AC Milan risk feeling regret over letting Mattia Liberali leave the club less than 12 months after his exit, a report claims.
Calciomercato.com begin a report by claiming that Alberto Aquilani is at a crossroads. After narrowly missing out on promotion to Serie A with Catanzaro in the play-off final against Monza, the coach is destined to earn a job in Italy’s top flight next season.
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Indeed, a duel is underway for him between Torino and Sassuolo, both hunting for an heir to Roberto D’Aversa and Fabio Grosso respectively. The latter is poised to replace Paolo Vanoli at Fiorentina.
Taking Liberali with him
Aquilani would gladly bring Mattia Liberali with him to his next club. The attacking midfielder was signed by Catanzaro last summer on a free transfer from Milan, who will retain 50% of the proceeds from his future resale.
This season, he has scored four goals and provided four assists in 30 appearances for the Calabrian club, who want at least €10m to sell him. Half of that will go to Milan, where Paulo Fonseca gave him his first-team professional debut on 15 December 2024, in a 0-0 draw vs. Genoa.
Liberali has gone through the entire youth national team from the U15s to the U20s. Roberto Mancini is a candidate to return as Italy coach as an alternative to Antonio Conte, and saw him live on May 29th in the Monza-Catanzaro match.
He was impressed by his quality and technique. If he were to return to the Azzurri bench, Mancini would like to call him up directly to the senior national team without having him come through the U21s.
Major failure of Milan to keep some kind of control (either loan, buyback clauses etc).
The kid was stellar in multiple preseasons.
Hopefully whoever takes over at Milan considers him an option too, would be a way for Catanzaro to make a few more Euros than they would from any other club if they were to sell him back (and if he’d consider it, obviously).
Why milan not try to sign antonio conte for his head coach ?
When he had a value at 4 mil according to Transfermarkt (sure not 100% scientific) we gave him for free to Catanzaro with a 50% resale clause and now he might be sold for 10 mil sending us a potential 5 mil for one of the biggest talents of his age bracket in Italy and for that matter Europe.
This ownership and all of its cronies should be clobbered like baby seals.
10 mill for one of the biggest talents in europe? Maybe in Italy, but look at the prices the biggest talents in europe have, so be realistic, liberali is nowhere a big european talnet. 50 percent resale clause is a great deal, moreover when he himself wanted to leave.
And when all of you whine so much, like useal, try to think of it this way: If there will be coach which want to have liberali, and he will want to play under him, we have 50 discount on him, thats also a great deal.
He has been named in top 50ies of most promising players for those born in his birthyear so yes he is in fact considered as one of the biggest talents regardless whether you are agree or not. We wont see ten mil so such fee is ridiculous regardless and that is nothing about being unrealistic if he is soon bound to get his international debut at the age of 19.
Samuel considering you have commented here on and off for some time maybe it would suit yourself to not accuse anyone of whining considering you and a few other American PR bots here have had their noses burried up redbirds and particular Cardinales arses for some time.
There are no PR bots, Maldini FC. There are fans who look at things objectively, something you fail to do.
Milan were hit with a UEFA fine for the state of their bad finances, they MUST post profits, no matter how small, in order to comply with UEFA regulations and compete in European competitions.
Do they pocket the money? No, it goes back into the club and is reinvested on transfers. By all means, complain about the signings themselves, but the strategy of selling players to balance the books is a sound strategy. Do you want the club to be banned from Europe? No. So STFU complaining about them selling players for profit. That is not a valid criticism, it is a sound business strategy.
Claiming they’re cheap is not a valid criticism.
Claiming they always sell off their best players for profit is not a valid criticism because that’s the reality of Serie A for 20 years.
You are is no position whatsoever to lecture others for pointing out the realities of how clubs must be run.
Says one of the biggest Redturd stans on the site. Funny how we’re now looking at a Red Bull style overhaul with a focus on youth, and two coaches (Glasner and Jaissle) who would have used Liberali. We haven’t even seen a dime from Liberali yet. Why couldn’t we have sold Leao instead and kept Liberali to keep the player development pipeline going, if that’s the case? The club is in absolute turmoil and has hit the reset button for the third summer in a row, but this time it’s gone nuclear. And you think this is all good? Just my objective take.
Already replied to you but SempreMilan swallowed my message so not gonna make a full reply once again but pretty sure you are pretty alone and most Milan fans, former coaches and players would agree with me and not with you and your daddy Cardinale who has made a mockery out of this former great club.
It wasn’t a “MUST” to post a profit. That’s not true. Our finances were monitored over three years from 2022 (indeed up to 25) during which time it was acceptable to deviate from break even by only 5m. There was never a net profit commitment required by the settlement. In fact, the club was allowed to run deficits of up to 60m over three years provided that the deficit was covered by contributions or equity ie the owner steps in to cover the losses. (Or if the losses over and above were due to allowed investments such as stadium, facilities and youth development, can’t recall the exact wording).
We just happened to improve by 22/23 and post a small profit but it wasn’t particularly necessary. Also missing in everytime you write this same blurb up is why we had bad finances. Covid was the major reason as our revenues too a major hit and this was after we just came out of a previous settlement agreement which included us not being able to participate in Europe. So we were proactive especially given the new finance rules that were going to come into force under the football earnings rules.
The club is run very well financially. Any normal person can see that. But fan expectations are on the sporting side and yes they do affect one another. PS fans dont care about a paper Scudetto
Totally irrelevant to your point. Stop deflecting. I’ll make this easy for you. Which young talent did Milan sell that has gone on to become a major star at a big European club over the past 10 years? There isn’t a single one. At best, there’s Kerkez, and he’s been poor for Liverpool.
Only totally irrelevant because you say so. If you don’t sow any seeds you wont harvest anything either.
I explained why it’s irrelevant. Let’s try again:
Milan MUST post profits, no matter how small, in order to comply with UEFA regulations and compete in European competitions. Do you want the club to be banned from Europe?
So you have no argument whatsoever when it comes to player sales, none. This is no different to what the club did under Berlusconi in his last 20 years, as much as you love to pretend that wasn’t the case.
As for the people who agree with you. People who are oblivious to and ignore facts, people who cannot look at things objectively, people blinded by emotion and financial irresponsibility. I don’t care what out of touch people think nor do I care about changing their minds. What I do care about is refuting false claims. You think it’s okay to lie. I do not. That’s a measure of the type of person you are.
Not a single person here says that RedBird are going a good job in how the club is run, not one. But saying they don’t spend money is a flat out lie because they spend as much as they generate without getting into debt. As I keep telling you, and maybe the alcohol in the blood prevents this from sinking in, criticism of who is signed, who are appointed as directors or coaches is valid, criticism of RedBird’s instance of balancing the books is not.
He’s not the big talent people claim he is. He’s too short, irrespective of how good he’s looked in meaningless friendlies. There is no getting away from that. You can count the list of young players that have left Milan in recent years and gone on to become big stars on the fingers of one hand. There’s only Kerkez, and he’s been poor for Liverpool. Remember Simic? Exactly!
The boy Zlatan chased out of Milan
@Vero Rossonero Who said everything is okay?
“By all means, complain about the signings themselves, but the strategy of selling players to balance the books is a sound strategy.”
So no, your take isn’t objective at all. There isn’t a single person here who doesn’t criticise RedBird for numerous things, especially the transfers and the people put in charge of running the club.
And you can stop pretending Liberali is some kind of major talent to build the club around. He’s not the next Maradona or Messi, he’s probably not even the next Benito Carbone. You’re really complaining over the possible sale of a 19 year old that has done nothing in any top tier league? Selling Camarda, Barteshagi, Zeroli, those would be huge mistakes. 1.72m Liberali? Not so much.
Given we own half of his sale, it cost us half the price to bring him back. It’s a no brainer for 5-6m. Him, bondo and comotto with Ricci, Jashari gives us plenty of youth. Keep Fofana and rabiot for experience and our midfield will be fine. Assess him in the preseason and if his not going to be played he can be loaned out.