There are those who – desperate – no longer sleep at night, but they are not those fans who went in 70,000 to see Milan-Cavese in Serie B, no: no, it’s not them. They are not those who have experienced Felice Colombo, Giussy Farina and not even those who remember the Chinese closing Berlusconi-carrier. No, it’s not them: those who have lost sleep are those Rossoneri fans who in 8 years have only won an Italian Super Cup and are not in it, not being used to suffering. I understand them, really. I know what it feels like.
I started going to the stadium in 1971, I was 10 years old. Season in which we lose the Scudetto after having had 7 points ahead of the second (the victory was worth 2 points). On May 20, 1973 I “forced” my parents to come with me to Verona, the last day of the championship, first with 1 point ahead of Juventus: we lost 5-3, a shock … only 4 days after winning the Coppa delle Cups in Thessaloniki (where I also forced my father to take me in exchange for a scudetto school year) against Leeds. Morale collapsed.
A month later we beat Juventus on penalties at the Olimpico, in the final, and we won the Italian Cup. Triumphs and blows like on a roller coaster, then in 1974 the president Albino Buticchi invents the sale of Gianni Rivera and the revolution breaks out: in the end (obviously) Rivera remains and Buticchi leaves. In 1977 we risk relegation with Pippo Marchioro who invents Rivera on the right wing, in the end Nereo Rocco returns and Marchioro leaves, puts Rivera back in place, we save ourselves (on the last day) and a month later we beat the final. Inter winning the Coppa Italia again. Roller coaster. At the beginning of the 80s, shortly after the star’s tenth championship, we have 2 good championships in B, “one free and one paying” as the unforgettable Peppino Prisco, whom I loved, teased me. In the mid-eighties, Berlusconi’s AC Milan was born, you know the rest.
You understand well that today I don’t pull my hair (I don’t have any more) because the market closed without having taken the vice-Ibra (is there a vice-Ibra in the world ??? I didn’t know!) Without having taken the sixth ( sixth!) central defender of the squad (maybe a 20-year-old at 29 million euros …), having left a free Chelsea reserve (Bakayoko, the new Rijkaard) to Napoli, because to give it to us Chelsea instead wanted 30 million and the player instead wanted 5 per year from 2021. I sleep peacefully and peacefully. If you take Diaz on loan it is not good, if you do not take Bakayoko on loan it is not good. If you take the 20 year olds you don’t win, if you don’t take a 20 year old stopper you don’t win … I wonder why those thrushes of Maldini, Massara and Moncada don’t go around the web before making the market. Why don’t they rely on Twitter and Facebook experts? Because? Their unbearable myopia can cost us the championship. The Champions. Season. Starting with the derby, now marked in favor of the Nerazzurri by many AC Milan fans baffled by the transfer market. Let’s get the abacus ready.
Anyway, in all honesty I am a bit disappointed too: there was talk of Chiesa and Milenkovic, high profiles, but the former had already promised himself to Juventus, the latter did not sell to us. Why didn’t Maldini go to Commisso with the machine gun? I am a bit disappointed because after taking the phenomenon, sorry, the interesting young Tonali, and having renewed a year at Ibra, Milan behaved as a miser, not even we were experiencing hardships from Covid: fewer sponsors, fewer television rights, without takings at the stadium, with past debts and a budget of -100 million … These stingy men have spent only about sixty million (Tonali, Ibra, Hauge) and moreover they sold in 2020 – unfortunate year in which no one was able to sell not even a bar of soap – Suso, Cutrone, Rodriguez, Paquetà, earning 10 million in the Rebic-André Silva exchange. Darling? Can someone in debt also have a small treasure? I did not know.
Why didn’t they take an example from Juventus, who smuggled De Sciglio, Douglas Costa and Rugani without taking a ghello? Or from Inter, who failed to place Ranocchia and Skriniar and now have a great abundance in the strongest defense in the world, who have already conceded 6 goals in 3 days?
I am a bit disappointed because no one knows who Dalot and Hauge are, because in October we have 6 injured, half a dozen veterans from Covid with Ibra still positive (because the naive Swede doesn’t do like Buffon, who runs around the field in the midst of everyone without a mask and takes selfies?), 2 out of condition (Tonali and Leao), 2 convalescents, one who has groin problems (Castillejo) … Why didn’t they take Deputy Tonali, Deputy Leao, Deputy Castillejo, Deputy Rebic …? Because they did not follow the Juventus philosophy that with almost 200 million passive and full Covid, took 2 players in the same role (Kulusevski and Chiesa) for 100 million, where they already had Cuadrado, Bernardeschi and until 19.59 on 5 October also Douglas It costs? Because? Because? And are we sure that if Gigio had a cold, Tatarusanu would be up to it? Mah … I wouldn’t be so calm.
Now, however, with seriousness, sacrifice and commitment on the part of the owners, the renewal of Donnarumma must be faced, a heritage for the next 15-20 years, a man who is worth ten points per championship, a goalkeeper destined to become one of the most strong (perhaps the strongest) in the world and the last living flag of football. And this time I’m not joking.
(PS: I forgot. We have been in a useful series of 19 games, first in the league with full points, 0 goals in the passive, but just because there is no audience at the stadium and because we only met scamorze. Otherwise, you know where we would be … ).
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