Beyond the need to work on the mentality and spirit of the group, Milan, in order to avoid the continuous fluctuation in results shown in this first part of the season and particularly evident between October and November, with an alternation, often regular, of good performances and great victories contrasted with terrible displays and bad defeats, will necessarily have to intervene in the transfer market.
Gerry Cardinale has promised this in the various interviews and statements he has given in recent weeks: in January, Milan will be strengthened, ensuring that Amorim can count, in the second half of the league season and in the possible knockout stage of the Europa League, on a squad of a higher level both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Rotation
There is a statistical figure that clearly illustrates the Rossoneri team's difficulty in being competitive in every match and in every competition every three days.
As soon as Ruben Amorim had to resort to rotation (necessary and, in some respects, obligatory) the team ran into difficulties. Milan, in fact, have won only one of the midweek matches played so far, in Salzburg, with an emphatic 0-4 victory marked by Cisse's historic hat-trick.
For the rest, there have been bad defeats and also poor performances: the 0-2 home defeat against Benfica on their return to Europe after a year and a half, the emphatic 3-0 defeat at Bournemouth, the 2-4 comeback defeat suffered against Bologna at San Siro, and the most recent loss, at home against Ferencvaros.
Therefore, whenever Amorim has introduced the so-called alternatives into the starting lineup to rest the team's best players, his players have failed to deliver.
The consequence is clear: to ensure that Milan can continue playing in both competitions, soon to be joined by the Coppa Italia, while trying to be highly competitive in both, even aiming for the Scudetto in the league and attempting to win the Europa League, it will be absolutely necessary to bring in reinforcements as early as January.
Reinforcements
Milan have already secured their first signing, but it is not a footballer: it is Markus Krosche, an executive who will become the Rossoneri's new Head of Football starting on January 1.
That is the official date, but the reality is that the German is already operationally involved with his new club, to the point that his physical arrival in Milan could even be brought forward.
He could soon be joined by his trusted right-hand man Timmo Hardung, who has worked alongside him in Frankfurt in recent years, as reported by Corriere dello Sport today. If Hardung himself decides not to continue his career in Germany, there is a very high probability that he could follow Krosche to Milan. The plan is already written down in the notebook: to sign a new central defender, a left-back and a striker who can serve as Goncalo Ramos's understudy.
