The former Rossoneri star, who has been an executive of the Rossoneri club for the past few months, has been in the eye of the storm after Milan’s disastrous season
The last time we had seen him smiling, and somehow ‘gassing’ the square – the same one that idolized him when the Swedish striker was still engaged on the playing field – was about 6 months ago.
Terremoto Milan, bordata anche su Ibrahimovic: è caos (Ansa Foto) – Milanlive.it
Riyadh locker room, Jan. 6, 2025: AC Milan has just lifted to the sky an Italian Super Cup won in a shambolic way against city rivals Inter Milan, already engaged, in spite of themselves, in a dress rehearsal of how to squander season goals by throwing favorable situations to the nettles.
The speech, in the midst of the Rossoneri players and that Sergio Conceiçao who seemed to have arrived in Milan equipped with a magic wand, to celebrate the great feat on Asian soil, was in fact Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s only moment of glory in the exercise of his duties as Senior Advisor of the Milanese club. But American-owned.
The very company, at whose pyramidal apex is that Gerry Cardinale, former founder of Red Bird Capital Partners, who has been the subject of fierce protests by the hottest fringe of the Rossoneri fan base, has ended up in the vortex of criticism for the dastardly and contradictory decisions made during the course of the season that just ended.
The handling of the exoneration of Paulo Fonseca, who was literally left to his own devices in the post-match of Milan-Roma last December 29, was perhaps the poster child for an unclear division of roles and tasks, with management and ownership incapable throughout the year of being a real glue between coach and players, with episodes that really bordered on the ridiculous for a club as glorious and emblazoned as Milan.
Ibrahimovic nel mirino della critica: partono le accuse
Already teased, in the pre-match on a Champions League night, by Zvone Boban-another Rossoneri legend of an AC Milan that was laying down the law in Europe at the time-about the effective exercise of his role as the club’s Senior Advisor, the Swede had responded with one of his usual phrases that could easily become aphorisms.
Ibrahimovic nel mirino della critica: partono le accuse (LaPresse) – Milanlive.it
“When the lion goes away, the kittens come closer; when the lion comes back, the kittens disappear,” Zlatan had said, garnering on the one hand the usual acclaim in terms of sympathy, but also raising several doubts about the function he performed and entrusted to him a few months earlier-it was December 2023-by the Cardinal himself.
When he learns to get out of this useless and empty rhetoric, perhaps, Ibra will become a good manager. https://t.co/yddWq6Gf0Y
– Fabio Ravezzani (@FabRavezzani) May 30, 2025
The Scandinavian totem’s latest statement, quoted by ‘Telelombardia’ Director Fabio Ravezzani, was interpreted by the latter as emblematic of a rhetoric that would not, according to his interpretation, coincide with a managerial ability that in fact insiders still struggle to attribute to Ibra.
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