The AC Milan management will get behind Sergio Conceicao until the end of the season, hoping for another trophy, but then it will be time for another revolution.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) reports, Conceicao refuses to give up and the club intend to finish the current season with him. However, they are thinking more and more concretely about Igli Tare and Cesc Fabregas for next season.
Milan hope that, with qualification for the 2025-26 Champions League now gone, the team will at least be able to lift the Coppa Italia and reach the Europa League, which can still be achieved through a fifth-placed finish.
Exclusions and Milanello
Yesterday, on his day off, the former Porto coach showed up at the Rossoneri training complex. No rest for him, but hours of discussion and work with his collaborators.
They analysed the defeat against Lazio starting from the data of the individuals and the team, but they also shifted their attention to the match against Lecce when, it is obvious, there will be some big exclusions.
Why? In the first half on Sunday, Milan certainly played at least one gear lower than the Biancocelesti, and after three defeats in a row in the league, it is inevitable to want a shake-up in terms of personnel and tactics.
Conceiçao does not resign himself to passively waiting for the end of the season and, as the great professional that he is, he does not accept leaving without having given more than 100%. He will ask the same of his men.
The goal must be to lift the Coppa Italia. Before the double derby in April with Inter, however, there are three other Serie A matches that will have to be faced with a different spirit. Last Saturday Conceicao announced that in this ‘full’ week without games, he would work on tactical variants.
The feeling is that he will try out a three-man defence (3-5-2 and 3-4-3) as well as a system he knows well (4-4-2). From today onwards the tests will start, with the hope of finally achieving the balance he has been crying out for.
Theo Hernandez and Rafael Leao are at risk of losing their starting spots in favour of players with a burning desire, like Riccardo Sottil and potentially Samuel Chukwueze, as well as of course Kyle Walker who against Lazio showed he is a leader.
The imminent revolution
After Sunday’s defeat, the managers did not speak in front of cameras and the media, but they spoke with Conceiçao, encouraging him. Today they will be at Milanello. They continue to have faith in the Portuguese because they see how he works and are sure that the team follows him.
As happened with the Supercoppa Italiana, they hope that this group will find some pride for the Coppa Italia. However, work is proceeding on next year’s Milan, which will have a new director in the technical area, who will join the current management.
Igli Tare is highly regarded for his ability to identify talent and ‘manage’ the dressing room. While waiting for the new round of interviews, Tare should be considered ahead of Fabio Paratici, who has however shown at Spurs that he can fit into a ‘working group’ like at Milan.
The new director will have a big say in the choice of the coach, but Cesc Fabregas is very intriguing for the football he wants to play and for how he built this year’s Como.
At this moment Cesc should be considered at the top of the wish list unless there is a sudden change to one of the top players not considered last summer. Above all: Maurizio Sarri and Max Allegri.
If we hire a manager like Fabregas we would need to probably change 8-10 players. Fabregas is playing pure positional football. In in the last match he had Canqueret, Da Cuhna, Perrone and Paz together. Basically all ball playing midfields. We have none with the exception of Reinders.
Players like Pavlovic and Tomori will never play with Fabregas. Gimenez is also a poor fit as his contribution outside the box is limited.
If they’re going to hire a Spanish coach, Fabregas is low on the list. Xavi and Iraola are much better coaches. Fabregas has done nothing.
Fabregas is to inexperienced even if he is doing well, he need to manage more teams before going to a big club. My guess is that they want to keep the coaches wage down. What they need to get is De Zerbi, we need more italians in the club!
Oga, it’s not about getting more Italians in the club that would solve the crisis that the club have? The fact still remains that there’s a vacant post that is affecting the affairs of the club’s progress and this needs to be rectified at least by the end of the season or before the end of the season, and another thing is even if we are to get fabregas as our coach, there’s actually no problem because when pep guardiola began coaching, he coached a lower club before heading to Barcelona to collect the trophies that he got for the Barça team, so let’s stop the criticism and follow the team with full support rather than castigating the coaches that are gotten to do their job or the board of directors
Oh yes, a rookie coach with zero experience in coaching top clubs is EXACTLY what we need!!!!
I mean, all the players would respect him right out of the box, eh?
Fabregas is not even close to the name… The mistake these management are making is, one thing is to manage a team like Como that have not objective than not to relegate , than coaching a team like Milan with various objectives like :
Winning the League
Make top 4
Qualify from the Champions League group state.
A must win Debry matches against InterMilan
And must win rivalry matches against teams like Roma, Juve, Atlanta.
The pressure and confusion will definitely weigh on him and he will face moment of truth just as Conceicoa is facing it now and the former Fonseca
Sarri or RDZ for the reboot, reset and revolution.
The only way to overcome this mess is with a proper defined football philosophy which in line with our club’s great tradition. Anything else will be another failed project.
A SD (Sport Director) with a history of winning like Paratici will be great however Tare might have a good working relationship with Sarri from his Lazio days. That Sarri link, and his ability to work within a more constrained budget might work in our favour .
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You say Maurizio Sarri should be gotten as a coach, isn’t it? If you are the one that was hired as a coach i’m very sure that this Milan team will be relegated to Serie B
Tare…”fit into a working group”…probably exactly what we don’t need.
Unfortunately that working group has proven that things aren’t exactly working. Might need someone to shake things up a bit and bring something to the club that ACTUALLY WORKS!
Maybe a 9 time title winner like Paratici? Or is he not enough of a yes man? We might be back to square one this time next season.
Insane that a huge club like Milan don’t have the right personnel on board and trying to reinvent the wheel. Unreal.
“Unfortunately that working group has proven that things aren’t exactly working. Might need someone to shake things up a bit and bring something to the club that ACTUALLY WORKS! ”
Exactly!!!
Yeah bb!
If we hire Fabregas then Maldini’s Heir will come back here and comment as he’ll probably follow him from Como. DONT hire Fabregas please!