GREAT LEO, GREAT PLAY
11/6/2009 8:34:00 PM
Adriano Galliani is satisfied about his coach's work: 'Leonardo is making me, president Berlusconi, and I think also the fans happy. He is a coach who is making us play good football.' Awaiting Adiyiah...
(On the photo, the smiles of Adriano Galliani and Leonardo)
MILAN - Here is a synthesis of the declarations of Delegate Administrator Adriano Galliani on his arrival at the Lega Calcio.
On Sunday's match against Lazio and Leonardo's ideas: 'Matches are difficult, balanced, they are all resolved on a knife's edge, both in Italy and Europe. So it will certainly be a difficult match. In any case I don't like to make predictions, it's pointless. What I can do, instead, is that I'm very happy about the work Leonardo is doing: he has found a nice tactical balance, I like it a lot and president Berlusconi also likes the way Milan play, with the 'Spanish' 4-2-3-1 system. We have always had an offensive mentality, we have a coach who makes us play good football, this makes both us and our fans happy. Results depend on a thousand details, but Milan are playing good football and that's very good. Our system is similar to Spalletti's? In fact I have always admired Spalletti: I like coaches with an offensive vocation.'
On the strikers: 'Leonardo came up with a very good idea. As Brazil coach Dunga told me a few months ago, it's better to make Pato play on the right and Ronaldinho on the left. With both playing on the left they 'stamped on each other's feet.' Now it's very good: one plays on the right, the other on the left, in the middle we have Inzaghi, Borriello or Huntelaar. Another good move made by Leonardo is to play Seedorf in the center and not on the wing. So I think it was the right thing to go for Leonardo: if a person is intelligent, and Leonardo is, he can also start with a big team instead of a small one. Leo is the umpteenth Milan coach who was not a coach before: think of Sacchi, who had never coached in Serie A, or Capello, who was a manager. The same thing goes for Leo.'
On the purchase of Dominic Adiyiah: 'He has been in Milan for two/three days. He is a lad who stays quiet and does what his agents tell him. And before his agents asked too much for him and we broke off the negotiations, then they returned and accepted Milan's offer. The lad is undergoing the medical visits, if they go well tonight or tomorrow morning he will sign the contracts which will be valid from 2 January. Adiyiah has a chance: he still has to show everything, but we thought that considering the cost of his transfer and his salary it would be a good operation. If then, for the third time, the top scorer of the Under 20 World Cup is a new Aguero or Messi, we'd be in luck...'