Four Official Departures: AC Milan Starts from Scratch
The official statement that nobody expected in such sweeping terms has arrived: four simultaneous dismissals have shaken Casa Milan to its foundations. With immediate effect, the club has parted ways with Giorgio Furlani (CEO), Geoffrey Moncada (Technical Director), Massimiliano Allegri (Head Coach) and Igli Tare (Sporting Director). RedBird and Gerry Cardinale have decided to turn the page decisively, with no half measures.
This amounts to a complete reset, even more radical than last season’s overhaul, when Moncada and Furlani had been retained. This time nobody has been spared: the verdict on the path taken has been unsparing, and the ownership’s response has been immediate and resolute.
Ibrahimovic and Cardinale at the Helm
In the coming hours, the running of the club will be handled directly by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Gerry Cardinale. The two will take the time needed to identify the right profiles to rebuild Milan’s managerial and technical structure. It is no small task, given that the club is essentially restarting from scratch across the board: a new CEO, a new Sporting Director and a new Head Coach are all required.
For the Sporting Director role, the name of Fabio Paratici has already been floated — a figure with vast experience in Italian and European football, previously a key protagonist at Juventus and Tottenham Hotspur. This remains an exploratory candidacy at this stage, but it is telling that his name has surfaced within hours of the dismissals.
From a meeting held with a select group of journalists — including a correspondent from Corriere dello Sport — it has emerged that Adriano Galliani will not return to Milan. Despite being a legend of the club’s history, the great former executive does not feature in RedBird’s plans.
Scaroni to Focus on the Stadium
Another detail to emerge concerns the role of president Paolo Scaroni, who will henceforth be less involved in technical and sporting matters, concentrating primarily on the new stadium project — one of the hottest and most strategically important topics for the club’s future.
Meanwhile, Francesco Calvelli is set to take on an increasingly central role within the Rossoneri’s structure, as part of a reshuffle that completely redraws the chain of command inside the organisation.
A New Era, with Great Expectations
What is happening at Via Aldo Rossi is a historic revolution. The departures of Furlani and Moncada in particular mark the end of a cycle that did not deliver the expected results. The signal sent by the ownership is loud and clear: Milan wants to rebuild with a new, more effective structure and with genuinely ambitious targets.
The journey has only just begun. In the weeks ahead, between transfer market activity, technical decisions and new executive appointments, the face of AC Milan will change profoundly. As we explored in our feature on the road to a Rossoneri renaissance, the right changes are the indispensable precondition for a return to winning ways.
Milan is preparing to write a new chapter. And this time, the starting conditions — however demanding — leave room for well-founded optimism: when a club restarts with courage and determination, results can and do follow.
Source: AC Milan official statement / Corriere dello Sport
