AC Milan owner Gerry Cardinale has stuck his head above the parapet again, and his words – along with those of the rest of the management – have caused a real stir.
First, some context is important. Back 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 were interviewed.
CEO Giorgio Furlani – who graduated from the same institute in 2007 – was spoken to, along with technical director Geoffrey Moncada, president Paolo Scaroni and Senior Advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic, among others.
Obviously, the words of Cardinale inevitably made the most noise because he is the captain of the ship. What we do know though is that the interviews for this case study were conducted at the end of last season, which is worth bearing in mind with some of the comments.
Yet, chronological distance matters little when the present isn’t so rosy, and with that sentiment in mind we have decided to pick out some of Cardinale’s more striking quotes.
1. Against the grain
We start with the theme of spending, and there will be more to come on that particular topic. Cardinale has previously declared that he doesn’t intend to bankroll Milan back to the elite, because it would be irresponsible to do so.
In a rather interesting opening to his quotes within the study, he stated: “When we bought AC Milan, a lot of American sports team owners called me and said, ‘You’re crazy.’ They said, ‘You can’t do business in Italy,’ and ‘It’s impossible to make money in European soccer.’
“Most people who invest in sports clubs do it because they’re emotionally invested. They put winning trophies above everything else, and that often leads them to make the mistake of thinking that spending too much to field a team of stars is linearly related to winning. But that’s the worst thing you can do as an investor.”
Effectively, he is making an admission that for him AC Milan is a purely financial investment and he will not be dragged into getting too ’emotional’ with the money that he spends. As he was warned by industry professionals, doing so in European football is very difficult.
Cardinale has made it clear that he likes a challenge, even if it means going against warnings. However, when he speaks about the difficulties he has faced in Italian football and the country’s bureaucracy in general, he can’t say he wasn’t warned. Sometimes your peers know what they are talking about.
2. Waging war
It would be fair to say that we don’t hear too much from Cardinale, who prefers to communicate through statements generally or on stage at business events. His absence at the 125th anniversary game and party certainly generated a mixed reaction too.
Speaking on the media in Italy, he stated to HBS: “I stopped reading the papers here, because they can just make it all up. I see this as a value chain with different components. The fans do their job, but the problem is that most of the other components in the chain make it harder for us to offer the best to the fans.
“The media often doesn’t help, and neither does the government. They recently took away the tax benefits we received when we paid players, making it even harder for us to compete with other leagues. How does this help us? They should understand that football is one of Italy’s biggest exports.”
In potentially the strongest response given in the interview, Cardinale makes it clear that he doesn’t have much time for the Italian media. In turn, that also probably offers an explanation as to why we don’t hear much from him in terms of interviews in newspapers or on TV stations.
What exactly he is referring to when it comes to lies in the media isn’t specified but it is apparent he has been upset with some of them. This climate of mistrust has made it harder to communicate with the fans, in his words, because it limits the opportunities to do so.
Turning to the government, Cardinale echoes the thoughts of the likes of Furlani and Scaroni in believing that they have taken some backwards steps since he has been at the helm. That damages the product he is trying to help the league sell globally, so his point is a fair one.
3. Checks and balances/
One of the issues that RedBird Capital have been very vocal about since day one is their desire to give Milan a new state of the art home to play in, and the owner was naturally asked about the topic.
“But building stadiums in Italy is a challenge – the last stadium built in Italy was in 2011 and had 40,000 seats. I would love to see a modern stadium built with 70,000 seats, but we are not getting much help from the municipality to get planning approvals in our preferred location.
“And I am still trying to deal with the mismatch between building an American-style stadium, which will probably cost over €1 billion, and not being able to charge American-style prices. It is a real challenge.”
The best thing you can do to get instantly up to speed on the stadium issue is read our most recent Substack bonus article on the matter. It is also worth noting that Scaroni spoke three days ago and uttered yet more contradictory words regarding the San Siro vs. San Donate duel.
Cardinale is obviously frustrated with how long the process is taking to get approval on either plan and break ground, and here we sign with him too. And yet, when this ownership group have made this particular project the one they are most determined to deliver, the lack of progress is frustrating all-round for fans.
What is more worrying for match-going supporters is that Cardinale has again made it clear that his vision is to move towards more expensive ticket prices (American-style). Given the pushback that has already taken place against the rising prices this will not go down well, even in a new home, though there may be a need for compromise.
4. Playing a different game
Returning to the theme of spending, Cardinale once again made a comparison with the field he is most familiar with – American sports – and Milan’s status as a historic powerhouse in football.
“What Berlusconi did with Milan reminds me of what George Steinbrenner did with the New York Yankees. Both were ‘buying’ titles [buying the best players in the world without regard to expense].
“In the 80s and 90s it was possible to do that, but now we can’t afford it anymore. We are competing with clubs in richer leagues and we can’t afford to pay players what they pay them. We have to spend every dollar of capital more intelligently than our rivals.”
These particular comments don’t need too much explanation. Effectively Cardinale is saying that the glory days of 30 years ago are gone when Milan could compete financially with Europe’s elite, and now they most try operate more efficiently.
Of course as fans the idea of spending every dollar (he means euros, probably) better than rivals appeals. When the fixed budget is already perceived to be unambitious, though, then there is a ceiling set in place that isn’t particularly high.
The level of Berlusconi’s spending can be debated but what he did do was set out with the mission to become Milan’s best ever owner, understanding that the way to make money was to spend money. Buying good players leads to trophies, a bigger club and more revenues in return. That model still applies as it did in the 1990s.
5. Fighting a losing battle
We had to leave the best until last, and the most interesting passage from the interview was Cardinale’s open admission to the conflict between who he is trying to satisfy.
“For the fans, my job is to win the Italian championship every year – I get that. For my investors who are focused on bottom-line appreciation, my job is to position AC Milan to challenge for the Scudetto every year, qualify for the Champions League every year, and go as far as possible in the Champions League every year.
“That’s what maximises cash flow and brand value. It’s the consistency and lower amplitude in performance volatility that maximises value and ultimately longevity.”
On the one hand, he is aware that the fans demand success, especially after the Scudetto win two-and-a-half years ago. RedBird’s ownership in the eyes of supporters will be judged on trophies won, not the profit they emerge with nor if a stadium is even halfway completed.
On the other hand, he represents a group of investors who mainly care about AC Milan as a business asset, and his responsibility to them is to deliver financial results. In that sense, a top four spot and the occasional run in Europe ticks enough boxes.
What is worrying is that Cardinale has made it clear that he will satisfy his investors first and the fans second, and what that means is that the objective might never be to win the Scudetto every year as a club of such rich history deserves.
There is no acknowledgement of the fact that a platform was in place to build from after the trophy was lifted in 2022, rather than having to almost build from scratch. Phrases like ‘cash flow’ and ‘brand value’ alienate fans who would prefer to hear their club spoken about as a living, breathing entity rather than as a spreadsheet.
Cardinale’s comments are always polarising and this is no exception. However, what we will conclude by saying is that no previous preconceptions about his aims and RedBird’s ambitions as an ownership group have been disproven.
I just love how he digs his own grave among fanbase although he does not really care about what fans want or think or him. He’ll find out soon enough if he continues this way.
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And they attacked Ted for saying the same things Cardinale himself is now saying.
Take your redemption sip in stride 🍷 lol 😂
Many of us were called out when we took our stand after they sacked Maldini and sold Tonali. The doom and gloom squad. And now when everything is panning out as we predicted and even Gerry and his chimps don’t hide their intentions anymore, we are called hindsight. Lmao, I’m really enjoying all this. Waiting to be called a fake fan or Inter fan next🍿
Ah. The good old days when the future was unknown to those that thought Redbird would be amazing.
Really worried about what this guy will do with our club now since he got new terms for the vendor loan to 2028.
We, the fans, will always come second. It’s he’s investor friends that are his priority. Just forget the scudetto and get ready for some starts being sold the coming years.
We the fans will always come second _with Cardinale_. Not necessarily a tragedy.
What is problematic is that I cannot detect anyone in the leadership heirarchy that does care about the fans. I _thought_ this was why Ibra was brought in, but he has proven to be the same absurd narcissist he was as a player.
We need the person who is going to run the sporting side so Cardinale can run the biz side. This is a very typical CEO (Cardinale) and Operations (Moncada?) set up in successful corporations.
So we wait until Cardinale has seen enough on the ops side to realize he has the wrong (mgmt) team in place. Then there is a bloodbath, then we struggle for a couple of years while the right folks (we hope) unwind the mess currently being made.
Given the loan refinance I expect sooner rather than later. Such a refinance is _expensive_. Given the projected income of Milan in the next year is looking grim (no UCL) it was _even more_ expensive.
Business folk run out of patience pretty quick when spending money with no return.
Here is hoping we not only see a move from the business, but it is informed by an improved understanding of what success will take in the Serie A.
Indeed. Imagine his patience when he realizes Milan won’t be in the UCL and might lose 100M€ prize money. Heads will roll. (I hope.)
Exactly.
If that doesn’t happen, then I start to worry about ownership. Until then I only worry about the so called Footballing Staff who bought Emerson and Chuk while letting Kalulu become one of the best defenders in Serie A … With Juve. SMH. :facepalm:
The fact is (point 5) that ACM is a business. It cannot survive if it does not have a skilled steward of the business. Otherwise we are like an orphan wishing for Daddy Warbucks to show up and make all our troubles go away.
No, Cardinale’s language is not that of the fans. But this article clearly forgets he was talking to the Harvard Business School (note “business”) and not the SempreMilan Angst survey.
In the 5 years I have been watching the Italian game, I can see the individual brilliance in a higher percentage of coaches and managers than I observe in other leagues. Yet the number of Italians playing abroad with impact is shockingly low. Worse the most impactful players in Serie A are rarely Italians.
Our game is slowly atrophying. Why?
Simple – competition. Not just on the field where players are molded in a crucible of pure meritocracy, but at the financial level.
TV rights for Serie A are a joke around the world. This means less money to the clubs compared to Prem, La Liga and Bundesliga.
We’ve only to look at Ligue 1 to see where we will be in a decade if _some_ of what Cardinale is saying is not acted upon.
That said, the guy is tone deaf rich dude who made an investment. I don’t love him and I’m not saying anyone should. I am saying to judge what he is saying on the merits of the larger reality.
#sadness
#ForzaMilanAllOfIt
I want to ask a legit question.
What about those of us when Redbird took over gave their opinion and predicted that we’d be right here in this mess?
Are their predictions for the future possible? They were right before.
I was one of those. You have to care about something before success happens. There is no magical formula as Cardinale thinks there is.
We will continue to mediocrity until he gets people who are capable and they care. Basically he needs to care by spending more or he will lose on his investment.
Mark my words, until he learns the lessons he should have learned about why Maldini was beloved and found success, he will continue to make mistakes and he’ll fail. My opinion is he’s too egotistical to change. I see him selling before his loan comes due.
That the prediction is true is irrelevant. Unless you can point to chase and effect.
I can predict we will come 4th, make the UCL semi and win the Copa. That is a better year than post Scudetto. So what if I am right? Unless the reasoning for my prediction is repeatable it was just a guess.
That many predicted where we would be now is simply probability. There are millions of us and some are bound to be right. Even if their reasoning to get there is entirely off.
Note that I am not saying that your reasoning is off. I am answering your question.
Make the next prediction. Where are we at the end of the season? Why are we there.
Here is mine – we finish top four and come near miss in both cups. We make the UCL semis.
Cause?
Fonseca is exposing our so-called best players for the children they are and the pampering they got under Pioli. Rafa has responded and will continue to respond.
I don’t believe Theo will. He is burned out from years of over use and Jimenez has shown he can step in.
Puli is hurt. When he is on the right wing we are a significantly better team. His work rate combined with Jimenez balance is.
Abraham will come good for 12-15 folks and 3-7 assists. He’s done more with less at Roma.
Camardas development is faster than I expected making it possible for Morata to play a 10 or false 9.
Between Puli, Rafa and Tammy our attack will strike fear.
And our defense. Gabbia is bedrock. And he continues to improve. Thiaw seems to have gone to the Wizard and gotten a brain. Calabria js healthy.
Terraciano shows he can provide defensive depth in the middlefield so we can start to rest Fofana.
Why not a rosier picture? We’ve nobody to deputy Reinjders and Bennacers last return from had him looking line an overstuffed sausage in a Milan shirt. I’ve no trust he will be of a level to keep us tixking.
While we will add a mid in Jan but they will be cheap and not have an impact. Mgmt will continue to look for the 20m player but without the skilled eye they need. But the player will be enough to provide some depth for rotation.
Fonzy will continue to man manage some of our players back to adulthood. But he will continue to use Emerson too often thus blunting Puli effect.
The above picture should look something if a jumble S
Due to weak and ill-informwd leadership in management.
Ownership will get a Bebbe Morata or Guintule type figure in the summer after patiently waiting for a result for two years and not seeing the improvement after spending over 150m on players. This is both on the field (sporting result) and capital appreciation of players brought in.
Bonera will be fired and a serious coach brought to Futuro. Again this is about both the sporting result and the lack of progress on making the kids more valuable at the top level.
I hope that you can see me reasoning about how the business and sporting considerations compliment each other.
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So I would say any prediction of doom or fluffy bunnies and rainbows without cause and effect isnt worth paying attention to the “I told you so…” bunch.
I guess when you’re rock bottom, the only place you can go is up….RedBird and Cardinale are awful and clueless. Bum manager and bum management.
*thumbs up*
The only thing that Cardinale understands is money.
It is time to stop buying season tickets, to stop watching games on TV, and to stop going to San Siro.
This is the only thing that we can do to get Cardinale to change behavior
Klaus if we stop buying tickets and t-shirts from them they will come on the table to discuss us for sure
The business perspective on this is pretty interesting. It really only works if the fans were to unite as a group (like the Curva without all the thuggery).
Cardinale, to some extent, is making a bet that any individual fan who chooses as you do will be easily replaced. To him you are just a 40 Euro asset per game.
Further he is betting that with a new stadium he can replace you 40 euro fans with 120 euro fans. (I paid $80 to watch MLS Austin FC which is a far far far inferior – but quite fun – product). Friends of mine pay $3500 per seat for a nice (not quite boug-ey) club experience for the year.
It is rational (not necessarily right) for him to think he has a much better product already and it is under-monitized. TV rights saga this year shows him to be exactly right on the macro level.
But, he is missing the individual fan? Here is where my short 5 years watching all that goes on may fail me ….
The Glazers bought ManU. And today they are a poo-fling. The Glazers apparently still make money b/c the fans (on the whole) still show up and still buy the merch.
So it is rational (again, not right) for Cardinale to think that fans are “sticky”. This is a term that indicates that once someone becomes a fan they are extremely unlikely to switch off.
So you are 100% right about getting him to behave differently by hitting him where he pays attention. However it only works if enough 40 euro “assets” have their value go to zero euros.
Can this happen?
Yes it’d be great if football was stuck in a 80s time loop and there were still billionaire Milan fans floating around waiting to buy the club and splash millions on the best players in the world… Unfortunately we’re stuck with the likes of Cardinale as football clubs are generally run by foreign investors, (or socios, like Real and Barthelona). My problem is not with being owned by an American who knows nothing about Milan or football, just like how Todd Boehly knows nothing about Chelsea or football or Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani knows nothing about PSG or football…My problem is that Cardinale hasn’t hired people who actually know what they’re doing. If we had hired a better coach, Ceo and a sporting director for starters, we might not be in this mess.
Minus the American thing completely, Chelsea is an interesting situation.
There was clearly a plan to buy the best young talent they could get their hands on and lock it in long term.
It looked ludicrous for 3 years.
Now, however I wonder. They have amazing players locked up for 6 to 7 years. They have more of them than they need. They have a coach (finally) that picked 25 and has build a winner.
Now the business should be able to unload these other (unused) players and balance the books.
Maybe this Boehly guy did some math of his own and has been playing the long game?
I’m not saying Milan should follow this pattern. I’m just saying that different often looks stupid until it works.
Meh Chelsea always does this. Drop 300-500M on signings, then finally get a coach to use them. They’re good for about 2 years then they drop 300-500M on players again.
Selling the old batch cheap.
Rinse repeat.
That club should be discounted imao
On first blush I agree,
But there are key differences in the player age, number of players and the lengths of the contracts this time.
Abrahamovich seems to have tossed money at the club and expect a result. Boehly and crew seem to have made a huge effort.to get a flywheel spinning with momentum so they can match minimal effort.to keep it going over a long time period.
Nah, they definitely still just throwing cash around. you can tell by the amout of players they buy and which positions they are.. They always did the long contract things, thats nothing new
Roman usually just allowed a coah to buy what they needed/ wanted.
If you look at how they overpay and how many of those flop its pretty cut and dry that this is a model that is 100% wrong to do. And is the reason why so many clubs are in the red.
100% agreed
100%
Exactly.
The worst thing that’s happened to football was Americans becoming interested in it.
Bro, they are interested in soccer.
Our neighbours went from losses of €246m to last year only €46m, in a season where they won the Scudetto and Supercoppa Italiana. And they’re the first to get to two stars.
Elliott balanced the checkbooks, brought in talented players plus won a Scudetto ahead of their schedule. Cause they let football people handle football and the money people handle money. They literally handed RedBird a know-how package on how to make money, while remaine competitive and they’re like no thanks, we’re good.
It’s even more embarrassing when Elliot who had no prior experience in sports did it but RedBird who operate in sports and entertainment look like a bunch of ret*rded amateurs.
I remember how some people were whining how gazidis will ruin this club.
Bet my left nut those people have selective memory lose about that now
I was the first to criticize Gazidis and Pioli. Not afraid to admit I was wrong. However I also said the Elliott group will destroy this great club and was right because he sold it to his American buddy when an alternative option was available. When redbird took over I gave them 2 years before we were in the banter era 2.0. I was wrong they screwed it up in their third. Unfortunately things are going to get worse for this great club!
Good for you. Takes something to do that. Most cant.
Nah, i wont agree on the Elliott part.. They might sold to the other option and things might have been even worse. We cant know, we will never know.
We suck right now its true, but it most def isnt all that bad. We are about a decade away from banter atm.
They did a major poopy with the coach selection but the signings, while poor quality, they did target the right postitions, more or less.
One thing that stood out for me in these interviews is that not one person is experienced or qualified in their role. We have an owner who admits they know very little about serie a, European football and Italian business in general. We have a CEO who admits he is still adapting to his role as CEO, a role he has never held prior. We have a technical director in Moncada who has only ever been a head scout and finally there’s Zlatan who admits he’s learning on the job.
And now we are seeing how the lack of an experienced operator is impacting the club on the sporting side.
I think failure this season and ultimately the financial hit to the balance sheet will force Cardinale’s hand to actually hire a competent sporting director who can steady the ship and make better decisions based on their experience in the game and realise the clubs vision of sustainable spending whilst striving for sporting results.
It is possible to achieve success with this model, just look at Atalanta, with the right people in their roles, it is possible.
Exactly. Milan is ran good only financially and that was mostly set up by Gazidis that Eliott hired. They just continued in that path and results are showing. Half of the team was also brought in by Maldini and Masara that Eliott hired, they even won the scudetto. Then comes Gerry and destroys it and bring in some stupid US models of signing players and gives the decisions of that to Ibrahimovic and Furlani. And people wander what is wrong. The path was also set, but they wanted to do it their way and it seems to be a big fail. Even the Fonseca pick shows that. Milan is behind Juventus, Napoli, Inter, Atalanta, Fiorentina etc. when you compare the actual management of the club, and that is horrifying. It will cost Milan CL qualification and a lot of money.
Banter era 2 has began….
from here onwards not watching any matches in stadium nor live on TV.
But just checking final scores on Google.
We can see how far Cardinale can go with this mindset.
He will go very far. What needs to happen is fans need to stop going to matches, buying memberships and merchandise! This will never happen. If you want change fans need to stop given redbird their hard earned money!
As expected, the usual overreaction from fans. There’s nothing wrong in what he said and while fans and the media moan about the money invested, which isn’t an issue, the real problems i.e. Moncada, Ibrahimovic and Bonera, remain. Atalanta and Lazio are flying. Granted Atalanta have spent almost as much as we have, but they have taken in over €200 million in player sales in the past 2 seasons. They lose their best players are remain competitive. Lazio spend peanuts. An awful lot of money has been wasted on the likes of Chukwueze, Musah and Pavlovic and Futuro, which is a good squad coached by an absolute buffoon. It’s like giving the keys of an F1 car to a taxi driver.
Why do so many of you continue to embarrass yourselves? Please explain how a change of ownership will make Milan competitive again? In case you hadn’t noticed, there are numerous rules in place that prevent clubs from spending beyond their means so the idea that oil money will change our fortunes is 10 years out of date. More importantly, if the wrong people are in positions of power (i.e. Moncada, Ibrahimovic), it doesn’t matter who the owner is. What’s to prevent a new owner from making the same mistakes? Absolutely nothing. Cardinale doesn’t need to sell the club or get out, the overall strategy is sound, what he needs to do is hire competent people to run the club.
^^ this
sounds good. Most people will just ignore it and still think we need new owners and they must be our sugar daddy.
Seem its the ony way this club can exist
So the only way this club exists it’s either to be financially sound or win trophies? It’s just one or the other? Elliott gave them a club that achieved both in just 3 years. All they needed to do was to add missing puzzles and not a complete revamp, wasting money, buying useless players that don’t fit the system.
I do wonder what are Gerry’s extraordinary returns on the likes of RLC, Musah, Chuk, Pavlovic, Emerson, Okafor. I mean he said that’s what he’s all about right?
i never said that.. extremes, always extremes…
We bought mezalas ‘cuz pioli said he was gonna play 433, yes? And we loand/sell those who did not fit for a 433, yes?
Then not even mid season he went back 2 4231, yes?
And sure, i agree Redpoop is buying poop mostly. It’s a hot mess. But a new owner doesnt mean we just start buying 60M players. We cant afford 2. ffp is a thing. At least for Milan.. some clubs dont need to follow it (looks at real, barca, p$$$G, Čelsi etc etc)
Also Pavlovic is great, hes the only Cb we have with actual ballz, all he needs is a coach to guid him when to use those ballz and when not 2. Bit fonsy deosnt have time 2 do that. he’s 2 busy telling emerson what a great job hes doing and deling with theo, tomori and leao
I said many times before, I don’t see a problem in buying 20 million players but do it with certain structure behind it. Mike, Theo, Tonali, Bennacer are all 20 million players. But they were bought with a clear plan behind on how to build a sustainable team that would be able to compete for trophies. Gerry’s latest statement clearly shows they’re in for “extraordinary return on players” as for example Tonali who’s sale was a cash grab opportunity.
Yes it does. Elliott was literally a better owner. Now we have Ibrahimovic and Furlani having the main say in almost everything. Can”t predict which one should leave sooner, probably Ibrahimovic. Furlani is probably a good banker and could be worth to Milan, just shouldn’t make any decisions that aren’t finance.
Furlani deals with contracts so he’s the last person to criticise. It’s Moncada and Ibrahimovic who take most of the blame.
Unfortunately the current model of football club can’t have both trophies and financial success, at least not at a sustainable level. There may be one in the future, but if we want to realize it now, we need to be pioneer because there is no example to be followed. Not to mention the current situation at Italy, even taking the first step at owning your own stadium is already hard.
How is it not possible to compete for trophies and be financially sound, when a fund that had no prior experience in sports (Elliott) did it in 3 years? Stop with this made up excuses.
You can you need the right people in charge and the right structure. Unfortunately Milan do not have the people in charge to take this club forward and win trophies!
Of course it can. Liverpool and Atlanta are your examples.
Atlanta united?
Atalanta.
1. Didn’t Comisso buy Fiorentina before that, and Friedkin Roma. He was following others while trying to present it as he is some sort of genius leader that started investments in Italian clubs. Easy to check.
The rest, of course he is frustrated. He was supposed to be looking for a buyer now with stadium building about to begin next year. And he spent the last year begging for money around and got declined at a lot of places until Eliott refinanced the loan. Of course you won’t say it publicly, but if you read between the lines that is what he means. He is frustrated because a short term investment, where they would build stadium and increase revenue and make a nice amount on the sale after 5-6 seasons, didn’t work.
Oh I forgot, Bologna since 2014? Even Genoa, Atalanta, Parma and venezia were acquired by an US owner before Milan. Cardinale is a classic American guy, he will lie about anything to make himself look better. 😀
You mean classic guy.
Or so Italians and Brits and actually admit to a 10 cm unit?
Just call it Serie A–merica.
Did you forget the history of our greatest ever owner or Calciopoli and the various other scandals? Knock it off with the racism.
The Cardinals cucks are happy about being in 8th because of finances. You do realize you can be in good financial state AND be competitive for the Scudetto. We are in 8th and have been selling our best players, wake up!
Really? And which of our best players have been sold? One, who ended up with a year’s ban. Stop making things up.
Right on cue, the white knights for Gerry. We sold Tonali, who’s heart bleeds red and black. We sold CDK, Maldini and Simic because we have no patience. We are pushing Theo and Leao out the door. We purchased this donkey Emerson who would fail as an Amazon driver. We hired bum Fonseca. We play awful football. We are in 8th place.
This is okay?
Simic, Maldini and CDK weren’t our best players. Try that again. Leao has signed a new contract. Theo’s performances have been a disgrace. No one is defending the money that has been wasted or the poor performances and 8th place. When you resort to strawman arguments, you’ve already lost the debate.
cdk would probably be our best player right now. along with pulisic. probably the best looking at the numbers
Gerry Cardinale, is not billonare. The Red Bird is owned by Investor and Public, alone Gerry Cardinale net worth not even reach $250 million. While Oaktree Inter has over $205 billion with root from Brookfield with over $900 billion.