AC Milan are not going through a positive moment at present, and the situation is not helped by the lack of unity among members of the management.
According to Footmercato, the Milan management is ‘more than ever divided into several camps’. Whether it is on the future of Sérgio Conceição, the sporting director to choose or the plan for the future, Giorgio Furlani and Zlatan Ibrahimović are ‘tearing each other apart’.
Relations between the two men are quite tense and after three straight defeats in the league completely derailed the top four push, an ‘internal clash between directors’ is being witnessed too, with Ibrahimović being ‘questioned more than ever’.
Even though the relationship between the Senior Advisor and the CEO is strained, they went down to the locker room yesterday to motivate the troops and reassure Conceição that they are with him for the moment.
Nevertheless, the relationship between the Italian and the Swede has been rather cold for a few weeks, due to ‘numerous disagreements on the sporting policy to adopt for the restructuring of the club, in particular concerning the profile of the future sporting director’.
Ibrahimović has ‘lost a lot of support in recent months, with some management employees accusing him of waiting until the fire was complete before fully intervening’. Others accuse him of ‘taking up too much space for a figure who is not officially employed by AC Milan’.
His public appearances at extra-sporting events such as the Sanremo Festival or Formula 1 Grand Prix are not going down well with some people. His catastrophic management of Milano Futuro (19th in Serie C), is also being singled out.
Furlani and the majority of the management are pushing for Fabio Paratici to take over as the new sporting director, while Ibrahimović has contacted Igli Tare, a close friend of his. This comes after he got his other close friend Jovan Kirovski a job within the organisation.
In the middle of the two leaders, technical director Geoffrey Moncada is trying to hire his compatriot and friend François Modesto. According to the source, the management is ‘more divided than ever at the moment’.
To put out the fire, Furlani tried to propose other profiles capable of satisfying the maximum number of people, such as Tony D’Amico of Atalanta. In the meantime, Conceição feels very alone at Milan, establishing almost no relationship with his management.
Gerry Cardinale is silent while the infighting continues, but the RedBird Capital chief is expected in the coming weeks in Italy and more precisely at Milanello, the training center and headquarters. For the occasion, a major meeting will be organised as the final part of the season approaches.
The future of Conceição will be decided, but contacts have already been made with Mauro Tassotti to potentially take over as the interim. Mike Maignan, Théo Hernandez and Rafael Leão should also be discussed, yet for now there is ‘no clear project’ at Milan.
Not gonna lie, I laughed a little bit when the cameras panned to Ibra and Moncada when we scored the goal. Ibra with a slight smile and an applause. Moncada with the – wth why aren’t my algorithms working the way they’re supposed to in the simulation-face
Two diametrically opposing reactions 🍿
I just shaked my head in pity for those fools, when they showed them. And enjoyed their pale long faces, not gonna lie.
Like I said, they should keep their faces on the big screen as much as possible.
Capitalists talk a big game about “meritocracy”, but in the end it’s always who you know. Here are a bunch of incompetents trying to hire their friends. Can’t we hire the best person for the job? At least Furlani thought to suggest Tony D’Amico, who would probably be the best candidate of the bunch. If it comes down to Paratici vs. Tare, I think I’d go with Tare, since he has experience building squads on a budget. Paratici has experience cheating and overpaying for players, two things we can’t afford.
Paratici also had big successes like Pogba and Vidal, but I’d rather have Tare.
Paratici must take with big name and heavy budget, so why they maybe the yes man with cheap budget, of course Tare. Hehehehe…
These are Beppe Marotta’s signings. Paratici was Juve SD from 2018m.
Soap Opera
This management are all Bulls**t
Kirovski is a nobody with no expertise. Tare, however, did well at Lazio. I’m not sure what use Ibrahimovic is anymore. Bring in a SD and Furlani can go back to doing what he does best – contracts. Cardinale doesn’t know anything about football so I’m not sure how he’s going to help. What a disaster.
What exactly did Tare did well? In 15 years at Lazio they qualified just 4 times for UCL. His biggest signings were SMS, Immomile and Luis Alberto, none of them have a career anymore. He was a mediocre SD in a mediocre club, producing mediocre results. He is not fit to mow the lawn at San Siro.
Their project failed.
You can’t buy Messias, after Krunic, and now Emerson Royal and Alavaro Morata to expect you will always have top 4 result.
That’s insane. Of course that this idea can’t pass by. Than every other clubs would not have keep best players and they would buy average one.
Once project have goal – let’s be best, and you use money for best possible squad, than you will gain result.
But unfortunately Red Bird cares only about club profit.
Aside from the names proposed, what is annoying me is that in the end the same guys who are responsible for the current state of Milan (Moncada, Furlani and Ibrahimović) are yet still tasked of making choices and to basically hire their boss ? Like Moncada is supposed to propose a guy who will demote him from his SD position ? And Ibrahimović is trying to hire to guy who will question his influence ? And of course each one is trying to get their friend on board.
Normally it’s Cardinale, the big boss, who should hire his employees and demote/fire the others, but since he has 0 knowledge about football, he himself doesn’t know of a sporting director.
In a nutshell, I don’t see this one ending well.
Right on. What a mess…
Both did a very bad job and needs to leave along with Moncada.
When Maldini was fired, there is no more figure to lead, have a big influence and decision maker. I remember that this is one of the things that Cardinale wanted because he doesn’t want that one person as a decision maker and prefer to discuss and decide. Now this is the consequences of that matter.
Cardinale must be angry maldini and his cohorts finally won! What a disaster Milan has been after maldini left!
Scaroni despite spending years fighting for stadium, I’m so sad Milan still ended up in sansiro with intermilan! So what’s the purpose of all your fight and beef with maldini all these years? Nonsense upon nonsense?
Milan should keep on protesting and send all these clowns away from Cardinale to scaroni( figure head president) who has no say in whatsoever is going on in the team, Ibrahimovic ( a god who has failed in every elite sporting platform ) from world cup – Eurocup to champions league…. His level is Europa league! Pls don’t bring your failure mentality to Milan and turn Milan to L.A galaxy or Malmö or wherever you come from…and these other nonsense Moncada or whatever should be sacked and send packing and allow people with love and knowledge to oversee this fallen club…
I’m ashamed of Baresi! Remain there and couldn’t talk? Is this how a man loses dignity and respect because of someone who put you there! What a total mess
When you hire a rebels like Zlatan to lead the line you gonna end up with a rebellion
Can someone please tell me how the rat team of Moncada and Furlani was better than goat Maldini and Massara?
They clearly arent.
Maldini and Massara got Pioli to finish 2nd 1st 4th and 2nd in his 4 full seasons at Milan while just netting -46 mil in average per season in spendings.
This year we have spend -70 mil so far and have an average of 1,52 points per game in the league.
Under the Maldini/Massara/Pioli era we were averaging 2,04 points per game in the league the previous 4 seasons to this. That would had put us on 55 points this season and very much in the title race.
Imagine what Maldini/Massara/Pioli would had done with a squad of this calibre (althou different players)
Ibrahimovic is as bad of a leader of the pitch as on.
“Gerry Cardinale is silent”
Good. He should be. He has not business interfering. Moncada and his French compatriots can go and F themselves. Even though I think Zlatan should go to h3ll to I’m supporting his choice here. Tare is the one.
Clowns…..😂
“So it was intriguing for me not to approach this as a typical private equity search for a CEO, but rather to create a ‘office of the CEO’ that operates under my direction and brings together the various disciplines needed to evolve the ownership of European football: Giorgio, Stefano [Cocirio, CFO], Geoffrey Moncada, Zlatan Ibrahimović and my team at RedBird.
“Each of us brings something and we are all part of an integrated team. I am not throwing Giorgio to the wolves.”
Well done Gerry.
Basically Elliott is still very much in control of Milan. It’s Elliott Vs RedBird. No wonder it’s all a sh!tshow. Cardinale’s RedBird was probably hired just to get the stadium rolling and he couldn’t even do that. But the club is still very much Elliott’s is what it feels like.
Bobble heads can’t agree on anything. Hence no sporting project or direction. No cohesion and a lot of confusion, which is incidentally how the team looks. Basically just a giant mirror of what the club is.
I don’t know what kind of dramatic changes we’ll actually see in the summer because everyone still has a lot of money vested in Milan. But it feels like too many cooks in the kitchen.
great sumation. bravo
One of the great sporting tragedies of our time – the decline and fall of the once mighty AC Milan – seven times winners of the European Cup/Champions League – who not so long-ago ruled world football. Lose to Lecce next week and the destruction of this once revered global institution will be complete.
Mrs Meloni: please declare a national emergency and rescue my beloved Rossoneri from its current owner and his incompetent management team.
AC Milan urgently needs a new proprietor with truly deep pockets who’ll restore a core Italian identity to the team; respect – not bin – the club’s traditional red and black striped colors; bring in world class players – not rejects and fading stars; and build a new stadium on the sacred San Siro site without any further delay, amongst other immediate steps.
Most importantly: bring back the martyred Paolo Maldini – the defining, iconic, and eternal symbol of AC Milan – who was publicly crucified by the owner for telling him the truth about how to take our club back to where it belongs – the top of the Italian and European game,
Maldini’s Second Coming will restore faith and help usher in a new Golden Age. He is the Messiah – not that false prophet Zlatan.
I am done reading Giorgio Furlani and Zlatan Ibrahimović sh!t its pointless they are the problem in the club. Ibra should go be a manger for Monza with his great ideas