Last Monday, May 13th, Olivier Giroud said goodbye to Milan with an emotional interview. Today, eight days later, the Rossoneri made the signing official in a similar way.farewell to another senator from the Rossoneri dressing room: Simon Kjaer. Unlike Giroud who will join Los Angeles FC in the United States, the future of the Danish central defender is not yet clear even if he said that, after the European Championship with his national team, he will want to continue with a new adventure.
Milan orphaned
Milan in one fell swoop he will lose two of the pillars of his dressing room of the last 4 and a half years. Kjaer arrived in January 2020 while Giroud landed at the Rossoneri in the summer of 2021. Both brought their experience and their incredible leadership. And the results were seen not only with the performance on the field but also with charismatic attitudes on and off the pitch. It can be said that Kjaer and Giroud, together with Ibra who said goodbye last year, scored an era in Milan’s history which, with Saturday evening’s match against Salernitana, will come to a conclusion. And it’s about theit was by Stefano Pioli who, not surprisingly, will also say goodbye to Milanello at the end of this season. With the farewell of two personalities of this type, therefore, among the management’s tasks in the coming weeks there will also be those of finding players who can replace them not only on a technical but also charismatic level. This is essential to create a group and a winning cycle: and it was precisely the signings of Kjaer and Giroud that proved it.
Homemade charisma?
It certainly won’t be possible to find players just thanks to the market and in a short time capable of collecting the emotional legacy of Danish and French. For this reason it is essential that those who remain in the shadow of the Rossoneri Madonnina can make the leap in quality and to take over the reins of the locker room. Players like Theo Hernandez and Rafael Leao above all are the main suspects, but also Ismael Bennacer and Fikayo Tomori. These are players who have made the history of Milan and who have grown with and thanks to Kjaer and Giroud, therefore who can pick up the baton that is left. And then there are also players of the caliber of Mike Maignan and Alessandro Florenzi: the former, according to rumors in recent days, may not be certain of staying with the Rossoneri; the latter enters the final year of his contract. It is therefore fundamental that the new coach knows how to make the key Milan players he will have available responsible so that they can also be guides on an emotional level.
