“Time for change”
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AC Milan is relying on a complete restart after missing the Champions League. The traditional club in crisis parted ways with head coach Massimiliano Allegri and sports director Igli Tare. As the club announced on its website, managing director Giorgio Furlani and technical director Geoffrey Moncada also have to leave.
Milan, with substitute Niclas Füllkrug, fell out of the qualifying places for the Champions League after a 2-1 home defeat against Cagliari on the last matchday and only finished fifth. “Last night’s disappointing defeat has turned this season into a clear failure,” the club statement said. “Now the time has come for changes and a profound reorganization of the club’s sporting area.”
For Allegri it is already the second farewell to Milan. In his first term between 2010 and 2014, the 58-year-old won the Italian championship in 2011. He returned for the 2025/26 season and averaged 1.81 points in 42 games. Tare, who played as a professional footballer in the 1990s for Fortuna Düsseldorf and 1. FC Kaiserslautern, among others, only took up his position as sports director last summer.
Successor candidates are not yet known. But it shouldn’t be a prominent name: Milan icon Gennaro Gattuso, who most recently missed the World Cup qualification as national coach with Italy and then resigned, will, according to transfer reporter Fabrizio Romano, take over the coaching job at Lazio from Maurizio Sarri, who is reportedly about to move to Atalanta.
