Too many gears cause a jam: How Milan’s complex hierarchy works and the issues faced

As AC Milan continue to be linked with umpteen head coach candidates and as many striker targets towards the end of the season, the management and in particular the chain of command has come into question.
Antonio D’Ottavio, Geoffrey Moncada, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Giorgio Furlani and finally Gerry Cardinale: this is the decision-making process that are involved in making the big calls at Milan. Their roles, in order: sporting director, technical director, senior advisor, CEO and owner.

What is the current chain of command? Moncada and D’Ottavio work with the scouting team and consult the algorithms to select players they deem to be attractive in view of the transfer window.
Ibrahimovic is the first filter, the one who selects which objective to pursue, then Furlani has the responsibility of making everything financially sustainable. That is the penultimate step before handing everything over to Cardinale for the final signature.

Unclear roles
However, increasing the number of gears also increases the risk of jamming. This seems to be the reason why to date Milan’s strategy regarding the appointment of the next coach appears far from clear.
Thiago Motta, Julen Lopetegui, Maurizio Sarri, Antonio Conte, Paulo Fonseca, Sergio Conceicao, Ruben Amorin, Mark van Bommel and Roberto Martinez are not just names fired out by the newspapers. Many of these have also actually been contacted by management, a huge and varied list that reflects the various thinking heads within the leadership.
In addition to slowing down the decision-making process, many brains also bring with them differences of opinion and judgment. For this reason, Milan currently sees itself overtaken in the race for Thiago Motta, the true first choice for the post-Pioli era, by the much more clear and structured Juventus.

This is a problem perhaps ‘exacerbated’ by the addition of Zlatan, even though he is a recent added dynamic. Even last summer though Milan ended up having to often change their minds during the battle for players due to the non-linear management strategy which saw Davide Frattesi, Marcus Thuram and Mehdi Taremi all disappear at the photo finish, and to rivals Inter.
In fact, the Bianconeri and Nerazzurri have a clearer and more solid organisational chart with one, maximum two, ‘decision-making’ managers who can open and close a negotiation even in the space of a few hours.
Not Milan, for the Rossoneri every operation is an ordeal. Analysis, counter-analysis, technical and financial evaluations must come first and then, only then, can they sit down at the table to deal in concrete terms. This cumbersome process can also capitulate at any moment if a veto comes from those above in the hierarchy.

dulu, di era maldini-massara, dikasi list nama dari moncada, dinego duo M, di acc gazidis langsung sat set deal
sekarang, harus lewat mana dulu? furlani, ibra atau gerry??