You know Chiellni didn't play with leg against Ajax right?
We had to use Rugani (our 5th choice CB) in both legs. Of course we should have beaten them (don't ignore the penalty we should have had and the Costa shot against the post in the first leg) but we were a far better team last season than we are this year.
Do you seriously not think Rabiot and Ramsey are better players than Khedira and Matuidi?
Sarri has also continued to play "shaky, traitorous Bonucci" when we had Demiral and De Ligt both fit. I wouldn't put Benatia's exit down to Allegri, I'd blame Paratici for thinking he could replace him with an injury prone Caceres.
I didn't say Allegri had the perfect season last year but I have no doubt in my mind he would be doing better than Sarri is. Take Napoli out of the equation last year and focus on our results. They speak for themselves, we have far less points, far less goals, far less chances created, far more goals conceded, far more chances conceded than last season. It is clear we are doing worse.
Yeah we didn't have Chiellini for the Ajax game. The thing is in the past this wouldn't have been a problem for Allegri as he would've had a legend like Barzagli or Benatia to come in for Chiello. Wasn't the case last season, primarily due to the fact that he treated Benatia poorly and as a result Benatia was out the club. Costa hit the post and we had a penalty ignored but still we were thoroughly out played, especially in the second leg. Atletico fans could also say they had a goal wrongly disallowed, hit the post and didn't have Diego Costa available. Such are the realities of football.
Khedira is a world cup winner, CL winner, played for football's top teams and Matuidi is also a World Cup winner. For me they are both better than Rabiot and Ramsey in terms of what they've accomplished and what they bring to the table.
Sarri has had to play Bonucci cuz there are no other options. Rugani is meh and Demiral+De Ligt are too young to play together. This is a difficult defensive situation, especially when you are a new manager who's specialty isn't defending. As for Allegri, in my view he brought the defensive conundrum upon himself with his treatment of Benatia.
So far in the league we are worse than Allegri's team last season. But for me if it ends with us on top, imo there won't be anything to complain about.
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The fuck you mean - give? He inherited the motherfucking squad who won the league 5 times in 5 years, it cant get much easier than that...
Your base is weak, I admire that you are still trying, but you are failing and will continue to do so with your blind support to Del Neri v2.0 and your hatred and bashing towards the world class manager we had last 5 years.
Did he have this squad at his disposal the last five years? No. Now that he does have such a squad he will build up a very nice trophy collection, i've got no doubt
Admire what you like