AC Milan owner Gerry Cardinale has taken aim at private equity firms that are placing their money in sports but making no effort to improve the ecosystem in which they now exist.
Speaking on stage at the IMG x RedBird Summit on Wednesday (via Financial Times), the RedBird Capital Group owner explained that people are parking their money in the sector and leaving it there, rather than actively trying to achieve or create change.
“This is about my crowd coming into sports. The problem with my crowd is they are asset managers. They just want to buy stuff, and that’s not great for intellectual property based businesses,” he said.
There has been a huge amount of investment in different sports and leagues in recent years from businesspeople who see it as a quick way to make money and gain positive brand repetition.
Cardinale claims that these people are too often asking investors to pay “control premium valuations for minority stakes with no governance, no information rights and no exit”.
“What do [the private equity players] bring? They bring liquidity, but there’s a better way of doing it. We’re going to need to soft land this because right now it’s massively inflated,” he said.
“The reason why there’s this demand for sports exposure is because of these facile notions that sports always goes up. It’s not correlated to the macro, it’s outperformed the S&P for the last decade. There’s merit to those arguments, but they’ve just peddling that now and everybody wants exposure to it.”
Clearly Cardinale thinks that he and RedBird are different to the crowd that he is talking about and the reasoning is that he has a genuine interest and desire to bring Milan back to where they were in the past.
“What I’m trying to do there is bring what I’ve learned over 30 years in America to European football. There’s a huge opportunity to return AC Milan back to where it was,” he said.
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Yes you are already done great job mr cardinale. Keep up the great work mr cardinale
Your trusty man king ibra has done great job too. He made many good examples. Really great role model
Keep up the good work mr cardinale, now we are fighting in relegation zone. Don’t let us down, don’t let us relegate to serie b next season.
Hopefully we can still qualify for european conferences league next season. Maybe you can make history as first milan owner win conference league, can cancel your trophyless history.
Yes there is but it won’t be him that does it.
I have 30 years of experience in landscaping, i plan to use that experience in the pharmaceutical company i just bought.
He said that 2 years ago and last year with that ibra interview.. and he’s wrong.
To be competitive you need to invest xy amount in quality players and develop them.. Sell one, buy more quality and develop it.
Our problem is we’re not looking for quality, we’re looking for deals.
I think they’re looking for quality deals – aka Reijnders, Pulisic, Pavlovic, Fofana etc. It was the same thing under Elliot with Leao, Theo, Benny, Giroud etc. The process just went awry with Emerson Royal. And quite possibly Fonseca.
Only quality deal there was pulisic and pavlovic but pavlo is a tbd.
I don’t wanna talk about the “old guard ” because I’m just gonna shít on them. I’ll say this tho, none of them was quality when they was bought. Only Giroud, and even he came as a backup not 1st chair. Little violin talk there. First chair
You’re wrong. You can’t compare this crap with what Elliot did with Paolo, Gazidis and Massara who knew what they were doing. These clowns don’t know jack sh*t. It’s just business to them. They know nothing about football. You can’t compare the players they’re buying now with the ones the old management bought before and built to win a Scudetto.
Yeah, remember all of those great signings: Bakayoko, Origi, Dest, Vranckx, Ballo-Toure, Pellegri, CDK, Tataratsanu, etc.. Those guys never missed. And all our best players they let leave for FREE, Kessie, Calhanoglu, Donnarumma. Those guys really knew what they were doing.
excuse me what has povlovic, fofana proved that they are good deals. we are not atalanta.
theo and leao and bennacer are good deals NOW because they have a title under there belt. the others you’ve named have to prove themselves completely before they can be classed as good deals.
Jerry reminds me of Homer Simpson looking at himself in the mirror and thinking that he’s ripped af when he’s just fat. Complete delusion.
This is the best, most accurate description anywhere. You dear Sir, or Madam, have won the internet for today.
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He’s just a liar..he’s a banker…what do we expect from such low form of life..he just says what he needs to say to keep fans sweet for the next few months…it’s called distraction.
There is literally nothing from him that I trust or want to hear…..Few months ago ‘we don’t see the need for an elite coach’…..now….we are in an utter mess.
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Newer happened with You Mr Clown……
This man is very good at talk BS. Having 3 stooges with little to no experience running a club is a sure way for a failed project.
There was no need to reinvent the wheel at Milan. Inter’s best signing was Marotta. Milan don’t even have a Sporting Director or GM and that’s where the problem starts.
This is incompetence at the highest level. Get Atalanta Sporting Director Tony D’Amico and get rid of Ibra, Furlani and Moncada.
Then sit back and watch him build a successful winning team.
Well said
That cost value based approach to the mercato will be our undoing. There are excellent free agents on the market but unfortunately these come at a cost in agent fees…the strategy of waiting for good players in their final year might be the way to go but then you need to close those deals quickly and not haggle over price below sensible levels. So what is the strategy actually then…and how do you bring Milan back if we still cannot make a decent purchase where absolutely necessary (DM, striker).
It’s arrogance, he’s come in with his own banking philosophy and is determined to impose it on football, only our great club is dangerously in the cross hairs…
U piece of sh*t, u have no idea where ac milan was
I don’t think you do either. When exactly are you talking about? 20 years ago?
Imagine that, club existed even before you were born. Shocking.
More concerned at where they are now…Scraping the bottom of the barrel is not an option.
Because dude dropped a billion and didn’t do his research. C’mon man!
That said @barts above nails it and wins the internet:-)
He appears to take the word of the team he installed at face value rather than looking at outcome and trend. I’m personally let down by the Mercato this summer except for Tammy/Morata. That was slick biz. The lack of a splash on a DM just frustrates me (tho I’m biased as my kid was a six so must be the most important position in the field, right)
So what we see is €200m spent. This is an owner making investment. The impact of the 200 however is questionable.
So maybe it’s €200m largely _misspent_?
I’m waiting to the end of the year. If this years investment and the part of last year that was Reinjders and RLC specifically don’t pan out then I will be looking for him to make changes of the time exec leadership.
So Fofana wasn’t a good signing? Because everyone on here thought it was, right up until they signed him. And Pavlovic? You don’t think that was a good signing either. I’ll take these past two mercatos over the previous two. I’d like to hear someone argue differently.
actually no, many here said he wasn’t a no6 or what we needed.
Doesn’t make him a bad signing. But I agree, and like I said in reply to @MyKid, that we need to get the players we need, not the best “deals”, otherwise we won’t improve on the pitch because we’ll keep having the same holes.
That’s it. Fofana may be decent but he isn’t a no6. Last years issues were
1. Replace Giroud with a better striker. We haven’t last season Giroud got 17 goals and 9 assists. We have Tammy and Morata. I doubt either will surpass that…Tammy may do if he can stay fit and find form.
2. get a no6….Jon not done
3. Address the RB and provide a challenge to Calabria…not done.
4. Get a coach more experienced at the highest level and more tactically aware than Pioli….not done
I am bullish on Pavlovic now that I have seen him play but I need to see more. Specifically around positioning.
I am suspicious of Fofana. I don’t think he is what we need. I think he is Reinjders again. We have a Reinjders and need to see him step up (and get played in the right role)
I am suspicious of Royal but not as much as many. He is supposed to be the defensive balance to Theo. But Calabria was already that. So I’d have rather seen that money go to Ricci or even Samardizc.
What I said was I find the two striker outcome a good one and we are seeing why right now. Tho I admit they fell into it at the last moment. I am suspicious of the rest based on the needs of a 4231 with a high line.
Hi I agree with you buddy. Hindsight was a a wonderful thing, but for 200m we could have signed Koopmeiners and Ugarte…that’s two thirds of a world class midfield..we could have also signed a very good striker on top of that. Instead, like you rightly say, 200m hasn’t been spent well, we have re-bought the midfield we bought last summer which is an admission of failure.
This is exactly how I feel. Although I do feel that Fofana and Pavlovic will be good signings. People also need to remember that spending larger amounts on individual players does not guarantee that those players will be successful. I think that Redbird does wrong is not not spending enough on an individual player, but not spending to get the player they need because there is a good deal to be had for a player that happens to be available. I wish that instead of trying to go for 4 or 5 “deals” that they would sign 2 or 3 “needs”, even if the cost is above where they like to make “deals”. It seems like we might have been on the verge of doing that with Zirkzee, but the agent commission was simply too much for them to stomach.
These comments read like a bunch of mental patients raging over some delusion they created in their head. They’ve been in charge just over a year. They have spent money, more than the previous ownerships. And took the team from 5th in points the previous season to second in their first year. These are the facts. Everything else is just biased views of people who don’t like him because he is an American businessman (evil) , and got rid of the infallible Maldini.
5th to 2nd with +5 pts. Amazing. Let’s not talk about European competitions. Let’s not talk about the new coach who didn’t play in UCL since 2008 and finished 4th in Ligue 1. Let’s not talk about the complete mess since the beginning of the season. So far so good bro, forza Redbird
Come on Bart, we went from 5th to 2nd….I mean still 20 points behind both times…. but we won’t talk about that 😂😂
the point is that they improved the team from the previous year and you maniacs act as if the sky is falling and they just got relegated. It’s ridiculous. Let’s make all of our judgements 3 games into the season with a new coach that hasn’t even had time to work with his full starting squad yet. That doesn’t seem foolish at all.
It’s not that we improved, but the league was declined. Other than Inter, all the other clubs didn’t perform well last season. Juventus kept their 3rd place with only 2 wins on their last 12 matches. That should tell you the story whole story. And you wonder why we kept the 2nd place. Mind the gap between us and Inter too.
Shift your narrow pov to a more macro one wouldn’t hurt.
This 100%.
I’ve pointed out this same aspects time and time again but many here either didn’t pay attention to these or choose to ignore them.
In the end we don’t have “more places to climb”, we have to gain 20 or so more points.
Signing Royal when we needed a DM is a mistake, but the other signings aren’t bad. Anyone can make a bad signing here and there. But the coaching choice is truly incomprehensible, and the wrong coach leads to other problems. It’s a critical node.
The signings are not bad but not great, its still cheap players who don’t have the experience Milan needs to step up. The waiting game is the opposite of being aggressive and go grab the best guys on the market. Morata might have the experience but he’s not the killer that was promised as a striker. They’re just crafting.
5th to 2nd is a matter of CL football vs no CL football. I’d say it’s a monumental detail. Wouldn’t you?
No..wrong again. Spending money is irrelevant if you spend it badly…nothing has been addressed from last season and we signed players that the coach has basically admitted cane play his system……but didn’t we want Fonseca? RedTurd didn’t see the need for an elite coach…so then why didn’t they buy players to suit Fonseca’s system? Because everything is based around value not quality….
Banter Milan also spend money. It’s not about spending or not spending.
It’s about an intelligent built towards a goal. What we’re doing isn’t intelligent. We can buy 5 players on a deal. No problem.
But if the team doesn’t perform well then their value will drop and you lose money. No selling high when players play like 💩
Because the players on a deal where not the players you needed.
Arguably we finished 5th because the takeover took forever and nobody had an intelligent plan what to do with the shiny new toy that summer.
Gerry’s biggest challenge will be whether or not he can build a new stadium for Milan. That’s what he will ultimately be judged by. That’s what he is trying to spearhead.
Everything else is as good as the people below him.
I disagree. Its just your expectations. Jerry bought a Scudetto winning team and said « I’m ambitious, I want to win everything ». He decided to fire the previous management. He’ll be judged on sporting results more than a stadium. Unless he moves the team to San Donato. Italian fans make fun of it, nobody wants a mall or a theme park.
Agree to disagree.
Owners are judged on one thing in football..trophies
Put your money where your mouth is then. Drain the swamp and bring in football men to run the club.
You’re just the money man Gerry; there’s still time for you to get this right.
So this is an owner who bought the team a little over a year ago, and in the first season the team improved in points and it’s standing in the league.
And these are some of the comments from the mentally deranged on here:
“He’s just a liar..he’s a banker…what do we expect from such low form of life.”
“RedTurd ”
“U piece of sh*t,”
“Mr Clown”
It’s like One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest in here. If you are writing comments like these, please seek mental help immediately.
2023 we finished 20 points behind Napoli in 5th……2025 we finished 19 points behind inter in 2nd._____what jot of difference does it make? We are embarrassingly off the pace…we improve by one point and you’re happy….please engage brain and try and see the point. Before redbird we won the scudetto……you strengthen from a position of strength….
Yes, but while Maldini was there after the Scudetto, he started losing the plot with Kessie and Donnarumma leaving. Tonali and Bennacer couldn’t hold it together so off went Tonali and at that point the had to be rebuilt… There was no other choice.
You want to talk sh*t about RedBird, fine, but they kept Maldini who still was running things when the decomposition started.
I agree that the team should have been built upon, but that would have meant keeping Kessie and Gigio and Tonali and upgrading on them. But that was no longer an option.
For a start Donnarumma left before the scudetto season. You can’t point to Maldini all the time, it’s the lazy easy option.
How do we know Maldini didn’t want to offer Kessie, Donnarumma etc the contracts they wanted to but was told know by Elliot? Not much you can do then.
That’s right Drew, nothing is ever Maldini’s fault. None of those terrible signings (Origi, Bakayoko, Dest, Vranckx, CDK, Ballo-Toure) were his fault either.
And as far as Kessie, Donnarumma, and Calhanoglu leaving for free, that’s why you don’t wait until a players contract is up before you renegotiate. Then you have no leverage at all. You offer a new deal before they get into the final year of their contract. and if they don’t except than you sell them so you can afford to replace them. That is where they failed and that is where the team started to deteriorate.
Can you imagine if this management lets Leao, Theo and Maignan leave for free? All your heads would explode and you would be screaming incompetence. But Maldini always gets a pass.
He bought the club over 2 years ago after we won the scudetto, so stop the lies Mr.Trump
To be fair a pretty amazing book and movie 😀
But we don’t know what the facts were…..that’s my point, we are all summarily over whether Maldini did or didnt do. As for transfers, he did more right than wrong, Origi was a horror signing, I always knew it would be…he gambled on CDK and it failed…but there were far more good ones. Even Alex Ferguson made bad signings…
He doesn’t get a pass, he was learning his role, just as a player who once got terrorised as a 16 year old by Chris Waddle, then went on to become the best defender of all time…
Ok. SO he was learning on the job and made some mistakes. That’s fair. But I don’t remember him getting any of the hate that is directed at Zlatan now or the current management who is also learning on the job. Let’s just be fair about it.
It’s one thing learning on the job as a sporting director, as many have said, Maldini and Massara took Milan from the banter era to a scudetto and UCL semi final…Redbird have taken us backwards. We are probably already out of the scudetto race, we aren’t going to fair well in Europe by the looks of it. Ironically I think we have more chance against Liverpool than we do smaller teams because Liverpool will attack us and we can counter attack. It’s when we have to take control and break teams down we struggle.
Tried to find some common ground with you but you just can’t be honest about it. First of all Maldini and Massara didn’t do anything in 1 season. It’s a process. Secondly, Redbird has not taken the club backwards, it’s just objectively untrue. They finished in a better spot last season than the previous season despite being demolished by injuries. That is not backwards.
And the overreaction that we are out of the Scudetto race 3 games into the season is just ridiculous. You realize the coach has had no time at all to work with his starting unit? If you watched the preseason, when we played with the players that he actually had time to work with on his tactics and strategy, the team actually looked much better. Problem is , with the Euros and some late signings almost none of the starting players were there. So I would give him a little more time to work with out starting players before making such judgements after 3 games. You might end up looking very foolish.
Improved the team? Spending is not yet improving. From almost 200 millions spent in two summers we hardy got any upgrades. Pulisic, maybe Reijnders and Pavlovic. That’s less than 60 millions combined from almost 200 spent.
Last season we were second but only collected 5 points more than season before when we finished 5th. We also had one the of worst seasons for goals conceded in the history of the club. Dropped out from CL group stage and got humiliated in EL by Roma.
We had foundations which brought us Scudetto but the owner let arrogance, ego and narcissistic personality disorder get the best of him and here we are. With one of the worst season starts since before WW2.
We’re far from improved and even farther from a team.
This is what I’m talking about. This is how thick these people are, they literally don’t understand facts. Arguing with me by saying that they finished in second , rather than 5th, and with more points than the previous season. That is by definition an improvement. Hard to argue with people who are so consumed with hate that they don’t even understand very basic facts.
And I’ll ask it again, even tho I’ve already asked all the haters many times and not one of them has ever given an answer to this. Please make the argument that this years squad is not stronger than last seasons. We lost an old 37 year old Giroud and an old Kjaer, and we added Morata, Abraham, Fofana, Pavlovic and Emerson. Please make the case that the squad is not stronger. I’ll wait.
Man I really wish you’re paid by Redbird as a lawyer or a community manager because you’re putting a lot of energy to try to make people believe what you want to believe. You omit a lot of “facts” in your argumentation. UCL & UEL eliminations, Inter’s second star, salary cap, Zirkee fiasco, Fofana circus, Paulo Fonseca, Morata as Mr X, 2 points in three games against poor opposition, Théo and Leao crisis, Zlatan, etc.
Just enjoy your opinion and ignore the rest, free your wings, live your life.
Again a reply without answering the question. Is the squad stronger this season than last season. Funny how they all want to reply but none of them can answer that question. Because they know, management did strengthen the squad, and then all their argument falls apart.
What exactly is the Zirkzee fiasco? That they correctly refused to pay his agent that ridiculous amount? It was the right call. Morata is an upgrade , so is Abraham. The just saying names: Leao, Theo, Zlatan… Great argument.
But Fonseca is a clear downgrade on Pioli, and that’s a tough act because Pioli’s last year wasn’t good at all. Still, they managed to get a coach even worse than the Pioli of 2023-24 (I do believe that Pioli did well before that, but he was in frank decline).
It is even more incomprehensible because there were several good available coaches in the market, and they managed to get the very worst one.
Is the squad stronger than last season? I don’t know. We certainly got a loser for a coach and that alone may make the squad weaker. And objectively, so far the squad has earned only 2 points out of 9 and this hadn’t happen since before World War II. So, is this encouraging in terms of saying that the squad is better than last year’s?
Yes, the players signed are supposedly good (except for Emerson). But that’s on paper. It remains to be seen on the field if they will play as a team, if they will stay healthy, if they will perform to their potential or will underperform. So, I can’t conclude just based on signings, that the squad is stronger than last year’s.
Well man no offense but I don’t care about your question. The fact is that Milan was improving steadily since 2018 and should have received investments in the salary cap (same since 2018) to further boost the resurgence but since last season the team is going backwards, and right now it’s a catastrophe. This team will stagnate at best, or getting embarrassed again by Inter, Roma, Parma or whatever. But enjoy the chill of watching an upgraded team fighting hard for 2 points and just understand that not everybody share your opinion on this Milan.
Losing player for free with result vs upgrading player with no result. I myself prefer losing player for free with result.
What is the point of buying a person lambo but they don’t know how to use it or they only drive 60kmph.
You seem to like facts. How about going from CL semifinals to not qualifying the group stage?
While the second place gave us exactly the same as the “5th” place (zero gain there), the difference in Europe was abysmal. So all in all, “by definition” this was worsening rather than improvement.
P.S. You can go crazy with the “5th” place as much as you like, but you know that this particular year we had secured the top 4 very early (since everyone knew that Juve – one way or another – would be disqualified). Napoli went crazy early on so rightly, we focused in Europe (without compromising the CL qualification). Btw Inter did the same thing that year – they finished just 2 points above us – and reached the CL final.
It’s not that we improved, but the league was declined. Other than Inter, all the other clubs didn’t perform well last season. Juventus kept their 3rd place with only 2 wins on their last 12 matches. That should tell you the story whole story. And you wonder why we kept the 2nd place. Mind the gap between us and Inter too.
Shift your narrow pov to a more macro one wouldn’t hurt.
That’s just excuses, the results are the results. If you want to play that game you could do that with every season. You could say we only won the Scudetto because Inter and Juventus weren’t as strong that season. SO the Scudetto shouldn’t count? That’s a silly game. Are you taking injuries into account as well? This team was decimated by injuries last season and still finished second. You could argue that if it weren’t for all the depth that we added last season we would not even have finished in the top 4. As the previous season we had no depth at any position and it was a big reason why we finished 5th that year. So playing that game is pointless.
Make the case? So you don’t even watch the games or table and statistics but you just like to argue our opinions on this blog?
Season 23/24, first under Cardinale and his new managers and mercato of 110 millions down the drain, we had one of worst goal conceded seasons in this club’s history and only 5 points improvement from a season before where we were 5th. We’ve also dropped out of CL group stage and got humiliated by Roma in EL. A season before we were in CL semis. Not really improvement after all this money spent.
Season 24/25, second under Cardinale and his managers and 75 millions spent, we have one of the worst starts since WW2 and as well the worst start in goals conceded in first three games.
Remind me please, weren’t there a lot of people here (with you included possibly) arguing that RedBird isn’t spending enough?
To now the argument we spent 200mil in two summers but just didn’t do it properly?
Feels like the fickle crowd will never be truly satisfied with this management. Crucify them regardless?
You notice they have to keep changing the argument. First it was he was a cheap business man who doesn’t want to spend and is only worried about selling the team for a profit. And we were going to be a farm team and sell off Leao and Theo and Maignan. That was wrong, now they have switched to management being clueless and all the signings are horrible and they are wasting money. Meanwhile compare the last two mercatos to the previous two. Origi,Bakayoko, Vranckx, Dest, Ballo-Toure, CDK, Pellegri, Manduzik,etc…They don’t really have an argument for that.
The people here care about the club , results and winning trophies. You Redbird fans look at things in a very linear way..the fact is as Bart and many have alluded to is that they aren’t spending enough on individual transfers, it’s all well and good spending 200m on 15 transfers, but in hindsight rather than spending 200m and in the process rebuilding the midfield we rebuilt last summer…and still not ending up with a proper no6…would you rather have seen that 200m spent in Ugarte, Koopmeiners and a striker likely to get 20 plus goals per season? 200m has been spent through necessity of trying to undo bad decisions from last year.
Like I’ve asked before, was the intention to spend 100m per summer, or 200m over two summers? If so why not do it properly and spend 100m on two midfielders who truly raise the level of the team? The main issues we had were add competition and RB…failed….get a no6….failed…..upgrade Giroud to a younger more prolific striker…that is a fail right now but Tammy (who’s only on loan) may be a saving Grace. The issue is red it’s failure to offer serious and realistic money for players, which automatically exclude us from true airport players.
Where have I ever written that they don’t spend enough. Never. I was one of the most vocal people against Chinese spending spree and I was as well last summer when they spent 110 millions which evidently did not bare fruit as I expected.
I was always fond of spendind wisely and according to a proper plan. And that’s what’s my problem. We only needed puzzles after Kessie, Hakan and Donna left. We got Maignan still under previous management. But Gerry’s narcissistic disorder and Maldini’s shadow were too much for him to handle and thus decided he wants a revolution. A Gerry’s own Milan. 200 millions later we are worse in terms of results and position then we were before.
The new Milan under Elliott and RedBird has shown great progress. I trust their vision for the club, and I believe the team is steadily improving, even more so than before Elliott took over.
How much do they pay for this comments ?
Bro is talking about bringing AC Milan to the 2016 – 2019 days that we forgot in last 5years.
First step: hire competent directors.
RedBird is spending, whether we agree with the manner in which they do or not is a separate discussion. But you can’t make the argument that the team is being continuously improved.
Are there questionable calls? Yes, Fonseca and Emerson are big question marks. But the advantageous/necessary signings outweigh the questionable positions players we desperately needed help in.
The problem I have with RedBird is the organizational one. Ibra, Moncada and Furlani seem disjointed. Instead of Ibrahimovic, I would argue for an EXPERIENCED Director of Sport to tie this thing all together and truly have a direction and a project. Even at RedBird’s parameters.
Cardinale is clearly playing the long game here whether we like it or not. He’s building the foundation to continually upgrade and improve the squad and the club’s standing. His ultimate goal is clearly the new stadium at which point it’s hard to understand if he would look to sell the club or keep it.
Well, but then, they are already pulling out of the new stadium, apparently. And the Fonseca blunder was such a big one, that in itself it may make the squad weaker.
The problem with the organization is ultimately what led to the problems related to how they spent money. An experienced sporting director would definetly made better use of the budget available.
Between summer 2023 and summer 2024, we spent roughly about 200M€, about a half which was financed by the selling of Tonali and De Ketelaere. Now it’s true that it’s not a small amount of money by any margin, but I think you’ll have to admit that it was quite frustrating at times to see the management go for many “cheap” players and try to get them for a bargain instead of going for less players but with better quality. Also we ended up overstacking some positions with players (the right wing, right back and central midfield) and forgetting about more urgent ones (the defensive midfield).
In 2023, after selling Tonali, a good sporting director might have gotten us Hjulmand, who at the time was valued at 15M€ and was playing in serie A. Can you imagine our midfield with Hjulmand, who is now valued north of 40M€. Instead of Chukwueze, we might have gotten Orsolini, a right winger who has experience in serie A and a more prolific goalscorer. Had we brought those 2 in 2023, we wouldn’t have needed to go for many positions in 2024 and could have gone for broke for a huge striker and perhaps something better than Emerson for the RB position.
Now on the stadium thing, I’m certainly for a long term project that will help the club financially, but the problem is that proposition isn’t void of risks. We’re still at the level of administration problems, I don’t think we don’t yet how much the stadium is going to cost and at which point it will became profitable. I think that Olympique Lyonnais, who now have their own stadium, are still struggling financially. So aren’t we in a way, sacrificing short term results for a long term project that might or might not succeed ?
Not with his garbage signings, algorithms and XL spreadsheets!
Worst owner of this club by far.
I generally respect your opinions Rossi but as I see it Yonghong Li was far worse as he almost drove the club to bankruptcy. Besides of that and I’m asking this as a question, didn’t AC Milan once have an owner who fled to South Africa to avoid the law ? Pretty sure i read that at some point but maybe either you or someone else can educate me on the matter.
That’s ok we dont have to always agree. I think Li was better cause he brought a lot of good players like Kessie and Hakan. I think he was far more ambitious but the Chinese gov didn’t allow him to take his money out of China.. Don’t know about the south africa thing.
Thats good and you are right we doesn’t have to agree upon everything you do have a point about the Chinese government but we would most likely have ended up in issues with Uefa and gotten banned so it was far from ideal what they did.
but we would most likely still have ended up ….
Yes the club is growing financially and from the marketing perspective and that’s very good. But from the sportive perspectives we are not good enough. We need in leadership people competent and knowledgeable about football. First of first we need a very good sportive director like Sartori for example. And we need to find a new “Adriano Galliani” , charismatic and handyman in negociacions , with good relations in other Serie A clubs. We need a new stadium. Milan Futuro was a very good step. We can develop our young players much efficient now. We are in a good position financially but we have to grow in all aspect not just in marketing. We are in a much better position then we was in Yonghong Li era for example or the last Berlusconi years…
Cardinale is good at talking and that’s all.
Milanfans get ready!!
Mr Cheapinale gonna bring home the 20th scudetto and the 8th CL title.
He gonna show Perez how to run a club and stack up trophies with budget manager and budget players.
Hahahahaha
God why do Milan have such a bad luck with owners after Berlusconi. Why do only Clowns buy Milan? Why can’t we get a owner like PSG, City or some serious dude that actually loves Milan and is Ambitious. Pls GOD save us from this Clown and every clown like him.