Former player, coach and director of AC Milan, Leonardo, who is currently sporting director of PSG spoke to Sky Sport on the occasion of the Trento Festival:
"The 4-2 fantasy? It was a slogan created by Galliani, he was very good at creating these things. The season does not start well, it was my first experience as a coach, honestly, forced. It is not that I had all this desire to be a coach sincerely. It was a moment of transition and perhaps we needed a person who knew the club well, who understood that moment. It was necessary to manage a series of players who had already won everything. It is normal that the ambition does not disappear overnight. We started badly, then in short, during a game with Roma at home that we were losing 1-0, I moved Ronaldinho to the left, Pato to the right, Inzaghi in the middle and we made Seedorf play a bit more as an attacking midfielder. We had two midfielders, Pirlo and Ambrosini, who weren't two rock players but they also played. Hence the idea of doing something different."
Leonardo continues:
'So you say '4-2-4, at the Bernabeu, when we're not too well?'. I was on the plane with Galliani and we were sitting close together. He looks at me: "So?". And I: 'I don't know… I'm thinking'. And he tells me: 'It wouldn't be bad'. Without specifying what we were talking about. And then I: 'I think so too'. And he concludes: 'So let's go like this.' And we played like that, and it was the first time that Milan won at Real Madrid against the Bernabeu, we won 3-2. The game started with a mistake by Dida and Raul who makes the 1-0, already there it would have been more closed, but we didn't do it and from there we won 3-2 with a goal from Pirlo from outside the area and a brace from Pato, from there there was a change of mood and system and until almost the end of the championship we enjoyed a team that really enjoyed playing."
On Donnarumma:
"We never contacted Donnarumma before June. We have opened negotiations to hire Gianluigi once he is officially released, after the announcement of the sports director Maldini."
