Leonardo Bonucci's Milan move goes from bad to worse after red card | Paolo Bandini
The defender’s signing from Juve was supposed to be a sign of Milan’s title ambition but Milan have struggled by trying to accommodate him in a back three
How did Leonardo Bonucci end up at Milan? The question has been asked countless times over the past three months, and always one image springs to mind: that of the defender sat with a glum expression, watching Juventus’s Champions League win away at Porto from a directors’ box. He had been dropped from the starting XI after a row with Massimiliano Allegri. Their relationship never fully healed.
And how is Leonardo Bonucci getting on at Milan? We might now answer that question with a very similar photograph. As the Rossoneri began the second-half of their game against Genoa on Sunday, TV cameras cut to one of San Siro’s executive suites. There they found Bonucci, wearing a black shirt just like he had done in Portugal – and a melancholy mood to match.
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