Allegri took a closer look and saw that the position Pan Yi pointed at was the goalkeeper at the back of the entire formation.
"Abbiati?" Allegri asked doubtfully, "You mean, Abbiati's performance is not good?"
"Of course not. Abbiati's goal-line skills are quite good." Pan Yi explained, "But he is a traditional goalkeeper and his footwork cannot meet the requirements of our tactics."
Allegri's grimace immediately appeared again: "The goalkeeper has to guard the goal. Why do you need such good footwork?"
Pan Yi couldn't help but scratch his head.
At this point in time, there is still relatively little concept of goalkeepers playing the ball in the tactical system.
Traditional giants are still accustomed to using traditional goalkeepers with strong front-end saving abilities like Buffon, Casillas, and De Gea.
So he still had to think about how to explain this problem to Allegri.
"Let's go back to this tactic first. We just talked about the method of pressing in the frontcourt. Now let's talk about how to play normally when attacking with the ball."
Pan Yi clarified his thoughts and said again:
"Our striker will be a combination of Aubameyang, Inzaghi and Mane."
"As for Inzaghi in the middle, although he is older, he runs well without the ball. He has a unique skill to prevent offside. At the same time, his left and right feet are balanced and he can complete high-quality shots with both feet."
"But his shortcomings are also obvious. One is that he is weak in holding the ball with his back, and the other is that he does not have the ability to fight in a small space - this is completely different from Ibrahimovic. Therefore, if Inzaghi is the core of the striker, the team needs
The tactics create opportunities for him to get the ball head-on and gain room for him to speed up and sprint."
"Since we want to create sprint space, it is not appropriate to press heavily to compress the opponent's space. Therefore, our offensive organization is often launched from the backcourt. We are not in a hurry to advance forward at the first time, but will use a few steps in the backcourt.
Pass between the defenders to lure the opponent's forward to press."
"But at this time, because our fullbacks will also devote a lot of energy to the offense, so in addition to the two center backs, the goalkeeper will also be involved in the backcourt pass. Otherwise, it will be too easy for the opponent to predict and cause
The ball was intercepted..."
Allegri looked at the tactical board and nodded frequently: "I probably understand. It has a similar role to Bayern's Neuer."
Pan Yi also nodded and said: "Yes, it is a responsibility similar to the sweeper goalkeeper."
Allegri: "But it's difficult for Abbiati to handle this new responsibility."
Pan Yi: "Yes. And one more thing is that the goalkeepers in our team are all too old. Abbiati is 34 years old, Roma is 36 years old, and even the youngest Amelia is 28. With all due respect, they
Neither of them has reached the standards of a world-class goalkeeper."
Allegri could only admit that what Pan Yi said was right.
Even Abbiati, who is currently the most versatile, is not at the peak of his career, and his competitive level is also declining.
Even if it weren't for this new tactic, Allegri would have to start thinking about replacing Milan's goalkeepers.
"Do you have any candidates?" Allegri touched his chin.
The main reason is that excellent young goalkeepers are so in demand nowadays, and their prices are also rising.
Just this summer, 21-year-old De Gea just moved to Manchester United for 20 million euros.
This is the so-called "slumping goalkeeper" that Pan Yi disdains.
Also this year, the 25-year-old Neuer joined Bayern Munich with a transfer fee of 30 million euros.
This guy is Pan Yi's first choice, but firstly, the senior management is unlikely to be willing to spend such a high price to buy a goalkeeper. Secondly, Neuer has gone to Bayern, so how can he come to Milan again?
So Allegri also felt very embarrassed.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to update and iterate, it’s really hard for a clever woman to make a meal without straw.
"Well... what do you think of this?"
Pan Yi was already prepared. He took out a piece of paper from nowhere and handed it to Allegri. He also inserted a USB flash drive into the computer on the table.
"Ederson?" Allegri looked at the words on the paper and whispered, "Brazilian, 18 years old, Benfica youth training camp, currently playing for Ribeirão in the Portuguese second division."
That's right, it's the Brazilian national goalkeeper Ederson who will play for Manchester City in the future.
At this time, Ederson was just starting out, but he had already shown great potential, so he could already play the main role in the Portuguese second division.
In Pan Yi's previous life timeline, Ederson would play in the Portuguese Super League after this season, and gradually become Benfica's main force, helping the team win two Portuguese Super League championships.
Then he joined Manchester City Football Club with a transfer fee of 40 million euros. After that, he helped the team win 4 Premier League championships and personally won the Premier League Golden Glove Award several times.
The reason why Manchester City coach Guardiola insisted on using Ederson instead of the previous English goalkeeper Joe Hart, including the Chilean goalkeeper Bravo, was because of Ederson's excellent ball-playing ability.
Of course, this does not mean that Ederson’s saving ability is not good.
Although his nerve-wracking attributes make him sometimes make some low-level mistakes, he can also make great saves repeatedly, otherwise he would not often win the Premier League Best Goalkeeper Award.
And such a powerful goalkeeper, at this point in time, may only need to pay a very small price to sign in - with Galliani's ability to deceive, hundreds of thousands of euros should be enough.
In fact, when Pan Yi was considering recruiting for the goalkeeper position, his priority was Alisson, another Brazilian goalkeeper.
His ball-playing ability is equally good, and he is relatively more stable than Ederson.
But one of Ederson’s biggest advantages is that he is from Benfica’s youth training and has dual nationality of Brazil and Portugal, so he will not take up Milan’s non-European quota.
In other words, in this winter window, it is feasible to introduce Ederson, but it is impossible to introduce Alisson.
Then Allegri came to the computer and watched Ederson's game videos collected by Pan Yi.
Sure enough, this young Brazilian guy who still looks immature seems to have a maturity that does not match his age on the court.
He dares to use his feet to pick up and control the ball in the backcourt, and he will also yell at his teammates when directing the defense to let everyone organize the defense.
When making a save, he also dared to make moves and his jumping ability was also very good.
"How do you always find players like this hiding in strange little leagues..." Allegri was confused and patted Pan Yi's shoulder with admiration.
If it had been left before, he would definitely have expressed his doubts.
But after seeing the performance of the young players Pan Yi recommended this season, how could Allegri doubt Pan Yi's vision?
"Hey, it's not because our scouting system in Milan is so powerful that I can see more good players." Pan Yi modestly gave the credit to the scouts.
"Okay, I'll talk to Galliani," Allegri said.
In his heart, he actually let out a sigh.
How come the problems that had troubled him for so long seemed to be so easy to solve when Pan Yi came here?
Allegri feels like he is starting to doubt whether he is qualified to be a head coach...