AC Milan have reportedly reached an agreement in principle with Oliver Glasner on a two-year coaching contract, but the club has not yet made a final appointment and is continuing talks with other candidates, several reports said.
Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport detailed the terms that have been discussed: a two-year deal with a salary in the region of €3m–€4m and an option for a further campaign. Separate coverage on June 12 also stressed that, despite the reported pact, Milan have not closed the file and remain in contact with a shortlist of coaches. Glasner has declined another offer during this window — he turned down Feyenoord — and has indicated he is waiting for the Rossoneri to conclude the process.
The development gives Milan a tangible frontrunner. Glasner’s reported willingness to sign under those terms removes a practical hurdle for the club: a clear contract framework and his availability after almost three weeks of speculation. It also brings to the fore the immediate managerial alternatives Milan have already examined in recent weeks — meetings that the club held internally before any final decision.
In the days leading up to June 12, Milan met with Matthias Jaissle of Al Ahli and Ruben Amorim, and has previously spoken with Mauricio Pochettino. Jaissle carries a reported €6m release clause at his current club; Amorim is known to have influential backers inside the club’s ownership structure, with RedBird advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic having publicly supported him. Those names are active contenders alongside Glasner and remain on the table while the club weighs its options.
Owner Gerry Cardinale has made clear he intends to be far more hands-on in the selection than past leadership. Cardinale wants a new technical director in post before confirming the next head coach, and he has signalled he will personally pick the coach after further rounds of meetings in the coming days. Ralf Rangnick is the club’s top choice for that technical director role; Rangnick, who currently manages the Austria national team, has reportedly paused extension talks with his federation and has privately identified both Jaissle and Glasner as fits for Milan.
That sequence — appoint a technical director, then a coach — is the structural detail that keeps the process open. Even with a reported agreement in principle, Milan’s hierarchy has not handed in a formal offer and Cardinale’s timetable for installing a technical director first means the coach decision is contingent on that hire. The club’s prior meetings with Jaissle, Amorim and Pochettino underline that Glasner’s reported pact is not an automatic appointment.
The friction is straightforward: Glasner appears to have cleared the main commercial and contractual hurdles and has rebuffed other suitors, yet Milan insist the choice is not sealed. Cardinale’s pledge to lead the final interviews and the priority he places on naming a technical director leave the central question unresolved — will the club convert the reported agreement into an official appointment, or will further talks alter the outcome?
Expect Cardinale to hold more talks in the next few days and to link the coaching decision to the technical director appointment. For now, Glasner sits as the leading candidate on paper — two years, €3m–€4m and an option for a third season — but the final call will come only after Milan completes the next round of meetings and takes the technical director decision off the table.
The outcome will shape Milan’s direction well before any formal presentation; for supporters tracking squad and transfer strategy, that appointment — and the identity of the technical director who will oversee it — matters at least as much as the coach’s name. Filmogaz has previously followed related club issues, including transfer talks involving Rafael Leão, which will feed into the new coach’s brief once Cardinale decides.
