Milan, tension is growing around Lopetegui: what’s happening | Primapagina

These are days of great anticipation, full of tension and nervousness at Milan, because they are the ones who accompany the moment of a decision that is anything but banal: the one that will give birth to the name of Stefano Pioli’s successor on the Rossoneri bench. A search that starts from afar, because especially in the first half of the season – characterized by bad results that cost dearly in the race for the tricolor and the elimination from the Champions League, and an impressive sequence of injuries – the doubts about the work of the Emilian coach are there were many. Definitively fueled by the 10 terrible days in this month of April which led to the exit from the last objective of the season, the Europa League, and to yet another defeat in a derby, complete with defeat for the conquest of the twentieth Inter Scudetto on the occasion. A search that in recent months has been aimed at various profiles and which has maintained the focus mainly on the name of Julen Lopetegui.
THE SOUTH CURVE DISPUTES

THE ECHO OF THE REVOLT – A name capable of sparking a real revolt among the Rossoneri fans in just a few hours, complete with an official stance taken by the exponents of the Curva Sud – and on Sunday Milan welcomes Genoa to San Siro in an atmosphere that promises to be ‘nothing but idyllic – and of an online petition that prompted something like 10,000 people to express their dissent towards the former coach of Spain, Real Madrid, Sevilla and Wolverhampton. The echo of the revolt has obviously reached Casa Milan, attentive to the unequivocal response that has come from the streets but which at the same time must mainly take into consideration the internal logics and reasoning that led to inserting the Lopetegui’s candidacy in a group that also includes the alternative options represented by the former Roma player Paulo Fonseca, whose contract with Lille expires at the end of June, and by Mark van Bommel, also given up by Antwerp at the end of the season. There have also been surveys and contacts with them and in the next few days they will all pass to the definitive scrutiny of the working group composed of Geoffrey Moncada, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Giorgio Furlani, who will report to the patron Gerry Cardinale, called to express the decisive vote.
LOPETEGUI’S BUYING ADVICE

DECISIVE DAYS – The chats with Lopetegui were multiple and also concrete, given that the possible contract on a three-year basis was discussed and indicatively of the direction in which the next summer transfer market will have to go. A market which, according to CEO Furlani, will be the completion of the work carried out a summer ago and which, according to the Spanish coach’s assessments, will have to touch the defensive department (a new central defender and a right back), that of midfield with a more compact player than those currently in the squad and a central striker. The fact that there has been much talk, and in such a detailed way, does not automatically mean that the deal is done and that Lopetegui will be 100% Pioli’s heir on the Milan bench. The evaluations continue and everything is put on the table, even the less than enthusiastic response from the Rossoneri people. We enter the key phase of the decision-making process and the fibrillations grow: the Devil in fact, he hopes to end this week with a clear and decisive line on who his next coach will be.