{"id":141579,"date":"2025-09-13T18:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141579\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T18:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T18:31:09","slug":"he-has-grown-since-he-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/141579\/","title":{"rendered":"He has grown since he arrived"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuele Ricci received a lot of praise from Max Allegri during today\u2019s press conference, with the AC Milan coach highlighting just how much the midfielder has grown since his arrival.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite what was an impressive pre-season<\/a>, Ricci hasn\u2019t played that much for Milan since the league campaign began. He started in the Coppa Italia clash against Bari but then, he lost his spot to Luka Modric, playing just 14 minutes in the league so far.<\/p>\n

Clearly, it\u2019s not what the midfielder expected a few weeks back and not what the fans expected either. During today\u2019s press conference<\/a>, Allegri was asked about the situation and whether he could field Ricci as a mezz\u2019ala instead, allowing him to co-exist with Modric.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very happy with Samuele because he has grown since he arrived. He\u2019s changing physically, his legs are stronger, more beautiful, like a top player. He\u2019s an intelligent player, very good tactically. He\u2019s growing tactically, physically, and technically. It has to be the same path for everyone.<\/p>\n

\"SamuelePhoto by AC Milan<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have players with international experience like Rabiot, Pulisic, Modric, Tomori, Loftus, and Fofana. Then there are players with less experience but excellent qualities: we have to work every day to give them confidence. And Ricci is doing very well, I\u2019m happy,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

As you can tell, Allegri had a lot of praise for the former Torino man, so it seems to be just a matter of time before we see him more on the pitch. Youssouf Fofana hasn\u2019t exactly done brilliantly so far this season, so that could perhaps be the opening for Ricci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuele Ricci received a lot of praise from Max Allegri during today\u2019s press conference, with the AC Milan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-141579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}