Poor Milan if the new kid on the block is Ibrahimovic

But what has this poor Devil done wrong to end up in this hell with no return? What is his unforgivable original sin?

Because not only is Milan not going to the Champions League after this umpteenth end-of-season collapse, but they find themselves overnight with their entire management team wiped out. From coach Allegri to managing director Furlani; from sporting director Tare to technical director Moncada. Gone all, with immediate effect, except one, the untouchable Senior Advisor Zatlan Ibrahimovic, practically on tour all season, but immediately present as soon as Gerry Cardinale, the great puppeteer of the American Redbird fund, showed up in Milan to curb the team's ruinous collapse.

Let's be clear: when the Redbird statement speaks of 'unequivocal failure' and the need for a profound reorganisation of the company, it speaks a sacrosanct truth for all the reasons we know and which it is useless to recall here. Allegri also comes off badly. Suffice it to say that in the last four games at the San Siro, in the middle of the Champions League race, the Rossoneri have scored just one point. An incredible collapse, perhaps more explainable by a good psychiatrist than by anyone who knows football.

There is one thing, though: the one who is primarily responsible for the Rossoneri's collapse, a club with 19 league titles, 7 Champions and 5 Super Cups and much more, is the one who runs the company. It's not elegant, but the fish stinks from the head. Cardinal and Red Bird haven't been in the hole for years. The list of mistakes is frightening: unlikely coaches such as Fonseca or Conceicao, half-broken strikers with suspect resumes, disposals of valuable pieces as if it were raining (Tonali, Calhanoglu, De Ketelaere, Teo Hernandez, Reijnders, Kalulu), the dismissal of an important figure such as Paolo Maldini, the progressive decomposition, in the name of abstruse algorithms, of a group, led by Pioli, who had managed to snatch the Scudetto from Inter in 2022 and then come second in 2023.

Well, when one speaks of 'failure', which is the failure of a presumptuous project that has never taken into account Milan's glorious history, perhaps it would be appropriate, before demoting the officers, for the commander himself to ask himself where he went wrong and why he arrogantly continues to persist in error. If a premier dismisses all his ministers, he must resign. In football, especially if a new billionaire buyer does not arrive, it does not work like that. But a little common sense, including the ability to listen to those who know more than you, would not hurt.