We could be set for an exciting end to the January transfer window as AC Milan are looking to add more than just Kyle Walker in terms of incomings.
PianetaMilan begin a report begin a report by stating that the current plan is to sign Walker on a loan with option to buy deal and then – based on how sales go – focus on adding a midfielder and a striker too.
It is possible that there will be no major upheavals before January 29, the date on which the Rossoneri will play their last match in the first phase of the Champions League against Dinamo Zagreb.
Why all these possible movements and departures of players who have only been here for a few months, like Emerson Royal and Strahinja Pavlovic? Well, it seems the owner has had his say.
The report adds that Gerry Cardinale has given the Milan management the mandate to ‘do everything possible’ to reach the seasonal objective in the league: to get into the Champions League places.
Should they fail to do so, at the end of the season it is possible that something will change in the management. Geoffrey Moncada, the club’s technical director, is out of contract and would be the most discussed after the summer transfer window.
As for Giorgio Furlani, Milan’s CEO, a change could be evaluated at the end of the season. The club could also be remodelled like Inter, with a sporting CEO (Beppe Marotta in their case) and a corporate CEO (Alessandro Antonello).
i had a dream last night i spoke to cardinale and convinced him to bring back maldini.
So 5th place is good enough
Much better than the 8th place
If that means reaching UCL semi-final and a UCL spot for next season, then that’s more than enough.
too early to tell. You are either banking on the italian coeficient (which will be badly hurt by bologna sucking) or a Europa league win by Lazio. (or that we win the champions ) .
Anything is possible but it’s too early to tell
Yes, I don’t think that’s happening this season. Liverpool are the best team in Europe right now and Man City will improve with their new signings.
Typically mid season signing never make significant impact. I don’t think it will change city fortune that much.
But first two competitions get the fifth spot right?
Is it finally dawning on Gerry that being cheap leads to missing the CL which leads to losing even more money??
Yes, Gerry should fire these clowns; too bad apparently there is no talk of firing also the major clown Ibrahimovic.
If Gerry Cardinale is unfamiliar with football (he’s more of a baseball man) then his obligation was to name as his underlings, people who know the sport. He grossly failed to do so by naming idiots.
Sure, Ibrahimovic knows the sport but his personality of a major narcissist hinders his judgment and he committed grave errors too, and needs to go.
He was a great footballer and I’m grateful to him for what he did on the pitch for AC Milan but as a manager he is incredibly incompetent and actually detrimental to the club (for example, by undermining the coach; another major example is his fight with Abate for the sake of his son – that is, putting personal interest ahead of club interest – which resulted in Abate leaving and the incompetent Bonera leading Milan Futuro, with disastrous results that jeopardize the whole project since in case of relegation, Futuro will have to dissolve because the league doesn’t allow second teams to play in Serie D).
Not having a second team is a major blow. The second team was supposed to be a reservoir to develop young athletes so that they can help with rotation and with injury crises in the first team, and so that they can develop in-house without the need for loans. When in-house they can help immediately in case of need while when they are on loan they are gone for the duration. So, Milan Futuro is an integral part of the project and making it fail is a HUGE blow, and if it happens (it probably will) it is almost 100% Ibra’s fault, because I don’t believe that Milan Futuro would be relegated under Abate who is in 5th place with his Serie C team Pescara, miles ahead of the relegation zone.
Having a functioning second team is great help. Look at Juve, they got Mbangula and Yildiz from their second team and they are already contributing enormously to the first team, while our guys are not developing properly under Bonera and in almost 800 minutes playing for the first team, the 6 kids who played got zero goals and zero assists.
A huge concern is that if Inter (or any other Serie A team like Roma, Lazio, Fiorentina etc) smarts up to the help that having a second team provides, if Milan Futuro gets dissolved by relegation, Inter (or some other team) might jump into it and start their own second team. That would effectively exclude Milan from it forever, given that the league only allows 3 second teams (one per Serie C group; there are 3 groups) and Juve and Atalanta already occupy the other two slots.
So because of Ibra’s narcissistic fight with Abate, we may lose a second team forever. That is definitely a firing-level offense.
Even Fasobelli duo is better than this set of clowns.
Mr Cardinale should sack himself.
That would be a good start.
A Maldini return would be pleasing.
Also sales are necessary.
We yave so many overpaid, suck players, who can’t play here.
I would definitely think about sale of Tomori, Pavlovic, Musah, Bennacer, Loftus Cheek, Okafor, Chukwueze, Lazetic, Pellegrino and definitely sending Origi out.
I would release Florenzi, Calabria, Jovic for free.
If Emersin Royal isn’t sold this term, I would sell him first in the summer.
Then I would think about our Loaned players. Kalulu – should be sold. Adli, Pobega, Saelemakers, Colombo – I would keep them. Sale can be used both flanks, Adli, Pobega can be used instead of Musah, and Bennacer, Colombo as a third striker.
In summer buying new central forward, Italian defender instead of Tomori, and Italian midfielder. And that’s all.
Objective UCL spot. Bonuses for players if they finish first.
Well said buddy, covered very well and what about management.
Failed to qualify to UCL is bigger crime than letting players go for free