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00:00Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome along to the pre-match press conference on the eve of Lecce Milan.
00:07We'll start with Simone Ibellini for Milan TV. Thanks, Nicola.
00:11Good afternoon, Gaffa. I wanted to ask you what the team's reaction has been to the defeat to Cremonese.
00:18How have they looked on the training ground this week? How much do they want to bounce back?
00:24Good afternoon, everyone. Everyone wants to bounce back. No one expected this defeat.
00:30And had we been a bit more switched on on the two goals we conceded, then we certainly could have come away with a result in a game where we had a number of opportunities.
00:42Unfortunately, it went this way. Tomorrow we have the opportunity to bounce back against a Lecce side that play a quick round of football.
00:50They're very organized and it's never easy to go to Lecce and play.
00:55Sky, good afternoon, coach.
00:57You've been involved in football for a lifetime. Maybe they've already asked you, how do you feel about coaching a team when the transfer window is still open?
01:08And there's some crazy goings on for the last few days of the transfer window. Does that frighten you or are you encouraged by some of the names that are coming out?
01:18I'm not afraid of this at all. The final days of the transfer window are always like this because we're used to it now.
01:27The comings and goings, the vicissitudes of the final days of the transfer window.
01:33As for the transfer market, the club are dealing with that. They're trying to equip the team and bring in some players that will certainly require on a daily basis
01:48so that the individuals can work together as a team so that come the month of March, we're in the best possible condition and in the best possible league position.
01:58As for everything else, I'm very happy with the players I have to coach from because, as I said earlier on, everyone is very angry about the defeat last Saturday against Kremlin.
02:11So, we need to keep working hard and think about what we need to keep doing.
02:19Hi, Max. I'd like to ask you whether, in light of the comings and goings, amongst all of the title pretenders, maybe Milan are the biggest one in the state of flux
02:37and it might take a while to see your best team.
02:41Let's talk about Santi Jiménez.
02:44Santi Jiménez is currently the only striker we have available for selection.
02:49He's an excellent footballer.
02:51He's scored a lot of goals at Feyenoord and I've got to know him over the last three weeks since he came back in.
02:57He's a good player and we have high hopes for him.
03:01As for whether it's still a work in progress, we're one of the pretenders for the Scudetto.
03:07It's pointless to talk about certain things.
03:09I think we need to work day in, day out, see how this team develops and the individual players.
03:19Because some young players have signed that are good players with a lot of potential and all we can do is work with them.
03:30I think we certainly need to improve upon Milan's league position from last season and as I said, we have six months between now and March to try and get into a good league position.
03:41You said that the club is working on transfer dealings, but how does it work in terms of sharing things?
03:51Do you agree with them?
03:53Are you completely on board with what's being done?
03:55Do you think the club is working the right way?
03:57We speak to one another with Moncada, Fordlani and Ibrahimović.
04:06We speak to one another, but it is ultimately the club that does the transfer dealings.
04:10And we mustn't forget that the club does have that input and they need to make sure that they balance the books as well and build a competitive team and make sure the balance sheet works.
04:27We need to work hard.
04:28We need to focus on what we need to do.
04:30We have a very hard game tomorrow against Lecce.
04:32And that's always the case in Serie A.
04:35We saw that last week against Cremonese and the club will deal with the rest.
04:39Gazzetta dello Sport.
04:45Hello, coach.
04:46I don't know whether you want to talk about individuals, Christopher Incuncu, who is maybe not official, but he's very close to being over the line.
04:55In general, what sort of requests have you asked?
04:58Because we think that Allegri wants a physical midfielder, a centre forward, maybe an extra defender.
05:03I'd like to ask you, given that we're here, this is the only opportunity we have to speak to you with the transfer window still open.
05:09Are we right in what we're thinking?
05:12The club and I have spoken to one another.
05:16The club is aware of market opportunities.
05:19I do a different job.
05:20I'm simply here to work day in, day out with the team, train the players I have available for selection.
05:31As I've said, I'm delighted with the squad I have to pick from because there are some good players in there.
05:37All we simply need to do is work hard.
05:40Our colleagues have already asked you some questions about transfer dealings in terms of the players that need to come in.
05:54In terms of the players that have already signed, I'd like to ask you a question about the Swiss midfield, Ardon Yashari, who came in in the summer.
06:09What is Yashari's position?
06:12Because against Cremonese, he came on as a deep-lying playmaker, but is he more of a number eight?
06:18Is he more of a deep-lying playmaker?
06:21How do you see this better in terms of his skill set?
06:24First and foremost, he's a good player with a huge potential.
06:27Unfortunately, Yashari got injured this morning because he clashed with Santi Jimenez in the small-sided game,
06:41so he won't be available for selection at Lecce.
06:44Yashari, this is.
06:44Yes, Santi Jimenez, not Alex, the striker.
06:53I think he's more of a player in front of the back four or playing in a double pivot.
06:59In certain circumstances, you could play as a number eight, but it depends what you ask your number eight to do and where to do it.
07:06La Repubblica.
07:06Hi, coach.
07:12After the Cremonese game, you spoke a great deal about the defence, about how you need to be more switched on defensively.
07:18What have you said to the players over the last few days?
07:20I'd also like to ask you whether we might see Kono de Vinta, one of the new signings, play tomorrow.
07:26Tomorrow, I'm not sure which defenders I'll pick, but we haven't spoken about things.
07:33We've analysed the goals that we conceded.
07:36Of course, we could have dealt with that a little bit differently,
07:39and we could have avoided the two goals we conceded because we were set in terms of shape.
07:44But these things happen because when you concede a goal, it always means that one team makes a mistake.
07:51And in the two mistakes we made over the course of the 90 minutes, we conceded those two goals.
07:55So we need to reduce or almost completely do away with the mistakes at this moment in time.
08:04Good afternoon, coach.
08:06The famous striker like Olivier Giroud, given that the club needed a profile like that at the start of the summer.
08:14Have you changed your mind or have you changed in terms of what you're looking for?
08:18Should we be more patient or has something come to pass?
08:21No, nothing has happened.
08:22We need to be patient and trust in the transfer dealings the club is doing and will do over the last few days
08:29because it's in everyone's interest, first and foremost the clubs, to build a squad that can be competitive with our rivals.
08:38So there is still that demand from your side.
08:41No, not only for me, for everyone.
08:43I look at the qualities that we need and then the club does the transfer dealings.
08:49Hi, coach.
08:50I'd like to come back to defending.
08:53You said after the game that there were two mistakes where you switched off in two situations where you had numbers up and you were set defensively.
09:01But looking at the last three seasons, sure, you weren't at the club, but Milan have conceded 137 goals.
09:08Inter and Juventus, per esempio, 99.
09:11So it's almost 40 goals more and it's 1.2 goals per game conceded.
09:16How can you bring down that average?
09:18Because it is a problem, a historic issue with this team, regardless of the coaches coming and going and the players in the team.
09:26The first thing we need to do is do things and work hard.
09:31Talk is cheap.
09:35Once we've started to work, then we will become more focused as to when we're defending.
09:42And that is something we're working on.
09:47And we hope that we go to Lecce tomorrow and we keep a clean sheet.
09:52But we can't necessarily do away with these shortcomings in a week or a month.
09:58It will require a bit more patience.
10:00But I am sure that we will do away with this issue.
10:04Franco Ordine.
10:06Hi, I wanted to ask you the following.
10:08How do you explain the difference between the performances from your Milan side in the pre-season friendlies and the Coppa Italia game?
10:26We were all very positive about those displays.
10:30And then the other side of the coin that we saw against Cremonese.
10:33How do you explain that?
10:35Is there a technical, psychological explanation for that?
10:39There's no explanation because, as I often say, you can't explain football.
10:47You don't explain football.
10:48You play it.
10:48As for the difference, the performance against Cremonese was still a performance where we created chances.
10:58We had 25 shots on goals.
11:01But against Cremonese, we conceded two crosses where we were set the right way defensively in terms of our positioning.
11:09But we conceded goals because there were some mistakes at that moment in time.
11:17However, against Bari, despite the fact that we won 2-0, against Bari, we actually conceded four shots on goal and Mignon made two big saves.
11:27So it's not just because you win a game that there aren't any issues there.
11:31In the last friendly that we played, not in London, already in London against Chelsea, we conceded some avoidable goals.
11:42But against Leeds, we certainly played better.
11:45But in the last friendly, against a team with some limitations in Perth, we still allowed them to have three or four attacking situations.
11:59So that's something that we need to work upon.
12:02It's not simply because we beat Bari.
12:07In fact, on the opposite, on the other hand, looking at the two saves from Mike Mignon and the two chances from Crosses when they volleyed it in the second half, if you can remember that,
12:21that means that there are already a few alarm bells ringing.
12:27Against Cremonese, counter-intuitively, in terms of anticipating losing the ball, counter-attacks, the team did very well.
12:37We made two mistakes against Cremonese in the two goals, and that's quite difficult to do, but we did make mistakes, so we need to keep working hard.
12:45But defensively against Cremonese, we didn't necessarily think we would concede goals because Mignon didn't have a save to make.
12:52But against Bari, we actually ran more risks than we did against Cremonese, but that's the way football is.
13:00These things happen.
13:02But maybe in our next game, then maybe someone might cross the ball in, we're not set properly, and the ball might go out of play,
13:10and no one at the ground will realise that we're out of shape.
13:12So it's up to me and my staff to try and improve these defensive situations.
13:17Let's go to L'Equipe, Valente Ponzi.
13:22Hello.
13:25Rabiot said to the Gazzetta two months ago that I often speak to Allegri.
13:31If he calls me, I'll always be willing to pick up the phone.
13:33So have you spoken to him recently?
13:34No, absolutely not.
13:37Before the summer holidays, we haven't spoken to each other since then,
13:41but I'm really fond of Adrien Rabiot.
13:46Because when he came to Juventus, I actually left the club.
13:52But he's a Marseille player.
13:56All I can say is that I'm very fond of Adrien Rabiot, because we work together.
14:01Tell the Lombardia.
14:03Amongst the number of things that we've read, said, and seen over the last few days,
14:09is that Allegri's not happy, Allegri sees things differently to what the club are doing.
14:14Why is that not true?
14:15It's not true because I'm used to being aligned with the club
14:23and to coach the players that I have available for selection,
14:28because I believe the players I have to coach are always the best.
14:32And altogether, we need to try and get results, both good and bad.
14:34Giovanni D'Aglia.
14:39Hi, coach.
14:40I'd like to take a step back.
14:42After the Cremonesa game, you spoke about perceiving danger.
14:46Given that's a Milan's Achilles heel and has been for the last two or three years,
14:50is it a case of characteristics or do you need to go and sign another centre-back?
14:56I don't think we necessarily need to, but this is a challenge that all of us,
15:04me first and foremost, along with the team, this is a challenge we need to try and win.
15:08We need to try and lay the foundation so we can win.
15:11Namely, when we're defending, and when I'm talking about defending,
15:15I'm not only talking about the individual defenders or the defence as a whole.
15:19I'm talking about the team as a unit.
15:21We need to try and win this battle, this challenge.
15:23Hi, coach.
15:29I'd like to try and stay on that game, on that Lecce game.
15:33You said that only Santi Jimenez will be available for selection tomorrow,
15:36so that means Rafael Leal is not available.
15:39Do you have a plan B or C, in an attacking sense?
15:43We'll do so one way or another.
15:46We have Santi Jimenez and we have some other solutions,
15:49so we'll figure it out one way or another.
15:51But the most important thing is to approach the game in the right bay with respect.
15:56There are always difficult games at Lecce.
15:58There's a lot of excitement at the club there.
16:04They stayed up in Serie A.
16:05They produced a good performance at Genoa to get a point.
16:08Elzebio Di Francesco is a very good coach who organises his teams very well.
16:13They've got some quick players, so we always need to make sure that we match those teams in terms of respect.
16:20Once we have matched the teams and we run as much as them,
16:24then ultimately our technical ability needs to come through.
16:27And that's something that we need to work upon and improve.
16:31I'd like to ask you about the unavailable players, and you can tell me about the future.
16:40But given the importance of Alexis Salamakas, Christian Pulisic, Rafael Leal, one striker,
16:45can all four of these players play together?
16:50Anything is possible.
16:51It all depends on how willing the players are that they make available for selection.
16:59Because if everyone runs, it's a lot easier to get a result.
17:02It's a lot easier to play with more quality players all together.
17:05It all depends on the lads.
17:07If the lads are working very hard, and I'm very happy with what they're showing so far,
17:12I'm delighted to coach this group of players because they roll their sleeves up,
17:18they work very hard, and they train to try and get results.
17:21We made a bad start with the defeat, but we hope tomorrow
17:24that we can produce a good performance, and even more than that, get a good result.
17:34Last two questions.
17:36Hi, coach.
17:36I'd like to ask you.
17:38Actually, I'd like to ask a very experienced coach
17:40that has managed a number of different situations with individual players
17:44whether you're concerned about how Alex Jimenez has been managed,
17:49the full-back, whether it's true that he has been acting up,
17:55turning up late, etc., but given how much experience you have.
17:59Look, everyone's late over the course of a season.
18:03There are some that are unfortunate enough to be late at the start of the season,
18:08and some will do so later on in the campaign.
18:10But I've got nothing against Alex Jimenez.
18:12He's a good footballer.
18:14So nothing's come to pass.
18:17Prego, Massimo Canto.
18:18Massimo Canto.
18:19Hi, coach.
18:21I wanted to ask you whether the strike-em-ary-go-round link to Milan
18:29has had your blessing, and whether you've ever asked for Dusan Vlahovic.
18:33No, I've never asked for Dusan Vlahovic,
18:36because Dusan Vlahovic is a Juventus player.
18:38And I've spoken about skill set and qualities with the club
18:44in terms of the other situations that could come up,
18:47in terms of other players with different skill sets.
18:50If players of different qualities come in,
18:55then we'll figure out a way to deal with it.
18:57Thank you very much, everyone.
18:59Bye-bye.
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