The latest loss of the Serie A season has sent AC Milan into meltdown and the toxicity last seen during the latter stages of last season has returned.
It feels like everyone has gone into a panic mode after the last loss. The players look vulnerable and the fans are manic worrying about the future. In a way, it feels worse than last season, because the effects can be seen across the board.
The outcries for change have returned and there is confusion within the fanbase as to where that stops and starts. Does Massimiliano Allegri leave? If so, is it because he hasn’t qualified for the Champions League or is it because he didn’t qualify quickly enough?
Cardinale out calls begin again
What most appear to agree with, though, is that Gerry Cardinale and RedBird’s time at the club has not worked. So, the calls for him to leave have returned and Antonio Vitiello has written a lengthy editorial for MilanNews about the situation this evening.
“The disappointment and frustration AC Milan fans are experiencing is indescribable. Inter are celebrating the Scudetto, and at the same time, the Rossoneri are playing one of their worst games of the year, losing badly at Sassuolo.
“This season, they’re still 15 points behind the top spot, while last year and the two years before that, they were as much as 20 points behind. This means AC Milan isn’t competitive; despite the cliches we hear, the team isn’t up to the task of seriously fighting for the title until the very end. And it’s been like this for four years.
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“Since the Redbird fund arrived after the Scudetto, in June 2022, and since Giorgio Furlani became the club’s CEO, in December 2022, AC Milan hasn’t been competitive and hasn’t won anything, except the Italian Super Cup.
“AC Milan must play to win every year; the club’s history dictates it. But it’s now clear that this intention isn’t shared by the club’s top management and the owners themselves. Winning or not winning makes no difference to Redbird, and that’s a major problem.
“Just yesterday afternoon, we interviewed Fedele Confalonieri, Mediaset president and former top advisor to Silvio Berlusconi, on MilanNews. He had this to say about Cardinale: “A bank that owns a football team, what does it care about winning a Scudetto? That’s the point. If you’re lucky enough, like Inter are now, to have a great president… If we had Galliani, we might have a chance.”
“So in Italy, with AC Milan, either we do things right or it’s better to let it go. Cardinale should sell the club to someone who truly wants to succeed with this club.
“Let’s look at Giorgio Furlani’s performance since he became CEO. In three and a half years, from December 2022 to today, there have been nothing but revolutions. Managers, coaches, and players all gone. Wins, on the other hand? Zero. Just a paltry Super Cup.
“A good manager should combine financial and sporting results, but right now it’s been three years of sporting failures. Here too, we expect changes at the top at the end of the season. Sporting director Tare also made two or three wrong signings, and if you spend €75 million on Jashari and Nkunku and no one delivers, then there’s a major problem.
“Let’s move on to the coach and the team. It’s unacceptable to take the field like that in Reggio Emilia. A huge disappointment, a huge embarrassment.
“The team has been mentally giving up for two months, and since the match against Lazio everything has fallen apart when the players truly realised they couldn’t compete for the Scudetto. Here, however, we would have expected something more from Mr. Allegri in his dressing room management.
“This dramatic decline is unnatural, with only 25 points in 16 games in the second half of the season. As for the players, who every year reach a certain point in the season and then only think about their own business, it can be said that this isn’t AC Milan’s behaviour.
“But here too, we come back to the same point: who should remind them that they’re playing for a prestigious club like AC Milan? Who preserves the memory of this club? Americans who don’t even know how many Champions League titles the club has won?”
“Winning projects take time” lmfao
“Let’s look at Giorgio Furlani’s performance since he became CEO. In three and a half years, from December 2022 to today, there have been nothing but revolutions. Managers, coaches, and players all gone. Wins, on the other hand? Zero. Just a paltry Super Cup.”
You’re forgetting back to back financial Scudetto. Besides, why the shock? Gerry said winning is boring.
Cardinale: “winning is boring.”
Furlani: “milan is own by bank. Our focus is profit every year. Tropy is not important.”
Furlani: “just forget about tropy, forget about maldini. This new era of milan, cardinale profitable milan.”
That mo*on became CEO in November 2022. and from then and there it went downhill. We started that season very well and even had pretty decent score of 10-3-2 (don’t forget we’d beaten both Inter and rubentus) before the WC and 50+ days of pause in the league which almost completely coincides with that bl**dy promotion of his, almost (completely) because we managed to beat Fiorentina right after his appointment and before the break but it was all very bad once the league resumed except for (our “swan song”) Salernitana, just remember Coppa (Torino) and Supercoppa in January (and the blowup and fallout in the Serie A & CL after those two defeats), it was awful how it all unfolded from there onwards, one epic failure.
OMG and here I am thinking Milan’s strikers are playing terribly and off form and the midfield trio is exhausted due to lack of quality options on the bench, and Allegri has run out of ideas…..And all long it was Furlani??? Thank you so much for enlightening me. Maybe Furlani will grab the match winner against Atalanta and get the team back on track!!!
And what was the problem last year? Allegri? And the year before? Why are you trying to be a clown?
I never said he’s the only one to blame (far from it) but he should stick to his field of work and not by any means interfere in Allegri’s and Tare’s job(s). On the other hand, the real question is whether he is even suitable for his real job which is debatable.
SEPAKAT. CARDINALE HARUS MENJUAL MILAN DAN FURLANI HARUS ANGKAT KAKI DARI CEO MILAN. MEREKA LAH YANG BIKIN MILAN TIDAK MENJADI CLUB TERBAIK EROPA DAN JUARA DUNIA ANTAR CLUB.
I think that’s harsh.
You’re absolutely right about when the wheels came off.
Pioli’s Milan basically had a purple patch that went from the Covid shutdown to the World Cup shutdown.
What that should tell us is football is random.
But the damage was really done at the end of that season.
Apparently getting to the semi-finals of the Champions League and securing Champions League qualification again triggers a revolution.
And then another revolution when the team finishes 2nd.
And so on and so forth.
This season they managed to turn things around. Despite all of the moaning.
“Apparently getting to the semi-finals of the Champions League and securing Champions League qualification again triggers a revolution.”
When did Milan become satisfied with 1/2 of CL and when was it ever acceptable to be complacent with the elimination inflicted by your direct rivals? And it wasn’t even an interesting two-match, they qualified to the finals fairly easily and without too much hustle. Don’t you remember why we actually ended in the 4th place that season instead of being in the 5th place? Just remind yourself what happened then. Of course I don’t feel sorry for rubentus, I hate their guts and wish them all the worst, they deserved much graver sentence even then but from being a champion to the fifth place with 20 points behind Napoli, it’s a huge disgrace. Even if Napoli ended being 10th after their title in ’23, it doesn’t justify and diminish what happened to us, not to mention that we already experienced a classical meltdown of sort in the 2020/21 season but it was nothing in comparison to this 2022/23. Firstly, why was Milan sold after and not before the summer transfer window in 2022? Secondly, if they wanted to give peace and serenity to Maldini and co. during the window, why wasn’t some kind of a credit/loan included in the deal, some kind of a guarantee that redbird would start running ACM by financing that summer which was of the utmost importance for upgrading the squad and the club in general, ideal for improving by buying minimum 3 to 4 strong names? We should ask that question every day although we all already now the answer, this incompetent man has no real ambition and he got lost! I really don’t know what led him to us and why and how come we deserve(d) this fate when it is obvious that he doesn’t know a first thing about anything, he doesn’t even know about our history (his exact words, he said he wasn’t at all aware of our silverware and our trophies & achievements) and doesn’t attend the matches, he rarely even visits the city of Milano, much less holy “San Siro” where he should and would be every time if he were a real president and a serious public figure. Harsh and strong pressure backed by an objective critic is exactly what we need right now, not again some leniency and rotten and futile compromises.
*we all already Know the answer
Aa I always said get rid of Cardinale and Furlani,the team needs someone who’s loves football, a fans.
When it was their first time in the Champions League in years!
LOL.
Look at what
Milan finished in 4th place because Pioli factored in Juve’s points deduction (which was already known) and focused on the Champions League and nearly made it to the final.
So it worked.
But my god do people moan.
Milan will never return to greatness with people like you because you want instant success and lots of new toys every single transfer window.
How many new players do you want Milan to sign this summer?
SEPAKAT. CARDINALE HARUS MENJUAL MILAN DAN FURLANI HARUS ANGKAT KAKI DARI CEO MILAN. MEREKA LAH YANG BIKIN MILAN TIDAK MENJADI CLUB TERBAIK EROPA DAN JUARA DUNIA ANTAR CLUB.
Redbird wants us to be Italy’s answer to Dortmund or Spurs. Such a sad state for one of the most legendary clubs in the world…
A few losses and everyone is having a complete meltdown.
It’s actually quite the opposite. A few wins during friendly preseason games or over some lousy teams and everyone (mostly sycophants) is having a complete meltdown. Jerry’s Milan is steadily a circus and an atrocious football team, the current situation is basically daily routine for a Milan fan.
Wins over lousy teams? you mean like Inter 2x, Napoli Roma, Lazio?? Those lousy teams?
Damn my bad I forgot these great wins bringing peace and trophies at the club. Time to rejoice then, thank you.
You’re welcome Bart.
You’re welcome Bart.
Only low iq id*ots go out of their way to defend ownership of the club that has literally went backwards compared to a random investment fund that didn’t want to even own a “soccer” club. You are really truly hard to prove you are one.
*trying hard to.
Autocorrect 😂
I’m all for Cardinale leaving. Now here’s the most important question. Who the F has the money to buy him out? Milan fans have been all talk and no action. Put your money where your mouth is at.
For the umpteenth time thank you Redturd.
They are doing great. Revolution 4 incoming, in 4 years. We are like Chelsea actually but we buy sh*t players you can’t resell for more money. Baby Chelsea.
No Max, only low IQ id*ots don’t realize that the Milan team that went 24+ games (with the same team btw) undefeated and took down all of Italy’s top teams, are currently playing badly for a lot of reasons…And none of them has to do with some American guy sitting in an office in NY. Joker!