It seems growingly likely that AC Milan will appoint an Italian head coach with their next appointment, and there are a multitude of reasons for this.
In the past few years, there has been a lack of Italian talent within the squad, as Matteo Gabbia’s call-up this season proved. The basic facts are simple, Milan are no longer an Italian-focused side, and whilst this is not a problem, it does feel slightly detached from some ideas of what the Rossoneri have been.
This continues off the pitch too, and it seems that the club are looking to reconcile with their roots, and Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) states that the ‘Italian soul must be reconquered’ on and off the pitch.
The Italians return
Starting with the management, led by Giorgio Furlani after recent meetings in America, a new sporting director will arrive, and based on probabilities, they will probably be of Italian descent – Fabio Paratici, Igli Tare and the current leading candidates.
Paratici has a history of rich success, winning nine scudetti over his career, and nineteen titles. Then, there is the Tare idea, which is not as successful, however, more RedBird aligned, perhaps. In this sense, the appointment will be scrutinised to get hints at the club’s plan.
To the Max
Currently, the idea of Max Allegri is the most likely one to become the face on the bench, which would align with both ideas for the sporting director – Paratici, because of their previous relationship, and then Tare, who normally hires domestically.
Allegri, of course, knows Serie A very well, and has also won 14 titles in his career whilst also reaching the final of the Champions League twice, an attractive profile, and one that aligns with suggestions about the future.
However, the idea of Cesc Fabregas is also very present, and this weekend’s game is an opportunity to show off, and maybe ‘have a chat’.
F*ck it, I’m in. It at least seems like a plan and cannot be worse then what we have today.
Exactly. This at least has some semblance of a plan, which sound way more appealing that current chaos. Is it great, I doubt it, but we’ll see. It is a starting point, so at least there is that.
ok, so firing your coach every few months sounds like a plan? i guess thats the kind of plan ManUnited has in mind.
Sérgio Conceição is gone no matter what, from what has been said, they want to bring an Italian coach and there aren’t that many available options worth a damn. Sarri and Allegri are the only ones free atm
Cue the Allegei pile on.
I mean the bast#rd only won a Scudetto with Milan, so is clearly hated by the fans.
Top class coach and top class man. The absolute state of Juve last night I think Motta is getting sacked this week, so we might have competition for Allegri…
It is not like he left Juve in an amazing place. He was also brought back to revive Juve. Failed.
No he wasn’t stellar in his second stint but nether was the team and the energy was all wrong with appointing him anyway.
It’s not like he forgot how to be a coach that serially won the league and went deep in Europe, nor is it like Serie A had modernised unrecognisably in all of two years of his absence as to suddenly make him of of date.
Football is more complicated than gud/bad.
He steered Juve to 4th with an absolute sh!t of a roster. Hands down, the least talented Juve in recent history. Surely he can do better than the two Portugese cup cakes.
Are.You.Serious?
Sh!t of a roster???? With 2 70+ million players in attack and Bremer and Gatti in CD? Also sending Rovella on loan, Soule on loan and so on? The mo**n couldn’t recognize top talents in his team. Which sh!t roster? Juve couldn’t wait to get rid of him, because he DID AN AMAZING JOB. Stop taking drugs and imagining things, they had a great team with good bench…
Mourinho won a treble with Inter, maybe bring him. Or Capello, won titles with multiple clubs! Or maybe even Sacchi, he is an innovator, but from the last century. 😂
It’s not about Allegri for me as much as it the desperation driven by the decision which started this death spiral, the sacking of Maldini.
They’ve dismantled a project based on a progressive style of football, which was a club wide ambition, only because Maldini was replaced with people who don’t know what they’re doing.
Allegri and Paratici represent almost the antithesis of every previous ambition, the desire to win aside.
It’s a desperate Hail Mary of the type that Man Utd ownership have tried a few times, for example. Tottenham, too.
Not only is it the proof that Furlani and Red Bird don’t know what they’re doing, the Hail Mary’s very rarely work.
Someone competent would reinstate the previous project with Sarri and try to get D’Amico or Sartori.
“Allegri and Paratici represent almost the antithesis of every previous ambition, the desire to win aside”
Allegri and Paratici represent exactly that – win now.
As for Sartori/D’Amico – Elliott is not in this long term. They need to clean things up, again, and sell to someone who would then be intelligent enough to bring in the likes of the two mentioned above.
Yeah you know what, I’m wary off Furlani, but if I was given the power to remove either him, or a package of Ibra+Moncada, I would remove the latter pair 100 times out of 100.
If Furlani wants to play big cheese, but installs people who know what they’re doing to run the football, I’m all in. Bring Abate back as assistant whilst we’re at it.
No way give us de zerbi he is more excellent than Allegri, de zerbi is a coach respected by even pep Guardiola I prefer De Zerbi.
Juve paid over hundred million to finally move away from his archaic style. We spent this season training our players of not parking the bus and playing upfield, yet we are going back to Allegri just cause he’s Italian?!
Sergio isn’t the problem Furlani-Ibra-Moncada are… bring in quality CDM like Varela and Ricci, and I can bet with anyone that this team would instantaneously turn into a Scudetto competing squad… we lose the ball and there is no one on the field who can take it back… Tiji and Fofana aren’t CDMs and we have 5 midfielders btw… 6 if you include Joao Felix but he’s already back to being a bench player like he always does in every team he ever been in…
Basically the guy that was reviving Juventus a couple of seasons ago and failed miserably? Amazing choice for a rebuild 😂😂😂😂
No Allegri…YES to Gasperini or De Zerbi.
Gasperini is more better I think. He has beaten Milan (until now, we are still struggling against Atalanta), Liverpool, and can talk much in CL. Also the newest they beat Juve 4-0.
Gasperini next season for Milan. He can revive CDK too. Proof that he can work with potential youngsters. And our team is a young team. So just Gasperini I hope.
Gasperini is waiting for Juve to call him, he has been for years. One of the biggest Juventus fans on the planet.
If he was one of the biggest Juve fans on the planet he would have never accepted the job offers from Inter or Atalanta. You do realize that some fans are willing to do for their clubs? Gasp might be a fans but calling him one of the biggest fans on the planet is like saying Emerson Royal is one of the best players ever to play football on this planet.
More than once he said publicly that we wants to beat Milan to help Juventus. If you actually followed the TV shows of Serie A, you’d hear about that.
“If you actually followed the TV shows of Serie A, you’d hear about that.”
Got better things to do.
No, it isn’t. You obviously have no idea how big of a fan he is. Sorry about you lack of knowledge.
Don’t be. I couldn’t care less. I’m one of the biggest anti-fans of you and other Igors on this planet.
‘Proof that he can work with potential youngsters’ – you mean Kolasinac or Djimsiti or DeRoon or Zappacosta or Cuadrado?
Probably meant Chiellini.
Gasp is a fantastic man manager, especially with top players, isn’t he? LOL!!! Ask Lookman and Papu Gomez, and they are hardly Top talent. And he was a flop at Inter not so long ago.
I would just keep Sergio. He came in when the team was and still is in a difficult moment so I don’t think was easy for him. I think he would do wonders with a full pre-season as well as with a capable sporting director. Keep Sergio as everyone compliments Pavlovic’s grinta but that actually this coach’s grinta as well.
Bologna was close to fire Italiano after about 2 months, i guess they are pretty happy to not have done it.
if we look at Sergio, he was just incredibly unlucky lately (his players as well as the refs made many insane mistake that cost lots of points – no manager in the world can do anything about that). but even with all this, the team always tried to come back as we saw last weekend (this is clearly his work). give him more time.
if we sack him, we’ll be lost in disaster (unless we replace him with Ancelotti or Guardiola – but none of the names mentioned by the media are anywhere close to Sergio)
Even the mighty Pep Guardiola can’t seem to get out of this difficult period that City seem to be going through. Give Sergio time to work his magic. Imagine we win all our final games as well as the last cup we are playing for…hmmm I wonder what will happen then.
for me its hard to imagine winning all final games. but its very easy to imagine a scudetto next season(s) if Sergio stays. he plays the type of football that dominates/destroys small teams and thats what it takes in a championship format (not Allegris solid defense with 15 0-0s per season)
Some people have no memory, he sacrificed pirlo for short term gains and made juve look silly recently the way he went out screaming and throwing his tie. This is the guy that’s gonna save the day? No, please. Do you not remember how happy we all were when he left the first time? I know we’re all desperate to feel good about this club but let’s not go blind with hope.
NO & NO, and antoher big NOOOOOOO
We have the opportunity to do something different and right, I never liked him when he was with us, despite scudeto and the other one is Juve DNA all over.
Tare with DeZerbi is better duo to lead us
If they want Allegri, let them engage him now in these 12 (13) games and let’s see what he can do. I’m sure he can’t do anything. Won titles? Yes. With Milan, he lost the title to an average Juventus in 11/12. Won with Juventus who were too strong with Italy and competitive in Europe. Played cowardly in two Champions League finals. When he returned to Juve for the second time, we could see all his splendor. He chased Pirlo away from us. He said that his time had passed, and then it didn’t pass for him when he coached him at Juventus. The style of play is invisible. Bring him to the summer, and let him show what he knows.
This smells of a classic Elliott “reset, re-polish and sell” plan. Meaning They recruit for a “win-now” strategy, likely only domestically (couldn’t swing for European glory for years!) and invest enough to get there.
So we’re seeing Paratici, Allegri, likely Italian players brought in to boost numbers (which is favorable with Ricci’s pursuit) which would be in the 30mil range. Basically everyone who can win now.
Then they will start offloading all the deadweight:
RLC, Chukwueze, Tomori, one of Pavlo/Thiaw, Musah, etc…
So if things go according to Elliott’s (and therefore Furlani’s) plan, then Milan would be looking to compete for next season then get sold, because Elliott is never in one investment for a long period typically.
Yes, hopefully that US scum will leave Milan finally. But they are waiting for the stadium plans to be finalized, this is a big part of the extra profit on sale they plan to make. So I doubt it will be next year.
Stadium is going nowhere because RedBird has no money for it without investors.
In fact I think Elliott simply rented Milan out to RedBird so they could get that project off the ground and running. But Gerry couldn’t even do that competently.
So I’m guessing Elliott curbs RedBird and sells it on.
The fact they ke3p using words like italaniasation and and an Italian Diavolo shows something was always wrong.
Milan is an Italian club for ffks sake that okays in Italy and has its origins in Italy. Why did it take anyone at the management this long to realize it needs to be entrenched in Italian blood.
Oh wait I used “realize” which infers having an epiphany and or common sense and competency with Milan management in the same sentence. Silly me…