The touching farewell to Stefano Pioli, Olivier Giroud and Simon Kjaer it marked the end of a cycle that lasted five years, where Milan returned to being Milan thanks to everyone’s work. From the American owners to the current and past managers, but for twenty-four hours we have already entered what will effectively be the new cycle of Milan. A cycle that will have to start from the appointment of the new coach, a decision around which there is great excitement among the fans and whose officialization should take place over the course of next week, when the team and the staff linked to the club will have returned from the friendly match on Friday, in Perth (Australia), against Roma. The clues of the last few weeks all lead to Paulo Fonsecabut Milan are also hot Mark van Bommel. The hermeticism that still remains on the new coach’s disclosure, with the greeting to Pioli, now no longer makes sense to exist. There will probably be technical times to respect, but spending another week surrounded by doubts and assumptions isn’t good for anyone.
There is one thing for sure: cheering will have to be regained. The boos that were heard during Simon Kjaer’s award ceremony addressed to Giorgio Furlani, but also to Scaroni, Ibra and Moncada, were heard and are a sign of how – in this historical moment – the management group is under careful evaluation by the club’s partners, to use the words of Gerry Cardinale, i.e. the fans. Partners, not customers to be disappointed, because if an investment fund disappoints its investors, they ask for the bill and take the money elsewhere. The fans could do the same, but no one – in theory – would like to see San Siro with holes in the stands and a surreal atmosphere like in the last two and a half matches. Did you like South’s performance in the second half? Here, to have it on a constant basis, it will be necessary to satisfy the tastes of the fans, especially the local and Italian ones, who go to the stadium and who generate the sentiment there, which is then what consequently influences that of the fans and supporters abroad.
From Casa Milan filters – as always – unity and conviction for what will be the moves both on the coaching side and, above all, in terms of the transfer market where Milan will once again be the protagonist, but with more specific and targeted interventions including the attacker, a midfielder, a central defender (probably left-footed) and perhaps even a right-back. Milan, it must be reiterated, does not need to sell its top players to make a transfer, but if indecent proposals arrive, the Italian football system requires you to evaluate them, as happened with Tonali last year.
It will be the summer of a new beginning, of a new cycle, where Milan will have to do things, on and off the pitch, to further improve and be even more competitive. Because winning, even every year, never tires and means creating a cycle, a legacy. The fan is interested in this and it is an essential factor in keeping his passion alive.
