AC Milan are heading towards another big summer overhaul, a journalist has claimed, and there will be significant changes at all levels of the club.
It has been a quite simply disastrous last few weeks for Milan, who saw themselves knocked out of the Champions League by Feyenoord in potentially the shock of the play-off round, and sinking even further in the Serie A table too.
In fact, the three consecutive 2-1 defeats against Torino, Bologna and Lazio have left the Rossoneri closer to the bottom half than the European places they want to be in. This is a level of failure that hasn’t been since since the mid 2010s, an era that fans do not want to go back to.
Antonio Vitiello published his weekly column for MilanNews and took stock of the current moment Milan are in, why previous decisions are responsible and what the future might hold.
“Ninth place in the standings and the premature exit from the Champions League are enough to brand the current season as a failure. After a series of bad figures on the pitch, Milan are seriously at risk of being left out of Europe and it would be a huge damage to the image and economics for the club,” he began.
“When you live seasons like this you always question the choices made along the way and it is evident that many have been wrong. The climate is very heavy, it seems that Milan have gone back ten years, a serious programming error was made last spring, when too many aspects were presumptuously underestimated.
“The club will experience another major revolution at all levels in the coming weeks, and something has already begun to change. Milan has chosen to start with communication, with the arrival of Francesca Montini as the new manager [Chief Communications Officer].
“The second move is to rely on a sporting director (we were already talking about him as an indispensable figure in September) and the manager in pole position is Igli Tare, in a head-to-head with Fabio Paratici.
“The dossiers of the two managers are on Cardinale’s table, Ibra and Furlani and a decision is about to be made. Tare and Paratici are men with different characteristics and curriculum vitae, one more institutional, the other more of a sporting director used to being on the pitch all day and having relationships with the players.
“But regardless of the choice, the next sporting director must have ample freedom to manoeuvre. If there are interferences in the daily work, in the choice of the coach and the market, then nothing will change. Milan must hand over the keys to a new manager and let him do it, supporting him in his choices. The concept is fundamental: enough with different visions.
The revolution will continue with a new coach, it will be very important to choose the right figure. A strong, winning coach, who has the personality to manage a dressing room with many difficulties. With a high-profile coach and a sports director with a certain experience, Milan will be able to start again. But the choices cannot be failed.
“Finally, the players, those who are no longer convinced to stay must go . We need motivated people, who fight and sweat for the shirt. Many players seem to be at the end of their cycle, we will have to understand this with individual interviews and make a decision.
“The coach and sporting director will have to decide in harmony on who to intervene and which department to strengthen. Based on the module and the philosophy of play that the coach wants to use. And not the other way around.
“Last year, the mistake was made of adapting the coach to a mercato that had already been decided at the table regardless of the coach, and the results were seen.”
The author is right about everything.
Simple solution Swap Como and Ac Milan, or rename the clubs.
thank you gerry. we now have revolution every 6 months
Maldini and Boban, like all Directors had their hits and misses. They were inexperienced too and some of their signings did not work out. It happens to all of them, BUT they had vision and knew where they were going. In a different universe perhaps, they would’ve listen to him when he said right after winning the scudetto “This is the time to invest and take a leap forward”. Maybe in another lifetime. For now, let’s hope management understand they made a mistake and sets us on the right path. I’d be rooting for Conceicao and the team to win every game as i always do, even though this season is lost and our only hope would be Europa League at best.
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I don’t think Antonio reinvented anything in this article. These are all common sense things that should happen at every competitive and competent club. Except our management decided to do everything else backwards.
LoL
This historic club need management who is legend with Milan Blood.
Not some guy with algoritma and advisor with high tone.
We curva sud that always support even Milan in the deep hole.
When they are leaves means the management has done terrible treatment to our historic club