AC Milan could soon announce the hiring of a new sporting director to assist Giorgio Furlani and Geoffrey Moncada, according to a report.
As reported by Corriere della Sera (via SempreMilan.it) this morning, it may have been a bit premature to presume that Moncada and Furlani would be carrying out all of the work in the summer transfer window.
The paper claims that the Rossoneri ownership will soon appoint the new sporting director to officially replace Ricky Massara, and they will do so by making an internal promotion.
The man indicated to fill the role will in fact be Antonio D’Ottavio, who is currently the chief scout for the youth sector. D’Ottavio was in the past a scout for Inter and right-hand man of former Milan sporting director Massimiliano Mirabelli.
His work as scouting chief of the youth sector seems to have been appreciated by both Furlani and Moncada who have decided to promote him by entrusting him with the position of new sporting director of Milan. The decision has not yet been made official.
Nothing like making it up as you go along in the middle of summer…
Hiring an experienced, seasoned and well connected Sporting director should be on top of the list for the ownership. We haven’t had a proper sporting director for almost a decade now, including the last few years of Gallianis tenure when he wasn’t good either.
We need someone like inter has in Marotta, not first timers and wannabes.
Agreed. But First timers are cheap LOL. That is the reason we hired from within and won’t go after an experienced SD as you mentioned. Eats in to the PROFIT of Redbird
One more evidence that we are turning in a feeder club, the new sporting director is an expert at finding young unproven players. Wish him good luck though, this is the new strategy so hopefully he can do his best with little. Still, being the right-hand of Mirabelli is rather scary af than a good reference.
Better make kaka or seedorf new DS as massara replacement , both have big name and can atract young player , kaka are popular on south america player , seedorf are popular in dutch & africa player