A new sporting director might not be the only managerial figure that AC Milan appoint in the coming weeks and months, with a Head of Football being evaluated.
According to Calciomercato.com, from March 20th onwards the operational phase of the restructuring of Milan at the management level will begin. CEO Giorgio Furlani is carrying out a series of interviews and meetings aimed at finding the profile best suited to the club’s needs for the role of sporting director.
The inclusion of a professional figure of this type in the management team is something that the owner Gerry Cardinale and the Senior Advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic agree is necessary, as does Geoffrey Moncada who is the technical director.
In the last few days, several strategic meetings have taken place at Casa Milan. Among the evaluations underway is that of introducing a Head of Football, a figure profoundly different from that of a sporting director.
His focus would be aimed at a synthesis between the dynamics on the pitch and the ‘political’ ones in the institutional arenas. The basic idea would be to focus on a figure who can embody the values of Milan and who has a certain experience in the world of football, even if not an ex-player.
The current President of the technical sector of the Italian Football Federation Demetrio Albertini responds to this identikit and could become an idea, while Milan have been tempted for several years by the possibility of bringing Massimo Ambrosini back.
Either would be a good choice, both legends.
Yes time to get the Milan DNA back
I surmise with this step we are trying to bring back the DNA of Milan and i look forward to seeing this happened
Forza❤️🖤💯
maybe managment knows they made a mistake by firing Maldini and Boban but cant really ask them to come back because of either pride or because of the way they left.
This is clearly the case.
I don’t get the need for this role. The idea is to have less cooks in the kitchen, not more.
Albertini and Ambrosini both played for ACM in its heyday and were key components of its champion teams. They know what it takes to win on the pitch, and therefore their addition to ACM’s management would be a plus – a step in the right direction.
However, their potential appointment won’t fix the club’s root problem, which is an owner that doesn’t have the deep pockets to acquire the best players needed to return ACM to Europe’s top table, where we historically belong. Furlani can bring in whoever he likes – a new sporting director; a new coach; club legends like Albertini and Ambrosini – but until we have an owner that’s willing to buy players of a far higher caliber than what we currently have in most positions, we’ll forever be a second-tier European team – a feeder club for wealthier ones up the food chain and a rubbish dump for their discards.
Our problem in the horse race isn’t the jockey – if I may twist Arrigo Saachi’s famous saying – but the weak horse the owner has given the jockey to ride.
The yardstick by which ACM should be judged is not whether our finances are in order, important as that is, but how many Scudettos and CL trophies we win. It’s not enough for a club of our stature to secure a CL spot each year – which we’re very unlikely to do this season – and then advance no further than the last 16 or QFs of that premier competition. We have to be Numero Uno, as we were in Silvio Berlusconi’s Golden Age – not also-rans.
Until we get a new owner committed financially to taking ACM to the summit of world football again, all of Furlani’s talk of a management “revolution” at ACM will be PR hot air – like shifting chairs on the deck of a marooned ship.
Paolo Maldini, who helped guide ACM to a Scudetto and a CL semi-final, correctly identified what the club had to do to win the CL again, and for publicly stating that view, was unceremoniously sacked by the owner and sent into exile.
If Furlani claims he wasn’t responsible for Maldini’s ouster, that he as CEO now has all the power at the club, why doesn’t he bring Maldini back and work with him to usher in a new Golden Age? What’s holding him back from doing that?
In summary, having a new owner that is ready to spend big on top players like Manchester United is what we need right?
your question is already clearly answered. What is preventing furlani from bringing back paolo is clearly the cardinal. Why do you ask again?
Bring then onboard, we need to rediscover the DNA
Albertini please. FIGC Vice President with a lot of connections. Maybe we won’t be absolutely hated by the League and the referees if he was in charge. Not to mention his side-job working for Football Manager.
Finally they figured out they know nothing about football and started looking for sporting director and head of football
furlani need to hire someone who can teach him what is football & what is Milan, not the opposite (yes man)
They couldn’t decline about Milan history and the history Milan it’s Maldini. Just bring him back. This is only another lack of idea from the desperate Milan management. Mammaaa miaaa…