The news emerged before the game against Sassuolo on Tuesday night that neither Giorgio Furlani nor Zlatan Ibrahimovic would be present.
In the end they missed out on a very entertaining night as Milan scored six goals en-route to a hammering of the Serie B side, booking a place in the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia and with five different players netting.
Tuttosport (via MilanNews) reveals in today’s edition that neither the CEO Furlani nor the Senior Advisor Ibrahimovic have been in Milan for the past few days. Both are abroad and many clues suggest that they are in New York with Gerry Cardinale.
The reason? The paper claims that it is likely they have gone to meet the RedBird Capital No.1 to take stock of the situation ahead of the January transfer window, and of course talking about the medium/long-term future of the club.
It should be remembered that at the end of next August, Cardinale’s fund will have to repay approximately €700m to Elliott Management. That money is from the vendor loan that the Singer family had granted him for the purchase of Milan in the summer of 2022.
Earlier this year, we published an article with information from Calcio e Finanza regarding exactly how the vehicle of a vendor loan works. It was initially €560m, but interest has taken it to the current figure.
