That's what I'm saying. We changed so many players and still it's the players who are untrainable? Our club is just leaking shit to cover Allegri now. It's embarrassing. All those players we brought in have been nothing but professional for their whole careers. I could see if we brought in a couple Douglas Costas or something. We didn't.
i think this is wrong on a few points mike
- it's not only about the players we recently bought. bonucci, tek, mds, sandro, cuadrado and maybe a few others were here with sarri too, they were part of that untrainable bunch and only aged in the last few years. see cuadrado, he was great for many seasons under allegri, sarri and pirlo, then you're telling me that suddenly allegri turned him into shit for this year?
- sarri had a much, much stronger squad, it's not even comparable. and the downgrade is real, either because of age, or because of bad replacements. rabiot is better than matuidi, vlahovic is better than 2019 higuain, others either aged or simply worse.
- some new players don't even underperform. i've been happy with milik and bremer. kostic and vlahovic are badly underperforming, that's undeniable. zakaria was never a great player to begin with, and his chelsea stint kinda confirms that.
- being untrainable isn't really about quality, it's about a collective state of players who consider themselves more important than the group. bonucci is surely one of these, i dunno how toxic his mentality is.
- you're saying that all those players we brought in have been nothing but professional. what about gatti who never played a serie a match? what about di maria who needed a summer long courting just to not wait anymore for a spanish offer, and is only here because of the world cup, for a single season? kean the exemplary professional? pogba the other exemplary professional, the guy who way stripped of capitancy by mourinho, who's been lazy af and injury prone for years? paredes who never managed to cement his starting position at psg, who suffered like 4-5 minor injuries last season, and who wanted to join because of di maria and the world cup? you expect full dedication and performance from those? and some of these players aren't terrible, even good if you look at them in a vacuum, but for a rebuild, only gatti makes any sense. and yes, i'd also sign di maria on a free - but not without a proper backup considering his age, injury record and dedication. but pogba, kean or gatti? forget the first two, gatti is a bench player at best anyway.
- club isn't exactly leaking, it was the president who explicitly said after the final whistle at haifa that he stood by the coach, period. the club couldn't be more explicit.
again, for the slow bunch: we're not talking about covering allegri, he's probably beyond repair and should have been sacked already. we're talking about the issue not being one dimensional. our players are never to blame, right? cause football is simple, you just need your fullbacks at vlahovic's level, defend with a high line, run and put locatelli in the box, and if you tell 'em, they'll do as ordered, right?