The top four places are slipping away for AC Milan, and without Champions League football the reset button would be pushed in the summer.
As Corriere dello Sport (via MilanPress) reports, the future of many figures within Milan depends on qualification for the next Champions League. The problem is that the Rossoneri are eight points behind fourth (with a game in hand) and there are only 13 league games left to play.
If Milan were to finish outside the UCL places, there will be a real revolution when the season is done. The first to leave would be coach Sergio Conceicao after failing in the No.1 objective and also against Feyenoord, but the former Porto man would not be the only one to leave.
In fact, evaluations will be made on several players in the squad, especially those considered leaders. Mike Maignan, Theo Hernandez, Rafael Leao and some others who have not met expectations could depart to fund a squad rebuild.
There would also be some changes in management, in which a new, more experienced figure will be inserted to strengthen the management. The club are in fact looking for a sporting director after Antonio D’Ottavio’s exit in December.
Enquiries have already been made over Igli Tare and Fabio Paratici, formerly of Lazio and Juventus respectively. The ex-Monza director Francois Modesto has been proposed, while the former Atletico Madrid chief Andrea Berta seems destined for another team.
In addition, the paper does make mention of their being a reduced budget to invest in the playing side in the event of having no Champions League football. This is perhaps understandable, given the revenues would probably take a hit of over €50m.
Inevitable when you have unqualified and incompetent managers running the show, orchestrated by a Wall Street egocentric narcissist. Nearly 250 millions wasted and without qualifications.
Don’t forget, half of loaned out players will probably return in the summer, so we will start the preseason with 40 players on books, most of them deadwood.
Looking forward to see how these three clowns will manage all of that.
Loaned players had excellent season.
Adli, Pobega, Kalulu, Saelemakers.
Bennacer, Morata are two question marks. If they sell Bennacer for 13 million, capital gain is 10.
All others can be kept as back up, Adli, Pobega Italian, Kalulu and Saelemaekers. If not from Kalulu they can have 17 mill capital gain from Juventus, and Sale – amount they manage to sell.
I would not easily say they are deadwood.
And on the team: Florenzi and Jovic release for free. Origi somehow loan out.
Emerson Royal, Tomori, Loftus Cheek, Chukwueze are first that I would like to be sold. Next to them Morata and Bennacer and if we must, Kalulu, Saelemakers, Adli and Pobega. Here you have more than 100 million.
Release for free. Once again the genius decision that the clubs always forget. 😀 😀 😀
Release for free isn’t “release for free”. They cannot break binding contracts without consequences.
Dude, those two are without contract from summer 2025.
Even with Origi they can terminate contract by mutual agreement and pay much more than his salary…
Less*
“Even with Origi they can terminate contract by mutual agreement and pay much more than his salary…”
Apparently they can’t or they would have done it ages ago.
Don’t forget Okafor, Pellegrino, Colombo, Vazquez and Lazetić as well.
Yes Indeed. But their cost on books are very low. Expect from Okafor, he is average expensive. That’s why sale for capital gain in terms of Okafor only what Milan should accept. Dude is still young and can cover 2 positions.
Yeah, it’s a tough situation. It will have to be a real year zero. Even with a reduced budget, there can be a significant transfer market. There are various players out on loan having good seasons who could fetch tidy sums, plus the sale of Tomori, Maignan, Theo and Leao could bring 150M between them. We could have 180-200M available. The solution at GK is already there, his name is Torriani, so 0 spend there. That leaves leaves 180M for a starting LB, CB, DM, LW, and backup LB and ST. 170M if we make Sottil permanent. That averages out to 28M per player, which is not bad at all, and if were smart and spend less on the backup, let’s say 14M, the budget per starter goes up to 35M. The issue, and I think it’s part of your point, is that there is zero confidence in this management getting it right.
You last sentence is the most important one. Do we really trust these people again with building a team?
Do we trust them to hire a competent Sporting Director to do it for them?
Not even a little, especially with Gerry “personally leading the search”
They can do that with Origi from next summer like they did with Ballo Toure. Because it is last year of contract so Origi would benefit from playing the football in another team.
If he rejects that loan to other club paying half his salary would save 2.5million.
Those are solution to save something from deadwood.
Reduced budget just for punishment for not getting UCL spot and probably Theo+Leao and maybe Maignan? Or Reijnders? But yh Theo Leao and someone else for sure and we are going to still get 20m max players so that means no real replacements