Defeated on the Naples lawn on Sunday evening (2-1), AC Milan lives a nightmare season. Ninths of Serie A, eliminated from the play -offs of the Champions League by Feyenoord Rotterdam, the Rossoneri are unrecognizable.
And the arrival of five new players this winter does not seem to bear fruit. At halftime in their match against the Neapolitans, Kyle Walker and João Félix, respectively loaned by Manchester City and Chelsea in January, offered a good demonstration of the tension that reigns in the Milanese locker room.
In images relayed by CBS Sports, the English defender seems to blame the young Portuguese striker his too individualistic game. “Pass the ball just, we are not Messi, nobody is Messi here,” said Kyle Walker to João Félix in the corridors of the Diego Armando Maradona stadium.
A advice that the former player of FC Barcelona and Atlético de Madrid probably did not follow enough, since his coach Sergio Conceição, arrived this winter on the Milanese bench and already on the hot seat, decided to replace it with Samuel Chukwueze barely ten minutes after the resumption of the game.
The Lusitanian international (45 selections) only scored a small goal in 11 games played with AC Milan, in the Italian Cup against Roma. The Rossoneri may have the opportunity to save their season, if they manage to eliminate Inter Milan, the current leader of the championship, in the semi-final of the competition, this Wednesday evening (9 pm).