The Swedish reappears in Milanello after long absence: to do what? Relations with Furlani, the comparison on power in choices and a future still to be written …
The great absence is finished. Zlatan Ibrahimovic He returned to reveal himself in Milan, with all due respect to those who for three long weeks have taken note almost daily of his absence without being satisfied with the official version (para) distributed by the club: a bad influence that Ko put the Swedish forcing him to stay away from what he remained of the team, falcidiate by absences for the national teams. An explanation that has not satisfied almost anyone, because between the match with the Como – second victory in a row – and the trip to Naples, yet another last beach in the run -up to the Champions League of the next season.
At Maradona Ibrahimovic will be in his place. All as if nothing had happened in the meantime, which does not correspond to the reality considered that in the middle between Como and Naples a lot of water has run under the bridges of Milan. Above all, there was the journey of the AD Giorgio Furlani in New York to meet Cardinal Gerry And begin to plan next summer which will not be easy for a club that has become accustomed from 2018 to today to travel a trajectory of growth, sporting and economic, reinvesting the proceeds of the results on the market. It will not be able to happen in June and Milan will be born in the next sports project will not be able to take this into account.
Before getting to there, however, it is interesting to record that the Milan that Ibrahimovic finds after his absence from the first row of the scene is different from the one left. At the beginning of March they were the days of the talks, never officially denied, held together with Cardinal in London with the candidates for a role as a sports director in the Rossoneri: Tare, the favorite, Paratici and Berta. A boss centrality, however Zlatan had already clarified over time the sense of the car label stuck in the autumn with a reckless public exit, less than the passage of time.
Furlani’s journey to New York on March 6, the meeting with the patron of Redbird and the next communication change designed a different scenario. It must be clear that the CEO has not returned from the United States with any more delegation than the previous ones, guaranteed by the role of last manager of the Milan company: the opposite would have been strange, if anything, having all the signature powers. The idea, however, that the casting restarts in inverted positions (paratici favored on Tare) and without particular urgency made it clear that things have changed.
To what extent? Some rumors say that Ibrahimovic, on whose account the difficult start of the Milan future project at risk of relegation between amateurs is also put, could not only be reduced but even imagine a step back. He who is not manager of Milan or employee, being “senior advisor” of the property with a “proxy” license (words of cardinal) which has caused more than a short circuit in coexistence with Furlani himself.
More generally, the Milan season was a sporting failure with repercussions on the income statement. The almost certain failure to qualify for the next Champions League, with related missed revenues, will weigh on the programming and force to invent a market in balance between sales and investments. It is an unknown terrain for Redbird and Elliott and for this reason too the need has become plastic to insert a figure like the DS absent from the times of Massara and Maldini in the organigram. It is the most significant step back, the admission of having made a mistake in imagining Milan with the awareness that not even Zlatan – football man and charismatic leader – was enough to reverse the trend.
