The Professor will leave for the World Cup tomorrow and will almost certainly do so without having given an answer to the federation. Cardinale and Ibrahimovic continue to evaluate his and other candidacies, with Pochettino in a good position
Ralf Rangnick taught Austria how to press. And the Austrian federation is rightly pressing: it has learned its lesson. He pressures him with requests, he pressures him with meetings, he pressures him because he wants him to sign that blessed renewal of 2 million per season for which he obtained a contribution from his most important sponsors. And Rangnick? And Rangnick, for now, waits: tomorrow he will leave with the team for the United States and he will do so without having given an answer. After all, for six months he has known that Austria would like to continue with him and for six months he has been thinking. The impression in Austria is that sooner or later that signature on the renewal will arrive. The impression, in Italy, is that RR is waiting for Milan. The two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
WHAT RANGNICK WANTS
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Rangnick always refers only to the Austrian federation in public statements. Correct above suspicion. “It’s no secret that I’m very happy with Austria,” he said on Monday evening after the friendly match with Tunisia. True but… The Professor – that’s what they call him – would like to know his future before the start of the World Cup and Austria will play their first match on Tuesday the 16th against Jordan. There’s still time. Logic says that Milan will have decided by that day. As for their possible future together, it is clear that hiring Rangnick means entrusting him with the reorganization of the company. RR is not a coach and is not a sporting director. He is a man of systems, who sees a club as a single organism, in which scouting, the youth sector and the team work according to common principles.
what does Milan want?
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Milan knows this and that’s why they went to talk to him in Vienna. At the same time, he saw other candidates. He knows that another way is possible. A more classic route, with a sporting director and a coach, perhaps Mauricio Pochettino. Cardinale and Ibrahimovic must reach a decision and, according to strategy, they will have to do so soon. There is no shortage of commitments on the horizon: there is a center forward to sign, Modric’s future to be defined, a series of returning players to talk to (Bennacer, Musah, Chukwueze…), outgoing players to find buyers for (Loftus-Cheek, Odogu, perhaps Estupinan and Fofana), two young players like Camarda and Comotto to define a path for. Voices in your head that make themselves heard. They’re pressing too.
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