Curva Sud blast Cardinale and management in statement: “Not a single part of ​​Milan works”

The Curva Sud have published yet another long statement which takes aim at Gerry Cardinale and the AC Milan management.

As a reminder, Milan need to beat Cagliari in their final game of the season to secure a third-placed finish and a return to the Champions League. It may be a simple equation but it is unlikely to be straightforward, especially given that the Sardinians have spoiled the Rossoneri’s party before.

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Amid the backdrop of potential changes in the management and the presence of the owner Gerry Cardinale at San Siro, the players must put the external noise to one side and just focus on getting the three points they need to get over the line.

Curva Sud take aim at everyone

Just as happened two weeks ago before Milan’s most recent match at San Siro against Atalanta, today the Curva Sud Milano shared their thoughts in a fanzine available at the stadium. Their words were relayed by MilanNews.

“With the usual absurd and unjustified ban on going to Genoa to support AC Milan, we find ourselves today struggling to reach the minimum goal that a club like ours should achieve every year, and which we obviously don’t want to give up, against a Cagliari side that has nothing left to ask of the season and against one of the most ‘furious’ fan bases towards us.

“All the more reason to cheer as hard as possible today too, as we have done throughout the season, unlike what the American says, who has only been present on 3 occasions this season.

“Then it will be time to take stock, thanking those who allowed us to get, despite everything, to play for a Champions League spot on the final day: Mister Allegri and Igli Tare, whose rumours of his alleged dismissal at the end of the season leave us with a bitter taste in our mouths.

“If that were the case, the sporting director would be just the latest victim of the incompetence of others , of a management that has done nothing but interfere in the choices of purchases and the resulting transfer market operations, without forgetting the devastating effects that the behaviour of some Milan ‘directors’ has had on the management of the team and the dressing room.

“And just like every year, this time too they have managed to find a new scapegoat, yet another head to hand to the American to mask their own failures, when Messrs. Furlani, Ibrahimovic, and Moncada should be the first to admit their mistakes and pack their bags , freeing AC Milan and the AC Milan fans from the mediocrity of the last four years…

“Words, words, words… The long interview with AC Milan owner Gerry Cardinale took centre stage last week. After years of silence, Cardinale awoke from his golden slumber to reel off abstract promises, already hackneyed concepts , in short, the usual words aimed at calming the protests of AC Milan fans.

“Yes, because these words come just as all the international media have shown and reported what is happening around AC Milan, the protests and the unease of an entire fan base that are damaging the image and management of RedBird: hence the lecture in a long, carefully planned interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, a newspaper that no longer has anything to do with journalism, given that it didn’t even publish a single article on the fans’ protest last Sunday, except for granting pages to the owner where he tries to tone things down, to calm an environment devastated by this ownership, to reassure the financial world more than the AC Milan community.

“Cardinale said he doesn’t blame AC Milan fans for being angry because he is angry too, and he says this after this ownership (HIS) has waged a crusade against the Curva Sud and all organised support, emptying San Siro not only of true fans but also of the passion and color that made it a legendary stadium.

“The American-made clique has carried out an ‘ethnic substitution’ aimed at alienating the most loyal, ardent supporters, replacing them with customers, consumers, and football tourists, in the most obvious and blatant logic of show business, with disastrous results for all to see.

“What has Cardinale understood about Milan fans and Milanismo? How can an owner of one of the most celebrated teams in the world, who has been absent from stadiums for over a year for fear of being criticised, arrogate to himself the right to tell fans that the team must be supported when Milan fans have never stopped singing throughout the year, even in the face of embarrassing performances?!

“How can he do that when his club silently acquiesced without batting an eyelid, in the face of the absurd bans imposed at San Siro, compared to away stands across Italy filled with color and passion without any crazy restrictions?

“How can he do that when his club silently accepted all the absurd bans imposed on fans at San Siro, while away stands across Italy were filled with colour and passion without any crazy restrictions?the teamShould he be supported when the Milan fans have never stopped singing all year, even in the face of embarrassing performances?!

“How can he do that when his club silently accepted, without batting an eyelid, the absurd bans imposed at San Siro, compared to away stands across Italy filled with color and passion, without any crazy restrictions?

“How can he do that when his club silently accepted, without batting an eyelid, all the absurd bans imposed on the fans at San Siro, while away stands across Italy were filled with color and passion, without any restrictions?

“Today, in fact, we have a fourth-place team that still needs to qualify on the final day, after having fought for months at the top of the table with limited squad numbers, and which in January was shamefully left that way without satisfying the coach and sports director’s requests to try and fight until May.

“Milan fans don’t want to win at all costs; they want a team built to win. They want players who reflect the ambitions of their fans and who live up to the club’s history. This is what we ask of Mr. Cardinale. We are tired of his boastful interviews about being a winner and ambitious, because the last four years have resoundingly contradicted him, and in the most painful way for those who truly love Milan.

“Cardinale reappears at the end of yet another lacklustre season, after a long absence from the Rossoneri world, even missing AC Milan’s 125th anniversary celebrations (again, to avoid being criticised).

“Today, he tells us he’s back to set things right, to understand what went wrong and what to improve, because he’s spent a lot and is a winner. He says this without laughing, probably because he’s never toured the museum on Via Aldo Rossi, or because he’s never seen any of the Rossoneri’s matches on historic European nights, or because he doesn’t know which players he invested HIS money in.

“While it’s true that under his management, a lot of money was spent (and poorly, as he himself pointed out), it’s equally true that much of the money spent came from the sale of key players, each time dismantling the team’s backbone and preventing it from competing for victory.

“And since the owners don’t seem inclined to sell (UNFORTUNATELY, even if hope is always the last to die…), then let them seriously begin remedying, starting tomorrow, the disasters wrought over the past few years, in which everyone except the main culprits have paid the price.

“OUT with Furlani and Moncada, for the disastrous decisions that have relegated AC Milan to a supporting role. OUT with Ibrahimovic, as good a player as he is damaging as a director, a harmful and divisive figure within the team and often absent or out of place in times of difficulty. And why not, OUT with Scaroni, whose usefulness no one has yet understood.

“Finally, the American’s monologue suggests that the best people should be in every area of ​​the club: here too, he admits, ‘We’re not there yet’. Indeed, not a single part of ​​Milan works, from the sporting department to the commercial department, including booking, but this too is only thanks to the best people he’s chosen.

“Milan isn’t a brand, it’s not entertainment, it’s not show business, it’s not speculation, and as long as these people who don’t think in these terms exist, killing passion and Milanismo day after day, it will be truly difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel…”