Tuttosport: From ‘saviour’ to absent culprit – Ibrahimovic ends up in the dock | OneFootball

The AC Milan fans – or at least a very vocal section – seem to have decided that multiple things at the club are not working and the protests have begun.

As Tuttosport (via MilanNews) writes this morning, Curva Sud followed up on the protest that began on Sunday evening by showing up outside the venue chosen by Milan for the celebrations of the club’s 125th anniversary.

The fans generally speaking are fed up with the performance of the team, with unmotivated players who don’t know how to react and also a coach that is not yet proving himself to be an upgrade on Stefano Pioli, plus the management who selected him and the players.

They were not the only recipients of the protest chants and jeers from the Curva though, who also told Gerry Cardinale to sell the club. Then there is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has gone from being the ‘saviour’ to being ‘responsible for the decline’ in just 12 months, in the eyes of some.

Ibrahimovic has perhaps taken on his role too lightly, a position that he believed would involve little work, but evidently he was wrong. RedBird’s Senior Advisor is the perfect symbol of an absent hierarchy that made many mistakes in this season’s planning.

The Swede, more than anyone else, has been targeted by the fans, who felt betrayed by the man who was supposed to bring Milan back to the top. Ibrahimovic meanwhile is doing something completely different, disappearing in the most delicate and complicated moments.

He calls himself the boss, but leadership as a player is one thing, authority as a manager – towards your former team-mates and the fans who adored you – is an entirely different thing.