AC Milan are firmly in a rut and they must get out of it quickly. If they fail to do so, substantial damage will be done to the good work in recent years.
It can certainly be debated if the past few years have been good. However, this year can be made to look like a blip if the recovery is strong, which is a must now for Milan – both in a sporting and trust sense.
Before this year, the club were consistently in the Champions League and fighting for the Scudetto. A year of chaos has changed that tune though, and those ideas look years away. With some stability and squad building though, things could return to a better place – look at Bologna, for example.
Progress must start this summer, but things need to be put into place for success to occur and Gianluca Di Marzio has spoken to Sky Sport about the requirements this summer, via Milan News.
“Today, Milan is missing a sporting director. If it’s Moncada, it should be made official immediately. For the bench, I think we need an Italian coach who knows our football and our championship well. The transfer market must be done by the sporting director and the coach, you can’t do it just by looking at the algorithms.
“The transfer market must be done with the coach you choose.”
Who will be the coach of Milan next year?
“Certainly not Conceiçao, we will see what the Rossoneri club will choose. But first they need to take the sporting director, if they don’t want to take him then they should make Moncada official. Then he will choose the coach and do the transfer market with him.”
1. Redbird to replace Cardinale
2. Maldini back
3. new coach: Fabregas or Sarri
RedBird is freaking founded and owned by Cardinale so its a silly suggestion even when I also want him out.
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The harsh truth, looking at situation on milan top management.
1. Most top/proper coaches for example, Conte won’t be attracted or consider joining a milan without proper direction, ambition and management structure (also factor in the cheap salary). Let me dream of klopp.
2. if they hire another ‘cheap coach’ again- I suspect some players like Reijnders may be inclined to leave. Allegri and Sarri (especially) are even more rigid/ formulaic than Conceicao. Who remembers Sarri at Chelsea; 75mins like for like subs (kovacic & co), you can say the same about Sarri at juve.
The best option is to keep Sergio Conceicao regardless and support him to get UCL qualification, europa/UECL trophy, and compare Italia. Sell unfit players (musah, Emerson, terraciano) and prioritize quality over quantity. Keep some useful loan returnees who would like to stay (salad, Adli, pellegrino….)
Thoroughly asses the talents in milan futuro e.g Liberali, Omoregbe, Vos etc. Atleast a handful (1, 2 or 3) would come good where the squad is lacking(see Barcelona & Atalanta).
Fabregas is staying at Como, Conte won’t join milan as we can’t afford his huge salary. Arsenal won’t give us Arteta, bottom line is there is hardly any decent pragmatic manager available to work with this terrible squad.
Philosopher managers like de zerbi would give results like amorim in Man utd.
The whole “looking at algorithms’ thing is just nonsense. There’s no algorithm in football that said we should be signing players like Walker, Morata, JF, Gimenez… the majority of the money we’ve spent is clearly based on traditional scouting and who certain directors thing can add something.
Maybe we should be trusting algorithms and data more…
…what?
The ‘go to’ criticism these days is saying we’re relying on algorithms and ‘moneyball’ because we’re owned by Americans.
But those are not the problem IMO. We’re not signing excellent young players at the rate of our competitors and many of the players we are buying are famous, well known players on high wages who can’t live up to them – in the (fictionalised) Moneyball movie scene where they’re sat around the table and the old scouts are talking, ignoring data… we are the old scouts; we’re the one signing players based on reputation rather than strategy.
Moneyball is based on finding undervalued players. Prime example are Reijnders, Pulisic, Theo and Mike who came each for 20 millions or less and in their almost prime years. Many already wrote Pulisic off. Theo was Madrid youth with high potential but did not lived up to it. Mike was a PSG talent, who also never lived up to hype until Lille.
Then you have moneyball flukes like RLC and Chukwueze, who in the end was overpaid for.
No, it isn’t. Good job on once again showing you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Thank you R!!!! Buying Emerson was based on an algorithm? The first figure I would look at is how fast is the guy. No faster than Calabria from what I can see with worse positioning. The same with Walker. The guy has lost two steps. I’ve not lost hope for Chuck. The problem is he’s like Musah, doesn’t play the open pass or know when to get rid of the ball. He looks better at the end of games when the field has opened up. He needs to do better when a defense is setup. Beating the first player when there are two defenders waiting is worthless unless you get rid of the ball quickly.
Exactly. Di Marzio is repeating lazy fan theories. The players signed didn’t come out top in any metric.
“Essentially, Moneyball is about applying advanced statistics (data analysis) to make decisions about players and teams, rather than relying on traditional, subjective methods such as scouts’ “instincts”, their experience, or a player’s physical appearance. This approach allows teams with smaller budgets to compete against teams with greater financial resources, because they do not have to spend enormous sums on “stars”, but can identify valuable players who have been overlooked by others.”
Stup*d and arrogant as usual. You’re one google/AI search away from finding out you talk too much out of your own a*s.
I guess now it’s the time you justify this with your favourite horsesh*t statement “they cannot spend because they only booked 5 million profit”.
The new coach will be Allegri.
Not that I would by any extent would want Allegri to become AC Milans next coach then with our incompetent ownership and management I’m sure they will bring back Bonera for the first team.
Damn it, you’re right. Long live Lord Bonera!
😀 If not him then it easily could be something in the vein of it.
They need to get a new coach and a sporting director, who at least can co-operate. Hopefully keep the core of the team and get rid of the deadweight or those who are not in the coaches plans. Finally, have a identity
(My wishes)
Moncada has always been clear on the fact that scouting is much more than looking at algorithms. So this is kicking in open doors, from DiMarzio.
It’s quite clear they won’t hire a sporting director and the whole thing is media circus. They will do the exact same thing they’ve always done and a yes man is needed to serve this purpose.
The new coach – now that’s where the potential for comedy gold truly lies.
It’s clear? In the same way it was clear over the past 2 seasons that new players wouldn’t arrive? The season hasn’t ended. Settle down.
Algoritma itu tidak penting dalam sepakbola. Memang sudah saat Redbird dan Elliott melepas/menjual sahamnya ke pihak yg memahami sepakbola dan sang juara. Cardinale,furlani beserta direksinya mesti di ganti dan di Revolusi secara menyeluruh.