Ruben Amorim played an important part in convincing Goncalo Ramos to join the club, and it seems he’s about to do the same with Mario Gila.
Yesterday, it was reported that Milan had overtaken all of the competition in the race for Gila, following what you could call a blitz. An agreement still needs to be reached with Lazio, which we all know can be easier said than done, but the Rossoneri are moving full steam ahead.
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As suspected when he was hired as the head coach, Amorim has also been heavily involved in the negotiations. He doesn’t just make requests and then hand over all of the responsibility to the management; he wants to be involved.
Amorim’s hands-on approach
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Fabrizio Romano confirmed that Milan have an agreement with Gila, having entered the race ‘with force’. He also said that Amorim played an important role, as he did with Ramos.
“Milan entered with force, reaching an agreement with Mario Gila for a five-year contract, even without the Champions League. Ruben Amorim has been involved, he called him. Amorim loves to get involved in the mercato operations, and also to speak with the players.
“He wants to have a feeling with the players he signs, as he did already at Sporting and Man Utd. He did it first with Goncalo Ramos at Milan and now also Gila. Now they are dealing with Lazio, who want €30m,” he said.
They could have asked for 50 and cardinale would have payed it, he’s on a spending spree
He is top-quality player but his recurring injury problems mean he can’t be relied on missing 10-15 matches every season because of injuries is major concern
It’s only natural for every serious coach to be involved in decisions regarding the transfers,
what is so unusual about that? Two years ago, Conte was denied because he was a manager
and not just a coach like e.g. Allegri, now that doesn’t seem to bother the managment, nice!
It appears like times have changed and so has the management strategies.
As the writer C.S. Lewis once wisely noted: “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
Holding onto how things were handled with Conte two years ago or Allegri last season only makes it harder to appreciate the direction the club is taking today.
Clinging to past frustrations stops us from enjoying the squad being built right now. Let’s look forward to what this new approach can achieve.
Forza Milan!
The thing is this should have been done two years ago, they knew all this and they still chose to make a terrible mistake by letting some people to decide for us…
I do understand the frustration. Of course mistakes were made in the past. But constantly looking back at what should have been done won’t change the current reality.
I believe the most frustrated being would be Gerry himself for trusting incompetent people in management, and i think he has learned from that mistake, adapted, and is finally doing what many fans wanted them to do all along.
If we spend all our energy re-visiting old errors, we miss out on supporting the team and enjoying the progress happening right now.
The past is fixed, but the future is what we are building today.
But, I hope you do know that in Italy, the coach rarely has a say in the players transferred in, it has always been the Sporting Directors drafting majority of the activities. Even Conte complained about this despite winning the Scudetto with Napoli.
We must commend Gerry for being bold enough to ditch this old Italian style practice and adopt a more modern European style as done in more advanced leagues where the coach plays a vital role in the players he would be working with.
Only a handful of teams have adopted this completely new model in Italy and it is just beginning with Gasperini, Allegri and Amorim in their new clubs. If this is properly utilised we can take a step to gradually becoming more competitive again in Europe.
JOH-Hn Legend is in the house!!
Cardinale’s paid a lot to get him here! lmao
wow that’s lengthy
Hey Rosso-DeJoke,
If Cardinale is actually paying me money like I’m John Legend, I’ll happily write you a whole album next time.
But until he pays me “a lot”, you’re stuck with John the Baptist.
That notwithstanding, I’ll try to keep the ‘sermons’ as a lone wolf crying from the wilderness short and simple enough for your attention from now on.
Ciao buddy!