Had two chances with patchwork squads put together with mostly opportunistic random signings. First squad couldn’t even get out of CL group stage the year prior. The second squad two years later we had sold the entire midfield from the first that was best in world level. Those squads were filled with players you and others constantly called rubbish. Lol
Give Allegri’s 2016-17 squad Vidal and Pogba in the mid and we win that CL easy. A healthy Chiellini in 2014-15 and we win that title imo. Combine the best of those two squads and we win both titles. Instead we castrated ourselves repeatedly with sales and depended on Allegri’s magic to overcome our deficiencies.
Living in the past? Nonsense. He had 1 bad season here, his last. With an aging, unbalanced, squad. And we still won domestic title and played CL QFs.
Bring him back after a couple year sabbatical, he’s in his early 50s, and involve him in the transfer market in building a new, young contender around our core group young players. There are only 3 managers who have had anywhere near Allegri’s success over the past 7 years. Zidane, Klopp, Simeone. None are available.
Or alternatively, if Pirlo had been in charge in 2016/2017 do you think he would have done half as well as Max? With a Khedira/Pjanic midfield and Fatty Arbuckle instead of Ronaldo? What would have likely happened is that he would have crashed out to a better Porto team than this and struggled in the league and people would have been saying how our squad is awful and full of donkeys.
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Allegri had two chances to win the CL. He didn’t win them. 0-2. Now the squad is worse. We need to stop living in the past, that era is long over with.
Allegri had 5 chances to win the CL. Twice he came very close, twice he got eliminated by a very strong team in the last minute and only one time he underperformed somewhat.
Put any other coach in his place with the same team. Who would have done better?
Guardiola? He hasn't even reached a final in his last 7 years. He got embarassed a number of times, including last year and he has had a much better squad and almost unlimited budget every year. And I bet if we hired him 90% of the forum would be jerking off till they pass out and he would have 5 times bigger salary than Max.
Zidane? Are you sure he will be able to achieve the same success here? I'll admit that he has proven to be a good coach but let's be honest, he was incredibly lucky in all his CL runs. Plus all the refs.
Max is the only guaranteed success for us.