Gerry Cardinale and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are working on the pursuit of a sporting director, according to various reports, and it’s an appointment that will be crucial. As pointed out by Luca Serafini, the duo wants the new sporting director to also choose the coach.
This season has been incredibly tough for Milan, currently sitting in 9th place after three consecutive defeats in the league. It could get even worse against Lecce tomorrow, even if Sergio Conceicao has had a good week of training, so planning for next season has already begun.
As per the Italian newspapers this morning, Cardinale and Ibrahimovic have had meetings with a few candidates in London and they will soon discuss the matter with CEO Giorgio Furlani. In short, they are taking the decision very seriously as it will mean a lot for the future of the club.
In his latest editorial for MilanNews, the well-known pundit Luca Serafini added that Cardinale and Ibrahimovic want the new sporting director to choose the next head coach. Only in that way can the link between the team and the management be established properly.
“The sporting director, in the eyes of Cardinale and Ibrahimovic, would be given permission to find the new coach and also set up the guidelines for the mercato, obviously in conjunction with the new coach,” he stated, before adding that Tare appears to be the main candidate for now.
In the picture, Ibra is showing Gerry how far away we are from the UCL spots
Ironically, also far from that Europa League logo behind them.
Lmao, that’s a nice joke 🤣
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Put the effing horse in front of the carriage, step the eff back and let it move your d*mn carriage forward …
Fine plan, but regardless of who chooses the next coach, the DS and scouting department need to work to bring in players who will fit that coach’s method’s/style. No point in bringing in a possession based coach and then staffing the locker room with a bunch of players who are better suited for counterattacking football and vice-versa. Every top coach is interested in having a say in which players he wants. It’s when their given a bunch of randos that the problems start. So regardless of who the DS ends up being and who the next coach ends up being, that coach needs to have input with regard to the players being brought in. Otherwise we’re going to continue having a dysfunctional squad with players brought in for big money, then sat on the bench for a season, and then gotten rid of the next summer. It’s not a sustainable system.
This is also implies that Cardinale, Ibrahimovic and Furlani are admitting they had not clue how to conduct the search for a coach, as evidence by the fiasco of choosing Lopetegui, then having to backtrack because the fans revolted, then making another poor choice in Fonseca. I just looked up D’Ottavio’s profile on Transfermarkt, and he was only technically appointed DS in July, then dismissed (or left) in December. He was only in the role for 6 months. I wonder if he was the only voice to disagree with the choices of Lopetegui and Fonseca, and then paid the price. If that is the case, the irony would be that this news proves him right and the others incompetent.
There’s letting the new SD choose the coach he wants, and then there’s this rabble going off to try and sign him.
Two very different things
OK he tells them he wants Klopp.
Wonder wether that would earn him a quick sacking?