Longoni insists Milan ‘need a total revolution’ and ‘not a partial modification’ | OneFootball

Journalist Andrea Longoni has joined the crowd of those criticising the way that AC Milan are being run, starting with the ownership and filtering down.

As it stands, Milan are heading for a very forgettable 2024-25 campaign as they sit eight points away from the Champions League places and were knocked out of Europe by Feyenoord.

As we reported, some changes are planning to the managerial structure. For example, Milan intend to hire a new director to insert into the management, allowing Geoffrey Moncada to return to being predominantly a chief scout.

There could also be a change in head coach as well given the doubts about Sergio Conceicao’s future, and no doubt not having Champions League football would force big changes within the squad too.

Longoni published his weekly column for MilanNews and he – like a lot of the Italian media – has taken aim at what he perceives to be a flawed structure at Milan.

“Will Gerry Cardinale understand that he made a mistake in choosing the management? The answer to this question will greatly determine the future of this team.

“Will he understand that the chain of command must be completely eliminated or will he simply add the figure of the sports director? And then, will he be a real, good and experienced sports director, or the usual figure with a ‘revisable’ curriculum?

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“The paradox is that even by introducing a new, well-prepared coach and a new, perhaps even good, field manager, there is the risk that it will not be enough to turn Milan around. A football CEO is needed, because this is a football team, and it must be remembered every now and then.

“We need a real, experienced point of reference, appropriate to the role, not an influencer disguised (badly) as a manager. Ibra’s interview with GQ cries out for vengeance in terms of content and images. In short, it must be a total revolution and not a partial modification. Otherwise the decline will continue to be unstoppable.

“It all started from there. It wasn’t all Fonseca’s fault, just as today it’s not all Conceicao’s fault. Indeed, both have paid for shortcomings above their heads. Just as the team is to blame, but they are consequences of an upstream problem bigger than them.

“Cardinale took over Milan at the best moment of the last 15 years, after having won the Scudetto. It was not easy to ruin everything like that. If Inter fans in their mocking chants ask the American owner not to sell the Rossoneri, as Juventus fans do with the Torino president Cairo, then the situation has also become humiliating.

“Milan can no longer go on like this, but there is a real risk that it will continue like this. The Rossoneri horizon today is all black, there is no reason for hope: to create it, a radical intervention is needed and no more mistakes in half a choice.

“And it will be long, getting to the end of May will be long and not painless. And unfortunately this year in the championship there is nothing left to save. The Champions League is gone, with all the damage that will also affect next season.

“Perhaps the only hope is not to end up in the Conference League: for the history of Milan it would be humiliating. Yes, but what do they know about the history of this Club…”