Paolo Scaroni has ended up in the sights of journalist Franco Ordine after his decision not to attend a league meeting and his comments before the Coppa Italia game against Atalanta.
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The importance of having a strong and cohesive top management cannot be understated at any time, but it is especially vital at a time when the club are under scrutiny for on and off-field matters.
After the game against Lecce, where there wasn’t even a director in the stands, a few hours before the match against Atalanta the absence of a club representative at the important meeting in Rome with the president of the Football Federation was even more bizarre.
Gravina hosted a meeting in which the future of Italian football was discussed. Inter, Juventus, Fiorentina, Bologna, Atalanta, Torino, Salernitana, Verona, Lazio, Roma and Lecce all had a representative there, but the Rossoneri did not.
Ordine published an article in today’s edition of Il Giornale in which he spoke about what has been a very difficult moment for the team after the cup elimination, and he questioned some of Scaroni’s choices including his strange comments before the game.
“For once, having received his second consecutive elimination, Stefano Pioli did not remain alone at the centre of the fans’ sights and social media,” he said (via MilanNews).
“At his side was Paolo Scaroni, president of Milan, Eni and with many other roles that prevented him from participating in the Roman summit with Gravina on football reforms, causing some discontent even at Milan.
“But what unleashed the Rossoneri world on the web were the improvident phrases uttered by Scaroni himself before the match against Atalanta (‘at the beginning you think there are too many matches in the Coppa Italia, then maybe you think about winning it’), which went viral.
“Immediately afterwards it was Pioli’s turn, dismissed by popular opinion (‘he ran out of credit’). […] Against the backdrop of this other AC Milan disappointment, the refereeing issue still persists, effectively summarised by CEO Giorgio Furlani who said: ‘It’s all chaos now’.
“According to Gasp, Pioli and Mou, the issue of the use of VAR has become central and is causing very serious disparities in interventions and results for the regularity of the season.”
