Even though the Rossoneri are missing several players through injury, it is painfully obvious that their current squad is desperately short on world-class talent

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By Mark Doyle

At the tail end of Massimiliano Allegri's press conference following Wednesday’s fortuitous Champions League triumph over Celtic, attention turned to AC Milan's next opponents, Napoli. With the expensively-assembled Partenopei having just kicked off their own European campaign with a win - over last year's runners-up Borussia Dortmund, no less - the Rossoneri coach was asked if he envied Napoli counterpart Rafael Benitez.
"No, I’m not jealous of him," he insisted. "I’m happy with the group I have."
Allegri was fooling no-one. Milan’s performance in their thoroughly-undeserved 2-0 defeat of Celtic had merely underlined that the Livorno native is currently in possession of one of the weakest Rossoneri squads in recent memory. 
The only reason some 50,000 tickets had been sold for the visit of the Scottish champions had been the promise of seeing Kaka make his San Siro comeback. That the return of a fallen, injury-prone idol had been the sole cause for excitement says everything one needs to know about just how ordinary Milan’s line-up has become.
In truth, the Rossoneri fielded just two world-class players on Wednesday night: Mario Balotelli and Nigel de Jong.