiliano Allegri.
Milan began suffering at the end
of the 2011-2012 seasons when it decided to reduce its debt and sold the
dangerous striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic and a strong defender Thiago Silva to
Paris St Germain.
Milan also left the duo
experience component of defender Alessandro Nesta, midfielder Gennaro Gattuso.
Milan pursued a policy search for
young talent and develops, although the club forgot to inform it to the fans,
which kept high expectations about what can be achieved by the team.
Barbara Berlusconi Milan director
and the daughter of club president Silvio Berlusconi said in December last year
in reference to Stefan Hubert as examples “we can transform young players to
the senior heroes at the club."
Last season, AC Milan benefited
from recording a set of goals near the end and some of arbitral awards and the
brilliance of Mario Balotelli for a period after his contract and a bad case
appeared to have ended after the third place with difficulty and to qualify for
the Champions League.
And the enthusiastic masses of
fans supported coach Allegri "project" to announce the support of the
coach after reports of Berlusconi, the club president's desire to dispense with
him.
Despite this policy changed again
in Milan last summer, instead of contracting with young players the team
resorted to players in the middle or near the end of football careers.
Milan spent 11 million euros on
the annexation of Alessandro Matri who has a good track record in achieving targets,
but a 29-year-old also has contracted with Slovenian Walter Persa from Genoa on
a free transfer.
Milan regained efforts to
injury-plagued midfielder Kaka (31 years) after he spent four unsuccessful
years at Real Madrid the Brazilian suffered a new injury in his first game with
the team.
Milan took a decision to allow
strange prominent team players Kevin-Prince Boateng to leave to Schalke two
days after the success in registering two goals for the team in front of PSV
Eindhoven in the Champions League qualifiers.
Gattuso criticized his former
club not to spend more money in the transfer market saying in a television
interview, "We must spend a lot in order to build a strong team. Currently
investments are few. Clubs Roma and Napoli and Juventus Excel on AC Milan
because they spent a lot on new contracts."
In fact, Milan spent 27 million
euros in the summer, according to the Transfer Market site specializing in
player transfers which is less narrowly Juventus and inters the season.
It seemed that the other clubs
spend money more wisely, where Roma contracted with Kevin Strautaman and Mehdi
Benatia team benefited a lot of them, also Naples managed to compensate for the
departure of Cavani by Real Madrid trio players Jose Callejon, and Gonzalo
Higuain and Raul Albiol.
And the defeat of AC Milan 2 -
zero in front of Fiorentina caused, which is also ahead in the standings in the
reports of Barbara Berlusconi's desire to dispense with chief executive Adriano
Galliani, who has held office since long before the president's daughter denies
this.
Barbara said, "I did not ask
Galliani departure. In many calls that I had with my father after the loss to
Fiorentina called simply the need to make changes in the policy of Milan."
Galliani spoke after the loss and
confirmed its support for the coach Allegri, saying "This week is not
crucial to the fate of the coach. Have confidence in it."