Imagine being Skriniar, being shopped around by the new management, being benched by the new coach, right after sacking your agent to extend your stay here, rejecting every possible move during this time, earning the captaincy and then being called from traitor to ungrateful, all because said management never bothered to enter contract talks with him on time and instead tried to cash in on him yet again....
Yeap, entirely his fault if he leaves...
I see this post got lot of support, but I still have a different point of view of things?
But in real world good players get offers and clubs will talk to the players agent and to the player and then they decide what is best for everyone. Just another day in the office and no disrespect done. These boys are professionals. Sure some times club or coach wants to change players or system and players are sold and sometimes players want a new challenge or more game time…
Last summer everyone said that our managment only try to get easy way out and sell our top players (Skriniar) instead of try to sell ”fringe” players… But now when our managment try to do this (Casadei and maybe Dumfries) people are still shitting on them.
Currently Skriniar is our captain and he has good offer at the table from Inter. I see that as a respect towards to a player. Sure Inter have financial difficulties and that limit our options with dealing with new transfers and renewing current contracts. We are not at position we can increase every summer every players contracts two years early and increase our wage budget.
We have to balance our money losing budget and still try to compete. It’s not that easy as many here make it seem. Marotta, Ausilio, Antonello and Zanetti have in my opinion done good job recent years and we have good core players with mix of maturity and youth. We also have proof of that as a results from last seasons 19/20 2nd and runners up at Europa league, 20/21 scudetto, 21/22 2nd and coppa italia and supercoppa wins and current season is still open and we are still at CL.
I really don’t get your assumption that Skriniar was treated badly when Conte benched him? And what this is to do with our managment or this current situation with a new coach?
But anyway let’s see what Skriniar said about that incident?
“It was difficult to go from a four-man defence to three, as I’d never done that before and it was a struggle.
“Conte sat me down and explained the movements to me, using videos as well. He really does hammer his players constantly, drilling this winning mentality into them. We end up absorbing it even if trying to resist!”
I see no harm or disrespect here and I remember he was really struggling at the beginning, but improved thanks to Conte.
Who is calling him a traitor or ungrateful? Can you post a link where our managment said this?
I don’t see him leaving anybodys fault, but invidual players choise. I have utmost respect towards Skriniar and he is good player and professional and a great leader/fighter.
Milan lost Donnarumma and Hakan at the same window for free then Kessie and Romagnoli and they won the scudetto and people are giving gredit to their managment. Many clubs lose top players for free every summer as players get better wages as a bosman. It’s not optimal but it’s a reality we are living in. Currently there are few rich clubs who can make crazy offers to the players and I understand money is appealing.
I just don’t get this constant shitting on towards this managment when the results say the opposite? Don’t you guys see any good of this team and what our managment has done recent years?