Gianluigi Donnarumma Italy's future is in your hands


European Championship last 16


Germany 3-2 Italy
Rossi
Marchisio
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Disappointed to loose at this stage, devastated how the game went after Germany went down to 10 men. No way we should have let in 3 goals even to a team as good as this. I expect this will cost me the Italian job but has anyone else really struggled to get there tactic familiarity better. Ours has been rock bottom after several games in the same formation with very similar line ups. No ability to do training seems to exist



Other results
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Belgium and England are other teams heading home early.



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Gazzetta
Pre Season


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Abiatti set to call it a day after this season. Somewhere he'll get his 300th appearance



Euro 2016 Final
Portugal 2-1 France
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Ronaldo finally get some glory with the national team but no glory for me as i get sacked and end my year of pain with Italy.






Targets
Serie A - Title Challenge
Italian Cup - Solid Cup run
Champions League - Last 16


Domestically Juventus spent over £70m on players so expect them to be stronger than last year so just making a title challenge will be enough for me. A Cup run would be nice but not essential for us or the board. A strong showing in Europe is big for us. A club with such history in the biggest competition we must return with a bang.




Transfer Window




AC Milan
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In
We stepped away from our young talent for the future moto by spending £30m on one player but he should be one f the top defenders for the next 10 years.


Jorge DL
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The man to try and replicate the wonders of Paulo Maldini. Already at a level of a top Serie A defender my time in a previous save tells me he'll be a long term hero at the club.


John Stones DC
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The future of Englands defense. The man all the big clubs is chasing in the real world will form a wall with Romagnoli for the next decade.


Jonathan Calleri AT
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A future gem of a striker brought in to fill the hole left by Super Mario Balotelli who returns to Liverpool from his loan. Calleri will be fighting Bacca for the starting spot


Jamie Vardy AT
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Leicester's relegation has led to Jamie Vardy bringing his party to the San Siro. Will be tough to see him get past Bacca & Calleri but with no solid u18 prospect he'll get plenty game time.




6 other youths come in Taravella, Vergine & Pierleoni stand out
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Out
Almost all of these players made non or little impact for me last season. The El Shaarawy deal was done before i joined which is a shame but £10m in the bank. Zapata was the 4th choice defender and a player we can afford to loose.
Other players leaving on a free were Riccardo Montolivo to Lyon, Gabriel Paletta to Sociedad and most importantly Fernando Torres to Benfica taking his £175k a week wages.




Serie A Transfers
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John Stones is the biggest transfer of Stones from the Premiership is equalled by Man City buying Roma's winger Florenzi. Juventus were thinking of the future too buying Rafinha from Barcelona but lost Alvaro Morata to Real Madrid. 4 other big signing for Juventus were Nicola Sansone, Malcom, Jordan Amavi & Silvan Widmer. Roma with Mohamed Salah & Edin Dzeko and Napoli with Martin Odengaard, who chose them over us.




Italian Super Cup
AC Milan 1-0 Juventus
Abate
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We played Juventus in our first two games of the season drawing 0-0 in Giorgio Chiellini's friendly and in the cup game he rewarded us by getting sent off before half time making it a bit easier on ur squad crippled by Olympic call ups.




AC Milan Squad 2016
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All the changes to the squad were along the back line which is now aged 23,22,21 & 20. No forced changes in the next 10 years there. The rest of the signings have to fight for there places.



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Some great buys there! Expect to see plenty of assists from that Jorge bloke you got in.

Central defense sorted for many years now and will only improve!
 
Average Joe said:
Some great buys there! Expect to see plenty of assists from that Jorge bloke you got in.

Central defense sorted for many years now and will only improve!
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As long as and Jorge doesnt get itchy feet and Barcelona & Real Madrid's bids for Scigilo keep getting rejected then were set till 2026, Unless we get a super talented youth CB that will take over from Stones
 



September


Winning run now at 35 games and we have won our last 12 in a row
An amazing result at home to Man City sends the crowds and players imaginations wild. How far can this club go?
Reality bites at Parkhead however.


Fixtures

AC Milan 4-0 Carpi
Bonaventura 2
Calleri 2


Champions League Match 1
AC Milan 4-1 Man City
Bacca
Sisto 2
Bonaventura
Even in the build up to this game Jurgen Klopp spent the build up trying to pick a fight and play mind games. That worked!
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Pescara 0-3 AC Milan
Bonaventura
O'G
Sisto


AC Milan 3-1 Lazio
Barbosa
O'G
Mauri


Champions League Match 2
Celtic 2-2 AC Milan
Barbosa
Bacca
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Not sure what to make of this. An amazing result against Man City and maybe a bit of complacency sitting in




Serie A
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Ourselves, Juventus & Udinese all make a perfect start but our better goal difference see us lead the way. No major team make a bad start.



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October


First Points dropped in Serie A but the unbeaten run has hit 40 games
Win in the Champions league
Vardy & Poli get upset about lack of football. Vardy's only been here 4 months for goodness sake!
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Fixtures


Verona 0-2 AC Milan
Bacca
Bertolacci


AC Milan 2-0 Torino
Barbosa 2


Champions League Match 3
AC Milan 2-0 PSV
Sisto
Bacca
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The two group favorites win there game convincingly as we reach the half way stage. Tricky second half awaits with trips to PSV & Man City


Napoli 1-2 AC Milan
Bonaventura
Bacca


Udinese 0-0 AC Milan


AC Milan 3-0 Cagliari
Barbosa
Poli
Calleri




Serie A
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AC & Inter were tied at the top until Inter lost there final game of October to Napoli 4-1. Juventus join them 3 points off the top and those teams dominate the top scorers list that has a more traditional look than last season.




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Love the different story, Good to see AC become giants again
 



November


Vardy, Verdi & Poli all have issues with the amount of football and most calm down with a bit of action due to a massive amount of injurys. Vardy still not too happy but i'll try sort that in December
League run now at 43 games unbeaten but its still tight at the top
Cant talk of an Unbeaten record in the Champions League since Man City beat us 2-1 at the Etihad to nab top spot in our group.
Udinese have equaled the Serie A record for consecutive clea sheets with 11 in a row


Fixtures

Champions League Match 4
PSV 0-2 AC Milan
Calleri
Bertolacci


Fiorentina 1-4 AC Milan
Calleri
Jorge
Verdi 2


AC Milan 2-1 Sampdoria
Jorge
Barbosa


Champions League Match 5
Man City 2-1 AC Milan
Sisto


Cesena 0-5 AC Milan
Sisto 2
Calleri
Barbosa
Vergine


Champions League Match 6
AC Milan 4-1 Celtic
Rogmagnoli
Poli 2
Verdi
The Draw at Parkhead ended up playing a big role in us loosing top spot to Man City.
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Serie A
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Were still unbeaten but have Juventus right on our tails with Udinese, Inter & Lazio not far away if we decide to have a blip.



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December

Udinese do beat the record and got there 12th match without conceding but thats where the record ended.
Speaking of records our unbeaten run is now at 48 only 10 away from the all time record having just seen off Roma, Juventus & Inter Milan for the first time it feels like it could be on!
The wins against Juventus & Inter seen us pull away from our two closest rivals.
Palermo & Cagliari appoint big names to get there season back on track
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Fixtures


AC Milan 4-0 Palmero
Taravella
Sisto
Calleri
Vardy


Roma 0-3 AC Milan
Calleri
Hoda
Barbosa


AC Milan 1-0 Chievo
Calleri


Italian Cup 1st Round
AC Milan 2-0 Virtus Entella
Taravella
De Sciglio


Juventus 1-2 AC Milan
Barbosa
Sisto


AC Milan 1-0 Inter
Barbosa




Serie A
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Despite loosing there games against us the title is far from over. There amazing start to the season keeping them in the hunt. Udinese's crazy good defense keeps them in the hunt for Champions League action. Roma have been the failure of the season so far down in 10th. First few manager moves also take place towards the end of the season.




Champions League Draw
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Finishing 2nd in the end doesnt turn out to be a disaster for any of the Italian teams. Roma got the worst end of the stick drawing Chelsea while Juventus lucked in to get Galatasaray, who finished ahead of Man Utd and comfortably put PSG into the Europa League. We got Leverkusen. far from the worst draw but far from easy. This will be a tough fight over the two legs. If the board feel like giving us £42m or so in the transfer window i might nab Brandt off them to make my life a bit easier



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January


4 wins from our 4 league games.
One in and one out during a quiet January transfer window.


Fixtures


Sassuolo 0-1 AC Milan
Jorge


AC Milan 3-0 Frosinone
Mauri 3


Bologna 1-3 AC Milan
Calleri 2
Mauri


Carpi 0-2 AC Milan
Calleri 2




Serie A
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Juventus and Inter stay in the hunt amazing considering we have only dropped 2 points in the league so far this season. Udinese now are probably too far behind thanks to there 8 draws




Transfer Window
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Once again the Milan teams make the two biggest moves with Dynamo Kyiv striker Lukasz Teodorczyk to Inter. Juventus make a very coy move adding Nani for £5.5m
AC Milan

Two youngsters. One to be fas tracked to the 1st team the other to the youth team. One player leave. Left winger Luca Antonelli got a offer i could not refuse from Benfica £6.5m for a player i only played in extreme emergency.




Simone Pontisso
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The Italian U21 midfielder joins Milan from Udinese as long term replacement for Nigel De Jong if all goes well. Lots of development to be had here first.

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February


The mighty Pescara hold us to our 2nd draw of the season at the San Siro
A battling display in Germany see's us reach the Quarter Finals of the Champions League
Unbeaten League run has hit 56 games. March will be the make or record break month. Udinese, Cagliari & Fiorentina stand in the way


Fixtures

AC Milan 0-0 Pescara


Champions League Last 16 1st leg
AC Milan 1-1 Leverkusen
Calleri


Lazio 0-1 AC Milan
Calleri


AC Milan 4-0 Verona
Ely
Barbosa
O'G
Calabria


Torino 0-1 AC Milan
Mauri


Champions League Last 16 2nd leg
Leverkusen 0-1 AC Milan
Honda
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Brilliant fightback. We utterly bossed the Germans in there own garden and Juventus join us in the Quarter finals as the only two unseeded teams to get through




Serie A
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That unfamilure thing they call a draw came our way to see the gap closed to 6 points at the top from Juventus. Inter stay 11 points off as they drew as well.




Champions League last 16 Results
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Hard to call a upset really!



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March


The unbeaten run is over after 19 months and 57 games we loose to Udinese
Thrash Torino in the away leg of the Italian cup putting us on the verge of a final
Great draw in the Champions League
Ignazio Abate plays his 200th game for Milan
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Fixtures

AC Milan 2-1 Napoli
Barbosa
Vardy


Italian Cup S/F 1st leg
Torino 0-4 AC Milan
Calleri
Vardy
Pontisso
Locatelli


AC Milan 1-2 Udinese
Sisto
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Aye you freaking kidding me 57 matches unbeaten then in on the night we could have tied the record we freaking loose at home!


Cagliari 1-2 AC Milan
Calleri 2


AC Milan 3-1 Fiorentina
Calleri
Honda 2


Sampdoria 0-3 AC Milan
Sisto 2
Calleri




Serie A
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Juventus dont really take advantage of our defeat. Even if they win there game in hand there still 6 points back with only 9 to play. Inter fall further back and have got Udinese flying up behind them. Lazio & Torino set to fight for 5th unless Roma's new manager Franck De Boer can turn things around. Chievo also make a huge swoop getting Roberto Donadoni to try and save them from relegation.




Champions League Q/F Draw
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Dortmund is as close as we get to a favorable draw. Juventus get Arsenal while Bayern and Real Madrid face off



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April

6 wins in the month including beating Juventus all but wraps up anonther Serie A title
Back up players beat Torino in a thrilling 2nd leg to get us into the Italian Cup final
Beat Dortmund in both legs in what turned into a easy Champions League tie




Fixtures

Sampdoria 0-3 Ac Milan
Sisto 2
Calleri

Coppa Italia Semi's 2nd leg
AC Milan 4-3 Torino
O'G
Vardy 2
Delendati
Agg AC Milan 8-3 Torino
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Sassuolo stun Juventus by winning the first leg at Juventus 2-0 then holding them to a draw to set up there second Cup final appearance in a row while ending Juventus's 2 year hold on the trophy


AC Milan 2-1 Cesena
Sisto
Bonaventura


Champions League Q/F 1st leg
AC Milan 3-1 Dortmund
Mauri
Barbosa
Bertolacci


Palermo 0-3 AC Milan
Bertolacci 2
Calleri


Champions League Q/F 2nd leg
Dortmund 0-2 AC Milan
Bonaventura
Bertolacci
AGG AC Milan 5-1 Dortmund
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Very comfortable progression in the end. Expected a lot more from Dortmund


AC Milan 2-1 Roma
O'G 2
No joke!


Chievo 0-3 AC Milan
Ely
Bertolacci
Cubas


AC Milan 2-1 Juventus
Poli
Bonaventura
This was the night that the title was all but won. Full focus will now move to the Champions League, well about 90% attention as i'd like to finish the season unbeaten and go after the 58 game record again.




Serie A
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Juventus fought well but results in April before we faced each other had them on the ropes and the 2-1 win is surely the K'O punch. Inter look set to join us in the Champions League, Udinese settling for Europa League Lazio and Torino for the final spot with Roma still have slight chance. At the other end Palermo are the biggest side around the relegation zone and are only 2 points from safety




Champions League Q/F's
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Juventus held a 2-1 first leg lead but Arsenal turned the tables on them at the Emerates. Likewise Man City this time at Chelsea after Chelsea held the lead from the 1st leg. Real Madrid won the battle of the mega powers and are the side nobody wants in the Semi Finals


Champions League S/F draw
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Arsenal's Road to the final will keep going through Italy and we will be out for revenge after they damaged our coefficiants by knocking out Juventus



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May


Title secured along with a few records
Bologna end a 11 match winning run on the final day, party poopers


Fixtures

Champions League S/F 1st leg
AC Milan 4-1 Arsenal
Bonaventura
Poli
Bertolacci
Sisto
Dominated the game from the start but 3 goals in the last 5 minutes changed the game from a draw to a huge win


Inter 0-1 AC Milan
Vardy


Champions League S/F 2nd Leg
Arsenal 3-2 AC Milan
Honda
Sisto
AGG AC Milan 6-4
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2nd leg was a formality after going 2-0 up on the night we set up shop and despite the win this turned out to be Brendan Rodgers last game as he was sacked in the aftermath


AC Milan 3-1 Sassuolo
Jorge
Calleri 2


Frosinone 0-4 AC Milan
Bonaventura 3
Sisto


AC Milan 0-1 Bologna
11 league victorys in a row going into the title party. Played several starting players and they better get this out of there system before the two finals coming up




Final Serie A Table
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We broke the total points record ending up with 104, set a new highest Attendance record 73,320 against Juventus who with 94 & Inter at 80 had seasons that were worthy of a title but miles behind us. Nothing really changed in the last month positionally Either Torino in 6th or Sassuolo from the Italian Cup will be in the Europa League




Champions League Final 2017
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24 final appearances between the two most successful teams in the competitions history but this is only the 2nd time they have faced each other in one final in 1958 won by Real Madrid 3-2 in Extra time



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Finals Week


4 days and two finals. What can we add to our record breaking league season? Make it a double, got a great chance against Sassuolo or a treble against Real Madrid in a game to decided who is the best team in Europe EVER!


Coppa Italia Final
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Sassuolo 1-2 AC Milan
Calleri
Bertolacci
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Great performance by Sassuolo to make this a contest. We were holding on by the end.




Champions League Final
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AC Milan 1-1 Real Madrid
Calleri

Real Madrid win 4-3 on pens
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A Brilliant match with a very sad ending for Milan. We took the lead with one of the most spectacular goals of the season Jonathan Calleri with a stunning overhead kick made from his fellow summer signing from South America Jorge. Ronaldo unsurprisingly pulled Madrid level just after the break and Kaylor Navas held of a full scale assault from our strike force and take the game to extra time just like 1958 except this time Madrid needed penaltys to win there 11th Champions League. I Should have thought better of having two English players taking pens, Bale missed one for Real meaning British based players went 0/3.


Like Alex Ferguson with Liverpool's league title history My youthful squad led by Romagnoli, De Sciglio & Donnarumma will try to catch and overtake Real Madrid at the most successful side in Europe, Current Score Real Madrid 11-7 AC Milan



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End Of Season 2016/17 Review


Very close to a perfect season. The fact that if we had made a few decisions the other way we could have beaten Udinese & Bolognia and had a perfect season. Wrong balance of youngsters to top team pro's and being a little bit short of talent. Were not quite in the ideal position of having 2 players for every position and a 25 man deep squad yet
Amazingly despite 34 wins from 38 games we only won the title from Juventus by 10 points and with Inter under David Moyes progressing the right way too things could be bright for these 3 teams. Roma & Napoli have gone the other way and are out of Europe altogther next season.
The final cull of Managers in Serie A seen Napoli ditch Vinchenzo Montella and Fiorentina doing the same to Paulo Sosa.


A sad day too at AC Milan. Old time keeper Christian Abbiati hangs up his gloves after almost 20 years at the San Siro. Always been a back up for me but his longativity at the club is a insperation to my attempt at a story and with that he's going to get a job with the U18s
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The other big league winners were Atletico Madrid, Bayern & Chelsea still managed by Jose!
And across Europe Man City & Liverpool swap Jurgen Klopp for Antonio Conte. Liverpool will be very happy with Klopp & £7m in there pockets


AC Milan 2016/7
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How good will this left wing be if they can both stay fit more next season. Bonaventura & Jorge next season will lead us. Sisto added goals to his game and with Bacca out almost all season Calleri's 26 goals cemented his spot as starter next season. Defense only let in 16 goals in the league a sign of that unit starting its legacy.


AC Milan Finances


Income = £325m +£90m
TV Money £89m +£35m
Sponsors £77m +£15m
Gates receipts £33m +£19m


Expenditure = £259m + £118m
Staff & Player Wages & Bonus £85m +£8m




Final balance £76m






Competitions
Serie A - Winner
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Coppa Italia - AC Milan 2-1 Sassuolo
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Champions League - AC Milan 1-1 Real Madrid, Real win on Pens
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Barcelona failed to get out of the groups


Europa League - Villarreal 2-2 Tottenham, Villarreal win on Pens
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Serie A teams in Europe 2015/16
AC Milan - Champions League Final
Juventus - Champions League Q/F
Roma - Champions League last 16
Napoli - Europa League Last 32
Fiorentina - Europa League last 16
Lazio - Europa League last 32





Life time players Update
This section is saved for players who should be here for there whole careers


GK Gianluigi Donnarumma
Season 56app Career 100app
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56 games and hitting 100 AC Milan appearances just after his 18th birthday. 31 clean sheets were not enough to keep him in the Italy squad as experience trumped him


DR Mattia De Sciglio
Season 41app/1 Goal Career 137app/1 Goal
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The Italian will find a strong rival at wing back on the left with Jorge outperforming in every area except assists.


DC John Stones
Season 44app/0Goals Club Career 44app/0Goals
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A bit older than the young players i hoped to see come through but without a single quality back up defender in the club Stones should have this position locked up for several years.


DC Alessio Romagnoli
Season 46app/1 Goal Club Career 90app/1 Goal
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Must be near his full footballing potential at 22 years old. I hope he can take the final steps in his development in the mental side of the game maybe becoming the captain in the future


DL Jorge
Season 36app/4Goals Club Career 36app/4Goal
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An incredible 1st season with goals and assist. Played his part in a tighter defensive unit while adding goals and assists to the team.


MR Pione Sisto
Season 47app/17Goals - Club Career 87app/24Goals
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Huge spell of development adding lots of goals to his game.


MC Jose Mauri
Season 31app8 Goals Club Career 65app/13Goals
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The closest i have to a tragic story this season. Early on in the season he locked down the starting spot but the week after scoring his first hat trick he tore his hamstring ending his season.


AM Gabi Barbosa
Season 41app/13Goals Club Career 70app/23Goals
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Not totally settled as the support striker but Calleri is too good and there is no clear replacement for him in the current squad




Season Awards



Serie A Player of the year
Pione Sisto
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Serie A Young Player of the year
Jorge
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Beat out some strong challengers


Top Scorer
Paulo Dybala - 24 goals
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Manager of the year
Gigi Donnarumma
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Donnarumma won GK of the year, Back up player Ignazio Abate won Defender of the year. They joined John Stones, Jorge & Calleri in the team of the year with 4 Juventus players, Donsah from Bologna and Icardi of Inter
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