The protest from AC Milan fans against the ownership and management continues in the city, even if the team are out in the Middle East for the Supercoppa Italiana.
Il Giorno reports how some Milan fans are fed up with Gerry Cardinale and RedBird Capital as an ownership group, but it extends beyond the American fund. Everyone is in the dock, including CEO Giorgio Furlani, technical director Geoffrey Moncada and senior advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
In addition to the chants and protests at the stadium and fiery posts on social media, Rossoneri fans are now starting starting to flood Milan and other areas of Italy with anti-Cardinale stickers. They have appeared in the most diverse places: lampposts, traffic lights, bus shelters, electrical panels and more.
Walking around the city the stickers can be seen a bit everywhere and there are those who – given the period – have even put them on a bauble on a Christmas tree. They all have a common theme: that the owner should sell and leave.
When there is such a tense atmosphere in the air, every move of the management is scrutinised. For this reason, a smiling Ibrahimovic receiving an Inter shirt from Beppe Marotta did not go unnoticed by the supporters either.
It is true that it was a gift (even if a bit of a jab) and must be placed in a context of institutional courtesy, and could even be a sign of improved an relationship between the clubs, but the grin from the Swede has stuck in people’s heads.
Ibra had a photo with his boss. Ibra is a secret agent whose job is to sabotage Milan from within. lol
Who allowed this girl and tasteless jokes in here?
Hey @Oliver Fisher, did you guys remove your content from Fotmob app? I can’t seem to find it. It’s actually how I access your content. Just asking as I haven’t seen Sempre’s content there since the start of the year
I really don’t understand why Tomori instead of Gabbia. The partnership Gabbia-Thiaw has worked well for several games in a row and the number of goals we conceded has dropped with those two in the center of the defense. Why fix what is not broken?
Tomori is sloppy and makes too many defensive mistakes. Occasionally he has a good game but much more often, he produces one or two big blunders that result in very dangerous attacks by the opponents.
Given that Tomori has been linked with moving to Juve, I wonder if management has forced Conceição to feature him, in the hope that he will have a good game against them and Juve will be more willing to buy him. Sure, I’m just speculating, but if for Conceição’s first game management already starts undermining him, it spells disaster. I hope I’m just being paranoid and starting Tomori was exclusively a Conceição decision, but given how bad this management is, I wouldn’t be surprised if they have already started putting pressure on the new coach.
Oops, I posted on the wrong thread. I meant to post the above on the starting lineup thread.
listen… i hate cardinale as much as the next guy but we’re still in a much better place than we were for all of the 2010s
A member of Curva posted it on Reddit and said they’re just warming up with these protests, real thing is coming.
Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy🍿
Lets hope so.
Gerry Cardinale is an intelligent man (Harvard and Oxford graduate; Rhodes Scholar; Goldman Sachs alumnus), but not wise. He doesn’t appreciate that AC Milan isn’t just another commercial entity, such as a company, factory, property, or fashion brand, but a storied cultural institution in which millions of fans not just in Italy but all around the world (I live in the US) have been deeply invested emotionally, in many cases over many decades. As a businessman, Cardinale is entitled to try to make money from his investment in AC Milan, but he has to take a flexible, long view – not an ultra-rational, money-grubbing, myopic one. In other words, he has to be willing to spend money out of his own pocket to bolster the team in the short term, so that it wins trophies and satisfies its fans, and be patient and wait to obtain his financial return later – not forthwith. Pioli was a good coach – not the best out there – who won a scudetto; therefore, if you’re going to dispense with his services, you should bring someone who is a cut above him – a proven winner at the highest level. Conte and Tuchel were such coaches, but Cardinale opted instead in the summer for the middling Fonseca. Tonali, a talismanic homegrown player, was an Italian around whom a great team could have been built, and yet he was sold in his prime. And, worst misjudgment of all, the legendary Paolo Maldini, the iconic figure with deep familial roots in the club, who helped guide the club to a scudetto and epitomized everything attractive about AC Milan, was unceremoniously dumped because he opined the truth in public about what the club would need to do to rise to the very top of the European game again. Fans will forgive if decisions that tear at the emotional links they have to a club like AC Milan lead immediately to success; but not if they result in failure, in which case they’ll turn on the owner and his management team – which is what now appears to be happening. Cardinale has a grassroots insurgency on his hands in Italy. He has become a despised figure – a hated foreigner. He could have avoided this by exercising a little more ambition, restraint, and cultural sensitivity.
very well said
We should stop going to the stadium that’s the only way we can punish this money vampires
Just try to enjoy what little we still have left. It may not be the best team. But it’s our team and we should at least try to support them somehow. Football without the fans isn’t any fun. I would hate if the stadium was only half full. That would be the death of the team.