GdS: Allegri delivers ‘Ten Commandments’ to Milan players ahead of pre-season

AC Milan’s pre-season volition officially commencement connected Monday and Max Allegri has delivered ‘Ten Commandments’ to the players to hole them for what’s to come. 

The 2024-25 play was a immense disappointment for Milan, finishing successful eighth place,  losing the Coppa Italia last and getting knocked retired against Feyenoord successful the Champions League. A implicit turnaround is needed to win this upcoming season, arsenic such.

Allegri volition beryllium astatine the helm of that turnaround arsenic the Rossoneri person tasked him with starring the team. Today, on with immoderate of the players, he arrived astatine Milanello for fittingness tests but the authoritative commencement of pre-season volition beryllium connected Monday adjacent week.

Allegri’s Ten Commandments

As reported by today’s variation of Gazzetta dello Sport (see photograph below), Allegri hasn’t wasted immoderate time, bringing the players up to velocity successful caller weeks. For him, determination are ‘Ten Commandments’ that each players indispensable travel successful bid to stay successful the squad:

1. Forget astir past play and commencement from scratch
2. Rediscover the Milan DNA; the tendency to win
3. The archetypal thought indispensable beryllium the team
4. Double grooming sessions from the archetypal day
5. Without mid-week games, determination volition beryllium pugnacious sessions during the week
6. Late arrivals to grooming volition beryllium punished with squad exclusion (for adjacent game)
7. No compartment phones betwixt meetings, meals and the locker room
8. Pay attraction to your weight; meal and luncheon astatine Milanello
9. Tough team; less goals indispensable beryllium conceded
10. On the pitch, the elemental prime indispensable beryllium made

All points are valid, of course, and it volition beryllium precise absorbing to spot however the players volition respond. Especially those who possibly had immoderate cognition issues past season, adjacent if astir of them already person 1 ft retired the door.