As 2025 approaches, Gerry Cardinale’s plans for AC Milan in the future is becoming clearer and the American hopes to propel the club forwards, for several reasons.
It has been a disappointing year for Milan – a year where moments have been nice, but tarnished by an overall disappointment. The 2024/25 season follows this same pattern, there have been some fantastic games and results, but they have been overshadowed by some dreadful performances.
Despite the wins against Inter and Real Madrid, there is a lack of confidence about the rest of the Rossoneri’s season – understandably so when looking at the Serie A table as it stands.
Now is not the time to dwell on the past, though, and instead, Cardinale wants to look forward and up, according to Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below).
Starting with the financials, a positive first half of 2025 (of course then followed into the 2025/26 season) is pivotal, because without European football, the club’s margins are altered heavily. A Champions League spot is vital; failing this would see Paulo Fonseca sent on his way.
Despite a poor start to the season, Cardinale is not planning to change his methods and still wants to win smartly. This means that investments like Tijjani Reijnders – bought at a price far below their current value – will continue to be favoured.
The person finding these players could change, though. Gazzetta suggests that Moncada’s future at the club could be decided by this season, and failure to amend the season could mean the Frenchman’s contract is not renewed.
There is still time to bring the Diavolo ‘out of the crisis’, as the management hope that they can prevail in the second half of the season. After all, it is in the best interest of everyone that Fonseca and Milan get themselves out of this situation as faith in both will be increased.
Foe that we need to fill the holes in RB, CM/CAM and ST roles… for cheapskate like you, you’d rather spend another 15M on Emerson 2.0 than on an actual player…
no loan + obligation, no spreading over few years, no creativity or ambition just empty words…
Exactly, it could be don’t Witt Ricci, Bellanova and Jonathan David white easily. I still think if we went 433 with Bellanova RB, Ricci, Fofana and Reijnders as a 3 and then Rafa, Puli and David it’d be a marked improvement. Then there’s the coach issue. You don’t get Ferrari performance from a Fiat…what does Gerry want? Tuchel was available!!!
€200+ million has been invested in under 2 seasons. You don’t understand what ambition is. No club in Serie A has spent that much in two seasons. That’s more than double the amount Liverpool have spent in the same period and don’t give me the net spend bs either, all major clubs sell players. You do not have an argument at all, none. We can complain about how badly the money has been spent, but not the amount.
That money was also generated by sales… that 200M isn’t loss… don’t over-dramatize to justify your Cardinale glazing with BS plz…
It’s been spent on average or not ready players. Man Utd have spent a fortune and look at them, player recruitment hasn’t been good in the areas required. We don’t have a RB, we only have one CB who is reliable, the others are prone to errors, midfield hasn’t been good enough although not Fofana seems to be a positive. Wasted money on strikers who don’t score and players we didn’t really need while failing to address problems. Musah, Okafor, Chukwueze (all of whom I like) haven’t solved any problems…..Musah is one for the future, Okafor hasn’t been used even when we have strikers who don’t score, and Chukwueze has been stunted by Pulisic’s form, it would be better to hbe kept Saelemaakers as RW and LW backup rather than spend 40m on Okafor and Chukwueze go sit and do nothing…..RLC was never good enough, Emerson the same.
You can’t expect strikers to score lots of goals when the whole team is inconsistent and there are holes in different positions. Just look at Haaland’s recent form in City.
The guy is a proven goal scorer, but his numbers have suffered because the team’s overall play has gone down. At the end of the day, strikers are there to finish plays. If team play is poor, strikers will suffer.
Totally different. The difference is Haaland isn’t scoring due to circumstances out of his hands, Abraham and Morata have always been 1 in 3 or worse
First of all Juve and Napoli have spent more than us the last two season. Its not double Liverpool we have spent the same amount as them, if you add 3 seasons they have spent 100m more, the different however is that liverpool have bought 6 players for 200m and we have bought 15 players for the same money. One is buying what they need and the other is playing the lottery.
Yes exactly. But also remember that 200million was spent in small amounts over players that for the most part weren’t worth anything.
I’d rather we spent 100m and we got someone like Ricci and osimehen or someone that can actually lift the level of the team.
And you trust this management to spend a 100mil and not misfire??? I don’t of late…
Net spend is no bs but a fact. And they spent 40 millions net each summer in last two yeas.
And how many key players have left since that 2years, building a team is not how much you will spend, but how to maintain or manage your key players and build the strongest team, just look at Inter Milan and Atlanta they don’t spend much but they have strong team why? Because they keep holding their key players together. This window we will definitely sell some of our best players and big window to same. Also we don’t have better coach, let’s be honest to ourselves this coach can’t win 🏆 with Milan. He don’t have leadership and also don’t know how to maintain or improve players quality. Our Owners is also a business man and not a football fan, he’s only using Milan team to brand himself and not to win trophies, he will sell the team later mark it 😡😡😡
Clueless pr!ck!
We won’t get to the top of you’re paying yourselves massive bonuses. We also won’t get to the top with Fonseca, he’s a good midtable coach but not to get us to the top. Cut your own wages and get a proper coach, they spend twice as much as Inter do on the boardroom. Ridiculous, Moncada is overpaid, along with Zlatan.
He can spend all the money in the world on the transfer market. But with the management that we will still suck.
Cardinale choice is very Good but I also suggest that all the transfer we need to complete should be completed like leao deputy,two attacking midfielder, a defensive midfielder like Warren Bondo,
According to what I’ve found, next season 4 Italian teams will make it to the 2025/26 UCL (unless either us or Bologna wins this UCL which is very unlikely).
I think it’s already very clear that we won’t be ranked better than Atalanta, Napoli or Inter. So we will be essentially fighting Fiorentina, Lazio and Juventus for a single spot and let’s be realistic, despite their own problems they’re comfortably better than us so far.
Unless we put a string of something like 6 or 7 wins in a row in serie A, we won’t reach fourth place and so far our record was 3 and it had to include both of Lecce and Venezia, 2 of the worst teams in serie A.
Almost each round sees us further and further away from fourth place, so in my opinion it is foolish to trust the current coach and management to somehow pull a rabbit out of the hat and turn this team into a winning machine by january.
The season is already over and we have nothing to lose, so might as well sack the current coach as well as Moncada and Ibrahimovic and hire a new staff and a new coach so they can work on the team before summer. 7th or 17th place are all the same, so as long as we’re not relegated it doesn’t make a difference.
“This means that investments like Tijjani Reijnders – bought at a price far below their current value – will continue to be favoured.”
That’s one player from 15 players bought. Add Puli and Fofana to that. And we hit statistical probability. Amazing work.
Clowns.
Definitely more misfires than hits. But the “hits” have been really good to be fair. All three of them. LOL!!!
Fofana wasn’t really an investment below his current market value, he was valued around 25M€ to 35M€ and we paid exactly 25M€.
Pulisic is now more valued than we first brought him but this isn’t his highest value ever. It just happened that his value decreased to him being riddled with injuries.
This is according to Gazzetta??? LOL!!! The publication that Gerry doesn’t even pick up? Or the interview he never does in Italy?
Gazetta is a joke.