AC Milan are hoping to make a decision on their new sporting director soon, and at the moment it seems that Igli Tare is clearly leading the race.
Today’s edition of Tuttosport (via MilanPress) talks about Tare and the possible choice of the Milan leadership, outlining the reasons why the former Lazio director has convinced the club to at least partly entrust him with the summer rebuild.
The meeting in London with Gerry Cardinale and Zlatan Ibrahimovic showed a ‘strong man, lover of the pitch and life on the pitch, and talent scout’. In the past he had already been close to the Rossoneri too: Paolo Maldini tried to hire him before turning to Frederic Massara.
Tare’s task will be to restore order at Milanello, trying to recreate the bubble that the players and the coach need to perform at their best. He did it in the capital for 12 years, he will try to do it at Milan if he is entrusted, as it seems, with the new role.
Everything will revolve around the clarity the roles and responsibilities of each managerial figure, something that has been missing up to now. He will also have the task, barring any surprises, of choosing the new head coach for next season as well.
In his time with the Biancoceleste he never had any problems in taking responsibility and putting his face to defend his work and his choices, another aspect that is missing at Milan. Time will tell if he is the right man, but what matters for now is that he seems to have won the Diavolo over.
List of Tare accomplishments:
– During his almost decade and a half in Lazio, they only qualified 4 times for UCL. That is just 4 times reaching top 4
– His biggest signings in all that time were SMS, Zaccagni, Immobile and Luis Alberto. One still in Lazio the other 2 might as well retire.
* In that time Lazio won 3 Coppa and 2 Supercoppa
– List of clubs where he worked as SD:
* Lazio
End of list
If mediocrity was a human being, it would be called Igli Tare.
All that means that he comes in with way better resume than all of Milan directors combined since Galliani left.
So achieving literally nothing in 15 years is considered a resume? Good to know.
1. You have to keep in mind who he worked for and what a tightwad Lotito was. The fact is that under those restrictions not a lot of SD’s would succeed.
2. It is precisely because he worked with Lotito that makes Tare a good choice on a budget while he WAS able to bring in the likes of SMS, Immobile, L. Alberto – who stayed at the club a a long time and were great. Who has Moncada found to be a game changer outside of Reijnders and Puli?
3. My only concern with Tare is that now instead of raiding the French League, Milan will raid Eastern Europe and Milan will become Milanic.
If Pulisic and Reijnders were actual game changers we wouldn’t be in 9th place. Both make more errors than contributions and neither are even close to a complete player, or a star. Even under Pioli, you could clearly see they unbalanced the team. Reijnders literally cannot defend and Pulisic is tactically inept. The receipts are pretty clear from a football perspective.
Undernyour analysis they’d both have concrete offers to leave from CL teams, and they dont.
If you’re starving and someone gives you stale bread, you’ll think its the best food you’ve ever eaten. Because you’re starving.
“If mediocrity was a human being, it would be called Igli Tare.”
So… 5 trophies won is mediocre? The average SD will win zero trophies during his whole career. I’d actually be bold enough to claim that not even 10% of all the SDs on the highest levels get a single trophy. If you add in all the lowel level clubs as well, the ratio goes waaaaaaaay down.
Mediocre? I don’t think you know what the word means.
Coppa and Supercoppa you play for when you are Lazio, Roma or Fiorentina, a tinpot club. Or if you are a giant sitting in shame at 9th place because you club was bought by a person that knows nothing about football and he appointed people to manage it that know almost as much as him.
If that is what we want for Milan, to play for Coppa like it is something of value and significance, then Tare is definitely the person for us. But I thought even Gerry knows better and wants to play in UCL, which is something that winning coppa doesn’t get you.
He won 4 or 5 worthless trophies, with prize money combined less than what you get by playing a single round of UCL. But hey, Milan is a midtable club now, time to embrace our reality and start fighting for our mediocrity.
Aside from Marotta, Parataci (who doesn’t have a clean record) and Galliani himself, who exactly are you thinking of ?
Lazio has 2 scudetti in 125 years of existance and 16 titles in total, so winning 5 titles with them isn’t exactly something to scoff at.
I’m not saying Tare is the best candidate, but calling him mediocre is a bit of a stretch.
“I’m not saying Tare is the best candidate, but calling him mediocre is a bit of a stretch.”
This.
Also, have to checked the average Lazio spend throughout those summers? It’s like 30M. How many CL qualifying or title winning teams can you put together for 30M? So was it the tinpot club he was working for or him? It can’t be both.
What did Maldini and Massara have on their resume before joining Milan? How about Braida, Galliani and Gandini? What did they have on their resume BEFORE they joined Milan?
The thing is with our sales, our net spend has been roughly 30 to 40 million per season with Cardinale. I don’t think the brass will give him much more than what he had to work with at Lazio.
But but but even Maldini tried to hire him….
@Shiva just to add to that to see how really bad Lazio have performed: They’ve finished between 5th and 8th 8 times out of the 15 or so years he was there, 4 times in UCL as mentioned and the rest were below 8th place.
That’s the level we setting ourselves up for. I feel it’s a once more don’t say we didn’t want you situation arising here
Exactly! He is a mid table SD, suitable for tinpot clubs. His entire career was spent and build in working with mediocrity.
Look at Andrea Berta, look what he has done with Athletico. That is the bare minimum we should be aiming for.
NewsFlash, pal. Great SD’s don’t grow on trees and most are employed.
Sure Tare doesn’t scream Braida or prime Galliani. But given his run, he’s a viable option. IN case you haven’t noticed, it’s not 2007 CL-winning Milan looking for a SD. It’s this current broken reiteration of Milan needing an SD to be fixed.
So yea, Tare is a great start. Unless you want to take Paratici and set Milan back another 10 years.
I get what you’re saying here ACM, I really do . But it feels like the reasoning sound like a bit take what we can get when really we could be aiming higher. I also don’t agree on taking Paratici either but both for different reasons. With Tare, those achievements are mixed and at one club. He seems very Europa-league ish level…..but since we’re out of Europe next year….maybe it’s it so bad right. But Milan belongs in the UCL, not because Gerry said so but because of our history and the expectations of the club. I feel he doesnt fit that criteria, very much like our current director Moncada for instance. Lots of times Lazio finished below 8 and outside of the UCL spots …more than time not for Tare btw. Those are the results.
Paratici has the problem of being in the shadow of someone else. So we can’t tell if it’s him or someone else that’s the real effect (we kinda do but…). At least with someone like D’Amico the results are there to see and speak for itself. Even Sartori tried different clubs and had relative success (brought Atalanta from 17th to consistently UCL places, acquired good players some of which we benefitted from and assembled good teams with players with massive potentials.🤷♂️
I dunno, I think we’re selling ourselves short with Tare
as long as hes not italian, they’ll sign him. maldini and massara were doing great work. never forget
No Milan were trending in the same direction under Maldini. Milan finished 5th his last year. Milan finished 2 in Ibras first. Maldini blew his last two transfer windows. I can’t say if Tare is the right choice but stop with the hyperbolic Maldini nonsense
He is the right choice because Ibra & co wants the typical the Yes man. Haha… As long as they still furlani, Ibra, Moncada,,, igli tare only for consolation. You can see wheres milan ambition right now. That’s my opinion bro
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The why? Because he’s not italian.
No Italian no talk. Get out already.
I find the timing of the SD talks peculiar. I don’t know If RedBird is trying to improve the organization at Milan or just trying to give the fans Dopamine hits amidst a disaster of a season progressively getting worse.
Three losses in a row: Hey! Milan looking for a SD
Curva and Fan protests: Hey! Reijnders renewed!
More indicators of absolute chaos at the management level at Milan. Tare maybe more of a hiring to officially communicate and take hits after embarrassing results in stead of management than an actual functioning SD at Milan.
The ultimate question is that if, let’s say, this is na altruistic move by management to actually improve the way Milan operates, what powers and autonomy will Tare be given?
This is what Tare needs to ask before coming. Or any other SD for that matter. What powers are Furlani/Ibra actually willing to give up?
How is a renewal and trying to upgrade the sporting sector a sign of chaos? Seems more like a recognition of a good player and a not so effective management staff 🤔
You haven’t ever done PR have you?
I’ve read in a previous article, that there is currently a lot of problems between Furlani, Ibrahimović and Moncada about who is going to be the next SD and each one of them is essentially trying to hire their friend and not the the one they find most suitable.
Also are we once again tasking Ibrahimović, Moncada and Furlani who have failed so far to yet again make a decisive choice ?
Are they also supposed to choose a man who might be their boss ? Moncada will be back as a scout and he wants to hire a SD which is his own boss ? Ibrahimović will hire a guy who will limit his influence ?
Forget Cardinale, he has no knowledge so he can’t hire anyone himself.
Also, if this new SD will essentially have the same role as the previous one who “quit” then what is the point ?
Too many unanswered questions and I think before hiring, we should first get rid of some elements.
That’s why SD won’t matter if the management is the same. Elliot people will still fight with RedBird people and nothing will get resolved.
He is still not official yet. Well maybe his advantage because he can work with low budget like he did in lazio but bring SMS, LA, CI ( this trio stay for long time ), he is also experience DS for Serie A, can working well with coach for example Simone inzaghi. In my personal opinion Tare still better than paratici
Yesss it is he’s the right man. No UCL football, Milan need the cheapest SD. That’s Tare i guess with no budget. Now we can see where Milan ambition. The rest is history. Hahaha