Arrigo Sacchi thunders against Milan but defends Sergio Conceiçao

Arrigo Sacchi spoke to La Gazzetta dello Sport about Milan’s bad season: “Seeing Milan in such a bad shape makes me very sad, because I am attached to that environment, to the fans, to those colors. Watching the Coppa Italia final, deservedly lost to Bologna, confirmed what I have been thinking since the beginning of this season: Milan is not a team”.

“When President Berlusconi hired me, he told me that his goal was to win and to convince. He wished for Milan to put on a show, to entertain people. He had an idea and he knew how to convey it to his staff. Does it seem to you that the Milan of today, understood as a society, has an idea? It seems to me that it does not”.

“The choice of coach, at the beginning of the season, is crucial. Milan, on the other hand, in the past summer first thought of getting Lopetegui, and then, because the fans were angry, tacked on the Portuguese Fonseca. The managers who made this choice made a serious mistake, and then, halfway through the season, they thought it best to go back on the decision and hand the bench over to Sergio Conceiçao, who, in my opinion, is the least guilty of all because he found himself working in general chaos. And in the end you will see that he will be the one to pay, because this is an old (and absurd) law of soccer: away with the coach, so we fix things”.

“Milan is a collection of players who were taken at random. I do not discuss their individual technical qualities, although I could: the problem here is that they are not elements capable of forming a team. You go and make purchases abroad, and frankly I don&#8217t understand the reason, players come in who come from different experiences and cultures, you have to try to amalgamate them, but in this way how is it possible to give a style?”.