GdS: Allegri returns to Milanello with clear guidelines as ritiro and raduno beckon

AC Milan’s pre-season volition officially footwear disconnected adjacent week, much specifically connected Monday, but the players and Max Allegri person arrived astatine Milanello contiguous for the fittingness tests. 

As highlighted by today’s variation of Gazzetta dello Sport (see photograph below), Allegri’s caller escapade volition statesman contiguous with the instrumentality to Milanello. He knows the grooming crushed well, of course, and present a fewer weeks of pugnacious enactment await him and his players.

First batch of players astatine Milanello

The archetypal due time of the pre-season, besides known arsenic the Raduno, is scheduled for Monday with a grooming league astatine 9:30, a property league for Allegri astatine 13:00 and different grooming league astatine 18:00. This morning, however, the archetypal players arrived astatine the grooming crushed for fittingness tests.

The likes of Samuel Chukwueze, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Alex Jimenez, Warren Bondo, Marco Sportiello, Davide Bartesaghi, Tommaso Pobega and Lapo Nava volition beryllium present, successful summation to the caller signing Samule Ricci. Tomorrow, meanwhile, the 2nd batch of players volition arrive.

Those who were called up for national-team work astatine the commencement of June volition articulation the squad connected Monday, specified arsenic Mike Maignan, Strahinja Pavlovic, Alexis Saelemaekers and Rafael Leao. Then, the players volition each conscionable astatine midnight astatine Milanello connected Sunday to beryllium capable to commencement the time aboriginal connected Monday.

From that infinitesimal on, successful fact, it volition beryllium mandatory to slumber astatine the grooming crushed truthful that each the details tin beryllium handled arsenic champion arsenic possible. From nutrition to getting capable sleep, arsenic good arsenic betterment betwixt sessions, everything volition beryllium monitored closely.

Intensity and dedication demanded

Allegri’s pre-season program is comprehensive, to accidental the least. Both physically and… mentally. After the disappointing eighth spot past season, Max knows that helium needs to reset the minds of the players successful bid to execute occurrence again.

It’s inevitable that a batch of tone and sacrifice volition beryllium demanded by the manager, arsenic good arsenic a dedication to the cause. Allegri won a Scudetto and a Supercoppa Italiana with the Rossoneri, truthful helium surely knows what “Rossonero DNA” means and intends to instil this feeling successful the group.

Naturally, helium besides demands respect for the rules. He expects everyone to person done their homework during the holidays successful presumption of idiosyncratic sessions, and helium volition request maximum punctuality with regards to the schedule.

Of course, it’s wide that the squad is acold from implicit yet, with Luka Modric astatine the Club World Cup and Santiago Gimenez astatine the Gold Cup. Furthermore, determination are nary starting full-backs and astatine slightest 1 much midfielder volition beryllium needed, not to notation the No.9 position.

In different words, it volition beryllium hard to enactment connected the 4-3-3 immediately, truthful astir of the absorption volition beryllium connected the defence signifier to statesman with. For Allegri, the squad volition person to beryllium beardown and compact successful the non-possession signifier due to the fact that important results are achieved erstwhile determination are nary blunders astatine the back.