The TEMPORARY End of an Era for AC MILAN

Fuck. Yes, FUCK. I would never believe there would come a time where I would not see AC Milan in the Champions League. That is the sad reality. After that shocking loss to Atletico, a team they were equipped to BEAT, AC Milan must now face next season with no Champions League football. It's a club going through a harsh change, and the end of a great era...TEMPORARILY.

Alas, the days when AC Milan were a force you FEARED in the Champions League. The days of Baresi, DESSAILLY, Van Basten, Inzaghi...and one of the best strikers of all time...GEORGE JEREMIAH WEAH. It is incredibly sad how far Milan have fallen to the point where they are languishing in  mid-table, and are getting SPANKED by some team called Atletico.
   There are many roots to the problem, and yes Allegri must be mentioned and the easy mistake would be to blame him for the malaise, but it goes far deeper...and it is a problem that is plaguing the ENTIRE league. Serie A as a whole has fallen as I wrote in my last piece before, and AC Milan are one of those victims who have a SQUAD that cannot even come CLOSE to competing against YOUNGER, FITTER, BETTER AND HUNGRIER players.

The return of Kaka was supposed to be a signal that Milan were harkening back t days of old. But I have never been a fan of Kaka, and I think that his move to Madrid will be a decision that he will rue for the rest of his life. He SHOULD have remained at Milan knowing he was a player that was only built for that team.
  His return just has not seen Milan reach those heights because Kaka has fallen off. He is not the same player, and even though he still has that class in SPORADIC MOMENTS, overall, he is just much slower and not as sharp as the new generation of Gotzes and Gundogans and Onazis.


Seedorf has a tough road ahead of him and as much as I LOVE Clarence, I think this is a job that may be beyond him. We are talking of a FULL SCALE CLEAROUT, and rebuilding a team from scratch. Now, if Berlusconi can somehow dig deep into that mob money and give Seedorf the funds to try and buy his own players, then maybe Seedorf can create a new exciting Milan. But as some Italian fans have stressed....there is an Italian identity of playing, and to try and reshape that completely, I am just not sure whether or not that would work.
    The future does not look bright for Milan, but true great clubs never stay on top forever....but they always come back to rise again. Milan WILL have their time in the sun again...and those fans MUST KEEP THE FAITH in one of football's most popular football clubs.


HH