It seemed like a deal that was one step away from being finalized, but in the end the marriage between Paratici and Milan cannot happen. There are several reasons that led the negotiations to initially slow down and eventually stall, but for the moment the only certainty is that the Rossoneri will have to reopen the race for the new sporting director.
This has led to the return of former red and black striker Igli Tare, who was very close to signing with the Milanese red and black team, before the former Juventus sports director entered the game.
TARE – The Man of Ibra
Before the contacts between Giorgio Furlani and Fabio Paratici intensified, Milan's choice seemed to have fallen on a manager who knows Serie A very well, Igli Tare. The former Lazio player, according to the information that emerged, was the candidate selected by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and to date would be the most feasible path.
The Albanian has been without a team for two years and a call from the Rossoneri could excite him quite a bit. A bomber on the pitch and a discoverer of managerial talents, Tare was in charge of Lazio from 2008, the year in which he took off the blue-and-white shirt and hung up his boots, until 2023. In 2008, the Albanian became the technical coordinator, working side by side with Guglielmo Acri on what had to do with the transfer market. From the following year, with the farewell of Walter Sabatini, he became the new sporting director of Lazio.
In his 15 years as director of the capital club, Tare, following in the footsteps of his predecessor, proved to be a great talent scout. Many players were brought to Rome for several million and resold for monstrous sums, which is why his name is highly valued at Casa Milan. Among his best shots is certainly Milinkovic Savic, taken from Genk for 14 million, snatching him at the last minute from Fiorentina to sell him for 40 million.
TONY D'AMICO – The Architect of the Winning Empire
One of the new names that emerged on the scene after the sudden stop with Paratici is that of Tony D'Amico. Currently the sporting director of Atalanta, D'Amico landed in Bergamo in 2022 after the excellent work done at Hellas Verona. The 45-year-old at Dea had the difficult task of not losing us a master like Giovanni Sartori and although with a different working method, the objective was certainly achieved. Thanks to his signings Lookman, Scamacca, Hojlund, Ederson and Hien were the names that arrived in Bergamo. Atalanta won the first European trophy in its history, the Europa League. At the end of the season, Gasperini's farewell could come, finally closing this cycle. D'Amico could take the opportunity to start a new adventure in Milan.
GIOVANNI MANNA – Big surprise
The third candidate is a surprise name: Giovanni Manna. Currently Napoli's sporting director, Manna is a young manager (only 36 years old) but already has an impressive CV. Before arriving in Campania, he was sporting director of the U-19 team first and then of the U-23 team of Juventus. As a testament to the quality of his work in the past years in Turin, are all the good players who came out of the Juventus second team: from Soulè and Hujisen to Kulusevski, Miretti and Fagioli.
The first market as Napoli manager was two-sided: on the one hand, the beautiful one with successful signings like Mctominay, Neres and Buongiorno, and on the other, the one with small mistakes of experience with the perhaps suboptimal management of the Kvara and Osimhen cases. Even in this case, as mentioned for D'Amico, in addition to Manna, Napoli will also have to be convinced to let go of the manager with whom they were trying to build a new course. (A2 Televizion)
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