On Matri: “First I’d like to say best of luck to Boateng, he said goodbye with two great goals which gave us the Champions League, Matri is a player I know well who comes from the Milan youth academy. As I’ve said before, we’ve lost Pazzini and he was a huge player for us last year. Matri’s a great buy, a great player and a great professional.”
On Cagliari: "The new season starts tomorrow. We didn’t do well in Verona after the first 15 minutes. Cagliari have good technical players and good individuals. Lopez is an ex-player of mine and good coach. It’ll be a tough game as we played hard on Wednesday. We’ll have to be ready.”
On Montolivo and the midfield: “If Montolivo plays as trequartista then De Jong will pull back and Nocerino, Poli and Muntari will play for the other two positions. Poli has always done well when he come on.”
On tomorrow’s game: “Verona came in the middle of two games that gave some sense to last season. If we hadn’t won against PSV, we’d be in the Europa League. We played badly last Sunday. The players know this and from tomorrow, we start anew. There are many teams that are equipped for the top spots and we’ll have to do well to maintain our place. We have to win tomorrow as we’re playing at home. We didn’t concede on Wednesday as the whole team defended differently to what they did on Sunday.”
On the centre backs: “We’ve looked at this. Since January we’ve only conceded 12 goals. Our starting centre backs are among the best in the league but even the best in the world will let in goals if they’re exposed. There aren’t many players better than those we have around at the moment, unless you go and get Thiago Silva.”
On the squad: “We have good players in the middle and we needed another forward. Going into this period with only Balotelli would have been risky. This group is giving me satisfaction. They know their limits and that’s a sign of maturity. We‘ll have to give something extra to hit our targets and we can’t make the mistake of being presumptuous. Our strength last season was in our balance especially when results went against us. We should try to avoid too many highs and lows.”
On Kakà: “He make the team stronger through his talent and his personality. He’s in good shape and it’s always great to have such players at your disposal. It would be great for the fans so we’ll have to wait and see. Both President Berlusconi and Adriano Galliani have every intention of keeping Milan at the top level despite the economic difficulties involved.”
On Boateng: "He was the variation of the team. He could play inside or out wide. We had a non-typical 4-3-3 formation with him.“
On De Sciglio: "I don’t think he’ll start. His knee problem has come up again and we’ll have to be careful not to take risks. Emanuelson and Constant are ready.”
On his relationship with the President: “We talk. We discuss everything. I stayed at Milan as I had to bring to an end the season and I didn’t want to leave it halfway done. I’m happy I stayed.”
On his contract: “I’ve never asked the club for a renewal and it’s something that will wait until the end of the season.”
On new signings: “Yesterday it looked like Honda would be coming then CSKA said no. now there’s the possibility of seeing Kakà and the club is working on it. We have Robinho and Montolivo in that position as well as Saponara. If Kakà comes, that’s great and even if he doesn’t we’ll do well with the players we have.”
On the younger players: “Petagna is a teenager and he needs to play. He can do that with Sampdoria. I think we put a bit too much pressure on certain players who could still be with the Primavera side. Timing is important and they’ll be in the Youth Champions League this season which will be good for them. At the end of the year, certain players will be more ready.”
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