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Pre Season Preview
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Board to the Milanisti
Our business structure has seen the club turn from a faded giant with falling cash reserves to become one of the richest clubs in the world. This allows us to now change how we put together a team. As Serie A as a especially Juve & Inter along with Real Madrid & PSG improving every season it has become apparent that we now have to spend to compete with these teams as well as develop our own youth players and from this summer going forward you will see us move towards signing some bigger name players to keep up.
Away from ourselves Inter go back to there 2000's mantra of signing big name players in there elder days along with some of the smaller teams best players. Champions Juventus only sign one player Timo Werner. Only other teams making a impact were Udinese with over 20 signings and Roma having a great first window under new management.
World Cup
Portugal 1-0 Brazil
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Without the retiring Ronaldo Portugal won there first ever world cup. Biggest failures were Germany last 16 and France & USA never got through the groups.
Major Manager Changes
Urs Fischer - Napoli
Massimo Allegri - Roma
Massimo Oddo - Dortmund
Philippe Mexes - Lyon
Pep Guardiola - Schalke 04
Jose Mourinho - Inter Milan
Antonio Conte - Juventus
Julen Lopetegul - Chelsea
Roger Schmidt - Arsenal
Dello Rossi - Italy
Unai Emery - Spain
Andre Breitenreiter - Germany
Gio Van Bronckhorst - Holland
Hubert Fournier - France
Biggest window for managers so far thanks to big problems at the World Cup
Targets
Serie A - Winners
Italian Cup - Win trophy
Champions League - Win trophy
The scudetto is out of my hands for the first time since my first season so the no1 priority this summer is winning it back. The other no1 priority is keeping hold of the Champions league with Real not winning it being the only condition for us.
Transfer Window
Well this is different. Two back ups. two youths and a £75m No1 best Italian player in the game.
AC Milan
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In
Marco Verratti - MC
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Chairman Pietro Orlandi wanted to make a splash and it wont come much bigger than this. At 29 he's in his prime and although he may take some game time away from developing players Violante & Meduri i expect this to be minimal and Verratti will be for the most my CL midfielder. Great to have the country's best player back home. We couldnt make a bigger noise about our desire to return to the top of Serie A
Omar Sanchez - AT
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Im stunned and delighted to pick up this guy on a free. I had him already to join for £10m in January till the 2 no EU player rule ruined that idea and all chance i expected to get him. However either nobody wanted him or he didnt like any of his offers and we have a 3rd choice striker that should net us a tidy profit in the next few summers.
Matteo Pisseri is GK back up and the other two are for the u19s who will get much less help from the chairman's wallet
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Out
£50m for 3 squad players is a great haul.
Thiago was a player i was looking to move on from last summer but no offers came. This year Udinese stepped up and added him to there ever growing squad. Next out was
Firmino. Could play almost everywhere but not great in any position and with more and more u21s coming back on loan it was time to move on and give them a shot. Finally the biggest deal was CB
Moise Vlad Paul who went to Monaco for £33m plus a ton of future money. I had got to many CB and despite all my efforts to move on Hans Versluis no offers came for him before a bid from Monaco for Paul came in and there cheque book spoke after 6 seasons and 127 appearances.
Serie A Transfers
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AC Milan with the only deal over £20m. After us Inter feature often. Fiorentina loose a few players after seasons of failure.
World Transfer
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Uncapped winger Greg Spooner to Man City for £65m is the eye catching deal of the summer as well as Aston Villa & West Ham getting over £20m for players
Champions League Draw
Its us vs my favorite team Man Utd. We recorded a win and a draw against them in the 2019 group stages. Sporting Lisbon and St-Etienne should fight for 3rd
Italian Super Cup
Juventus 0-2 AC Milan
Calleri
Guzman
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Just a preview of what the old lady can expect from there biggest rivals this year.
Euro Super Cup
AC Milan 3-0 Everton
Van Der Laan
Calleri
Sisto
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Everton got a hiding
AC Milan Squad 2022
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Kraus get the starting job at DC. it will one day be Rexha's job but he's still developing. Gumas is back on the bench with the aging Bonaventura Verratti will get his share of games in the middle while Vergine & Carloni dream of major injurys to the starters that are in there way.
No reason why Leonardi, Fellcioli & Sanchez can overcome being outside the 24 to get plenty games this year. Ramon Janssen is up for sale after asking for at least double what a back up would get for me.