You said he was a joke of a coach before he got here. Obviously that was wrong. But don't let the facts concerning his time at Cagliari and Milan get in the away, though. And you are right about one thing. Very few people wanted him here. But you know what? When you see what he went through at Milan, where they systematically destroyed his team, yet he still had them challenging up until that last season, you realized that he didn't deserve to bear the brunt of the blame that he got.
I feel this is easier to say in hindsight now that he is here and have won plenty silverware with us. By the time he was enduring the struggles you said, no one here cared about how good he was and instead we were having a lot of fun seeing him getting trashed by sassuolo 0 4 at home
Anyways, since i consider you a quality old school poster and a great guy, ill explain you my posture for you to understand, to prevent misunderstandings, since i dont see you in this rat nest everyday. People here like to create negative propaganda to hide what we really want to say:
1-im grateful to allegri for what he has done. He deserves credit.
2- At the same time, we have reached a ceiling in italy and need to start targeting the CL.
3-Since our midfield got butchered, i just saw negligence from Beppe and allegri in not trying to fix it, hence we are were we are now (champs of italy but with a very dubious midfield and playstyle«)
4-Allegri needs to try to make us play positively as he is sometimes way too pragmatic. You can win serie A, or even other leagues, this way... but in CL you need to know how to score and attack, and we lack in this department. Because of this, you see me and others week in week out trying to comprehend whats going on with our tactics, but to no avail.
5- i feel we can do more, but some here think we are fine and we reached our ceiling, thats how things are and nothing can be done. And here is where we do not agree.
We have hit a wall. My only hope is to see what allegri can do with better mids, but since he s a defensive minded coach, im not sure if he will get the most of the attacking players we buy. Look at our attackers... all of them having issues bar ronaldo.
The ATM 2nd game was marvelous (the first one was a tactical disgrace), so this gives me some hope too. Ill wait for the ajax games to judge... but i need to see allegri trying to practice a more positive football in the league... if not i dont know what to think.