While the other teams are starting to actively negotiate for players, meeting agents and planning transfers in and out of the market, Milan does not even have a sporting leadership. As of 18 June, there is still no technical director (Head of Football, as it is now fashionable to call it) and no sporting director. This is very serious, because this accumulated delay will be paid for dearly as things progress.
Fans are very worried because instead of closing the gap with the other Serie A teams, the distance is currently increasing. It seems absurd that a club with the global value of Milan is being run and managed in this way.
Milan without a sporting director and technical director as of June 18
It is said that owner Gerry Cardinale has stepped in to take control of the situation and make decisions personally, but all of this is far from reassuring. On the contrary, it creates huge alarm. Milan is in the hands of an American businessman who does not know the club’s history and values, and who is in fact doing everything possible to cut ties with the past and with historic figures of Milan. What could possibly go wrong?
It is therefore worrying that, after yet another collapsed negotiation (the one for Krosche), which has also caused Milan double damage in terms of planning and image, the club still has no sporting executives in place. The first-team transfer market is completely on standby; it is necessary to begin negotiating purchases, sales, renewals, and many other aspects.
An objective delay that is making this summer of 2026 truly surreal, worse than the previous three. In fact, since Gerry Cardinale acquired the club, that is after the Serie A title win in 2022, there have only been problems and poor impressions from every point of view. Trust from the fanbase is at an all-time low; concrete actions will be needed to lift everyone’s morale, no longer slogans that have been repeated for four years. This was relayed via Milan News.
