we played shit for a single half against ajax during the return leg, yet you take this season's second half as the rule. we played great against manure twice this season, we beat valencia (a tough team) convincingly, we beat the shit out of atletico madrid, so let's not pretend we are a choker of a team.
hernanes was a mediocre player, right? and we talk about players punching above their weight, right? in his first season, we played some solid games with him: beat city away, el title holders sevilla at home, plus he had a solid game away at bayern. of course he didn't suddenly become prime zidane, but for those matches, he was better than expected.
i can only repeat myself: the revisionism at tuz is getting out of hand. like we had the worst years of the history of the club under allegri, with players choking left and right. ffs, we're at number 5 at the uefa rankings based on the allegri years:
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/data/method5/trank2019.html
...while our revenue was either top10 or 11 for those years. i'm okay with you calling it a failure.
and no, i'm not happy with the way we lost to ajax. but i'm positive that with most injured players (or at least chiellini, mandzukic and costa) at allegri's disposal, we would be still in race for the cl trophy, despite playing unwatchable, shit football.