Repubblica: Zlatan receives mandate from Cardinale – second star in 2024-25 the target

Gerry Cardinale is putting his faith in Zlatan Ibrahimovic in view of the summer, and he has set the Swede a very simple mission for 2024-25.

La Repubblica (via Radio Rossonera) recalls that in May 2022, when they raised the 19th Scudetto in their history to the sky, Milan scored three goals against Sassuolo at the Mapei Stadium under the eyes of Ibrahimovic and Giorgio Furlani.

The difference lies in the three goals scored by the Neroverdi in the midst of the battle just to keep their place in Serie A, and the fact that the home side led 2-0 and 3-1 in the game.

In a comment on the match in the columns of the paper, the journalist Enrico Currò spoke about Ibrahimovic and the impoact that he will have when it comes to choices for the future, likening his powers to those of Paolo Maldini.

Currò says that the Swede ‘has just received the mandate to win the second star in 2025 from the majority shareholder Cardinale’. The RedBird Capital chief has ‘completely handed over the sporting management of Milan to Zlatan Ibrahimovic’.

The former striker’s first move, he continues, is to make it clear that the management trio of Giorgio Furlani, Geoffrey Moncada and Antonio D’Ottavio will remain, with the ‘man of trust’ Jovan Kirovski joining to help run the U23 team.