After Iraola’s “no”, Milan advances for Oliver Glasner
After losing at home against Cagliari 1-2, the AC Milan Last Sunday he let the Champions League qualification that he had in his own hands slip away. After the resounding failure on the last day of Serie A at San Siro, Gerry Cardinaleowner of the Milan club, ran out of patience and dismissed Massimiliano Allegria coach who had a contract until 2027, among three other important positions such as the CEO, the sports director and the technical director. Now, Cardinale is working together with Zlatan Ibrahimovićteam advisor, to find a replacement for the benches as soon as possible.
Initially, the favorites to replace Allegri were Andoni Iraolacoach of Bournemouth who will leave office in June after qualifying his team for the Europa League, and Xavi Hernandezformer coach of Barça. However, according to several Italian media reports, Neither of the two technicians thinks about taking charge of the ‘rossonero’ club. Iraola is in the orbit of Crystal Palacebut in the last days are the Bayer Leverkusen and the Liverpool those who advance in their signing.
Now, it is Oliver Glasnercoach of Palace and that he will not continue next season in the south London team, which is gaining strength to take over the position of coach of the AC Milanas reported by ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’. In fact, A meeting has been scheduled for next week with him.. The Austrian coach has made history in the Crystal Palace since he arrived in February 2024. Since that date, he managed to beat the final of the FA Cup to the Manchester City last season to end up surpassing the Rayo Vallecano last Wednesday in the final of the Conference League and thus win the first European title in the club’s history. Added to these achievements are the Europa League harvested with Eintracht Frankfurt in 2022.
He Milan also has in mind Ralf Rangnickselector Austriato be the sports director once the World Cup is over. This move could be the one that finally deals a definitive blow in the signing of Glasnersince there is a previous relationship between the two. In 2012, when Rangnick was sports director of Salzburg (and Leipzig) and Oliver Glasner was sports coordinator, it was the former who encouraged Glasner to take the step as assistant coach of the club and begin his career on the bench.
If the signing of Oliver Glasner to overcome the critical situation of the Milan finally fails, the club is also thinking about Matthias Jaisslecoach of Al-Ahli of the Saudi league, and in Mauricio Pochettinoselector USA His contract ends after the World Cup.
