The Current Situation at AC Milan

Football is pretty much like life in a lot of things, you go to work, you have your ups and downs, you win some you lose some, you laugh you cry etc.

And like life, football tends to be ironic at times too. For instance: out of all the seasons AC Milan needed money, this is the season they needed it most—yet they had to make sacrifices to get the cash they needed, and out of all the seasons Milan needed an experienced manager, they ended up with a first timer who has great potential—but faces a task not a lot of managers are up to.

Luis Fabiano's agent has announced that the AC Milan deal is dead.

While it's still not clear if these reports were real or not, one can't help but feel scared for Milan, who are pretty much going through the same phase Arsenal went through a few years ago.

A big club with no trophies and star players leaving while selling players for money, they don't exactly buy new players that are guaranteed to make things happen or even buy players at all.

However, when Milan sells players like Kaka and Gourcuff and pass out on Huntelaar,  Robben etc. and can't afford to buy Fabiano, fans start to feel devastated.

Milan are currently a team that is considered not strong enough to win the Champions League or even Serie A, maybe it's the lack of attacking power, but still it's not good enough to sit and watch such a team not trying hard enough.

Milan didn't lose just anybody, they lost their star attacker, their star defender and their manager. Two of which can be replaced, but the thought of Maldini not being in the starting 11 or even the locker room anymore is astonishing, a man who has been a key player from the late 80s and the most successful player in the history of AC Milan.

Don't get me wrong, Milan are more than capable of pulling out and moving on, but it might take more than a season to do so, especially when you haven't bought many players to fill the gaps.

The problem so far is not Milan as much as it is Juventus and Inter. Inter have Moratti who seems to have all the money a team needs, while Juventus have made all the right signings they needed.

Juventus need one more defender and they will be the favorites to win Serie A next season, buying players with money that they don't have at the moment, but at least they're getting thing done.

The only thing that is actually a positive in this situation, is that Leonardo is brave enough to embrace the situation, maybe Milan could've gone for Van Basten who proved that attacking football is his specialty, but instead they went for Leonardo who is the calm type.

Milan aren't out of the race, but they're not exactly the most feared team in the league.

It still remains to be seen whether or not Milan will compete, but in order to do so they need to avoid the silly mistakes from their last campaign and avoid losing in their first matches of the season.

Still, Milan need to buy at least one striker and one full-back to have the squad depth that is needed to compete with a rejuvenated Juventus side and an on form Inter.

As things stand, Milan aren't in the worst of positions, but still they can do better. Things will all be clear once the season starts, but it's the Juventus fans that are most eager to see the start of things to come.