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Allegri 'only joking' with AC Milan quit threat

The Italian boss was speaking after seeing his side progress to the UEFA Champions League group stages with a 4-1 aggregate win over PSV, telling Sport Mediaset he would contemplate leaving the San Siro outfit to accommodate ongoing reports from the Italian media he was set to do so.

"For a couple of years this has been going on, so maybe I’ll resign tomorrow morning. I’ll think it over tonight," Allegri said initially.

"It was a joke, I only said that I would have taken a night to think about my possible resignation, it was a joke, so you have something else to write about, seeing that a lot of you have been writing about me being on the brink of being sacked in the last two years," Allegri explained.

"I gave you something different to write about. I don't like boring life, that's why I said, 'Maybe tomorrow I'll resign, I need to think about it'."

"My compliments to PSV, they played an excellent match, they have talented players, they were well-organised, they created big difficulties for us," he said.

"My team worked as a team tonight, we saw a great save from (Christian) Abbiati at the beginning of the second half.

"We suffered, but we managed to create a lot in the first half and at the end of the game. I think we deserved the qualification against the second-strongest team of the five we could have faced."

"I'm happy with the squad I have, I'm in perfect agreement with the club, we have four days left in the transfer market and we'll see what to do," he said.