AC Milan are ready to implement a new revolution given the disastrous season that the club are experiencing, with several big changes planned.
Corriere dello Sport report that the premature exit from the Champions League and being ninth place in the league at present has forced the club to reflect deeply on the corporate structure that has made the most important decisions in the last year.
The main responsibility for the disappointing year lies with the ‘working group’ composed of senior advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic, CEO Giorgio Furlani and technical director Geoffrey Moncada, those who have made the most delicate decisions in choosing coaches and players.
Before the match against Lazio, the Rossoneri CEO Furlani admitted that Milan are having an insufficient campaign and that he is among those responsible, as the only one in office with the power to sign things off.
Sporting director
The realisation of the bad work done has led to a fundamental decision, to plan for next year with the inclusion of a new managerial figure. The Rossoneri will have a new sporting director for next year and it will be a very delicate role.
The idea is to entrust everything in the hands of the sporting director for the choice of the new coach and for the transfer market. Milan held interviews in the last few days in London, with Igli Tare and Fabio Paratici.
To date, the main candidate to fill the role is the former Lazio director, who is ahead of Paratici. Tare worked from 2009 to 2023 together with Claudio Lotito where he won six trophies at Lazio, and was able to manage a limited budget every year to build teams.
On the other side there is Paratici, formerly of Juventus and Tottenham, who is just behind at the moment. The dossier of the two managers is on the table of the Milan management who will now have to make a unanimous decision.
The head coach
The sporting director will have to have the final say on the choice of the next coach and on the players to buy in the summer to strengthen the squad according to the requests of said coach.
The first names of the coaches who could be contacted are beginning to leak out. The first is Roberto De Zerbi, currently at Marseille, and already contacted last summer as part of an enquiry that did not come to fruition.
Formerly a Milan youth player, De Zerbi would be ‘honoured’ to return to the club that gave him a footballing education as he himself has admitted, while the Rossoneri would have guarantees over an entertaining style of play.
Speaking of guarantees, Massimiliano Allegri is the other big name on the list, who has a history of winning in Serie A. He has already coached the Rossoneri but times have changed, the last time was over ten years ago. The sporting director, as mentioned, will have the final say
