AC Milan is ready to close an agreement with Fabio Paratici, a report claims, who will be the new sporting director of the club starting from the summer.
As Sky reported and as Calciomercato.com confirm, the casting for the new sporting director has reached its conclusion. CEO Giorgio Furlani has in fact decided to focus on the former Juventus and Spurs executive, and he flew to London to speed with him and resolve the final details.
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Paratici’s profile ended up at the top of the list, overtaking other candidates such as Igli Tare and above all Tony D’Amico. Despite being suspended until July 20, the Italian is considered the right man to rebuild Milan, after a very disappointing season.
On Monday, Furlani and Paratici had a long discussion in which various aspects regarding planning for the future were discussed. A meeting with Gerry Cardinale – who is also in the English capital – could take place as well.
Paratici would return to work in Italy after four years. His farewell to Juventus dates back to May 2021 having spent 11 seasons there, winning nine league titles. He is currently still serving the 30-month ban for the capital gains investigation but can work at Milan with reduced duties until then.
The same source adds that the Rossoneri from 2025-26 will certainly have a strong Italian imprint. First of all the coach, with Massimiliano Allegri, Antonio Conte and Roberto De Zerbi all in the running. Paratici had dinner with the former recently, while Contei remains a ‘complicated’ idea.
The objective is also to expand the homegrown influence within the squad, by signing players already in the Italian national team. These things will be discussed at length in time but the main concept is that Paratici has always given priority to Milan and his will should soon be satisfied.
Not your regualr Yes man. We expect him to hold his own. Hopefully help streamline the reporting and decision making lines.
So in this immensely important summer, an absolute year zero, where we will change DS, coach/manage and a number of players, said DS will not be able to be fully active until July 20. So, once again, decisions and player acquisitions will be made late and in a rush. I hope that they’re able to move forward with the new coach and players without having to wait for Paratici (but with his input obviously).
“said DS will not be able to be fully active until July 20. So, once again, decisions and player acquisitions will be made late and in a rush.”
Just because he cannot OFFICIALLY start before his sentence is over doesn’t mean that he won’t be active earlier. If he wants to succeed in his work, he’ll start working on the transfers & coach selections way before he starts getting paid by Milan.
I look forward to a future of replacing Chelsea rejects with Tottenham rejects.
Kulusevski will be his first target for sure.
Origi would be helpful at 9 or at least cdk. Very sad what Milan become
Origi? Helpful? Sorry, but you need to check what the word “helpful” actually means.
I thought Origi was sarcasm but don’t compare him to CDK who is actually at footballer 🙂
“A meeting with Gerry Cardinale – who is also in the English capital”
That’s like 3 hours flight and he cannot come to see his players and staff seeing we’re on a downfall. Says enough about how much he cares about this club. Nothing but another asset in his portfolio. Worst owner ever. He deserves to lose every penny invested.
Give it a rest, Emerson. Cardinale doesn’t know anything about football, there’s no benefit of him seeing the players.
You got me, I admit. I don’t even know how to respond to such a re*arded comment. Do you even read after yourself?
There’s no benefit in visiting his players because he doesn’t know anything about football?
Wtf was even that? How old are you really?
Furlani os trying to copy Inter with Marottas pupil and strategy with italians. Paratici is a plonker