Giorgio Furlani, the CEO of AC Milan, is yet to decide the new sporting director and could start evaluating foreign candidates amid the unconvincing domestic options, according to a report.
Milan have been linked with various directors in the last couple of months, from Fabio Paratici to Tony D’Amico and Igli Tare. However, Furlani hasn’t made that much progress so far and could thus turn to foreign candidates, according to Daniele Longo of Calciomercato.com.
Tare hasn’t been able to convince Furlani despite two in-person meetings, while D’Amico remains under contract with Atalanta. Given these struggles, and with time running out, new directives could arrive from London and Gerry Cardinale in the coming days.
Among other things, Furlani could start evaluating foreign options as Milan need a director of an international level, of which there are not many in Italy. Eintracht Frankfurt’s Markus Krösche is one of the names on the Rossoneri’s list, as the report concludes.
It would certainly be a bit strange to hire a foreign director after making it clear that an Italian element was needed in an already international organisation. On the other hand, Milan need to start planning for next season as soon as possible, so a decision needs to be made.
Of course they can’t talk while they think, instead of going to New York and wasting time on disqualified and unavailable options, they should have been working on foreign candidates. This is why our transfers and coaching sagas were failures. Inexperienced and foolish mistakes consistently on Furliani’s part.
He pursues tasks that everyone and their mother knows will bare no fruit. It has to be they are doing it on purpose to spend the least possible to make cheap deals at the fringe of the windows. They can’t be this clueless. If they are, they need to be fired and replaced. This is a complete joke.
He isn’t convinced by candidates because no one is agreeing to being his understudy or have to have him with his nose in their work when he proved to be incompetent at doing the job himself. The CEO signs the deals the director makes within the pre established financial parameters and doesn’t ask questions as long as the budget for it is available. That is alread known going into your window unless you are a complete smuck and running a clown show. The only time Furliani can be involved is if an opportunity to good to pass up comes about, at amounts that are beyond the frame we have and they need to get the okay for a bigger deal than usual. Anything under 40 million with a club that generates 250 to 350 million euros a year should be left to the director’s discretion without the CEO intervening. That is why we lost out on deals, too many hands in the pot, most lacking knowledge to make decisive, quick, assertive choices. Time can’t be lost with a committee. Delegate and gtfo the way. Here do we have a nonsensical approach. This isn’t a team sport with drafts etc. The structure they want to implement does not apply in football for a reason, it is inefficient and prohibitive.
Spare us your nonsense conspiracy theories. You’re not privy to conversations.
There is no conspiracy. A competent person will never accept Furliani and Cardinale overstepping, watching over everything they do, but have to face consequences for their idiot decisions “made by committee”. That will compromise their professional reputations. Now he is realizing he made the club unappealing to anyone worth their salt. Their committee have a Pulisic and Tijani to show for over 150 million spent. They are deep in the red. 9th position…Our best assets leaving for nothing or pennies on the dollar. The culprits are coming to light.
The Furliani Moncada duo has proven to be a failure. The more room they took in the decision making process, the quicker our team started crumbling. Anyone with the slightest knowledge of sports management will call their cards in a heartbeat.
Maybe they’ll find a Ted Lasso type of SD in MLS.
Nice serie🤣🤣🤣
In the end they’ll promote Kirovski from Futuro.
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Shut up 😆😆. Keep your mouth and don’t give them ideas 😆😆
…”a director of an international level”…so easy, maybe they could look around Milan and find an ex player and captain that drives a Porsche.
Lololol here we go again
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it’s a d!ck measuring competition at Milan between Cardinale and Fulrani. Tare is Cardinale’s target apparently so Furlani is going out of his way not to choose him. D’Amico is unavailable. Neither is Sartori. It’s a circus.
That’s why i say that until there are two funds at Milan there can be no talk of change or of an actual project.
Really pathetic.
Imagine we’re trying to “Italianise” Milan and could end up with a foreign SD? One really couldn’t make this merda up.
Why they didn’t sign Andrea Berta when they had a chance?
Were they intimidated by his name?
Arsenal signed him…
Are we bigger than Arsenal now?
So many questions and no answer as always
Milan management didn’t know they needed a real SD when Berta was still available. Now they’ve been caught with their pants down showing their incompetence. Again. Same old story.
Berta was available
An Italian that knows the league but you watched him joined Arsenal
Get a German. That’s the mentality we need, not just in Milan, but in Serie A
German + stereotypical Italiano American as owner?
Also with Moncada in the shadows who is trying so hard to push his own squad agenda based on french speaking players? This combo of opposite personalities will never work in Italy.
Correct. The problem is RedBird aren’t football men. It’s taken them 2 years to figure out what needs to be done, which is fine because the same was and is true of many new owners. We will experience growing pains. Let’s hope they get the right formula.
A foreign director will prioritise his countrymen.