Gerry Cardinale is in conversations with the AC Milan management, and the expectation is that it will remain largely unchanged.
As Calciomercato.com report, Milan have managed to get practically everything wrong this season, from the first team who will finish outside the European places to Milan Futuro who suffered relegation in their debut campaign.
To find such a bad year you have to go back to 2016 with the Mihajlovic-Brocchi relay as head coaches and a seventh-place finish. Also in that season Milan lost the Coppa Italia final but it was a club weakened by Silvio Berlusconi who was willing to invest less and was looking for buyers.
The current Milan are coming off a Scudetto won in 2021-22, a Champions League semi-final the season after, with the accounts in order and high-level technical and economic assets. This is why the current failure, to paraphrase the Rossoneri CEO Giorgio Furlani, is much more serious and worrying.
Cardinale’s evaluations underway
Sergio Conceicao has granted a day of rest to the team that will return to training at Milanello today to prepare for the match against Monza. It is a match that is worth little or nothing, because the real focus of this Rossoneri week is all concentrated in the meetings that will take place at Casa Milan.
Gerry Cardinale will implement daily calls with the management, from his trusted man Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the CEO Giorgio Furlani. Developments on the new sporting director are expected, and evaluations are also underway on all the mistakes made at the management level and on transfers.
We are still at the beginning of a long summer for Milan but the first signs suggest the current management will remain. At the moment no individual is in question, and the idea is even to keep Jovan Kirovski at the helm of Milan Futuro. This could fuel the discontent of the fans.
According to what is reported by Bloomberg, RedBird Capital Partners is close to hiring the CEO of the ATP Massimo Calvelli. Sources close to the matter have assured that Calvelli will join Gerry Cardinale’s team starting next July and will work closely with the Chief Commercial Officer Brandon Snow.
From what is filtering out, Calvelli will take care of the marketing of RedBird’s sports, media and entertainment assets outside of the US panorama. Among these assets, clearly, there is also Milan. It is also to be understood what implications this new entry will have for the sporting area.
