Allegri is back in Milan and everyone wants to know: how will his Milan team play? The answer, actually, he has already given us himself. And the new Milan will be born this way, in the image and likeness of his tactical credo
Che modulo userà Allegri al Milan? Ce lo spiega lui in una frase – serieanews.com
Massimiliano Allegri landed in Milan a couple of days ago, signed, put on the Rossoneri suit, and now the usual theatrics begin. Everyone is wondering how his Milan team will play, everyone is throwing out modules, ideas, theories, even though the market is still closed and half the roster could change between now and a month.
It already starts with one major certainty: Tijjani Reijnders will not be there. The Dutchman is now virtually Manchester City’s, will play the Club World Cup with Guardiola and will bring Milan about 75 million euros. A nice little treasure, which the club has already set its eyes on to get its hands back on in the midfield and beyond.
But who will be the next to go? Leao? Maignan? Theo Hernandez? And who will arrive? These are all legitimate questions, but to understand what this Milan team will look like, we have to start with Allegri himself. Not so much from what he said yesterday, but from what he has always said and which concerns what is his main tactical credo. A lesson in soccer that is now at least 10 years old and yet continues to be very relevant.
Thus Allegri to Sky a few years ago, “Do you think that soccer, in a field where you play 110 x 70, where you play with your feet, you run with your feet and there are contrasts win schemes? I think you have to change, the players, even from the little ones, have to be made to work on technique and individual tactics. Soccer is very simple, don’t make it complicated.”
Come giocherà Allegri al Milan? Non vi fossilizzate sul modulo!
This interview with Sky has remained in history, it is a passage that still tells the Allegri-thought well: the famous demonization of fixed schemes, of soccer that lives only by tactical boards and not by men. Allegri repeated it a thousand times: it is the players who make the module, not the other way around.
Come giocherà Allegri al Milan? Non vi fossilizzate sul modulo! (LaPresse) – serieanews.com
So there is no point in getting caught up in the rush. Milan does not yet have a precise shape because Allegri himself does not want to give it at the table. First we need to see who stays, who arrives, who leaves. What is certain is that the coach from Livorno likes to start from the midfield. He has never been a fan of adapted midfielders or hybrid directors. Allegri wants one, better two, players in the middle of the field capable of dictating the pace, filtering, igniting the maneuver. And here an interesting scenario already opens up.
With Reijnders’ money, Milan will go looking for at least two midfielders with different characteristics than the Dutchman. There is talk, not surprisingly, of Samuele Ricci and Hans Nicolussi Caviglia: one whom Allegri knows very well, one whom he has already valued in his time at Juve. He could be the first piece of a more “classic” midfield, more reasoned, more Allegri-like, precisely. Next to him, a more physical or more technical player will probably be needed, depending on how the market moves.
But back to the main point. What form will Allegri use at Milan? Simple answer: there is no such thing as an Allegri module. There is the Allegri-thought, and that thought says that matches are won by the players, not the little numbers written on the blackboard. This means that Milan will be able to change its skin several times, will be able to switch from 4-3-3 to 3-5-2, will be able to adapt, transform, change shape as needed. This is the real secret of the new Milan: the ability not to cage itself in a scheme, but to build itself as it goes along.
The rest, Allegri will explain to us with facts. And, as always, he will do it his way.
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