The AC Milan hierarchy seem to have taken into account the strong protests regarding Julen Lopetegui, but they are not willing to bow to fan pressure when it comes to Antonio Conte.
That is according to Corriere della Sera (via PianetaMilan) who report that Milan are making an attempt to overtake Juventus in the race for Thiago Motta. The Bologna boss has a verbal agreement with the Bianconeri, but nothing has been signed.
There is also the name of Antonio Conte in the background, who continues to be linked with both Milan and Napoli. At the moment the latter are further ahead having made contact with him and pitched their ideas.
Conte is the obsession of Milan fans, as per the paper, some of whom do not even wish to contemplate any other name for the relaunch of the team after a disappointing season.
However, the former Juventus and Inter coach is not considered a priority by Giorgio Furlani, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Geoffrey Moncada, certainly not due to his coaching abilities but the fact that he doesn’t tick many boxes in terms of the list of the requirements they have drawn up.
Names like Roberto De Zerbi of Brighton, Paulo Fonseca of Lille and Francesco Farioli of OGC Nice are being considered as alternatives to Lopetegui. While fan pressure might have stopped the Spaniard arriving, it will not result in Conte coming instead.
Succumb to fan pressure…what the hell 😀 it seems unlikely to me that even half the ac milan fan base would actually want conte in the club.
Question: why Milan will succumb to fan pressure and approach Conte
Answer: because the Redbird has little ambition
What Conte ambition in ACM ? Winning scudetto one time then leave ? Pioli can do that too with low salary and cheap squad. Better find other coach low risk but high gain, maybe ACM can found another xabi alonso type coach that can win something without spending huge
Pioli can’t do that.. he was never able to do that. No club has ever hired pioli and thought they will win a trophy
To be fair I’m with Reccaman here. If a Pioli replacement were to be Conte i’d rather stick with Pioli for another season even though I’m irritated and puzzled about some of his experiments. Hiring Conte comes with a lot of potential/likely issues down the road and simply isnt worth it in my view. A new coach should be a long term solution and one we can build upon the work already done in the last 5 years and not being a complete rewamp of squad and concepts.
Look at how inter have transformed once Conte left, he creates winners and even when he leaves his players are stronger mentally than before
That’s a false narrative… Inter has transformed but not because of Conte, but despite Conte…
If those players were stronger mentally after he left, they wouldn’t have choked and lost the scudetto to us.
Conte had Brozovic Lukaku, Hakimi, Darmian, Skriniar, De Vrij, Handanovic, Eriksen, Perisic …
Inzaghi has this season Calhanoglu, Thuram, Di Marco, Dumfries, Pavard, Acerbi, Sommer, Mikhataryan, Carlos Augusto…
Those are completely different teams, all players came after Conte left… the only same starters are Barella, Lautaro and Bastoni… all of them were bought for a lot of money and Lautaro and Bastoni were bought during the Spalleti era.
“The fans want Conte”
BULLSH*T.
Alberto Gilardino
Risky but still better than Lopetegui
I don’t usually pay much attention to the “huffings & puffings” of the fans… but the public opinion just makes common sense. Of the names mentioned, only two inspire confidence and make sense. Motta and Conte.
Having said that, Milan brass shouldn’t be easily influenced by public opinion. Fans will fall in line eventually. Otherwise, you might as well open voting polls for the next coach on social media…
Conte is liked because he asks for big money players. All fans want big money players.
If Pioli had gotten this year Lukaku + Hakimi + Barella + Eriksen like Conte did… do you think he wouldn’t have won Serie A?
How would you feel if Conte sends RLC on a free loan to Cagliari like he did with Nainggolan at Inter, or send a sms to Theo saying that next year he’s not part of the plans like he did with Diego Costa at Chelsea, or drop everything a couple weeks before season started because management didn’t buy him a player like he did at Juventus, which let’s me emphasize was his home club for more than a decade as a player and 3 years as a coach. It was the club that took him from a serie B coach to a big name coach. Where the f is the gratitude? Would you expect Gattuso or Ambrosini to do that if they were Milan coach?
Conte isn’t perfect but he built the backbone of Inter and juve that are what they are now. Inzaghi came in on a built foundation and amplified it.
Conte for 2 years is a controlled risk. One that needs to be contained in advance through Ibra and through curbing expectations.
I would gamble on THAT.