GdS: Furlani speaks with Tare again but takes his time – the possible reason

SempreMilan

·25 April 2025

GdS: Furlani speaks with Tare again but takes his time – the possible reason

AC Milan’s pursuit of a new sporting director is set to drag on into May, and it raises questions about who the desired candidate might actually be.

As La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) reports, it is unlikely that the choice will be made by the first days of May. In the middle of next month, the team (and the club) will be involved in the Coppa Italia final, so the decision on the changes to the hierarchy could be postponed again.

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Spring is the season of verdicts: on the pitch – where Milan only have the Coppa final left – and off it. It is the period in which new teams are built, the parts are entrusted. Here, the Rossoneri’s casting process is not yet concluded. And it will take more time.

The sporting director is the second-most important position in the club, and the reflections of the CEO Giorgio Furlani are intense. It is true that the team has a solid base on which to build the new course, but it must be given the right coach and the right summer window to support it.

Personality

Thus, Furlani personally met Igli Tare, the former Lazio sporting director, and the contacts have been updated in the last few hours. He is an option: the Albanian is a professional appreciated for his knowledge and personality.

For fifteen years he held the same role at Lazio, the first point of reference for the Biancoceleste technical area. He is a ‘traditional’ profile, one of those that the club are evaluating for the future, as Furlani admitted.

Since the summer of 2023, when the relationship with owner Claudio Lotito ended after 18 years of union (three as a centre-forward, 15 as a director), Tare has been on the market and free to sign a new contract.

Reflections

That means Tare could immediately put himself at the service of Milan. However, as mentioned, the Diavolo are taking their time and reflecting. They are also looking with interest at the cards on the table of the other candidates.

The usual suspects emerge: from Giovanni Sartori of Bologna, to Giovanni Manna of Napoli to (above all) Tony D’Amico of Atalanta. One thing they have in common: they are all currently under contract.

Could this also explain the Rossoneri’s wait? With the need to get to the end of the season to then open other official negotiation tables? It could be, but none of the three today seems to have opened up to a move to Milan.

The foreign options remain, but they are more distant. Why? Because Milan have decided the club needs ‘Italianness’, and that is the line they intend to proceed down.