The number of AC Milan fans signing the petition calling for the resignation of Giorgio Furlani as CEO of the Rossoneri continues to rise. It is a form of peaceful protest by supporters that first spread on social media on Wednesday morning and, within just a few hours, gained increasing support, surpassing the milestone of 20,000 verified signatures on the platform.
The petition
This is the official text of the petition launched by the fans:
"The management of Giorgio Furlani in the role of Chief Executive Officer of AC Milan today represents one of the main obstacles to the club’s sporting and identity-driven development.
The approach adopted appears rigidly focused on financial logic, with the sporting side systematically subordinated to budgetary demands. Far from guaranteeing balance, this approach has produced a gradual erosion of competitive vision, transforming a historically ambitious club into an organisation perceived as lacking a clear sporting direction.
From a leadership perspective, the management is characterised by a centralised, opaque model lacking genuine internal dialogue. Strategic decisions often appear to be imposed from above, without adequate involvement of technical expertise, generating inconsistency, incoherence, and a loss of credibility.
From a communication and relational standpoint, a figure emerges who is perceived as cold, distant, and incapable of representing the club in key moments. This lack of connection with the Milan environment translates into a total absence of empathy towards supporters and the sporting context, worsening a fracture between the club and its fanbase that is now impossible to ignore.
The combination of managerial technocracy, weakness in sporting leadership, and lack of vision is contributing to a gradual downsizing of Milan’s ambitions, with the real risk of compromising the club’s competitiveness, identity, and attractiveness in the medium to long term.
In light of these circumstances, Giorgio Furlani’s continued leadership of the club no longer appears sustainable.
His management is now perceived as incompatible with the need for sporting renewal and with the historic values of AC Milan.
For this reason, we firmly demand an immediate change in the club’s leadership and the resignation of the current Chief Executive Officer."
The initiative and the protest
While supporters’ groups, both organised and independent, are expected to make their voices heard, likely through a more traditional-style protest before Sunday evening’s match between AC Milan and Atalanta BC at San Siro, individual forms of protest are also multiplying through the opportunities provided by new technologies, as pointed out via Calcio Mercato.
One supporter, who presents himself online as "Dismo Dismo" and whose profile picture features this season’s third Milan shirt, chose the platform [Change.org](https://www.change.org?utm_source=chatgpt.com), widely used for petitions on a variety of issues. His aim is as simple as it is direct: to ask fellow supporters to sign for the immediate removal of Furlani from the club through his resignation as CEO.
The criticism
The text accompanying the petition contains strong criticism of the executive. "A figure emerges who is perceived as cold, distant, and incapable of representing the club in key moments," it reads. "The combination of managerial technocracy, weakness in sporting leadership, and lack of vision is contributing to a gradual downsizing of Milan’s ambitions, with the real risk of compromising the club’s competitiveness, identity, and attractiveness in the medium to long term."
Hence the demand for an "immediate change in the club’s leadership” and “the resignation of the current Chief Executive Officer”, whose management "is now perceived as incompatible with the need for sporting revival and with the historic values" of the famous Milanese club.
Furlani "Fuera":
The petition, illustrated by a photograph of Furlani stamped with the word "Fuera" ("Out") in red, gathered more than 20,000 verified signatures in just over two days. Reaching this threshold increases the visibility and viral spread of the initiative, while also allowing the document to be sent directly to the person identified as the "decision-maker": Gerry Cardinale.
