AC Milan owner Gerry Cardinale was very happy with what he saw from the team during their 2-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain at San Siro on Tuesday night.
La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes that Milan will leave for Lecce tomorrow, where on Saturday they will look for points to recover ground in the Scudetto race, while Gerry Cardinale will get on a plane headed to the United States.
Cardinale knows that this is a young Milan team, profoundly renewed since the summer window in which 10 signings arrived, but full of potential and with a coach who keeps it in his grip after a difficult moment.
The first victory in the current edition of the Champions League, which came against Kylian Mbappé’s PSG no less, is the perfect symbol that this Milan has men and ideas to become great and compete on all fronts.
“Our boys showed up to win and demonstrated to Europe and the world that they are capable of expressing themselves at the highest levels on the international scene,” Cardinale told the paper.
“I am happy for the team and for our fans who played an important role as the ‘twelfth’ man on the pitch in this great victory. Very proud of everything that shows the best of Milan.”
The CEO Giorgio Furlani, board member Gordon Singer and president Paolo Scaroni were all in attendance on Tuesday night. They and Cardinale let themselves go in the celebrations like the other 75,000 fans in the stadium.
Cardinale seems more involved than ever. He has followed the team at home and away, is dealing personally for the new stadium and in the summer he restructured the club’s management organisation: no more director, room for a working group with Furlani at the helm, supported by the scouting chief Moncada and the director D’Ottavio.
“room for a working group with Furlani at the helm, supported by the scouting chief Moncada and the director D’Ottavio”
See when you guys do this, it sounds like there weren’t any group think before. I guess it’s an easy way to divide fans
Yep, the narrative is everything. Not sure if it’s from la Gazza or SM, I feel like the Italian media love to write about Jerry, either it is genuine or in “collaboration” with Milan’s PR. This is communication as it’s done nowadays in US corporations, the myth of the self-made man, the star CEO. Jerry just tries to be the Steve Jobs/Jeffrey Bezos/Elon Musk of Milan.
Anyway he’s just cruising on the hard work of these past years, from Elliott and the previous management. He did nothing besides sacking the previous management despite the huge turnaround from the banter era, and confirming a coach that is criticised by many. Until now it’s just speculation all over the place and promises of a glorious fate. This is like Musk promising mankind that we’ll live a better future on Mars. With the stadium, we will have the best team in the world. Speculation, all the time.
It’s like night and day from the dark days of the last years of Berlusconi and the Yonghong Li disaster, but I guess haters gonna hate.
Vero Rossoneri, I usually value your opinion even when we disagree because you give arguments. But here I’m not sure what you’re trying to tell me since that’s exactly what I said. We’re back from football hell because of Elliott taking care of finances and the previous management having ambitions and finding the right players.
“the previous management having ambitions and finding the right players.”
Lack of ambition, eh? I think Cardinale’s group has already spent more money on incoming players than Elliott’s did.
@Bartholomeo it’s so weird man. It gets cringey when I read it sometimes. It’s almost like an indirect attack. More PR than “keeping em honest”
All words so far, in management results are what counts and the results so far are disappointing.
We’re behind in Serie A, and not doing great also in CL. We need at least 4 points (which might not be enough) to qualify for the next round of CL, and we need at least 2 victories in this CL round to qualify for the Club World Cup to overtake Juventus (a bonus of 50+ million)
The management needs to focus on things that can and should be done better.
Starting with the transfer market, hate to say but Marotta has pulled another fast one on us. After getting Calhanoglu, he overbid on Thuram. This way, he enforced his team while putting us again, in a precarious situation. His M.O. of hunting for freebies and weakening his direct opponents to enforce his team (ala Bayern) has served him well since the Juve days. Yes, there have been bad hiccups on his side (Skriniar, Sanchez, Naingolan, etc), but also very good deals.
What’s the point of trying to save 1 mill on Thuram’s salary if you spend 2+ million on Jovic salary (that’s money thrown to trash for all I care)
The physio team need I say more. It’s unacceptable that we suffer so many more injuries than Inter. Galliani used to blame San Siro, but that doesn’t fly if both us and Inter play there.
The youth team. Both Juve and Inter are selling their top talent every year or pulling players to get a lot of minutes in their first team, all ways to strengthen their position. Bartesaghi so far seems like a failed experiment and more of a way for management to appease critics . We’ll see if next year things change for our youth team.
Bob, Jovic is terrible, but I’m not sure what kind of math you’re doing. Thuram was offered 5m, and we’re paying Jovic 2m, that’s a 3m difference. Not sure what you’re trying to prove here. It’s clear they budgeted 5m for a striker at the time, and Thuram at Inter’s price would have exceeded it. Jovic has nothing to do with it. Also, it has been reported that Inter had previously negotiated with Thuram and that he had verbally committed to them. So there’s that. Ok, so we missed out on a main striker target, but we added two quality right wingers in an area that had been missing quality for multiple seasons and added three quality midfielders in exchange for one departure to add depth to that department when there had been none. But ok, we can focus on the one problem that wasn’t solved out of the five that needed solving.
Also, Inter is teetering on the precipice of financial disaster. Every season brings new reports of their ownership having to sell or look for investors. If for some reason they miss out on the CL it’s game over. If we miss out on the CL it will not be great, but we won’t be forced to sell our stars or even the club. Did you not watch the game vs. PSG? At 20m, I’d say RLC is a bargain. So are Pulisic and Musah. 15m for a keeper that is as good as any. Leao brought in for more of a retail price, but now worth in excess of 100m. Not sure what the problem is here.
“The physio team need I say more. It’s unacceptable that we suffer so many more injuries than Inter. Galliani used to blame San Siro, but that doesn’t fly if both us and Inter play there.” So you’re saying that even WAY BACK in Galliani’s time injuries were a problem? So it can’t be current ownership’s fault, or at least solely their fault. So you undermine yourself.
I’m saying that Inter got Thuram because they offered 1 mill salary more at a time when the press was saying that Milan was wrapping up the deal. Instead of trying to save 1 mill at Thiuram we waste 2 mill at Jovic.
If you really need something, you better be ready to overpay and not drag the feet like we did with Taremi. Everyone said that we need a striker and a sub for Theo. Management said to use Bartesaghi and Okafor only for Pioli to use Florenzi and Jovic there.
Who’s talking of Maignan, Leao, etc. I’m talking of our *current* management.
This 👆🏼@Bob. Save a mil but spend more eventually. But it also was happening before Gerry too. Gave M&M a 6m wage cap budget and let Kessie and co go. Now we have to spend to replace him (Musah I suppose…20m plus wages would have been comfortably saved if offered to Kessie instead). Haggles over Hakan (yes he’s a snake but he was perfect for our tactics). Ended up now with Puli and Reinjders I guess for 20-40m plus wages. Take your pic.
Sounds penny wise, pound foolish