Summer in Serie A is often synonymous with musical chairs. The few listed coaches exchange the most prestigious positions and a few players follow. This is still true at the start of the 2026 transfer window where the terrible end of the season for AC Milan, 5th in the championship, not transferred to the Champions League for the next school year, forced management to part ways with the thinking heads. We could even reuse an old neologism from 10 years ago.
Suddenly, Giorgio Furlani, the CEO, Igli Tare, the sporting director, Geoffrey Moncada, the technical director and especially Massimiliano Allegri, the coach, were all “zlatanized”. Advisor to the owner, Gerry Cardinale, Ibrahimovic appears to be the big winner of this liquidation. You shouldn’t worry about the ex-Lombard technician either. He is already in the process of finding a position with Naples to take over from Antonio Conte.
Allegri and Rabiot are close
Preferred over Vincenzo Italiano, who left from Bologna, Allegri has not yet been made official by the big club from southern Italy. He should sign up for two seasons and will try to revive a team which lost its title to Inter. Runner-up of the Nerazzurri, Napoli already has a squad that is competitive in quantity and quality. Above all, it is necessary to make readjustments and, why not, to relaunch Noa Lang and Lorenzo Lucca, loaned in the second half of the season.
The future coach also wants a man of his own. According to the Corriere dello Sporthe particularly targets Adrien Rabiot, to whom he is very close. The two men met for the first time at Juventus and the Italian repatriated the Frenchman to AC Milan in the last days of the summer transfer window in 2025, when the midfielder had just been shelved by OM following his altercation with Jonathan Rowe in the locker room at Rennes.
Rabiot, the “left-handed McTominay”
It will be necessary to negotiate with the Rossoneri of course, who are not really surprised by this interest. Currently in preparation training with the Blues for the World Cup, Rabiot earns around €5.5 million per season and has a contract until 2028. Naples has the means to recruit him, and arguments to convince him between participation in the C1 and the presence of Allegri. The latter considers him to be the perfect left-handed counterpart to Scott McTominay in the 4-3-3 he plans to put in place. And he’s her right-hand man.
