Speaking on Sky Sport 24 during the regular programme 'Campo Aperto', Luca Marchetti took stock of the situation at AC Milan, providing an important update on the current state of the revolution taking place at the club:
"Today people are talking about the start of the new season, the fixtures, and what might happen. Milan have still not managed to find the right path from which to start again. More than 10 days have passed since the dismissal of the Rossoneri leadership, so both the technical side and the administrative side are involved, and even today, beyond the discussions Milan have had with various parties, there is still no decision that the club has taken in a clear and unified manner."
"There is still internal debate that has not concretely defined the direction the club must take, but looking at it from the outside, this is surprising. When a professional club chooses to change direction, it does so knowing what that new direction will be. The old one is no longer suitable, but the new one should already have been defined. I do not think it is because they lack clear ideas, but rather because they are still shaping those ideas. These discussions have served to examine certain situations more closely. Cardinale is personally working on some profiles, but a final decision has not yet been reached."
"Milan are letting it be known that this situation does not worry them too much; it is better to spend one extra day than to make the wrong choice, although a choice still has to be made. So there is a degree of urgency, because this is not a decision you can keep postponing until you find the right person. Indeed, the right people whom you need to find now. Today, nobody accepts taking charge of a complex situation like Milan’s without guarantees that they will be able to work with at least a medium-term horizon, because in the short term there is no certainty that results can be achieved. The choice you make today may be made in just a few days, but it has to be a definitive choice."
"Even Milan’s justification that they are taking time in order to make the right choice, whether it takes a week more or less does not really change the timeframe within which they are operating, because we are talking about a decision that will bind the club for years to come. It is unusual, if we want to be neutral, that a club like Milan did not plan this revolution with adequate advance preparation. I am not saying they needed to be ready the very next day, but after a week or ten days. You may then be ready in a month or in three weeks, but you should have gone through a process lasting months in order to choose the direction of your Milan, unless the plan is something particularly creative."
