Oh yeah? You’ve been saying this since way before, when there were lots of fuckkng signs that we actually regressing with Spalleti, or you just woke up and said I’m done with Spalleti?
Just a question.
There have been chinks in the armour ever since we only picked up 30 points in our last 22 games of last season, but the balance of the season and the fact that it was Spallo's first year were going to keep me from chirping about him then.
But this season, ever since the game at Bergamo specifically, has been a complete disaster. The first time I probably started speaking in terms of #SpalloOut probably came when he couldn't beat nothing-to-play-for PSV at home and he made the Vrsaljko sub in the 84th minute with the score 1-1 because he was counting on Barcelona to hold onto their lead against a desperate Tottenham side. Not just for the defeat, but the mentality it pervaded. That he would rather take a 1-1 draw against a side we were expected to beat (at home) and count on getting good fortune elsewhere rather than be the one to take the initiative.
It's often said that teams take on the mentality of their manager; usually you only hear that in good ways, but it can happen the opposite way as well. When you have a manager who doesn't want to take risks, talks in terms of "point earned, not two points lost" and such, you see the result. A team that has folded badly in every tough situation they've been in this season. Eliminated in three different competitions with home draws/defeats. Playing for the draw against Juventus at home. Same with Roma, and same with Lazio (same with Atalanta too, wasn't it?). That's dire and that's pathetic. We get 60,000 fuckin' idiots wasting money to go to the Meazza every two weeks to partake in activities that will require extensive therapy afterwards.
In any case, I'm rambling and getting off the point here. Ultimately, if we're just talking me here, I've been done with Spalletti since the middle of December. That's when I started to think he had reached his ceiling here. But I also have said that a midseason dismissal without a real replacement in mind that's available wasn't a wise idea, either, so, I guess the way to say it is that I was (and still, reluctantly, am) pro-Spallo until May 26. Once May 26 passes, win/lose/draw, he can do whatever the fuck he wants as long as he isn't our manager anymore.