AC Milan’s pursuit of a new sporting director seems no closer to ending, and a decision will have to be made by the end of the month.
We recently wrote a feature about why the hunt for a new director has become a farce, with valuable time continuing to slip away. Big decisions must be made ahead of 2025-26 and nobody within the club seems to want to make them, making pre-planning very hard.
This morning’s edition of Corriere dello Sport (via MilanPress) speaks of a ‘decision that can no longer be postponed’. Milan are looking for a new figure to add to their hierarchy, more specifically a traditional sporting director who is close to the squad and conducts transfer business.
A gap to fill
Everyone in the current management – from CEO Giorgio Furlani to the technical director Geoffrey Moncada – knows that this new addition is necessary, because it is a gap that has been exposed by a poor 2024-25 season.
Yet, so far a solution has not been found that satisfies everyone. The paper talks about the need for unity of purpose that has not been seen so far, given that all the figures seems to have a different idea of what is best for the club.
A final decision will be made by the end of May. The options on the table are always the same: Tony D’Amico is the favourite of the Milan CEO but he is under contract at Atalanta, while Igli Tare does not convince him.
The option currently at the bottom of the approval rating is to stay with an unchanged structure. It would represent quite a major U-turn after the public comments about the desire to introduce a new sporting director.
One word to describe this chaos-loving management: incompetent.
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I’m already looking forward to the “by the end of June” article next month 👍
They are doing everything possible to make this mission impossible for whoever they hire if they do chose someone. This makes no sense at all. This should have been handled by now. Potential new players with their clubs contacted, terms and conditions, demands confirmed. contract extensions getting wrapped up. Here we are spending time in New York diddy daddling for conmmercial deals. interviewing people with no way of signing them. You can’t make this kind of stuff up. Milan should just relocate to here in Montreal to become part of the Just for Laughs festival at this point.
Real change starts when redbird sells the club. This should have been sealed by now. Just like summer mercatos in past , wait for the last second strategy. Any good sporting director would stay clear of this mess. Only the desperate ones will consider the job.
And Cardinale is hoping to sell minority stakes to help him pay off the vendor loan with this kind of management. RedBird has no freedom in operational and strategic decision making (all decisions must go through Furlani who is not a RedBird’s man). No firms will ever put money into Milan at the moment just for minimal or even zero control over the club. Investment firms are not charities. They will only jump in to scoop Milan when RedBird defaults on the loan and is forced to sell the club by Elliott.
Sudah saya katakan sebelumnya. Milan mesti di Revolusi dari Sang Pemilik Gerry Cardinale,Furlani dan direksi lainnya. Kalau masih ada mereka memimpin MILAN akan sama halnya pada musim ini. Cari pemilik yang mengerti sejarah Milanisti dan Kembalikan sang ikon maupun sang legendaris Milan masuk di jajaran direksi maupun direktur
wishfull thinking.. jual Como beli Milan,
gw bakal ngrokok Djarum seumur umur.. hehe
End of May is wishful thinking with this bunch. We’d be lucky if we land a SD by september.
they want great SD but cheap,
even nubee Maldini asking too much according to them, how it’ll be w/ great SD?
just use Ai or FM database to sign players,
wong kere sok sok tuku Milan, bangsat..
It takes a great deal of time and effort to hire the right exec in any biz.
Sometimes there is time pressure (like now).
I cannot fathom the identification and closing of an SD not being done by now.
So I infer it is not THE priority. This leads me to the idea that Redbird believe they have a “runway” of poor years on the sporting side to spend while getting higher priorities covered. (Stadium, sponsors, TV deal et?)
It’s like knowing the cars you manufacturer are second rate but instead of fixing design and quality issues you invest in marketing.
I have had faith that we’d right the ship after such a year as this. I now believe I am likely looking at the classic private equity pump-n-dump.
PE buys a company. Invests a lot of cash. Value of biz increases. PE form sells. Typically on about a 7 year cycle.
Given, however, the state of Italian football on the whole and the wildly inflated price they already paid I cannot see th economics working out.
Given the amount spent in the Mercato for the relatively small positive impact on the sporting outcomes, I wonder if these guys are just bad at math when applied to European football?