Gerry Cardinale has now seen first hand what Massimiliano Allegri’s AC Milan can do, and he intends to fully back him.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport report this morning, Allegri is ‘at the heart of Milan’ in the eyes of Cardinale, in the present and the future. The owner gave congratulations and support to the team after their derby win on Sunday night, as a fantastic bounce-back season continues after a nightmare 2024-25.
Cardinale conveyed his confidence in the management, which is doing its job well, fully supporting the coach and the players. The day after the win over Inter – which allowed the Rossoneri to return to the Scudetto race – Cardinale left Italy along with his partner and daughter.
He feels that the Milan project, on which he has been working since the summer of 2022, is finally taking off thanks to the work and commitment of all involved. Teamwork on and off the field is bringing the desired results.
Full faith in Allegri
Given the results, second place and the derby victory, the owner and the ownership have complete faith in the coach. A winner like Allegri was needed to immediately bring Milan back to the top and quickly put an end to a season that ended in eighth place.
Cardinale is satisfied with the choices made by Giorgio Furlani, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Igli Tare, who firmly and unwaveringly backed the former Juventus coach for the job. Gerry is in constant contact with the management and is convinced that the path taken is the right one in all aspects.
Allegri deserves significant credit for all this, having transformed the team in terms of personality, attitude and belief. The new signings Luka Modric and Adrien Rabiot helped with their experience, while Max has improved individuals who perhaps had a less glittering 2024-25.
In short, the manager is an added value in the management’s eyes, and Cardinale has full confidence in him. He’s the man with whom to build the future of Milan, back in the top European competition, the Champions League.
This is why the option to extend the contract until 2028 (which will kick in with a top-four finish anyway) would have been almost certainly be ‘activated’ regardless of results, but now the thinking is a longer-term commitment amid rumours about Real Madrid’s renewed interest.
Cardinale’s goal
The RedBird Capital No.1 doesn’t want the Supercoppa Italiana to be the only trophy of their era. The derby victory doesn’t change the team’s objectives, and qualification for next season’s Champions League remains the priority.
The pride and satisfaction evident in the coach’s comments to the team in the dressing room haven’t translated into an explicit demand to win the Scudetto. It would have been added pressure on a team that boasts the league’s best defence and are already going at a great pace.
If the second star arrives at the end of May, or perhaps in a year or two, it will be confirmation of a renewed competitiveness, as evidenced by the current standings (60 points after 28 rounds vs. 63 in total in 2024-25).
Milan are at the forefront of the minds of RedBird’s president, who didn’t buy the club as a financial investment. Given his successes as an entrepreneur (the latest being the billion-dollar deal between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery), he knows that projects take time to develop.
Results must go hand in hand with financial stability and project development, that will always be the stance of Cardinale and RedBird. This is his goal at Milan, too, but some silverware would be nice for the cabinet.
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Give Alegri players he wants!!!
Not Fabregas? Better to play nice than win?
Get rid of Furlani and we’ll be in business. At least take him out of player acquisitions. He can work on brand growth but keep him out of literally everything else. Let Tare and Allegri cook and keep Zlatan there as a reference point. I saw Zlatan during the Paramount interview and he’s really grown a lot. That media training has paid off. Teams are starting to fear us again. We need more characters in the squad (as Allegri said) someone like Gattuso or Dinho, some bigger personalities to go along with Pulisic and Modric and their ultra professionalism. We’re maybe 3 signings away from being really dangerous, capable of winning in both Europe and Italy.
What will management do this summer – a question we’re asking ourselves every season. And truth be told, we have no effing idea. We go from incompetent dense ideas to hiring Allegri… Like a crap shoot every summer.
Truth be told this past summer was a lightening in a bottle.
Modric was only available after Madrid said they wouldn’t renew him.
Tare and Allegri only arrived after taking their respective Sabbaticals. Allegri was slated to join Napoli if Conte decided to leave, so we managed to snag him only because Napoli won the Scudetto last season.
Rabiot only arrived because Max wants him and he 100% fits his system.
Mike improved and re-signed with us only because Max brought along Claudio Filippi.
Heck, De Winter probably wouldn’t have joined us if Max hadn’t asked for him, and now he’s basically our best CB.
So many pieces of the puzzle had to fall in place perfectly for this season to happen. If one of the above elements were missing, we would not be sitting here talking about where we are at.