http://forum.acmilan-online.com/showpost.php?p=1339527&postcount=11411
You're not dumb enough to see why he's thriving?
Sure he definitely benefits from less fixtures (who doesn't?) and he has the added motivation. But more than that...
Juventus are a mobile team. Similar to barca being mobile (obviously less talent), and xavi thriving. As soon as it turned to give ball to messi, and let him create/xavi's assisted declined. Compare that to 2009, xavi's best year when they had perfect balance of henry, messi wide running and etoo at CF. Xavi gained 49p87349 assists.
Same thing happened in milan the minute Clarence was moved to AM (which was redundant... clarence tended to stop play and thus waste pirlo's passing) and even worse when we got Ronaldinho.
In the current milan, Pirlo would have thrived like he was starting to pre-injury.
It's not surprising he's been better for italy last 3 years and not milan because of mobility too.
Dude has gift of vision and passing range VERY few players in world do, and you know it. He might not be as good as xavi or even cesc, but the number of players who can dictate/control a game and pick out players runs consistently from CM are few and far between.
Nah my anger is all at management, cause for about 4 years pirlo's talents were wasted. We should have built a team based off him. Had kaka playing off a Cf. Making it mobile in attack, pirlo in middle holding it together. 4-4-1-1 persay. Totally wasted whern we constantly put static players who STOP the ball infront of him. I just happen to think it's berlusconi/galliani retardation. We had some good players (pirlo, kaka), and we could have built an attack a certain way to make them all thrive, and instead they played FM and constantly made moves which made certain players influence way worse