MN: The ‘strong choices’ Milan must make to break out of ‘mediocrity’

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·8 Mei 2025

MN: The ‘strong choices’ Milan must make to break out of ‘mediocrity’

AC Milan are approaching the end of the season, and what will immediately begin is one of the biggest summers in recent memory.

As MilanNews writes, the question that many fans have been asking in recent days is the same: ‘Will the Coppa Italia save the season or not?’. The answer, from what we have seen this year, can already be given: no, at most it could make it less bitter, but the domestic cup is not enough.

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Clearly, though, it is very important that the Rossoneri do everything they can to win the trophy to earn a place in Europe next year and to dive into 2025-26 with the awareness that they can no longer make mistakes.

The need for changes

This season opened – for the second one in a row – without a sporting director and with a troubled choice of coach that saw the management go back on the first option (Julen Lopetegui) and choose a less established profile compared to all those available on the market (Antonio Conte above all).

It is a mistake that was not understood, as demonstrated a few months later when Fonseca was relieved of his duties to make room for Conceicao. It’s not even so much the choices themselves, but how the management did not defend them during the year.

Two coaches have been left alone on too many occasions, while the five signings and six exits in the winter window showed that those in charge had got the planning for 2024-25 massively wrong last summer. The management also disappeared from Milanello and the media as the year went by.

Strong choices over mediocrity

The key need for next summer, therefore, is obvious: strong choices. In all three areas. Milan must start from the head, from the management: the choice of the sporting director must arrive as soon as possible, so that we can start planning for next year and not waste time.

A team that wants to compete on multiple fronts and with the heavy weight of the red and black shirt cannot be without a sporting director. It is not enough to make a choice, but the internal hierarchies must be well defined to avoid the chaos of power that has occurred this year.

If this intrinsic order is respected, at that point it will be essential to choose a high-level coach, a winner who can give a precise identity to the team which, in turn, must be built intelligently.

A decision must be made as soon as possible on who the leaders are within the squad, who to keep and who to let go, already thinking about suitable replacements. Only in this way, only strong choices, can Milan think of rising from the mediocrity into which it has ended up.