Paolo Maldini and Ricky Massara are all set to leave their roles as technical and sporting directors of AC Milan, prompting a revolution.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport (via MilanNews), the decision was made and communicated yesterday by Gerry Cardinale to Maldini that both he and Massara will no longer have their services required.
Cardinale met Maldini in a hotel, and he communicated the decision not to continue together with Massara also leaving with him. Behind this very strong decision is the fact that RedBird is not satisfied with the progress of last season, and above all with the Rossoneri’s last summer window.
It is fair to say that many judged the 2022 summer window to be a failure given that only Malick Thiaw proved to be a good addition so far.
Who will take the place of Maldini and Massara? Cardinale’s plan is not to replace them with the classic figures of technical director and sporting director, but more powers will be given to the CEO Giorgio Furlani.
Geoffrey Moncada – THE current chief scout – will also have a more important role. The feeling is that Stefano Pioli will remain as head coach because he has the trust of the owners.
Wdym, is director position still available or not
Give more power to the manager then, even if it’s still Pioli. Let him get the players that he wants. At least that way we won’t have new Adli cases.
This! Apparently there was a huuuuge gap between M&M & Pioli since Pioli didn’t even consider fielding half of the new signings.
True, you can clearly see that Pioli never liked most of the signings made by M&M
I like this better, we apent 50 milion on pkayers Pioli couldnt use. Pioli or whoever is the manager needs to have a say and let the scout and CEO get pkayers in.
It should be clear to everyone that we struggled this season, Inter embarrassed us in semi final whoch we somehow with a lot of luck managed to qualify to.
Let the owner who has invested a fortune do its job now. He is the boss, has a proven track record, knows what he is doing and what he wants. I like this actually
This Gerry is a real clown turning Milan into a circus. Calcio should ban Americans from buying Italian clubs. They think this is the NFL. He can get the best directors in the world but they will all leave once they see how cheap he is. This club is about Legends, Culture, Champions and more importantly Milans history. Damn you Gerry!!!!!
Okay, back to mediocre team again
The way they have cut the ties with one of the greatest icons of Milan show these americans don’t understand football at all. After all the Chinese at inter showed they are more capable and adaptable when it comes to running a football club. I feel that a bond has been blown to pieces between myself and the only club that I have loved and cheered all my life. F you Gerry and your business model. I don’t think I will be able to follow Milan like I have been for the last 25 years. Sad day for all of us!
Inter has one of the best directors/ceo if not the best in Italy. Their former players like Zaneti have smaller roles in the managment. Unlike in Milan where Maldini was the director and the decision maker. That was the mistake of Milan where they gave to much power to someone who was unexperienced for the job. Maldini should have had a simmilar role like Zaneti in Inter.
unexperienced or not he have done a fantastic job with the available resources. Milan have been competitive with inter spending peanuts in comparison. Let’s not be stupid and think we will get lukaku’s in here with our current budget. Piero Ausilio wouldn’t be good option for milan either then in your eyes cuz he wouldn’t know what to do without money
Mate Inter spend less money than us. Milan was actually one of the biggest spenders in Italy last year.
These guys don’t have money to run a big club like Milan, yet, they have sacked the very people who have helped them to achieve what they have, with their poor budget. They will end up like Everton and Tottenham, sacking and employing coaches. See what happened with Twitter, and, Chelsea Football Club, when the owners got directly involved. You can’t be pointing at expensive things when you don’t have the money to get them, yet, you expect so much on a poor budget. These guys are clowns. Failure is laughing at them. We will all see where this ends. With Maldini’s involvement, the fans have started coming back, the team more motivated, and, now, the owners are doing this. Milan fans are watching, so is the world of football.
Manchester United 3.0…a model of failure,that’s Milan’s future. Americans Tom and Jerry will f our club once again just like that dogs eater.
They gonna judge this based on last season transfer window? really? We had 50 million to spend and 30 went on CDK. I mean he wasnt that bad of a choice. The last loans we only had 20 mill left and one of those players are worth more than that now.
Not to mention this whole team was put together spending peanuts. Bennacer, Theo, Leao, Tonali, Tomori, Kjær, Kalulu, Mike.
And now Maldini was asking to please give him some funds so he can invest proper signings and take this team to the next level. Cardinals idea was to fire him. Now he gonna sign a sheep that will not ask for more money and we will decline.
Banter Period 2.0 incoming
That 50mil was from eliott, RedBird cardinale 1st tranfer was in january with 0 fund available..
Of course Pioli will stay. He’s a company man. Will work for lower than market salary and won’t complain about not having enough money to spend of transfers (unlike the bigger better coaches)
Revolution? This ain’t no revolution.. It is a disaster. YOu have gotta be a very special kind of a r3t@rd to fire a club legend with no backup plan.