Empoli president Fabrizio Corsi feels Marco Giampaolo is the perfect candidate to take over as coach at AC Milan and mould an Arsenal-style project at the San Siro.
The Rossoneri missed out on securing qualification to the Champions League this season, as they finished behind rivals Inter and Atalanta in Serie A.
As such, the Italian giants are eyeing rebuilding the squad to help them secure a return to Europe’s elite competition at least next year.
Gennaro Gattuso has parted company with AC Milan and the Rossoneri are expected to appoint former Empoli and Sampdoria coach Giampaolo as his replacement.
And in the wake of the rumours linking Giampaolo with AC Milan, Corsi feels the 51-year-old is the ideal candidate to initiate an Arsenal-style approach that will focus on enhancing young talents under Ivan Gazidis next season.
“Another choice that intrigues me and convinces me [is the appointment of Giampaolo at AC Milan]”, Corsi told Italian outlet Tutto Mercato.
“Giampaolo is the perfect coach for the project of the new Milan: enhancing the young talents and then perhaps putting them on the Arsenal-style market.
“I consider it as a big jump [from Sampdoria] and I take this opportunity to wish good luck to him as well as to [Maurizio] Sarri [at Juventus].”
AC Milan have been linked with a swoop for Arsenal linked Joachim Andersen and Dennis Praet, who both worked under Giampaolo at Sampdoria, in the summer transfer window.
