I spoke too soon, you might be right of him being benched next.... read the bolded part of what Allegri just said about him for clarification/hint:
Thats allegri's way of telling everyone, he's the coach and he'll decide wether he plays or not, not public pressure.
Kinda taking the pressure off the player onto himself
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In different ways, both Conte and Mourinho do the same.
Both would create an atmosphere where there is outrage and its all going towards them, making it easy to feld the player off pressure.
Mourinho would see a player try hard and not perform, and assault the referree or opponent in a way, people forgot about the player and attack him.
Conte, much more then allegri, would bombard the pressconference and establish domminance, or just go like "media silence gtfo" but also forbid players of talking. result is half the media shitting their pants,and the others are to buzy to attack conte, rather then players.
If Allegri would have said nothing, he would have been shown to be a peasant who's decisions can be influenced by a bit of media pressure.