Following the disastrous defeat to Cagliari, RedBird launches an unprecedented restructuring at Milan and labels the season an “unequivocal failure.”
AC Milan has officially entered crisis mode.
In one of the most dramatic shakeups in the club’s modern history, owner Gerry Cardinale and RedBird Capital Partners announced the immediate dismissal of head coach Massimiliano Allegri, CEO Giorgio Furlani, sporting director Igli Tare, and technical director Geoffrey Moncada.
The decision arrived less than 24 hours after Milan’s devastating defeat against Cagliari Calcio, a result that officially cost the Rossoneri qualification for next season’s Champions League.
According to reports from Italy, Cardinale remained in Milan immediately after the loss to personally oversee the beginning of a complete organizational reset.
And the club’s official statement left no room for ambiguity.
RedBird publicly described the season as an “unequivocal failure,” a remarkably strong phrase that underlined the scale of disappointment inside ownership after a campaign that initially appeared capable of producing a Scudetto challenge.
“For much of the season we remained in the top two positions in the standings,” the statement read, “but the end of the season fell far below the level previously shown.”
The club added that it was now “time for change and a deep reorganization of the sporting structure.”
The dismissals mark the end of an entire leadership era at Milan.
Furlani, who became CEO in 2022 after replacing Ivan Gazidis, had been credited with stabilizing the club financially and maintaining positive balance sheets.
However, sources close to ownership believe Cardinale had become increasingly frustrated with what he viewed as poor sporting investments and inefficient transfer spending — concerns the RedBird founder had already hinted at publicly in recent interviews.
Tare’s exit had appeared likely for weeks regardless of Milan’s final league position.
The former SS Lazio executive only joined Milan last summer and reportedly never fully established himself internally as Cardinale’s first-choice sporting director.
Moncada also leaves after overseeing one of the club’s most controversial structural experiments.
Following the departures of Paolo Maldini and Frederic Massara, Milan moved away from a traditional sporting hierarchy in favor of a collaborative management model built heavily around scouting and analytics.
That approach ultimately failed to deliver consistent sporting results.
And finally came the dismissal of Allegri.
The veteran coach had returned to Milan last summer tasked with launching a new medium-to-long-term project, but the collapse at the end of the season proved impossible to survive.
Despite periods where Milan looked capable of competing for the title, the Rossoneri ultimately failed in what ownership considered the only truly non-negotiable objective: returning to the Champions League.
That failure triggered the complete reset now underway.
No replacements have yet been officially announced, though the club confirmed further decisions regarding the new sporting structure will arrive soon.
For Milan supporters, the reaction has been explosive.
Anger had already reached boiling point after the defeat to Cagliari, with fans openly protesting both the performances on the field and the club’s direction behind the scenes.
Now Cardinale has responded with the most radical intervention of the RedBird era.
And after one of the most turbulent seasons in recent Milan history, the Rossoneri are preparing to start over almost entirely from scratch.
