With the Champions League a miracle away, and general European football shaping up to be the same, a report has questioned if it could be beneficial for AC Milan.

In a season where a rebuild was promoted in the summer, Milan have regressed whilst spending heavily. Whether it be on compensation fees or transfer fees, the Rossoneri have certainly put money down, but the timings have always been wrong.

It can be argued that winter recruitment was a desperate attempt to earn some credibility back, but this has failed so far, instead the money should have been spent before the year started.

To further this, the sacking of Paulo Fonseca arguably happened too late, which rendered the situation further impossible to escape and Sergio Conceicao’s failure to reshape the season can be blamed on the higher-ups, as much as it can be blamed on the Portuguese.

With the loss to Lazio, Gazzetta dello Sport have questioned if this season could actually be beneficial in the long term, as paradoxical as it may be.

A staggering wage bill needs to be paid, and this is made incredibly more difficult without European football – causing an ‘impossible’ situation. However, it is the team’s own fault, after all, ‘easy matches do not exist for Milan’, and now, everyone is left to ponder ‘what if’ the team would be better without Europe.

Possibly true, or perhaps just desperate optimism, we’ll have to see.