The media in Italy this morning have naturally picked up on the comments that emerged yesterday from several key figures at AC Milan.
As Corriere dello Sport (via MilanNews) report, on December 11 the Harvard Business School released a document containing a very interesting case study on Milan, in which the most influential and important people at the club gave a few words.
The CEO Giorgio Furlani – who graduated from the same institute in 2007 – was interviewed, as well as the technical director Geoffrey Moncada, the president Paolo Scaroni and also the Senior Advisor to RedBird Capital Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Obviously, the contribution of Milan owner Gerry Cardinale could not be missed, whose statements were those that inevitably made the most noise, also because of the delicate moment the team is going through.
The interviews for this case study were conducted at the end of last season, but chronological distance matters little when there are words of this kind. Cardinale took a swipe at Inter’s old owners, stating: “They won the Scudetto last year and then went bankrupt: is this really what we want?!”
It is a dig that was not appreciated by the upper echelons of Inter, from which a clear counter-response emerges: the Nerazzurri have never gone bankrupt, but are constantly and significantly improving their accounts aiming for a balanced budget.
Cardinale’s idea of Milan and the Milan project could not coexist with that of Paolo Maldini, at least this is what Furlani implied: “It was a historic decision to let him go, for what he meant to the club and for his authority. But if we wanted to realise Cardinale’s vision for the club, we had to change and move forward.”
director Rossoneri manager also spoke about another farewell that did not go down well with the Rossoneri fans, that of Sandro Tonali: “Selling a player for 70 million euros is a great deal, but then, between purchases, sales and resales, everything depends on how we structure the contracts.”
So bankrupt they might win the league again with a better and deeper squad and way better project. Also, a competent management with clear objectives.
I’d rather support Milan as bankrupt as that without Cardinale and this ‘team’ of management that makes signings based on fifa 18.
Zhang was one person I trillion who would loose all his billions… and inter. Which man would go to lose 1,2bn of Milan value just t won one trophy ?
My guy,
I was being sarcastic. Their owner lost the cash due to affairs not related to Inter, and even then they have a better and deeper squad than us. So the only ‘growth’ we are getting is Cardinale’s pockets. Poor investments in players, incompetent management, and worse coach to lead us to former glory.
They are handling this team as a mid baseball team. Get profits, sell stars, get great promises, more or less fight for a title, and in the process make more star players. Rinse and repeat.
Really? And which stars have been sold? One. It’s nothing like the running of a baseball team. They’ve invested heavily, badly, but heavily. There’s no questioning the ambition.
They spent 40 millions net each summer. Stop with this bs about spending heavily for once.
drive your uber and file your taxes properly, don’t hide your income to get child and social benefit.
Since Conte time at inter, they always compete for the league title.. And this year they have a better chance than Milan to win the league title. As long as inzaghi and marotta stays at inter they will make inter competitive and not stand in 8th place..
This is trophyless cardinale milan. We don’t compete for trophy, we compete for qualifying champions league competition, 4th place is enough.
We want profit, who care about trophy.
Man I wish we were Inter bankrupt. Seems like they’re doing better while being bankrupt than we are doing while excelling financially.
funny inter went bankrupt but the new ownership is competent enough to keep the winning management. remember gerry immediately fired maldini and massara who won the scudetto and made the ucl semifinal with essentially no budget. sad