When RedBird took control of AC Milan in 2022, a vendor loan worth €550m was signed with the previous owner Elliott Management and the deadline is next year. However, as per a report, the loan could be refinanced rather than repaid.
RedBird and Elliott Management reached an agreement worth a total of €1.2bn for the takeover of Milan, but €550m of that was made up by a vendor loan from Elliott. This facilitated the takeover and made the process much quicker, but obviously the loan will have to be repaid eventually.
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As reported by Gazzetta dello Sport, the interest rate is set at 8% and the deadline for the loan is August 31, 2025. Currently, the loan stands at around €680m and it’s clear that RedBird will need to come up with a lot of money to repay it.
Selling a minority stake in the club is one option to raise funds, but it’s also possible that RedBird could refinance the loan with Elliott. The financials of the club are great and there is an ambitious project in place, so the American hedge fund could agree to this solution.
On our Substack, we discussed the current situation at great length and touched on what the future holds, with investment needed for Milan to stay at the top.
They should sell, they dont even have the money… It’s like a Miami-bro that spends all he has to rent a lambo for a night… Broke mentality is what we have because of Cardinale…
You don’t seem to know much about a vendor loan. That’s pretty standard.
130m loss due to interest is not going to be offset by ‘the financials of the club doing great’, because it’s not making money, it’s just over breaking even.
The only one with a financial gain to be made by restructuring the loan over a longer period is Elliot.
It’s not a loss, it’s a cost that is part of the original investment. By itself it doesn’t mean anything else than – we prefer to pay 8% interest instead of our own money, because we believe we can invest that cash in a smarter way and get more than 8%. And of course the only one with financial gain would be Elliott, that’s how laons work.
To be honest, I think there’s something fishy with the ownership. The loan is very high % of the total investment, some of the executive management is ex-Elliott… in reality they have significant say on matters, even if on paper they are only loaning us cash.
Another owner of the Milans clubs. Another indebted business man. In over his head. Loan afer loan after loan. Then a new sucker comes along. Kind of miss the days of Silvio and Moratti.