Initially, AC Milan planned to hire a sporting director around Easter. Now, a month later, Igli Tare has not even been officially announced, which could prove costly.
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As has often been the case with Milan in the past 12 months, if not longer, their own timings have hindered the future. Last season, Stefano Pioli should probably have departed sooner than he did. However, he stayed.
In the summer, the club were too slow to appoint his replacement, even turning down Antonio Conte. Then, when Paulo Fonseca needed to go, he also probably went too late.
When it comes to signings, the story is the same. The Rossoneri spent big in the winter, which hindered them further, rather than allowing the newcomers to acclimatise through the summer months.
Now, it has repeated again, with the Diavolo still yet to appoint a sporting director, despite hopes to do so a month ago. A decision, which Pietro Mazzara believes will be costly, as he says, for Milan News.
“The championship is over, but Milan is playing a much more important game in the next few days. The announcement of Igli Tare as the new sporting director will arrive soon, as well as that of the separation from Sergio Conceiçao.
“Two formal acts, but at the same time substantial because they open the working season of the Albanian director, who will begin his operations late compared to a normal schedule and with a sensationally important knot to untie, that of the new coach.
“But even here, the Milan fan is better off not deluding himself about the possibility of big names arriving for the bench, unless there are sensational changes of direction also from an economic point of view.
“The increasingly probable farewell of Conte to Napoli for Juventus will bring Massimiliano Allegri to the Neapolitan bench, and that’s it.
“Because the reality of the facts is one and only one: why would a great coach, who wants to be paid as such and does not want to submit to budget limits, accept coming to Milan? With what immediate prospects could he accept the Rossoneri bench? For the coat of arms?
“Yes, perhaps, but not because today Milan has a queue of top coaches who want to come. Because they need coaches from Milan, coaches who know how to recreate enthusiasm within the environment and within the sacred microcosm of Milanello.
“Gian Piero Gasperini, to name one, why should he abandon Atalanta, a rich club, with financial resources, solid, capable of reacting immediately to unforeseen events, as happened with the purchase of Retegui after Scamacca’s injury, with a lightning deal, without dragging it out?
“Why should Vincenzo Italiano risk his growth process, leaving a place that is consecrating him to enter a meat grinder?
“Why should Massimiliano Allegri prefer Milan out of everything to Napoli, champions of Italy, who have shown that they can spend even after a season like that of 2023-2,4 very similar to that of Milan 2024-25? Because in the end, De Laurentiis spent the money.
“At Milan, they always drag their feet, and even in this case, they are late, along the lines of the mistakes of a year ago. Because when it was written that the management was evaluating the possibility of continuing with Pioli in the event of progressing to the next round in the Europa League against Roma, it was the truth.
“Because when the chances of Sergio Conceiçao remaining in the event of winning the Coppa Italia were kept open, it was the truth. Then the results on the pitch turned against the Milan management plans (ironically always at the Olimpico), and now poor Tare finds himself in the position of having to operate in conditions that are anything but optimal.
“The only name that, as of today, could be functional to Milan’s situation and to lay the foundations for a three-year technical project is Roberto De Zerbi.
“Taking into account that Sarri will not come to Milan and that Gasperini will hardly be a chance (as of today), De Zerbi could work with full weeks to install his football in the squad, and being a complex doctrine, the time available would be fundamental for him and for the players.
“In addition, it would also be a name that, on a media level, would give a boost to the mood and would have Igli Tare as his primary protector.”
