Milan – Paulo Fonseca continues on his way. “I don't close my eyes, I don't hide,” he explains calmly.
To be honest, he doesn't deny a single word of the outburst (“I had the need to speak like this”), but rather points out on the topic of “the support received from the club” informed (“I spoke first to the team and then to the club”) at the end of the match with Red Star and prepares a mini reshuffle due partly to a lesson to be taught (Theo Hernandez out and Jimenez in photo – by Milan future) and partly to a necessity (Musah not called up due to a muscular injury, he makes his debut as an attacking midfielder Liberals, another talent from the youth sector). Then he sentences: «The problems with Red Star were only of attitude.
The problem is mental.” And here he also calls into question the final performance of last season, with Pioli now out and a team capable, for example, of conceding 3 goals by Salernitana who were already relegated: «I've seen 10 of the last matches, everyone tells me that it was the same attitude”.
This is why the fans, according to a survey, are 80% on his side. In summary: this AC Milan team has been performing in fits and starts for some time, committing the sin of “presumption”.
Chapter captain's armband. With the exclusion of Calabria and Theo, tonight against Genoa it will be Leao's turn, thus respecting the hierarchy found. «When I arrived I didn't think about changing, they would have killed me. I respected the decisions of the locker room but in my head I thought otherwise” the other confession which confirms the idea of a man who clashes with the past. But without being scandalized: «It happens in almost all clubs». And he is so convinced of his method that on the subject of the now very distant championship he insists: “It's more difficult now, but inside me I continue to believe.”
And then tonight we will understand if once again the iron fist can bring the whole of Milan back on the right path. The occasion is special: there is the shirt specially worn for the 125 years of the club, the glories (from Van Basten to Pippo Inzaghi, Donadoni) to greet (Maldini will not be there as an invitee).
«We must live up to Milan's history» concludes Fonseca. There will be a less than festive atmosphere as demonstrated by the absence of owner Gerry Cardinale. Pato, moved, attended the training and with him the great grandson of the founder Kilpin arrived at Milanello.
