AC Milan must qualify for the next edition of the Champions League or the entire management would be at risk of getting the chop, a report claims.
Everyone knows how important it is for the Rossoneri to participate in the most important European club competition next season both from a sporting and economic point of view, after this season’s run to the semi-final stage and the revenues it brought.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport (via MilanNews) reports, Milan are fifth in the standings at present, four points behind Lazio and five behind Inter. Napoli are now unreachable, while Juventus are in second and eight points ahead.
Therefore, finishing in the top four is an almost impossible mission, but the chances of a new punishment for the Bianconeri are high and therefore there is still a chance for Milan to reach the Champions League next season.
Even if Milan get in the owners will still have to make assessments on what did not work this season, but the primary objective would have been achieved and therefore the Maldini-Massara-Pioli trio would likely stay.
In the event of a failure to reach the Champions League, everyone would be at risk including the two executives who lead the technical area and obviously the head coach.
Everything depends on the next three league games and this season finale. In the summer, there will a lot of movement in the transfer window with six or seven signings needed, and it could be that the current management are not trusted with that overhaul.
Pioli Must go regardless. We need Julian Nagelsmann
If Pioli go, the replacement must be far better than just Julian Nagelsmann.
Nagelsmann has done wonders in Hoffenheim and RB Leipzig, with a limited budget.. So, I think Nagelsmann is the one that can, get the best out of this squad..
You goofies don’t understand doing well at Hoffenheim Leipzig sassuolo empoli etc. It is not Milan. Pressure is not there the same. AC Milan “can only have top players” not average ones the coach must whip into shape. Ac milan can have an average coach but always needs top players coaching AC Milan is not coaching torino.
Okay but.. We don’t have the, budget of Manchester City or Real Madrid! So, we need a coach, that can get the best out of this squad! Especially given that, our squad is young.. I think Julian Nagelsmann or Roger Schmidt, is the perfect candidate for this job!
You call people Goofies for suggesting Nagelsmann but then go on to say we can have an average coach as long as the players are good. I’m confused. Suggest someone.
Different league, different needs. A coach who hacks it in Germany might be REALLY surprised how different things are in Italy. Name one or two German coaches who have done well in Serie A. I can’t think of any.
I only remember rudi voller 2004 coach AS Roma . But he never win trophy with Roma. Nagelssmann better than pioli but he asked DS that can support his job ( must one package with him) , thats why spurs dont want sign him
But there is no taboo, against hiring German coaches right? It might work, or not that’s other thing..
a guy who doesnt even speak fking Italian?
Which german coach you ever saw here? They dont like it here.
Guardiola didn’t speak, German either, when Bayern appointed him.. What’s your point?
They can’t get over the war…siding with Italy again…and it costing them the match again…
Ok so suggest an Italian speaker we could get (so not De Zerbi or Ancelotti)…
Poch couldn’t speak English when he went to Spurs. He learned.
Milan need fresh ideas.
Did Poch win anything at Spurs?
It’s pretty widely regarded as a golden period.
He turned them into a club that were expected to win things, then fell short.
My point still stands but thanks for being randomly facetious.
Actually Poch coached Southampton, prior to coaching Tottenham Hotspur.. I don’t think, he had to learn English..
I know, but I suspected if I’d said Southampton my point would have been lost by people assuming I was comparing them to our standard.
My point is, if the right man for the job needs to learn Italian, he’s still the right man for the job, in my opinion anyway.
I think the same as well!
Maldini must go then our problems solved
LOL. You’re talking as if Maldini was on the pitch or influenced Pioli’s so-called tactics. 😀
It is strange.
Milan had team to contest only in one competition. If goal was to reach 4th position, than champions league should be ignored. But Pioli played best in champions league, and in serie a – what’s happens – happens…
I doubt that management is in the risk. If Milan keep the strongest players than next season could be best to have a goal of competitiveness in serie a. The owner will lose the money, but either way someday her needs to start with investments. In his first season Red Bird started with profit momentum. And to reach that Pioli needed to switch primary goals schedule.
They had a squad of 30!
They could’ve played in 6 competitions.
The issue is that Pioli has not rotated well at all.
You can’t rotate 7-8 players in one game. Had we picked up points against Cremonese, Empoli and Spezia we’d be comfortably in the top 4.
None of this means anyone should be sacked. People need to learn. Maldini & Co need to get the squad down to a manageable size and Pioli needs to learn how to rotate.
That’s right.
Accountability all the way around.
Cause and effect.
Maldini and Massara horrendous summer was the cause that led to Pioli and the players having a bad season, effect.
I kept telling people. You can come up with as many excuses as you want to defend your idol and pass the blame on someone else, but the bosses don’t like excuses, they look at results.
Told people, no owner wants to lose high value assets for free and Maldini lost 4.
Told people, bosses like people that are in high positions to be resourceful, your idol can’t sell any players to bring extra money for transfers.
Even though he didn’t sell any players for the last 2 summers the owners still gave him 50 mil last summer, more than any other club in serie A, and he spent that all with nothing to show for it. 50 mil burned. Teams that spent less than Milan are ahead of Milan on the table.
You better hope for a miracle so Milan can somehow get into the top 4, otherwise everyone is getting fired. And rightfully so.
That’s the truth
Again @Pioli puts all the blame on management and none on Ownership lol. How convenient. You need $$ to buy players and M&M don’t have it. The same ppl who screamed that we shouldn’t pay Kessie, Hakan what they wanted are the same ppl who are screaming we shouldn’t have let them leave lol. Can’t have it both ways. Negotiations are a two way street. A player cannot be sold unless he consents to the transfer. More and more players are running down their deals and refusing to leave their clubs so as to chose their next destination. Was M&M naive taking Kessie at his word that he wanted to stay? Perhaps. But we don’t know what Kessie continues to tell him. But it also would have been devastating to lose Kessie the summer before our Scudetto championship because knowing these owners we wouldn’t have used the $ to necessarily replace him (just like we didn’t this past summer) and would have kept a younger player instead (Pobega?) and we would def wouldn’t have won the Scudetto without Kessie. So hindsight is 20/20 and it’s easy to play armchair quarterback. It conveniently ignores the constraints management is placed under with a wage cap and limited budget. No matter who we get to replace M&M the same thing will happen. Ownership wants a youth policy with low wages that can be sold for profit in the future. So that is fine to fire M&M but if you think things will dramatically change w a wage cap and a youth policy and limited transfer budget you are way out of touch with reality unfortunately. And does anyone think we will get coaches like Conte, Nagglesman etc…whoever else your dreaming of? Lol. Ya right. Those coaches demand 100M plus transfer budget each year and that will not happen anytime soon
@Piloi the players M&M wanted Sanches and Botman they were not allowed to buy them so they pivoted to others like CDK. Time will tell if that was the right decision. Having a “youth policy” means you have to be patient and wait for the youth to develop like we did with Tonali and Leao for example. Some develop faster than others (Thiaw) and others take more time or may not develop at all (Adli, CDK) – that is the risk of a youth policy and a risk Redbird was content in making. M&M asked for $ in January to correct the deficiencies caused by the lack of youth development and injuries to the side (Mike, Ibra etc..) and Redbird said NO. So what do you want??? Can’t have it both ways. Did you not read what Maldini just said in his interview??? He said we NEED BIG ECONOMIC INVESTMENT lol. We get it that you hate Maldini but putting the blame squarely on his shoulders and giving a pass to management is convenient and ignores reality
@Juro you keep pushing these false narratives that if Milan has sold Kessie a year prior, the owners wouldn’t have allowed the money to be used from his transfer to strengthen the squad.
Give me one example where Milan sold a player and the owners kept the money.
You can’t, because first we gotta have a SD that is capable of selling, but we don’t. But even though he isn’t capable of selling, he was still given more money than any other club to spend.
Elliott/RedBird could have easily came in and sold our best players to balance the books but they haven’t sold anyone. Maldini lost them for free.
So the person here that hates someone is you, hating the owners because you didn’t get your wish for Investcorp to buy Milan and now you keep making up stuff that doesn’t exist in reality to blame the current owners.
You accuse me of hating Maldini because I point out facts that most of you don’t like because it exposes Maldini as an incompetent to do the job. What did I say in my comment is not true? Don’t care how it makes you feel, is it true or not is all that it matters.
Maldini is one of my all time favorite players, but I don’t criticize the player or the person Maldini, I criticize his work as a director
@Juro , more lies to excuse M&M.
Who stopped Maldini from signing Botman and especially Sanches?
Botman cost only 2 more millions than CDK. He got tired of waiting on Maldini to negotiate his own new contract for over a month.
And Renato Sanches turned Maldini down after long negotiations, because he got way more money from PSG. But it was M&M decision to continue chasing Renato, the most injured player in the world, instead of signing Enzo, who was cheaper in both fee and salary.
But tell me this, what kind of planing the “great” Maldini is doing that when he desperately needs a CB and a CM, he fails to sign his main targets, and instead of going to his plan B or C and try to sign other CBs or CMs, he goes and splash all the money on a forward?
Does that sound like someone that is working with a plan or is it someone who is just winging it?
It all comes to choices and decisions. And M&M made awful choices and decisions and that cost Milan this season.
And the owner will invest big when Maldini is not spending the money.
How is he not ashamed to talk about investments after he threw 50 mil that the owners gave him to invest last summer?
You absolute fraud. You’re not fooling anyone. No one knew who Enzo Fernandez was before the start of the season so you can stop pretending, having probably not seen him play, you knew he was going to have a big impact at the World Cup and he would become a major star. Given Benfica signed him in June and Maldini only renewed in July, there’s no way Maldini could have signed him either, there was the small matter of the takeover. How convenient of your to forget. As for Renato Sanches, weren’t you one of the bulls*itters here calling for him to be signed? I told all of you in June he was garbage and would do nothing at PSG.
You goofies don’t understand doing well at Hoffenheim Leipzig sassuolo empoli etc. It is not Milan. Pressure is not there the same. AC Milan “can only have top players” not average ones the coach must whip into shape. Ac milan can have an average coach but always needs top players coaching AC Milan is not coaching torino.
The sentiments are silly.
Either RBC believes in the management based on the whole body of work or it doesn’t.
What would falling across the line in 4th prove?
Would it tell us anything we don’t already know?
Move everyone on and then leave the new directors without contracts or a budget until midway through the mercato and see what happens. Then leave some sucker manager a squad that rankes somewhere betwen 5 and 10 in the league. How long will he then last? This is exactly how teams get stuck in decade long ruts.
They need to be realistic about the resources at the management of disposal.
Mark my words. You’re not going to find better than Pioli with this crop of players. You’ll all regret wanting Pioli and co to go. Imo The owners should trust more the advice of Moncada and give the budget based on his preferred recommendations.
I somewhat agree with you but… Maybe the “new guy” wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes over and over and over and over. Like fielding CDK & Origi against the relegation teams. Soooooooooo frustrating.
And maybe – just maybe – the new guy would actually have more than two attacking plays on mind. Or might even practice the set-pieces. How to defend them and how to NOT kick the corner-kicks straight at the first or second closest opponent EVERY time. Who knows…
Milan need coach like conte. You can see at inter milan. They style of play, they spirit, Lukaku and lautaro spirit thats conte job. The players are almost come in conte spell. Simone inzaghi only for the finish the job. They already steady.
What are you talking about? Conte always argues with owners, always demands money and his teams play terrible football. His UCL record is a joke. Pioli, who is a novice in the UCL, has already got to a SF, something Conte never did.
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From my own point of view,Pioli is not our problem but the management.Without Stefano Pioli,we wouldn’t have qualified for the champions league before winning the Scuddeto on top of it.
We allowed players to leave as free agents yet we never bothered to replace them.The team lacks depth.Just one or two or three first team players injured the team collapses.We are even lucky some of the key players in the midfield never got seriously injured this season.Can you imagine our Milan team without Bennacer,Sandro Tonali and Raphael Leao for just three months?
Maldini and Ricky Massara have really tried for the team.That Milan got into the top four in UCL this season wasn’t by fluke.We deserved it.Now we need to focus on bringing in good quality and creative players to add great depth to the team.
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We need to take a step back and understand and look at the development under Maldini and Pioli.
There have been three phases:
1. Pre-Covid where we played like we are now;
2. Post-Covid to the World Cup (June 2020- November 2022) where Milan played consistently like champions with the form guide over that period putting us in the top two teams in Serie A and showing that 21/22 was not a fluke; and
3. Post-World Cup where we returned to pre-Covid levels.
Something happened with the big mid-season breaks for Covid and the World Cup.
And coming to the end of season break we need to figure out what that was. Changing directors or managers won’t help solve that problem and will only bring chaos and disruption.