Third trainer in five months for AC Milan. After Paulo Fonseca and Sergio Conceição, it is now Massimiliano Allegri which will be responsible for raising the Lombard club, 8th in the Serie ranking this season and therefore qualified for no European Cup next season. Allegri had been free since his departure from Juventus Turin a year ago.
“AC Milan is pleased to announce that Massimiliano Allegri has been appointed principal coach of the first male team. Born in Livorno on August 11, 1967, Massimiliano Allegri played in Serie has for Pisa, Pescara, Cagliari, Pérouse and Naples before starting his coach career in 2002. He led Aglianese, Spal, Grosseto and Sassuolo before doing his debut as a series of Serie A with Cagliari in 2008. In 2010, he joined AC Milan, 18th Scudetto of the club from its first season, then the Italian Super Cup in 2011. From 2014 to 2019, then from 2021 to 2024, he directed Juventus, with which he won 5 Serie A titles, 5 trophies from COPPA Italia and 2 supercups from Italy. The club welcomes and presents its best wishes to Massimiliano and its team ”said the AC Milan press release.
The tale case has changed everything
If the change of coach made by the Rossoneri is not a surprise in view of the great difficulties encountered by Coneição with his locker room, the return of Allegri to Milan, which he had directed between 2010 and 2014, is one. As a reminder, it was the Bologna coach, Vincenzo Italiano, who was announced as the big favorite, before extending with the Emilie-Romagne club. Thiago Motta was advanced as plan B, but everything went very quickly with Allegri following the twist of the tale file in Napoli.
Designated as the ideal successor of Antonio Conte among the Partenopei, Allegri saw the case complicated. President Aurelio de Laurentiis finally convinced his coach to stay with the Italian champions. Result: Allegri did not hesitate a second to fall back on the other option of choice he had. AC Milan does not specify it, but Allegri has signed a two -year lease, with an optional third year. It should receive an annual salary of around € 5.5 million excluding bonuses.
