Luka Jovic and Sergio Conceicao appeared destined to leave AC Milan at the end of the season, and now they are leading the final attempt at Europe.
As Quotidiano Sportivo report, while Giorgio Furlani was meeting with Igli Tare to outline the Milan of the future, Conceicao’s tactics and Jovic’s brace helped the current Rossoneri reach another final. It is symbolic of a rollercoaster season, one that has not been short of confusion.
On the field, a gulf has opened up. Milan are nine points off the Champions League places, and in the fourteen games against the teams above them, only one victory: against Inter in the Fonseca era. The Nerazzurri won six derbies in a row in the Stefano Pioli era, now they could provide a turning point.
Wednesday’s 3-0 win over Inter had another sub-plot. Jovic scored a match-winning brace while Mehdi Taremi really struggled, and the Serbian was signed two summers ago right at the deadline after the Rossoneri failed to sign the Iranian.
Jovic’s parable is extraordinary: he went from earning a renewal and the No.9 shirt to exclusion from the Champions League squad list, little more than an hour of playing time in seven months and what seemed like a certain January exit.
That was the past, the present says four goals in his last five games. Conceicao seems to be a fan of using him as the striker in the new 3-4-3 system, an intuition he hopes could provide a big season finale and urge the club to reconsider his sealed fate.
Times change as do moods, and the Portuguese continues to chase the (definitive) balance between quality and humility seen on Wednesday. And two trophies in a few months. He received Moncada’s ‘we’re happy’, but read about Conte and Allegri, Italiano and De Zerbi, Sarri and Gasperini links.
There is a clause in Conceicao’s contract that could still mean goodbye in June. Furlani, now, is mainly working on another contract: that of the sporting director. Another meeting with Tare is on the agenda, already at the table two months ago in London with Cardinale, while Sergio works and hopes.
Milan must wait and see couple games in the next fixture. If the base formation can work and win copa Italia, I think we found the element that Milan needed. No need revolution as capello said. Milan need 2-3 top players can make differences…
If the American clowns makes revolution again next season, Milan will struggle again and again.
The management should learn from their stupidity….
New SD is a must, there is no excuse on that matter. If Conceicao wins the coppa Italia, he will stay, and this is fair. Jovic should stay for at least another two seasons. He will always be a quality backup CF. We do need another one besides Gimenez and Camarda. We need four CF/ST to function properly throughout a season.
All that Milan needs is a sporting director coach remain Sergio buy walker and renew Theo and sell tomori and bring a good centre back and play with this formation .than sell Emerson royal and all the players that are on loan and bring tonali back in the midfield
Sell Tomori?
You’re nuts. Gabbia-Thiaw-Pavlovic ruined our chances of top 4 with that dreadful run of games (12 goals conceded in 7 matches, 4 straight losses). Tomori came back and suddenly we’ve only conceded 1 goal and kept 2 clean sheets.
If anything Tomori has been our best CB since we’ve reverted to 343.
I wouldn’t sell any CBs, just bring in 2 more better CBs to play with the existing 4. We need at least 6 if we are going to keep playing 3 at the back.
The good pairing was tomori-gabbia-pavlovic. Sell thiaw to bundesliga