AC Milan are set to register their fourth consecutive annual profit despite missing out on the Champions League this season, according to a report.
Due to their eighth-place finish in the 2024-25 campaign, Milan missed out on the Champions League. Considering that they collected about €80m from the competition that season, it was obviously a huge blow for this financial year.
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A lot of sales were made in the summer to help plug the €80m gap, with the likes of Theo Hernandez and Malick Thiaw being sold with very good capital gains. However, as highlighted by Gazzetta dello Sport this morning (see photo at the bottom), there are a few more factors.
Another profit on the cards
According to the pink newspaper, Lorenzo Colombo’s recent sale (permanently) to Genoa has brought in another €10m in capital gain. Having come through the youth ranks at the club, he was always going to be a full capital gain player.
Furthermore, another €20m should be added from foreign TV rights. To make a long story short, IMG were found to have colluded with two other companies between 2008 and 2018, decreasing the value of the Serie A TV rights abroad.
Now, the company has agreed to pay a €300m compensation/penalty, of which Milan should get around €20m. Adding the potential sale of Samuel Chukwueze to Fulham, the Rossoneri are heading towards their fourth consecutive profit.
Beyond these heavy income sources, Milan have also strenghthened their commercial operations, leveraged player trading, and kept personnel costs under control. As if that wasn’t enough, they can absorb declines in revenue much better than others with almost €200m in equity capital.
Of course, a return to the Champions League is still essential to avoid financial pressure and a weakening of the brand and squad.
Profit is a dirty word to some of the planks here, despite the fact that legislation means clubs must be broadly self-sustainable in order to compete in Serie A and in Europe. Before the usual rage baiters start, RedBird do not take any money out of the club, they spend almost to the limit of what they can without getting the club into debt. Profits since they took over:
2022-2023: +€6 million
2023-2024: +€4 million
2024-2025: +€3 million
If you paid actual attention instead of generalizing, you would realize that most of us have a gripe not with the fact that Milan isn’t spending enough, but rather that Milan has incompetent clowns doing the spending on players that don’t fit the coach’s scheme.
No one complains that Milan is profitable. The complaint is that financial sustainability and profitability do not equate to sporting success at this club.
There he is!!! The personal fan boy and A$$ licker of Cardinale!! Welcome back @Uberhulk – or should it be “Luber” hulk for all that greasing you do on Gerry’s pole 😂
Another FAILED season under this owner/management. In the last 4 years what have we done?? NOTHING. Scudetto winners and UCL semi finals to this garbage.But hey – we made profit!!!! Whoohoo!!! Ya the good that has done us. Look at the stats. We have been a failure since your boy Gerry fired M&M – facts. We are now resigned to celebrating just qualifying for UCL maybe lol. How the mighty have fallen. This project under Redbird from a sporting perspective has been a failure pure and simple regardless of whether we qualify today or not. It took us so long to recover from the Li Era – all the progress evaporated.
Ya we made a profit but that means little to nothing to the true fans.
Hurry up and fire Furlani Moncada and Ibra and take that fat one eyed walrus Scaroni with you If Gerry wont sell then at least hire competent ppl to run the club.
Ya this is what your “PROFIT” has gotten us “genius”:😂🤡
2022/2023 – finished 4th
2023/2024 – finished 2nd (19 points behind Inter!)
2024/2025 – finished 8th
2025/2026 – we will finished 3rd or 4th or could MISS
So take your “PROFIT” and shove it up your A$$
nope, they always used this small profit achivement as an excuse of being mediocre in sporting area is what fans doesn’t like
Stop making sense Uber…no one in here will understand you.
do u mean be happy as FOOTBALL fans bcs their FOOTBALL club doesn’t get trophy instead they got small financial profit is make sense?
Milan is FOOTBALL club not a bank