After weeks of exploring various different options, Gerry Cardinale has finally made a decision regarding AC Milan’s management.
Sky report that after a month with so many meetings and candidates mentioned, Milan’s managerial restructuring will simply be a reorganisation of internal resources, aside from the new head coach Ruben Amorim of course.
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From Cardinale’s point of view, Milan have chosen ‘the Liverpool and Red Bull model’. It is a corporate structure totally different from what teams usually have in Italy, and the owner was the one who made this decision rather than Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
The new Milan will have a trident at the helm and above all: Cardinale (owner), Amorim (coach), but above all Massimo Calvelli, who will take up the role of being the CEO on a more permanent basis despite suggestions he would be an interim.
Internal resources
Who will compose the new structure? Hendrik Almstadt will be sporting director and director of player trading (basically the man in charge of transfer negotiations). He has been at Milan since 2018. He worked with Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal and was the sporting director of Aston Villa for a few years.
Below him will be Bobby Gardiner as the director of football intelligence. He will be responsible for identifying players of interest. Donato Lomonte, the new head of scouting, will report to Gardiner with profiles to sort through.
Then within the team will be Jovan Kirovski, who will remain in charge of Milan Futuro but will work on developing the talent of the young players within the system. Vincenzo Vergine will be in charge of the youth sector.
This will be the new Milan structure. It is experimental, at least in Serie A. Milan will still have a core group tied to RedBird: with Calvelli and David Castelblanco (already on the board of directors) as advisors for investments, operations, and transfer negotiations, plus Ibrahimovic as senior advisor.
There’s no time to waste: in about twenty days, Milanello will reopen its doors. After reorganising the management team, Cardinale and his men will face perhaps the most complicated task: building a strong Milan to bring the club back to the top.