Furlani heading out: confirmations multiply
The transfer market can wait — it is on the boardroom front that the most important battle of this season’s closing weeks is being fought. Confirmations are mounting by the hour around what now appears to be a settled decision: Giorgio Furlani will leave his role as AC Milan’s CEO at the end of the season. Reports circulating with growing insistence indicate that, after Sunday’s final league fixture against Cagliari, official announcements regarding the club’s management structure are expected.
It remains unclear whether this will be a voluntary resignation or a decision imposed from above, but the picture emerging is unambiguous: Furlani will no longer lead the Rossoneri’s executive operations next season. A change of direction that opens entirely new scenarios for Milan’s future, as already anticipated in our recent in-depth piece on the revolution underway at the club.
Calvelli meets Galliani: what does it mean?
Adding further movement to the boardroom picture is the meeting that took place between Stefano Calvelli and Adriano Galliani. A face-to-face encounter that has not gone unnoticed, fuelling speculation about a possible return of the legendary Brianza-born executive to the Milan orbit, as already reported by CasaMilan.it.
One point must be made clear immediately: this meeting does not necessarily mean Galliani will return as CEO. The former Milan managing director is a man of immense football experience and value, but today’s context is very different from the golden Berlusconi era. More plausibly, the summit may have been aimed at gathering strategic advice, or at evaluating his involvement as a high-level supervisor, adviser or consultant to guide the transition.
Galliani as president? The hypothesis takes shape
There is, however, one hypothesis that has begun to circulate with notable concreteness: that of Galliani as AC Milan’s president, replacing Paolo Scaroni. The prospect of Galliani in the presidential role would carry enormous symbolic and practical weight. He is a man who has lived football from the inside for decades, who understands every mechanism of the Italian and European game, and who carries an identity historically bound to Milan’s most successful era.
Scaroni, a figure with a financial and industrial background, has filled the presidential role with institutional competence, but without the football DNA that a club like AC Milan requires at its representative apex. Galliani, by contrast, would perfectly embody that fusion of passion, experience and authority that Rossoneri supporters expect.
A new structure for a new cycle
What appears to be on the horizon, therefore, is a thorough restructuring of the club’s leadership, with new faces and new responsibilities at the top. The coming weeks will be decisive in determining who will lead AC Milan in the 2026/27 season, who will make transfer decisions, and what strategic direction will be set for the club.
What is certain is that AC Milan is living through a turning point. And changes, when approached with the right vision and the right people, always bring new energy. The history of the Rossoneri is proof of that.
