AC Milan: Adrien Rabiot's thunderous beginnings

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By: Manu Tournoux

A little over a month ago, OM was shaken by a funny start of the championship. Beaten at the very end of the match by Rennes, the Marseille club had to manage an unexpected and impressive crisis. After the meeting at Roazhon Park, Adrien Rabiot and Jonathan Rowe engaged in a fight of “incredible violence” as many have granted themselves to describe it within the Marseille management. From then on, major decisions have been made. After the mother's vindictive release and representative of the French environment to certain media, the latter was put on the list of transfers as well as the English winger. An affected point of non-return which formed the player trained in PSG from the end of the summer transfer window.

And while Rowe went to Bologna, the 30 -year -old also chose to return to the other side of the Alps. After five years at Juventus Turin between 2019 and 2024, Rabiot gave in to the sirens of AC Milan where he signed up for the next three seasons. The opportunity for him to find Massimiliano Allegri on the Lombard bench. Standing 119 times during his 127 matches under the orders of his former coach at Juventus Turin, the native of Saint-Maurice was logically aligned in the eleven for his first two matches with AC Milan. And the least we can say is that Adrien Rabiot scored points for his beginnings with Milan.

Adrien Rabiot is already considered a leader in AC Milan

For his first match against the Bologna… by Jonathan Rowe, Rabiot made a complete performance and played the entire meeting. Efficient and already irremovable alongside Youssouf Fofana and Luka Modric, the one who said he wanted to score ten goals for his first season in Milan was still a holder this Saturday on the lawn of the Udinese. And in a controlled match from start to finish by his family, Adrien Rabiot distinguished himself positively by being in the oven and in the mill. Present both defensively and offensively, the number 12 Lombard delivered his first decisive pass for Christian Pulisic in the second period. An XXL match that did not fail to attract some praise for it.

Gratified with a 7.5 out of 10 in the columns of the Gazzetta dello Sport, the Frenchman was described in very complimentary terms by one of the major daily newspapers in Italy: “He always knows what to do. He enters a ball with his physical qualities, of the fight and it is he who is the author of the 3-0 assist: we understood why Allegri wanted him at all costs. A real leader. “ Same sound of Corch for Marco Landucci, assistant coach of Allegri: “Adrien made a monstrous match. I wanted him because he was still going ahead, he wanted to score and he was right. Adrien and I found and we are very happy. ” On social networks, all AC Milan supporters are already rave about the contribution of rabiot in the Milanese game. And even if the current third of Serie has lost Tijjani Reijnders this summer, he can boast of having recovered Adrien Rabiot for only seven million euros.