{"id":254049,"date":"2025-09-25T16:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254049\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:54:12","slug":"youre-too-generous-pellegatti-relays-request-that-allegri-gave-milan-star-leao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/254049\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;You&#8217;re too generous&#8217; &#8211; Pellegatti relays request that Allegri gave Milan star Leao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rafael Leao should return in an AC Milan shirt this weekend, and Massimiliano Allegri has given his star some instructions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The debate about Leao is a difficult one. In the past few years, every coach has tried something different, but last year was the most extreme case of it. Paulo Fonseca and Sergio Conceicao both <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/how-leao-role-changed-key-aspect-improve\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>wanted different versions of him<\/strong><\/a>, even themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Leao was a team player, someone who tracked, pressed and defended. However, he was also the star. There was little clarity, and that is what caused it to be such a poor season in most people\u2019s eyes. However, he still contributed 20 times, scoring 11 goals in Serie A and the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ac-milan-v-us-salernitana-serie-a-tim-62.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-278969 has-webp\" alt=\"leao pioli fonseca\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/750;max-width:1200px\"\/>Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty ImagesAllegri\u2019s version of Leao<\/p>\n<p>For Allegri, clarity had arrived before the job was even his. Leao will be his striker, the focal point of Milan, the star. This version of the Portuguese is more mature, <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/how-leao-new-man-new-player\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>according to reports<\/strong><\/a>, and the coach has now given his own demands to him, per Carlo Pellegatti (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/news\/pellegatti-vi-dico-cosa-ha-chiesto-e-cosa-chiedera-allegri-a-leao-591644\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MilanNews<\/a> relays).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes you\u2019re too generous, and so being generous doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re being clear-headed. In fact, last year, they asked Gimenez to move and move back. I\u2019ll tell you what Allegri will ask of Leao: \u2018You have to try to get to the first ball carrier, and that\u2019s fine, but I never want to see you move back to help the team. Stay there. You have to be clear-headed. I don\u2019t want you to move back. You have to try to disrupt the opponent\u2019s play, and that\u2019s it.\u2019 This, I assure you, is what Massimiliano Allegri will ask and has asked of Leao.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Leao should return in an AC Milan shirt this weekend, and Massimiliano Allegri has given his star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":254050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-254049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115265986479961621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}